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How Participatory Culture and Mass Collaboration are Shaping our. [Jimmy Wales] “In a certain sense, when things become ubiquitous, they also become "invisible". It used to be that the process of "getting online" for me was a separate step, with a noisy and slow process of a modem on a phone line. Now, with WiFi, my laptop often seems to just simply _be_ on the Internet. The process of connection has become much less visible, so that the feeling of "my computer" "connecting" to "the Internet" has changed to a feeling that my computer is the Internet, or is "on" the Internet. Similarly, as the Internet becomes ubiquitous on various kinds of devices, it just starts to be part of the assumed fabric of technology.

This changes how we relate to it, and how we use it. Q: We are rapidly moving towards an environment where the public is acting not just as consumers, but as producers and contributors. [Jimmy Wales] “Probably one of the most important things is the way participatory culture empowers work in "the long tail". [Jimmy Wales] “There are weaknesses. Government needed to take out botnets, says expert | Latest Indu. Government involvement is necessary in order to take out malware botnets, according to one expert. Sebastian Zabala, a security expert and senior project manager for the UK and Sweden for Panda Security, said if security firms take out botnets themselves then they become an 'attacker'.

It follows the news that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down a rogue internet service provider (ISP). The illegal ISP has been ordered to turn over $1.08 million (£750,000) after the FTC permanently shut it down for recruiting, hosting and participating in the distribution of spam, spyware and other illegal and malicious content. The expert explained that in countries where collaboration between the government and security companies is strained, botnets could now be more likely to arise. 'We're seeing that in countries where, for example, you [security firms] can have a hard time collaborating with the government, it has become the preferred placement of the servers,' he said. Neal Stephenson to Bring His Metaverse To The App Store With “Th. When people first started playing with the iPad, a common comparison was to the interactive, tablet-like book (, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer: a Propædeutic Enchiridion) featured in best-selling author Neal Stephenson’s steampunk sci-fi novel A Diamond Age, so it seems like a natural fit that Stephenson will soon be coming to iPad with an app of his own.

The project’s called The Mongoliad, a wonderfully stupid title that sounds like a gag from the lost sequel to John Barth’s Sotweed Factor. But the idea is sound: Stephenson and a few fellow authors including Greg Bear and Nicole Galland will be releasing a set of serialized stories to the App Store, presenting “an ongoing stream of nontextual, para-narrative and extra-narrative stuff” that will allow readers to interact and create their own stories in the Mongoliad universe with some “pretty cool tech.” Related. New window graphics #edutainmentALCS.

32 Free Software Solutions For Photographers. HTML5 Video. Bob Cotton. The Guide - Isle of Wight Radio Local Radio for the Isle of Wigh. The 20 most important computers of all time. Welcome to the Apple Store - Apple Store (U.K.) MiFi Mobile Wireless Hotspots Now Stream Media to iPhone, iPad a. Novatel have just announced some fantastic new functionality for their wonderful MiFi series of mobile WiFi hotspots: live iPhone and iPod Touch media streaming. Using any application that supports UPnP/DLNA media steaming for the iPod Touch (e.g. PlugPlayer), the latest update will allow you to stream music and movies to your Apple handset from the MiFi’s microSD card slot. With microSD cards now coming in capacities up to 32GB, what this means is that you can now pretty easily double the capacity of your media library if you’re willing to pick up a MiFi… and while the MiFi might be a redundant addition to your gadget bag if you’ve got an iPhone 3G, it would be an excellent way to keep your iPod Touch mobile and media rich without signing a two-year contract.

Digital Cre8or : British Computer Society. E3 2009 - Project Natal - Milo Demo with Peter Molyneux 720p HD. Privacy and the internet: Lives of others. 9 Great Document Collaboration Tools for Teams. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. With cloud computing continuing its reach into areas once dominated by desktop applications, it's a great time to consider how your business could benefit from online collaboration tools for producing great documents. Whether it's a proposal, press release, manual, or other type of communication or documentation, there are some great and relatively easy to use tools out there to help your team prepare it. We've looked at the bigger picture in team collaboration tools before, including everything from private group messaging to shared contacts to project management.

We've also looked at how to collaboratively create presentations using online tools as well. But if you need to get a group together specifically to build a document, you'll want to know what types of options are available. Wikis Google Wave. Google. Google Wave's Massive Potential for Business Users. Howard Greenstein is a Social Media Strategy and Marketing consultant, and President of the Harbrooke Group. He’s also a national board member of Social Media Club. Google Wave is an innovative new way for people to communicate and collaborate.

But as Gina Tripani, author of The Complete Guide To Google Wave, noted in her recent keynote at the recent Web 2.0 Expo in New York, Wave is designed for power users. Wave is hard. There are a lot of features, all bundled together, and it can be intimidating for anyone to just look at it and decide “this is a great project management tool” or “this is the way we’re going to manage our notes about the proposal.” But taking the time to understand Wave and how it works might be a worthwhile investment for business users. One App to Rule Them All Wave is already being used for projects and collaboration among many small groups and organizations around the world, in large part because of its strength in combining familiar communication platforms.

Google Plans To Expand Cloud Computing Services. When you think of developer-focused web computing services, the first thing that probably comes to mind is Amazon’s hugely popular AWS, which includes S3 (storage) and EC2 (processing). Google has its own web computing service — namely, Google App Engine — and the search giant is looking to significantly expand its offerings.

