April 03, 2007
Twitter: Fad or Rad?
I heard about Twitter on Future Tense last week, but it kind of went in one ear and out the other. Surprising, since I'm a known social-networking whore. If you build it, I will sign up. