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“each network is effectively a “walled garden,” where the benefits of the network are artificially limited by the inability to link a friend in Facebook with one in MySpace.”
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It’s about closed platforms vs. open standards. It’s about how we communicate via email, blogs, etc. vs. who gets access to that communication. It’s about social networks and the advantages and disadvantages they bring.
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Virtual news hounds need to collect a Sky News microphone from the foyer of the Sky’s virtual newsroom and put together a two-minute piece.
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“because you have your audience contributing vast amounts of information you never could have gathered on your own, you can see patterns that also become stories…”
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“One other less-than-welcome revelation is that as much as a quarter of the US traffic driven towards British papers is due to references on the Drudge Report, the notoriously unreliable political gossip site.”
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Britain’s internet entrepreneurs are no longer languishing in the dot com doldrums, but have emerged revitalised and ready for another round. Bobbie Johnson surveys the scene and lists the top 10 British dotcoms to keep track of.
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People who rely on the internet as their main news source express relatively unfavorable opinions of mainstream news sources and are among the most critical of press performance.
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fring™, a free mobile VoIP software, allows you to talk & IM via your handset’s internet connection to other mobile phones and PC-based services such as Skype®, MSN® Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk™, SIP and Twitter, at no extra cost.
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“In a blog post entitled How BBC does Labour’s dirty work, Iain Dale wrote that our coverage on Sunday of John Redwood’s proposals to cut £14bn in red tape gave undue prominence to the Labour party’s reaction to them…”
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In the first ruling of its kind, the Press Complaints Commission has criticised a local newspaper for publishing controversial mobile phone footage carried on its website.
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“offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses…”
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Shame then that the BBC have posted a direct link to Patrick Devine’s Bebo site. This might just be the thin end of the wedge. How long until everyone involved in a news story has links posted to their online presence?
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“Recent convictions for incitement of terrorism via the Internet highlight some wider issues about the liability of websites for material posted by third parties. We consider the hosting defence…”
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“…A formula that combines and weights a person’s presence on all these different services would come up with a ranking that embraces far more than the position of their blog in the Technorati hit chart…”
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Lack of interoperability in social networking sites
Ive created a separate gmail account for signing up to social networking and social media sites. I thought it was a smart move, since they generate quite a few messages. Though now I find myself checking that account as much as I check my regula…