Bored of Facebook?
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008You should probably listen to The Facebook Anthem: This one has to be for Jean! [Via Alex] Update: And what would Facebook be like in the "real world"?
Archive for the ‘web2.0’ Category
You should probably listen to The Facebook Anthem: This one has to be for Jean! [Via Alex] Update: And what would Facebook be like in the "real world"?
Links for April 28th 2008
Monday, April 28th, 2008Interesting links for April 28th 2008: Viralcom [Joey and David] - Wonderful satirical series of high-end videos which look at user-generated content, looking at the imagined high-end producers behind each viral hit! (Boy puts mentos in sister's coke doesn't just come from nowhere!) :) Mobile phones outnumber Australians [ABC News (Australian ...
Links for April 27th 2008
Sunday, April 27th, 2008Interesting links for April 27th 2008 through April 28th 2008: Nielsen Online: Produsage Trends in Australia and New Zealand [Produsage.org] - Using details from Nielsen Online, Axel gives an outline of how many Australians and Kiwis are using Web 2.0 tools, and how many are "produsing" (lowdown: a lot use, less ...
Mayer and Bettle are back!
Sunday, April 20th, 2008Anyone who has ever tried to explain the importance of Creative Commons licenses to a new audience has probably played them the wonderful CC Mayer and Bettle Animation which was created back in 2005 by Pete Foley and others gathered together by CC Australia. The video features two animated ...
Web 3.0: A Locked Down, “Secured” Web 2.0?
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008While a lot of different people have attempted to deploy the term Web 3.0 to mean pretty much anything they like, I've read more and more reports in the last couple of weeks that seem to be positioning Web 3.0 as the locking down of all of the socially shared ...
Links for March 30th 2008
Sunday, March 30th, 2008Interesting links for March 30th 2008: Getting Started [Photoshop Express] - Great set of simple explanations (in video) for making the most of Photoshop Express. Adobe Photoshop Express - Adobe's push into online applications continues, this time with a (very) scaled-down version of Photoshop as an online tool. Adobe are clearly getting ...
Do Free Online Books Make Money?
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Does making a book freely available online hurt or enhance the sales of the hardcopy? Advocates suggest that if you read a bit of the book online you're more likely to buy the hardcopy if you like it and finish reading it on paper. You're also more likely to recommend ...
Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Web 2.0 remains one of those wonderful catch-all phrases which is employed in so many different ways to support a host of different ideas. Rather than leave the term to gain even further layers of hype as it rolls down the digital hillside, a new special edition of First Monday ...
From YouTube to UniTube?
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007It would appear that the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has the dubious honours of being the first Australian university to have their own YouTube channel. In the past couple of months, there have been a number of reports of US universities setting up on YouTube. For example, this article ...
Special Journal Issue on "Social Network Sites"
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007The latest edition of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is live, and contains an outstanding special section on "social network sites" edited by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison. I've not had a chance to read all the articles, yet, but I can say with certainty that danah boyd and Nicole ...
