Oh the horror when one realises that what one publishes freely on the web (often only to ones community of facebook friends of course), is potentially accessible…..not to companies wishing to use that information to advertise etc… …but to THE PARENTS!!!
An article on SMH today looks at the dilemmas facing teens / tweens when their [...]
A hat tip to Dan Taylor over at BBC for pointing out this lovely little viral that allows you the passive, sit-on-the-couch-and-munch-crisps viewer (well fiddle with laptop) to be the star of Spooks. FaceSpook is a personalized video tool where your face is mapped onto a character in an action scene - and all via [...]
I have mentioned several times in this blog about the next big steps in the metaverse and two of my key points spring to mind, 1) Integration with existing online ‘life’ tools and 2) a company with super deep pockets, Google. So without much fanfare or pomp or circumstance ‘Lively - perpetual beta‘ was sneakily [...]
Twice this week I’ve stumbled across interfaces which I’ve found irresistible and blog-worthy. The first is PicLens (not brand new this week - but certainly within living memory ie: several months). The second is the Zoomii interface for browsing Amazon books.
PicLens is a Firefox 3.0 plugin which allows you to navigate through sites such as [...]
An interesting insight on news.com.au featuring Laurel Papworth (social network strategist and occasional LAMP presenter) doing some detective work on what your profile on Facebook or MySpace really reveals about you. The article “Facebook, MySpace reveals hidden messages‘ and video embedded below includes Laurel suggesting profile update status is now the new way (SMS being [...]
from news.com.au:
An American mother has been indicted in connection with a MySpace hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl committing suicide after being spurned by a fictitious boy.
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Lori Drew, 49, on criminal charges of conspiracy and accessing MySpace computers “without authorisation to inflict emotional distress on the [...]
Plaxo Pulse is an interesting social networking service which, unlike Facebook, allows you to separate your personal and business contacts. It also has a sophisticated address and calendar function which are linked to all those highly addictive sharing and communications tools. News this week is that Plaxo has partnered with cable TV company Comcast to [...]
I just captured and uploaded to YouTube a TV show (yes they are still going!) this morning featuring Australia’s leading social network strategist and social network hostess with the mostess, Laurel Papworth - also occasional LAMP mentor and speaker!.
Also featuring Aussie K (who has 102 000 MySpace Friends) they both talk with David and Kim [...]
There is talk that the features of social networking will gradually absorb into everything we do online or possibly be accessed through bespoke personal portals. This means that future social networking may not be destination dependent and we won’t need to log in to a branded url to connect. Can Facebook, MySpace and Bebo sustain [...]
Online Issues The internet as a creative workspace for artists. Protecting copyright and avoiding liability in respect of user generated content. What are your rights in respect of podcasts, vodcasts and blogs. Legal issues around youtube, myspace, and Facebook. Selling and publishing your work in the online environment – the benefits and pitfalls. Delwyn Everard Arts [...]
Well, With the introduction of the new 16GB iPhones and 32GB iPod Touch today, Apple also released a couple of new iPhone Ads to air in the USA. Apart from the fact they never mentioned the new iPhones in the Ad, I found it interesting that they are starting to promote online social environments. [...]
The other night walking home from the fruit market in downtown Bondi I passed an elderly lady wearing a huge Kevin07 t-shirt draped over her tiny sparrow frame and the thought struck me: what is John Howard up to these days? Has there been any continuation of the YouTube slanging match between Rudd and Howard? Or [...]
We all know Facebook has slowly been eroding MySpace’s dominance of the Social Netosphere (new word?) - mainly in our view, because it had opened its doors to developers early on. Whether or not zombie games VIII or the 16th wall application are must haves, it gave Facebook a freshness, something new to try everyday [...]
