social | Kris Smith has read these articles about "social" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "social" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpThe Social Networking Arms Race- May 28, 2008 Last November, when Google launched Open Social we asked readers if Facebook would join Google's platform. The results were split right down the middle, but as we get farther from the Open Social launch, and the two sites continue to launch competing APIs (Google FriendConnect vs. Facebook Connect, for example -- the former banned by Facebook), that seems less and less likely. This is becoming a social networking cold war according to Duncan Riley. Even though the battle for social...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/299366928/the_social_networking_arms_race.p... Learn espresso from the best- May 28, 2008 Ryan and I recently became the owners of Rancilio Silvia espresso machine, and since then we've been trying to learn the ins and outs of pulling a decent shot. While Ryan has some experience in this area, I'm a total and complete noob. Luckily, our friend Niall steered us towards this great video series that one of my favorite coffee places in the city is producing. Ritual Roasters (a.k.a. RitRo) has six videos up so far, with topics ranging from using a french press to making a worthwhile...http://www.veronicabelmont.com/2008/05/learn-espresso-from-the-best/ When User-Generated Content Goes Bad- May 27, 2008 Viral marketing, user-generated content, online buzz: over the past few years, these terms have been representative of a new way of marketing to consumers that takes advantage of the current popularity of the social web. This new technique involves companies encouraging its customers to create content of their own in order to generate interest in the company's brand. Unfortunately, one of the potential side effects of this strategy is the potential for negative buzz. Despite this fact, a...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/299070151/when_user-generated_content_goes_... Semi-structured database records for social tagging- May 19, 2008 In my writeup on MIT's Project Simile, and again in my talk at the CUSEC conference, I lauded an approach to collective information management that respects our actual linguistic nature. People don't normally create vocabularies by committee. Rather, we absorb, imitate, innovate, and negotiate the vocabularies we use. Simile embraces that reality. It encourages people to name resources in ways that make sense to them, within the context of their tribes. Then it provides ways to map out...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/05/19/semi-structured-database-records-for-social-tagging/ Why Apple Doesn't Need Social Media- May 16, 2008 Apple has a pretty well-known disdain for social media. Despite being the one company that, more than any other, raised awareness of podcasting and gave the music industry a kick up the ass with iTunes, Apple is dismissive of social software. The company discourages employee blogging. It sued some of its biggest fans. It shut down online forum posts when people complained about problems with its Leopard operating system. Jay Moonah mentioned Apple on his (excellent) Media Driving podcast the...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dfPR/~3/291261907/ The Paper Problem- May 14, 2008 The school year is coming to an end. As a teacher, I watch a lot of supplies get tossed without so much as a blink from my students. One of my biggest pet peeves: those spiral-bound notebooks. I wonder what the probability is that a student will actually end the school year on the very last page in their spiral...What does happen is that students end up with a bunch of half-used spiral notebooks by the end of the year: one for math, reading, maybe social studies. So on the last day of...http://natalierompella.blogspot.com/2008/05/paper-problem.html Content Filters Proving Evasive for RSS, Social Media Sites- May 11, 2008 Shared by internetcases Whether it be RSS feeds, social networks, or one of the many social media aggregation sites, it's no surprise that even your closest peers are sharing data they care about that you just don't. But so far, despite many users calling for content-based filters, solutions to block keywords or topics are missing from the vast majority of information spigots. Whether it be RSS feeds, social networks, or one of the many social media aggregation sites, it's no surprise that...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LouisgraycomLive/~3/286643505/content-filters-proving-evasi... A Chronology of Brands that Got Punk'd by Social Media- May 2, 2008 Companies that were blind-sided by the internet, they didn't understand the impacts of the power shift to the participants, or how fast information would spread, or were just plain ignorant. This doesn't include the list of fake blogs, that's on a different list. 2008 Burger King exec trash talks using daughter's email Not sure why he didn't just create a new email address, that would have been a lot safer. Submitted by Hilker. 2007 Target's Rounders program had a dirty little...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Media20Workgroup/~3/282265870/ Google Now Lets You Place Ads On TV- May 1, 2008 Google AdWords has just made a major announcement: they are launching Google TV Ads, an all-digital system that lets you place your ads into TV program. The service has been available as a trial program for over a year now, and now Google has opened it up for everyone. Using TV Ads is almost as easy as using Google AdWords: you do it all from a web interface in a couple of simple steps. First, you choose your target audience; then, you choose the networks, dayparts, and specific programs you..http://mashable.com/2008/05/01/google-now-lets-you-place-ads-on-tv/ |