eBusiness & Consulting Spocial INNUMERABLE TRANSMISSIONS: WI-FI FROM SPECTACLE TO MOVEMENT - Information, Communication & Society This paper analyses Wi-Fi, a mundane wireless networking technology, in terms of a cultural flow of meanings concerning movement of people and data. The principal analytical problem addressed in the paper is how to make sense of the profusion of images, practices, events, objects and social groupings associated with Wi-Fi. Rather than treating the abundance as driven by the IT industry's desire to find the Next Big Thing, or as hype that obscures actual social realities, the paper suggests that different ideas, ambivalences, frustrations and problems with Wi-Fi form part of an ongoing contestation of the meaning and value of information infrastructures. Keywords Related articles View all related articles
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What is Hubze? Business Site for Personal Branding and Social Me Mar Read down to the end of the comments for the latest Hubze news! People often ask me to have a look at brand new social networking sites. I typically decline, as I prefer to invest my time checking out social sites that have already gained acceptance. However, this week, when my blogging friend John from EZGreatLife.com sent me to Hubze, a social media site that might help me brand myself and tie together Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites, I decided to investigate. Accounting for my motivation was an expectation that the aggregation of social websites will be a major focus of 2010, as enabling technologies like semantic web come to the forefront. The landing page provided little information. Last night I attended a webinar to learn some details. This is the Hubze Registration Page. Coming in on the ground floor (as I did with both Twitter and Ning) will facilitate your community building process. Read the comments below and leave one of your own if you like.
Local Experts in the Domestication of Information and Communication Technologies - Information, Communication & Society Research into the adoption and use of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) pays increasing attention to social context; however, the social fabric of contexts of use is often poorly theorized. This paper presents an investigation into the formation and operation of informal local networks of collaboration and knowledge exchange. It highlights the role of local experts in sustaining these informal networks and helping individuals and groups adopt and cope with new ICTs. The paper draws on a range of analytic traditions, including domestication and consumer research, to assess how local experts transfer knowledge, ideas of use and even new technologies across social networks and across the boundaries between home, work and education and other domains of life. The methodology deployed attempts to overcome the limitations of many studies of the adoption and diffusion of innovations in sample selection, especially the inclusion of non-adopters. Keywords Related articles
» SaaS in 2007: reaching out to offline users | Software as serv Just a few months ago, I got flamed by several usually friendly bloggers for pointing out Why Office 2.0 will never go wholly online. Timed a few days before the Office 2.0 conference, my posting was lambasted as "wrong and naive" by Stefan Topfler, while Dennis Howlett said I was both "ignoring reality" and "deny[ing] history"! Yet by the time the conference had wrapped up, quite a few attendees seemed to have come around to embracing some kind of hybrid model for on-demand applications. Now, as we approach the end of the year, two of the best-known vendors associated with the Office 2.0 movement have announced new versions of their applications that support disconnected working. Thinkfree, one of the longest-established Web-based productivity suite vendors, yesterday announced that users will be able to buy a paid version of its application that allows them to work on documents while offline. This is the first of three articles in which I'll be making predictions for SaaS in 2007.
039;Tagging' Lets Ordinary Users Organize the Internet Blog de Pablo Mancini blue SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ — blueKiwi, the global conversation company, today announced the availability of a free version of the blueKiwi Social Business Platform. Designed for marketers, community managers and innovation teams, the new, free version delivers all of the social media tools necessary to create vibrant online communities with external audiences. Now companies can deliver communities for customers, partners and prospects directly from their website. The easy-to-use interface makes it easier for any community manager to engage with members and bring the most important conversations inside the organization for analysis. In addition, blueKiwi has also launched the Fruitful Conversations Community. Key Features: Internal and External Groups: blueKiwi’s free version includes one external community, to which users can invite unlimited external members, along with 10 internal community managers and unlimited internal groups. Quotes: Links: www.bluekiwi.net About blueKiwi
Global Nomads' Network and Mobile Sociality: Exploring New Media Uses on the Move - Information, Communication & Society This paper explores the convergence of communication and travel and the emergence of a mobile and network sociality, through investigating new communication practices based on the internet and mobile phone enacted by backpackers while on the move. These global nomads produce and maintain mobile spaces of sociality, founded on a complex intersection of face-to-face interaction and mediated communication, co-presence and virtual proximity, corporeal travel and virtual mobilities. Personal communities become a mobile phenomenon, relocalized in a plurality of online and offline social spaces. It is thus argued that network relationships are reshaped and mobilized through reconfigurations of co-presence, proximity and distance in relation to the use of new media. Exploring new media uses on the move can thus provide a useful insight into the emerging social model of the network and mobile society. Keywords Related articles View all related articles