During a roundtable discussion this afternoon at Google Headquarters, Dave Girouard, President of Google Enterprise, hinted at this, saying that Google was looking to give developers more value-added services in the cloud. So what does that mean? Google doesn’t want to keep expanding into commoditized services like online storage. Instead, it wants to offer services that go beyond those, allowing developers to tap into Google technology that they haven’t previously had access to. That’s about as detailed as the roundtable got, but we’ve heard elsewhere that Google is considering a variety of other value-added services. Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine. Illustration by Guy Billout "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial “ brain. “Dave, my mind is going,” HAL says, forlornly. I can feel it, too. I think I know what’s going on. For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. I’m not the only one. Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also has described how the Internet has altered his mental habits. Anecdotes alone don’t prove much. Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings. Also see: Where does it end? Six ways Gmail revolutionized e-mail. Mashable's Pete Cashmore says Gmail radically altered expectations of what a webmail client could be. It's the sixth birthday of Google's pioneering e-mail service: Gmail Gmail launched in 2004 with 1 gigabyte of free storage, an inconceivable amount at the time Gmail popularized the use of the "beta" tag on many "web 2.0" products Google's e-mail service also popularized labels, conversation "threads" and archives Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media.

He writes a weekly column about social networking and technology for CNN.com. London, England (CNN) -- Thursday marks the sixth birthday of Google's pioneering e-mail service: Gmail. Groundbreaking in some respects and controversial in others, Gmail radically altered our expectations of what a webmail client could be. 1. Gmail launched with 1 gigabyte of free storage, an inconceivable amount at the time. 2. 3. It's a simple evolution that makes a huge difference. 4. 5. 6. March 25, 1995: First Wiki Makes Fast Work of Collaboration | Th.

1995: The collaborative internet takes a giant leap forward with WikiWikiWeb, the first site that actually invites people to hack it. User-generated content and open source reporting are now standards of digital civilization. But for the internet’s first dozen years or so, even the eggheads who had invented the medium as a way of collaborating reliably over distances hadn’t thought of creating databases anyone could contribute to and edit other people’s work. The state of the art in 1995 was the listserv — still very serviceable groupware, but limited by chronological indexing where, especially in a long discussion, the context could get completely buried. With a wiki, you can jump in at the exact context — insert a sentence here — so the next reader doesn’t have to assemble random bits into a cohesive whole. With a wiki, contributors alter a “primary” document, like so many chefs perfecting the broth. Cunningham also coined the word “wiki,” which has nothing to do with computers.

Ian Goldin: Navigating our global future. Twitter reduces spam to just 1% 10 Essential Design Tools for Social Media Pros. This series is supported by Wix.com, an online design tool that enables you to create your own Flash websites, social network layouts, and more, for free.

Learn more about Wix here. Good design is a critical part of any web or social media presence. Like the clothes you wear to a job interview or a business meeting, a sharp looking social profile or website is the first step toward being taken seriously online. Whether you're a professional designer or an armchair artiste, tools abound that you can use to snazz up your web presence, and give it that polish that professionals, potential customers, and online friends have come to expect from a social media maven. We've talked to the experts about what they use for inspiration, collaboration, and getting down to the business of design in a social media world.

Here are some of the suggestions they offered up. 1. 2. If you're a creative person, there's no better way to improve your craft than by getting social. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10 Essential Rules for Brands in Social Media. Everything Is "With" Not "Instead Of" | Six Pixels of Separation. Want to know if the Digital Marketing agency you're working with truly understands the "marketing" part of your business equation?

All you have to do is see how well that Digital Marketing agency integrates with everything you're currently doing - from campaigns to other agencies. If all your Digital Marketing shop does is try to tell you that the "old ways" of Marketing and Communication simply don't work anymore, and you need to be shifting all of your marketing dollars to the online world, please do show them the door.

Digital Marketing is not the silver bullet. Digital Marketing is not the only marketing a brand should be doing. Branding works. Traditional mass media advertising words. Direct Marketing works. Everything is "with" not "instead of. " Some of the brands understand this so well. And you thought email was dead. No marketing channel is dead. By Mitch Joel. Why Retention Should Be Your Top Priority in Social Media Market. Jeremy Richardson heads up Business Development at Mixpanel, Inc. a real-time analytics service that helps companies understand how users behave with web applications.

Everyone in social media knows that virality is the number one metric to track if you want to be a success. If a game goes viral, then there’s no stopping it, right? On the surface, this may seem correct. However, I believe that there's a much better metric for businesses to pay attention to: Retention. The viral growth rate, or "K-factor," is the accepted way to measure the virality of a product. Now don’t get me wrong — I believe that virality is a very important metric and should always be tracked. Why Track Retention? There are two primary reasons why tracking retention is important for any business.

Retention and Virality As I stated, the K-factor is the product of three numbers, so to increase that product, we want to make all three numbers as large as possible. Retention for the Long Term Think Value, Not Hype. The Death Of Social Media | Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing. Face-to-face time makes us happier than Facebook - News, Gadgets. The Happiness Barometer, conducted in 16 countries across the globe, was based on the Coca-Cola Happiness Index, which surveyed between 500 to 1,000 people per country. Almost two-fifths, or 40 per cent, of those surveyed said catching up with their loved ones after work was the happiest time of their day, while more than 20 per cent said they were happiest when eating with their families. By contrast, only 5 per cent said they were happiest when connecting with friends online, and even less - 2 per cent - said the first text message of the day made them joyful.

Families and partners were, by far, the biggest source of happiness for almost 80 per cent of those surveyed, with friends coming up next at 15 per cent. "Despite our celebrity driven culture, fame is not likely in itself to be a primary source of happiness. Instead, real happiness depends on our connecting with people, especially through love and kindness," the study said.

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