February 29, 2008
Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy. – By Chris Wilson – Slate Magazine
another critical look at Wikipedia, Digg, etc
(tags: wikipedia socialmedia web2.0 digg socialsoftware innovation internet recommendation slate socialnetworking slashdot)
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February 28, 2008
Digg Gets More Mainstream; But Are Their News Sources Too Narrow Now? – ReadWriteWeb
some quantitative research suggests that stories that make it to Digg’s front page are getting further and further away from technology, but come from a surprisingly shrinking number of sources
(tags: Digg community oldvsnew newmedia darkside)
How a System Error in Pakistan Shut YouTube [...]
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February 27, 2008
Releaselog | RLSLOG.net » Google builds own undersea internet cable
A group of six international companies, including Google Inc. of the U.S., is building a $300 million underwater fiber-optic cable linking the United States and Japa
(tags: google internet cable infrastructure web technology)
Who Put These Guys In Charge? (Why Newspapers Are Failing) – ARTicles
an excellent essay on [...]
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February 26, 2008
BeamMe.Info
BeamMe.info offers users a simple and useful platform to retain information from a website on their mobile phones. A Beam is a button that sits next to website content, and when clicked allows users to immediately send that information directly to their m
(tags: applications sms internet messaging mobile online phones services texting web)
Blogged Creates Human [...]
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February 25, 2008
The Future of Reputation
the full text of Daniel Solove’s book is now online
(tags: privacy internet reputation free Online ebooks books technology sociology economics academic)
Top Health 2.0 Web Apps – ReadWriteWeb
a very nice overview from RWW
(tags: health web2.0 healthcare medical tools application web blog applications 2008 trends socialsoftware social)
Commuter Feed Uses Twitter for Localized Traffic Reports [...]
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February 24, 2008
EU invests $20m into BitTorrent project
The European Union has invested $20.5 million in a research project that is exploring the use of peer-to-peer technology for Internet television delivery across Europe
(tags: p2p peer peer-to-peer bittorrent torrent eu funds)
Slashdot | Semantic Web Getting Real
discussion of OpenCalais on Slashdot
(tags: semanticweb semantic article rdf web reuters web2.0 slashdot)
Digg Townhall [...]
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February 22, 2008
Gartner on Threats to Traditional Banking and Wealth Management
“By 2010, social-banking platforms will have captured 10% of the available market for retail lending and financial planning.â€
(tags: banking banks p2p socialbanking finance predictions)
NewsClipper.org – Video news the way YOU want it – À la carte
Google News for Video
(tags: googlenews aggregation video buzz aggregator newsaggregation)
Reinventing Journalism On [...]
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February 18, 2008
textually.org: The Impact of Cell Phones on Grain Markets in Africa’s Niger
“cell phones reduce grain price dispersion across markets by a minimum of 6.4 percent and reduce intra-annual price variation by 10 percent…the greatest impact is on price dispersion for market pairs that are farther away/those with lower road quality”
(tags: mobile price development niger africa [...]
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One thing that I learnt while promoting the concept of BarCamps in post-Soviet space is the great importance of somehow capturing its spirit and explaining it to those who have never been to one. You may think this is a trivial task: tell them the usual stuff found at barcamp.org and they’ll get it, but [...]
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February 14, 2008
SkyGrid Finds Gold In The Wisdom Of The Webs – GigaOM
“a search tool that sifts through hundreds of web and mainstream media to show you just one thing: whether the balance of the news on a public company is good or bad, and how the “mood†is changing”
(tags: news aggregation buzz media newmedia finance semantics)
GrowingYourNewsWebsite.com
a [...]
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