Submitted by Vincent Wright:
MyBlogLog Hits the Streets with Bluetooth-Based User DetectionMark Hendrickson32 comments »Following Michael’s post the other day about the future of social networking, we have heard of several more ways the mobile, location-aware nut is being cracked already.One of these is an “experiment” by MyBlogLog started at eTech and (Read More)
VentureBeat
At Defcon, the Electronic Frontier Foundation held a press conference saying it is representing the MIT hackers who figured out how to get free rides on the Boston’s subways. That raises the stakes in a dispute about whether the three undergraduates have the right to describe their work hacking electronic payment card (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
The film crew from private station Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) sneaked in and filmed a full dress rehearsal that was broadcast in South Korea on Tuesday and then posted on the Internet. (Read More)
You should follow me because you want to, not because you're reading this message and feeling a sudden feeling of guilt. Heck, if you don't follow me, I won't hate you or anything, but I mean, all you have to do is click a little follow button and you're done. It's not like you have to do a whole lot of work to follow me or anything. NO PRESSURE!! Seriously, just take your time, and do it only if you want to. ... ....... *cough*
Submitted by Nikki Pilkington:
The Twitter universe visualized in differnt ways - grouped into four categories - network diagrams, maps, analytics, and abstract. (Read More)
Robert Scoble - FriendFeed
Louis Gray posted a message “Let's Talk About Blogging, Pay, Ads and Careers”8:51 pm - Comment Todd W. Carter, Rick Turoczy, Winston Teo, Atul Arora and 17 other people liked this Recent news in the pro blogger world hasn't been great for the rank and file writers. AOL has very publicly reduced pay for its authors (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
SocialThing, a lifestreaming/social aggregation site, has been acquired by AOL. We currently have no information about the final price of the acquisition, but given that SocialThing was still in private beta, we assume that it was relatively low. SocialThing was founded in 2007 with $15,000 in seed capital from TechStars. A (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
"Hi, my name is MrCucumber69, I have a gray blob for a face and that's all I care to share about myself - will you be my friend?" Silly as that sounds, this is the way users of many social web applications great each other. It's not very useful or inspiring. Communication is a lot more useful when you have a good idea who (Read More)
: I really like social|median so far. I'd participate a whole lot more, if I didn't have to earn some money during the day as well!
I've got this cute little avatar that a friend made me in his spare time a few years ago, and I tend to use that across the networks. It's a reasonable likeness. I've no issue with folks knowing basic stuff about me anyway.
ReadWriteWeb
When I first reviewed Plurk for ReadWriteWeb, I had only been using this new lifestreaming service for a little while. After using it for much longer, I've realized that there is really just one major difference between Twitter and Plurk - but it's that one difference that makes Plurk so much better.This is a guest post by (Read More)
: Is Plurk still alive? I found most people have headed back to Twitter..I just seem to struggle with the way the conversations are 'hidden' unless you prompt them to open...
: Plurk's UI advantage won't save it when pitted against Twitter's community advantage. At least for me, everyone in my geographical area is on Twitter and not Plurk. So, it's a no-brainer.
Submitted by Ramskill:
Smashing Magazine has just completed a survey of the layouts of the top 50 blogs in the world (as listed in Technorati’s Top 100 Blogs) .Why should you care what these bloggers are doing?Simply because the top bloggers live and breathe online content publishing. They measure everything they do and tweak their sites to conti (Read More)
Submitted by Digitalfemme:
Why not?!People are always saying they have no time to be in virtual worlds. They say that they cannot imagine themselves sitting in front of the computer, chatting with other avatars. "It's silly and a waste of time."Yet, people have no problem sitting in front of their computer screens on the internet checking email, surf (Read More)
TechCrunch
Japan’s biggest social network is called Mixi, launched in February 2004 by the company of the same name. Drawing in one in five web users in the country, Mixi now boasts over 15 million members. The site ranks sixth on Alexa Japan and racks up over 14 billion page views monthly. Google Trends for Websites shows the Japan-f (Read More)