Social Media
Public to contribute eyewitness photos to Yahoo! news
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 […]
Google Jotspot as a Business Wiki
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 […]
FBI probes YouTube video of LA cop hitting suspect
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 […]
Fred Killeen says Web2.0 Collaboration will help GM
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! […]
A degree in Web Science
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 […]
Computing 2016 - Washington
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, […]
Spam burgers on YouTube
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.
Blogging for cash
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 […]
Google enters the ArtReview magazine’s 100 most powerful people in the contemporary art scene
It’s offical - search is much more than just a cold hard document retrieval algorithm - it’s a medium of art.
Google is the 100th most powerful entity in the contemporary art scene according to the ArtReview magazine. See the full story in The Guardian . The top spot went to François Pinault, but, it was the inclusion of […]
End subscription based content?
Having recently pitched a well known subscription based product review service, the recent 2 parter featured on Search engine watch, couldn’t have come at a better time to help heal my wounds. The Ongoing Struggle of Free vs. Fee provides a compelling argument why subscription based content is deader than disco. In the second part Todd Malicoat […]
