swarm convenience
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 […]
Microblogging & Social Networks vs the Good Old Blog?
During the last week or so, I’ve been seriously neglecting this weblog. I started wondering why: Was I too busy, or did I just set the priorities differently, or didn’t I get the social returns out of blogging I expect? Well, of course I was busy, but that doesn’t keep me from blogging at other […]
Social Networking in plain English (and plain German)
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This awesome brief video by the CommonCraft Show has been floating around the web for a little while now: Social Networking in Plain English explains, well, social networking. Quick and easy, in under 2 minutes. This is great stuff, really!
Thanks to Lee LeFever for releasing the video under […]
A Swarm of Angels: Thousands not hundreds
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I was thrilled to hear that A Swarm of Angels (the amazing collaborative community-based film project lead by Matt Hanson) is hitting the 1000+ members mark: This also means its time to freeze membership for a little while to guarantee for the necessary stability. Phase 2 out of 5 accomplished!
You can join […]
Nicole Simon: A European View on Web 2.0
Nicole Simon gave a great presentation at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Topic: A European View on Web 2.0. I strongly suggest watching the slides, no matter if you’re American or work for a US company, or if you’re from somewhere else but deal with US companies a lot: Either way, she’s very much […]
“The best way to protect your privacy is to give it away”, says professor targeted wrongly by the FBI
On Wired, author Clive Thompson tells the amazing story of Hasan Elahi, a Bangladeshi-born 35-year-old American artist and Rutgers professor. Ever since the US government had put him wrongly on the terror suspect list, he’s been afraid to be detained on one of his many trips around the world - so he decided to create […]
Map of online communities, D&D style
At geek comic XKCD has put together this awesome “map of online communities and related points of interest. Geographic area representes estimated size of membership.” It’s hilarious, but as the original author warns you: “do not use for navigation.”
(Link to original image file, link to original blog post, via BoingBoing / Max)
Proudly present: Launch of online t-shirt store keingeschenk.de
In one of those spontaneous nightly actions, my friends Matze, Meike and I decided that neither of us could really find the t-shirts we liked. You know how it is: You see some nice shirts, and they’re alright, but it’s so hard to really find the exact thing you’d like, right? So we started to […]
Second Life goes open source (this time, for real?)
According to mashable.com, LindenLab will open up the source code for Second Life servers, too. (Awhile ago, the client software was open-sourced.)
As if there weren’t enough freedom on Second Life (letting avatars fly), now the virtual land will operate much like the actual Internet itself. Linden Labs, private owner of Second Life, is making […]