The Observer speaks with Nick Denton of Gawker Media In all there are around 130 people earning their income from Gawker Media – they keep track of each other through a Facebook group, what else? – and they are in… Continue Reading
BBC NEWS : How Twitter makes it real But the sense of presence that can be achieved is remarkable, especially when you’re sitting at your computer working, connected to the internet and with a Twitter client running on your computer… Continue Reading
Yahoo’s “Twitter For Location” Goes Into Private Beta With Near Zero Functionality They’ll also release a mobile site for easier text input. There will be a FireEagle embeddable badge that will show where you are. And, finally, they’ll have the… Continue Reading
Press Gazette – Members of public will run Glasgow websites “If we have a regular contributor then we would have them in the office with us and we would give them more ownership. The long-term aim is to transfer ownership… Continue Reading
Press Gazette – Facebook app will give students free access to FT.com “This application is part of our ongoing efforts to reach a new generation of readers who we hope will become life-long fans of the FT,” said Ien Cheng,… Continue Reading
Social Networking Watch: International Social Network Rankings Statistics showing ranking of social network services for a selection of countries. (tags: socialnetworking statistics) SeeqPod Playable Search – Find. Discover. Watch. Listen. Share. Playable online music search (tags: music audio aggregation) Commuter… Continue Reading
Press Gazette – Evening Times launches network of community websites The first twelve of the site cover ultra local news … Readers and bodies such as the police, local council and health board are being encouraged to upload material and… Continue Reading
Twine: like del.icio.us with added clever This is where I can see the value in the system – Twine finds you things that you didn’t know you were looking for. It’s success will depend on how good it is at… Continue Reading
fabric of folly: New (to me) music apps – part three Dan digs through the last few months of his del.icio.us links to discover some real gems… (tags: web2.0 tracking music last.fm)
Neil Thurman’s UGC study is flawed [Shane Richmond : Telegraph Blog] “Neil is an eminent academic and experienced in this field and I’m not suggesting that this study is without merit. However, many of the problems he highlights are not… Continue Reading