Category Archives: Social Media

YouTube rival proposed by Media giants – Just don’t get it

December 12, 2006 – 1:54 pm

According to The Wall Street Journal last Saturday, some of the biggest organisations in the media including News Corp, Fox, Viacom Incm, CBS Corp and NBC Universal are planning a video rival to YouTube.
They plan to develop an online video platform for publishing ‘their’ network content, and cash in on the popularity of their material [...]

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Watch your carbon footprint from Second Life

December 5, 2006 – 10:39 pm

Tony Walsh asks the question is Second Life ecologically sustainable? A quick sum on the back of a fag packet by Nicholas Carr, suggest avatars consumes just a little less electricity than the world average for a person and as much as the average Brazilian. That’s right, the ammount of energy used by [...]

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Public to contribute eyewitness photos to Yahoo! news

December 5, 2006 – 10:09 pm

Yahoo! partner with Reuters inviting the general public to contribute pictures and videos of important news events taken on their mobile phones and digital cameras. The news distribution system called ‘You Witness‘ will enable citizen journalist to contribute news media to feature alongside Yahoo! news articles. Reuters will edit and distribute the photos for use [...]

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Google Jotspot as a Business Wiki

November 11, 2006 – 6:15 pm

Dave Girouard, Vice President and General Manager, Google Enterprise hopes that Businesses will adopt the Jotspot Wiki as a collaborative tool. For many small to medium size enterprise without the resources to setup their own web based Wiki, this is a great way to share knowledge and best practice. Unfortunately it wasn’t possible to use [...]

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FBI probes YouTube video of LA cop hitting suspect

November 11, 2006 – 2:14 pm

The first FBI investigation into Police brutality based on video evidence on YouTube was reported by Reuters yesterday. While this is not the first case of home cinema to get the LA police into trouble – the beating of Rodney King causing riots in 1991. This is the first piece of evidence to arrive [...]

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Fred Killeen says Web2.0 Collaboration will help GM

November 7, 2006 – 11:10 pm

Fred Killeen CTO of General Motors, in an interview for Computer Week outlines the importance of technology used in Social Media media for business. At GM he’s looking at how folksonomies and Wikis to name can be used in business for document management and collaboration.
At first I thought this interview was a straightforward – Oh! [...]

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A degree in Web Science

November 3, 2006 – 9:52 am

The New York times today reported on the initiative led by Tim Berners-Lee to make Web Science its own field of  Academic study . Up to now the Web has been bundled in with computer science and its various disciplines but the complexity of the web and its unprecedented influence on society and politics to [...]

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Computing 2016 – Washington

October 31, 2006 – 9:11 am

New York Times – “Computer scientists from academia and companies like I.B.M. and Google discussed topics including social networks, digital imaging, online media and the impact on work and employment. But most talks touched on two broad themes: the impact of computing will go deeper into the sciences and spread more into the social sciences, [...]

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Spam burgers on YouTube

October 29, 2006 – 6:43 pm

Guess it was all too tempting for the Ad agency representing Wendy’s, when they put out a load of videos on YouTube, which were just commercials or Spam Videos. Surpriced by the mixed reaction from the community, personally I thought they were rubbish. You can read more on Digg.

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Blogging for cash

October 15, 2006 – 8:25 pm

Should bloggers accept cash for posting on other sites? Jeff Jarvis thinks so. His argument is pretty convincing – As ‘online’ journalist become increasingly independent, accepting money to cover topics for others is simply an extension of their job. As long as the journalistic credibility is maintained there shouldn’t be a problem. I tend to [...]

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