Social scientists refer to the craving for online contact as “Ambient awareness”. They liken the feeling to being similar to being physically near someone and sensing their mood by their body language, mood and comments.
I …
Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the emergence of “Content Exchange networks”, as I predict significant changes in the value chain of content creation and distribution over the next few years.
Related to this is the changing impact to the news industry.
So it was with interest that I read Jeff Jarvis (of Buzzmachine)’s presentation that examines the changing business models for news publication and distribution in light of social collaboration. Jeff is planning to give the presentation to CUNYGraduate School of Journalismm, and has put a draft up on Slideshare for comment.
I think Jeff is on track with his scenarios!
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I have posted an article in support of my Social Media action plan presentation.
Social Media - 3 step action plan (pdf file)
The continued growth of Social media has resulted in a massive power shift to …
Gartner has released some new research which describes how various people engage in online communities.
Using the term “Generation V”, the research confirms that segments do not relate to age, gender, geographic location or social …
Blackmores is a client of ours, and we have created a new website called Byourbest, which contains lots of tools and information about the Sydney Running Festival.
I’ve decided to translate some of these tools into …
A recent study from Unisys found that 7% of 1200 surveyed Australians currently used their mobiles for web transactions.
The study was part of a global study of over 13,000 participants across 14 countries. …
Fleishman-Hillard Inc. and Harris Interactive have published an excellent white paper which examines how the internet influences the modern consumer.
The study is titled “Digital Life Index Study” and highlights how the internet influences shopping behaviours, …
Digital media allows the creation of some innovative tools to help with filtering large list into a manageable and personalised selection.
Real Estate matching is a challenge that most of us have been through at …
The BRW has officially launched it’s top Australian web2.0 applications.
Here’s a selection of the ones I am familiar with :-
5. Engagd
Website: http://www.engagd.com/
Person/Company: Faraday Media (Chris Saad/ Ashley Angell)
Description: Web service …
Mobile browser Opera have released a demographic report which shows that 88% of their users are male. 14.7 million people used Opera Mini in May 2008, which is a 24.6% increase on the March 2008 …
Tim Noonan simplifies Web 2.0 in this tweet.
via Servant of Chaos
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Internet advertising revenues in the US hit $5.8 billion for the first quarter of 2008 reflecting a 18.2 % increase on the same period in 2007.
Source: PwC/IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report (www.iab.net)
“We continue to …
A team of developer’s funded by Michigan State University and the Office of the Chinese Language Council International have come up with a browser-based MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) that teaches players how …
Popular virtual world Second Life is now accessible from 40 mobile devices, with support for additional 3G and Wi-Fi enabled devices including the iPhone planned in the near future.
This is possible thanks to a free …
Imagine you are in the delivery business, and want to show that you deliver anywhere in the world.
DHL, with the help of a swedish artist Erik Nordenankar, and a GPS device have managed to create …
When I was young, radio shows such as American Top 40, or Billboard were the established authorities on determining the most popular artist or album.The internet has revolutionised the distribution of music and it’s no …
Most of us remember the Mission Impossible series which immortalised the saying “This message will self destruct”.
Deadline Couriers created an effective PR stunt by building a billboard message that included a 8 day countdown timer. …
Here’s a very clever animation made entirely from street graffiti by Blu.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
It’s quite amazing how a story can be created like this. Because it’s different it …
Social Media is becoming an important channel for hosting conversations as evidenced by US presidential candidate Barack Obama’s response to an invitation by a leading social women’s network BlogHer.
Obama sat with BlogHer on Sunday to …
MSNBC have released a NewsWare site, which provides an interesting news spectrum which can also be customised into a widget to embed on your blog, social network profile, or desktop.
The news experience includes this spectrum …
Dr Martens are running a campaign allowing consumers to create a boot design at http://dmbootdesign.com/
After selecting the boot canvas (8-hole or 14-hole), and then using the sites pen and paint tools, or using their own …
Google has just announced a new web based purchasing and analytics system that allows anyone to run television commercials.
The system has been available as a trial program for about a year, and this announcement now …
