User-Generated
An Idea to Rally Around.
Gary Vaynerchuk is, without a doubt, one of the most open, engaging, motivational and insightful guys I’ve ever encountered. He runs Wine Library TV as well as publishing a daily video blog post that usually revolves around some aspect of social media and the community it creates. Watch a couple of his videos. [...]
Disposable Camera=Crowdsourced Art
Normally, I post art/design related stuff on my tumblr because it makes for easy posting from any site…and it also helps me keep my life separated just a little bit. But I think this warrants a dual post:
This might be one of the coolest ideas I’ve ever seen and it may have been done before, [...]
Micromedia is the Future of Personal Broadcasting
I came across this slide presentation a few days ago from the founder of Jaiku. It is really very interesting and sort of breaks micromedia down to an easy-to-understand concept and I think it not only provides good introduction information about services such at Pownce, twitter, and Jaiku but is also a great example of [...]
December 20th Web Picks
Well the trend since the beginning of school is that my blogging has decreased in frequency…so it seems the my Web Picks is becoming more of a monthly occurrence…so for the future, I’m just going to plan on getting in the groove of irregularly timed Web Pick lists that happen to be about a month [...]
The Great Google Strikes Again
Over the past few days, the internet has been abuzz with the news about Google’s upcoming foray (or perhaps more accurately: retry) into the world of social networking. It has promised to build 2-way APIs for multiple networks that will change the way users transfer their social data on the internet by allowing multi-site access [...]
Facebook News Feed: The Newest Spam Supplier?
I have come to terms with the fact that I am a Facebook Fanatic (capitalized, because it might as well be an official title), and as such I have enjoyed the transformation of facebook from a small, college-based social network with its single text-box ‘Wall’ in the days before ’status updates’ and ‘global groups’ to [...]
Gmail Video: E-mail Without the Internet
About a month ago, the Gmail team over at Google released the first part of a video clip that is an imaginative way of thinking about how e-mail would be delivered without the internet: lots of smaller video clips edited together show people, animals, and all sorts of other random things transporting a Gmail logo [...]
The e-President?
According to Mashable, a new poll released by Global Market Insite (GMI) shows astonishing results regarding the impact of social networks on the upcoming presidential election.
17% of respondents said they had looked at a candidate’s profile on some social networking site such as MySpace or Facebook, and 53% of them said they were more likely [...]
Fight the Man: Facebook Edition
(UPDATE: post edited to include Mashable source citation and category links)
As social networking sites increase in popularity, more and more businesses are striving to maintain worker productivity by simply blocking access to sites such as Facebook and MySpace. This week, an Australian firm released a study claiming that Facebook usage costs Australian businesses $4 [...]
Blessed are the Open-Source, for they shall inherit the earth.
It has been said time and time again; there have been books written, academic works published, and thousands of blog posts proclaiming the revolution that user-generated content has brought to the internet. In the form of open-source software and sites such as YouTube, Wikipedia, and Flickr; people are no longer [...]
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