Posted on December 4, 2007 by John Breslin
Garlik, a UK company that focuses on personal information control, have recently launched the QDOS site (pronounced “kudos”, and no, it’s nothing to do with the old operating systems of the same name) for measuring your “digital status” or estimated online rating.
According to the creators:
With QDOS, 45 million UK adults now have a unique [...]
Filed under: News, Semantic Web, United Kingdom, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
Posted on November 26, 2007 by John Breslin
From Ireland’s Newstalk radio news today:
The Government’s planning on using Facebook and Bebo to try to warn people of the dangers of illegal drugs.
The news comes as two people remain in a critical condition in hospital, and more than a dozen others were treated after a 21st birthday party in Waterford.
The Minister for State with [...]
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Posted on November 22, 2007 by John Breslin
What does OpenSocial offer in the way of being able to transfer your social network profile and contacts across networks? It’s the question that has been on many lips, from Tim O’Reilly to Tantek Celik, but a hint that this may in fact be possible recently appeared in the OpenSocial documentation for hosting applications [...]
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Posted on November 22, 2007 by John Breslin
(Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I was attending some conferences for the past two weeks, and I will post links to my reports soon.)
As originally rumoured on Scobleizer and announced on TechCrunch recently, Loic Le Meur’s newest startup called “Seesmic” is a microvlogging service in the style of sites like Twitter [...]
Filed under: France, Microblogs, News, Reviews, Semantic Web, Video, Web 2.0 | Tagged: microvlogs, seesmic, sioc, twitter | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 1, 2007 by John Breslin
In the niche SNS area, Yokohama Tyre Corporation recently implemented the Pringo white-label SNS solution for their “online presence and green marketing initiative” called Eco Treadsetters.
LA-based marketing agency PCGCampbell built the site using Pringo so that Yokohama consumers across the US could communicate with each other, create and navigate custom profiles, form sub-communities, and [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2007 by John Breslin
(I got my invite today to buy a Chumby, but apparently they don’t do shipping outside the US.)
Here’s an extract from the Wikipedia definition if you haven’t already heard about them:
Chumby is a consumer product created by Chumby Industries slated to go on sale in November of 2007. It is designed as an [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2007 by John Breslin
At the 2007 Web 2.0 Summit today, Radar Networks are officially announcing the invite-only beta version of Twine, a new service that uses the power of Semantic Web to enable an intelligent way of sharing, organising and finding information.
During today’s 4 PM panel (that also features Powerset’s Barney Pell, Metaweb’s Daniel Hillis and Web [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2007 by John Breslin
There has been some blog comment ‘promotional marketing’ going on for a new directory specifically for Web 2.0 sites called “Think Web 2.0″ (due to the language used on the site, I believe it may be from France, but the WHOIS shows a private registration).
The site allows users to submit sites to the directory, [...]
Filed under: Bookmarking, France, News | No Comments »
Posted on October 12, 2007 by John Breslin
According to figures from comScore, the United Kingdom was the top social media consumer in Europe during August, with 25 million unique visitors using social media sites (equivalent to 78 percent of the UK’s online population). The Europe-wide social media user figures are 127 million unique visitors in August (56 percent of the EU’s [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2007 by John Breslin
It must be acquisition season: Google yesterday announced that they have acquired microblogging service Jaiku. Jaiku, founded by Jyri Engestrom (whose post on object-centered sociality I’ve referenced more than once!) and Petteri Koponen, is a direct competitor to Twitter, another popular microblogging service from the US.
Here is a copy of the blog announcement from [...]
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