Submitted by Michaelfidler:
Are you the only person at work who likes to read blogs? Is it your job to sell things to people who would probably throw you out of their offices if you said the word "twitter?" Are you trying to reach audiences who've never visited a social networking website because they've heard those sites are used by no one but virus (Read More)
Submitted by Dan360man:
The nation's unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs.
Ouch. (Read More)
Submitted by Itafroma
from Google Reader:
Sometimes the most amazing abilities of the human brain are revealed exactly when things go wrong with it. Take, for example, savants - people who have mental abilities that could only be characterized as superhuman (like having photographic memory, playing music perfectly after hearing it ju (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
I have just bumped into an interesting post on Powerset blog about a small survey they have carried out to see students’ attitude towards Wikipedia. Powerset is a semantic search engine recently acquired by Microsoft. The first product launched by Powerset is the tool to search Wikipedia to get more relevant results using t (Read More)
: One could also get "bad" data from the library! What if a student used a book by David Icke, or a similar kooky writer because it was available in the library? in what way does a printed source have more authority than wikipedia? Instead, academics should perhaps focus on how to get their students to develop critical thinking abilities, rather than dismiss wikipedia because it is not "peer reviewed".
: Great point, critical thinking abilities solve the entire issue with non-credible sources. Being intelligent enough to decipher what is quality and what isn't is key.
Mashable!
Over the last few months, a plethora of tools — addons, scripts, Web apps — have emerged using the FriendFeed API. Here is a list of the top 10 Web applications that you can check out to get the most out of the service. Which do you use? Tell us more in the comments.NoiseRiverNoiseRiver adds some neat extra func (Read More)
TechCrunch
socialmedian, which has come under fire as of late for trying to use Twitter as means of raising $500,000 in venture funding, announced Thursday that it has launched its first major upgrade since the company started and its improvements will finally address some of the concerns its users have had since its inception.First o (Read More)
: This is probably because of the number of frequent Internet users are still kept a certain significant number. Others are just lazy to be part of the social networking craze, its usually the younger generation born of the Web 2.0 culture who is greater exposed to such a phenomenon.
ReadWriteWeb
Are you sick of Google Chrome news yet? We can't blame you, but you'll have to bear with us. It's not everyday that Google releases a brand-new web browser. The latest news regarding the much-hyped browser? It's coming to Android. According to Google Co-founder Sergey Brin, "a subsequent version of Android is going to pick (Read More)
Mashable!
Out of the hundreds of articles and posts out there on how companies should utilize social media and Web 2.0, CNN seems to be one of the few major corporations out there that have paid attention. CNN is one of the few broadcast networks with an expansive line of shining examples in the Web 2.0 space, from basic RSS and book (Read More)
: Ironic, I guess, considering that many people think of CNN as yesterday's news. Yet they're the first to adopt social networks. Hmm. I gave up on CNN a long time ago, when they started devoting coverage to people rather than news (Paris Hilton isn't a story, no matter what she does. Neither is Lindsey Lohan. That stuff belongs on E, not on a news network.)
: I think that while Rick promoted Twitter on the air, there was very little proof of that real interaction. I think.
For real interaction, http://twitter.com/gustavreporter was on the ground, providing live Twitter updates. Rick, ultimately, was in a studio, (and didn't experience power outages!)
Submitted by Sarahintampa
from Google Reader:
Over the last month or two I’ve noticed a sharp decline in the amount of conversation occurring on Twitter. People are still using the service, for sure (witness the number of tweets about McCain’s "ground noise and static" comment, in reference to protesters at the Republican Convention, within seconds of the comment for (Read More)
Submitted by Dobata
from Google Reader:
I checked my post office box today to discover a package had arrived from Mountain View CA. Low and behold, some kind person at Google had sent me the official Google Chrome comic book that preceded the release of the Google Chrome browser. Given you can’t FedEx to a post office box, the shipment ended up in the post, hence (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Recently, Facebook released a live feed feature for the homepage of Facebook users. This new feature allows you to see the latest updates by your Facebook friends in real-time. You could compare it to functionality that FriendFeed and Twitter already have with instant updates from any friend. Since Facebook released this f (Read More)