Virtualcommunities. Dopplr lets u share ur travelling with others. A major design goal of Dopplr has been simplicity: We believe you should be able to use the site with almost no special help other than what’s in front of you on each page. That said, we’d like to introduce a “Dopplr Tour” page that we hope will highlight some key features for longstanding Dopplr travellers as well as new ones. If you are new to Dopplr you can sign-up here . Please take a look. Let us know how we can make it better. Like the service itself, we’ll be improving the tour as time goes on. Meanwhile, here we go: Below, you’ll see the main page of Dopplr after you’ve signed in. At the top you’ll see links to other important pages. (1) They include “Invite,” where you invite friends and colleagues to join Dopplr, plus your account settings, managing your traveller connections, Facebook integration and more.
The box below “Where Next?” Note the three tabs (3) in the main part of the page. Click on any city name and you’ll be taken to the city page. Adding a trip is easy. Socialmedian Returns As Xing News. We recently covered socialmedian, which late last year was acquired by European business social network XING, when they introduced a nifty application on the Facebook platform that allowed its users to share personalized news from across the web with their social graph. At the time, I thought it was a bit of a strange move to support Facebook before powering the platform of its new owner, but former socialmedian CEO Jason Goldberg – who now has the position of Chief Product Officer at the public company – told me to expect an integration with XING to follow suite soon enough.
As of today, XING users can install the first two applications on its OpenSocial-driven platform: one (Xing News) takes the entire concept of socialmedian – personalized news filtering and sharing – and transforms it into a straightforward XING feature, the other one (Ask Xing) is a tool users can install to easily ask questions to the XING community and get responses without ever needing to leave the service. Mercury reorganization. October 30, 2007 | Author: cobrien | Filed under: Prototypes , Milestones By Chris O’Brien Last summer, we made some big, splashy announcements about how we planned to “Re-Think” the Mercury News. We said we were sending a bunch of folks out to talk to people in the community.
And then, well, silence… Well, we’re back. This week, a steering committee of about a dozen folks began meeting to create prototypes of a new Mercury News. We decided that we wanted our Re-Thinking process to be as transparent as possible. We intend to blog here in as much detail as we can about our sessions and post examples of any prototypes we create. So let’s begin by talking about what happened today. 1. 2. 3. We then broke into 2 groups to being discussing prototypes around a couple of general concepts that we had begun discussing last week: 1. 2. I was part of the group that focused on the second category, so I’ll fill you in on those discussions. That’s where we left things. Share This. Second Life SLim Client at Virtual World Conference. GettingStarted. Social Feed Reading with Shyftr - ReadWriteWeb. Shyftr, which stands for "Share Your Feeds Together," is a new online feed reader that combines RSS with a social network that's built solely around the feeds you read and share with your friends.
You can use Shyftr to read your own feeds, read the feeds of other users by viewing their feed list, or search through the content of the Shyftr network to find new feeds that interest you. Will Shyftr be the next big thing for RSS? Or is just another social network? Signing Up When you sign up for a Shyftr account, you're presented with a screen where you can optionally choose to add some of the more popular feeds from various categories to your feed list. Now you'll be on your profile page where you can customize your profile picture and bio and add feeds to your account.
Shiftr Profile The Basics When working with your Feed List, you can view all items, unread items, and can mark items as read, just as you can in Google Reader. Shyftr Feed List Getting Social Search Shyftr Search Result Conclusion. Weekly Wrapup: Recommender Systems, Social Media Trends, State of Blog Search, And More... - ReadWriteWeb. In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we continue our series on recommendation technologies, outline 10 ways that social media will change in 2009, look at 8 mobile technologies to watch in 2009-10, review the state of blog search, and more.
Also we note the highlights from our Enterprise Channel and Jobwire, ReadWriteWeb's new product which tracks hires in tech and new media. The Weekly Wrapup is sponsored by Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5: You can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapup by RSS or by email (form below, for those of you reading this via our website). The Weekly Wrapup reviews the leading stories posted to ReadWriteWeb during the week . We hope it is particularly useful for those people who can't keep up with the 10+ stories we post every day, but who still want to stay on top of the latest web technology and social media trends. RWW Weekly Wrap-up Email Subscription form: Web Trends In Cloud We Trust? Jobwire Enterprise. 10 Important Facts of Blog Promotion. By Steven Snell Almost every blogger aims to grow their blog and reach a larger audience.
