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Twitter vs Blogs, Revisited
After a week of Barcamp and Web2Expo Berlin, I have to take a look back to what I’ve been writing about the relation between Twitter and blogs. (If you like to read up on the discussion, you can find my posts on Twitter here, the most relevant posts here being probably on inattentive trust, my […]
Barcamp & Web 2.0 Expo Berlin
It’s been a bit quite here on the blog, but that’s a good sign: It’s been rather busy during the last couple of weeks, what with Barcamp and Web 2.0 Expo coming to Berlin. So there’s a few things to announce and share.
First of all, and some of you may know this already, I’m thrilled […]
Opening the Social Graph
Lately the web has been buzzing with talk about the Social Graph (or Social Network Portability, as others prefer to call it).
The basic question? Who owns your social network, and how can you move it back and forth between different services and applications? (You should be the only one with complete control over your […]
Do You Know How to Use the Web to Innovate?
The internet isn’t just a means to send email and look up information. It’s a powerful tool for all kinds of networked communication. But it’s also a great tool to innovate - in your product, your business, or your organization.
Lately, I’ve had a number of chats with my buddies and collaborators Max Senges and Thomas […]
A Swarm of Angels: Poster release
If you’ve been following this blog for awhile, you might be familiar a film project I find to be really neat: A Swarm of Angels (former posts of mine here) will be a real, and radical, innovation: It’ll be big-ass, professionally produced movie funded (in terms of both money and creativity) by a community of […]
Newbies Guide to Twitter
When Twitter is mentioned outside the net community, more often than not you get kind of irritated looks: What’s the point of Twitter, exactly? This sounds so useless!
(Changes after playing around with Twitter, mostly. But that’s a different story.)
Chris Brogan wrote a great brief piece on his blog, explaining the basics of what Twitter is, […]
exPhone.org: How to create a simple but rich web application in just three days
Citizen Agency’s Chris Messina shares his story about a very cool pet project of his, going by the name of exPhone.org.
exPhone is one of those examples of how the web can (and should) be applied to find great, quick solutions for a problem.
Chris had a simple enough question: What to do with your old […]
New Study: Social Networks Around The World - How is Web 2.0 changing your daily life?
An De Jonghe of Belgium-based Ulysses Consulting has conducted a neat little study of the international social networking sphere in which I gladly participated.
The study doesn’t claim to be scientific, and it has a clear bias towards Belgium (nearly a third of the participants were Belgians), but there’s some pretty interesting stuff:
a whopping 89% put […]
How to deal with unofficial Facebook groups? (And how do they evolve?)
So you’re the one to advise an institution (a company, a school, an NGO etc.) on social media. Part of the process is, of course, to establish one or a number of blogs, maybe an old-school forum, a Facebook group. After a little while you notice that there is another group about the exact same […]
Reviews on Twitter: 140 Characters Are Enough
On Twitter, a lot of hints are swapped. Among those, there’s a lot of gossip about what products to use, what services to avoid. Just your usual stuff: You meet friends, you share your stories. Word of mouth.
The limit of 140 characters per Twitter post doesn’t seem to do any damage to this kind […]