Unfortunately, most new bloggers don’t know much about promoting a blog when they are just getting started. The good news is you will learn pretty quickly if you are consistently involved and working at promoting your blog. Here are ten things that I have learned to be true from my experience. 1. Building Significant Search Engine Traffic Will Take Time New blogs generally take several months, at least, before they gain enough trust from search engines to produce any type of significant flow of traffic. Building a blog that is search engine-friendly is critical if you want to maximize search traffic, so take care of that from the start and focus on creating great content that others will talk about and link to. 2.
No two sources of traffic are quite the same. Search engine traffic is highly sought after because these visitors are actively looking for what you have to offer. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Google Ventures Into Virtual Reality With ‘Lively’ Social networking for virtual worlds. Wetpaint wiki and the impact of it. Niche wikis are pretty rampant in this day and age, but in terms of their having large or even long-term effects on anything larger than themselves, it's pretty difficult to pawn much value from them, unless you're a rabid member. As Mark mentioned the other day, niche wikis are somewhat caught in a web 2.0 twilight zone where they provide a lot of value to some, but are difficult to monetize or incentivize in terms of user activity and generated content.
WetPaint is one of the larger wiki networks out there, and has managed to present itself as a tool for marketing purposes, whether it's the necessity of finding a community for target marketing, or for conducting a bit of marketing research. So when I got a note in my inbox telling of a WetPaint wiki that had enough effect as to help revive the Jericho television series, I wasn't entirely surprised. I think so. Social media as tools for journalists. Because we live in an age when social media sites are our daily bread, it seems natural to turn to them as resources for writing a story. When I wrote a piece about the popularity of Facebook all over the world, I went straight to Facebook to get the user interviews I needed. And when I wrote about the Brazilian success of social networking site Orkut, I simply joined the community and introduced myself to potential subjects.
Lately my favorite social media reporting tool is Twitter, where I ask questions and listen in on chatter that helps me get story ideas. And others are using services like these to do their jobs too. Last summer, a reporter from the UK’s Sky News reported on a protest live relying only on social media tools and his mobile phone. But with this ease of access to information and individuals comes an inherent risk. My Social Media Reporting Tools Twitter The open and constantly-updated nature of some social media services can be a dream for reporting. Related. Debate the economist on social networking. The Economist is doing an “Oxford-style debate” on the following proposition: “Social networking technologies will bring large [positive] changes to educational methods, in and out of the classroom” Given that MySpace and Facebook are ubiquitous, can social networking be defined as the “collective power of community to help inform perspectives that would not be unilaterally formed” or is it simply a distraction for students?
Can these tools could be used in the classroom? While I think that the Economist’s question is quite intriguing (albeit a bit problematically defined), I was sorely disappointed with the two responses. On the Pro side is Ewan McIntosh. On the Con side is Michael Bugeja. Sadly, I think that both completely missed the point. Danah’s response to said proposition In their current incarnation, social network sites (SNSs) like Facebook and MySpace should not be integrated directly into the classroom.
Social network sites do not help most youth see beyond their social walls. Twitter for journalists. Social graphs. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, today published a blog post about what he terms the Graph, which is similar (if not identical) to his Semantic Web vision. Referencing both Brad Fitzpatrick's influential post earlier this year on Social Graph, and our own Alex Iskold's analysis of Social Graph concepts, Berners-Lee went on to position the Graph as the third main "level" of computer networks.
First there was the Internet, then the Web, and now the Graph - which Sir Tim labeled (somewhat tongue in cheek) the Giant Global Graph! Note that Berners-Lee wasn't specifically talking about the Social Graph, which is the term Facebook has been heavily promoting, but something more general. In a nutshell, this is how Berners-Lee envisions the 3 levels (a.k.a. layers of abstraction): 1. The Graph is all about connections and re-use of data. What's more, says Berners-Lee, the Graph has major implications for the Mobile Web.
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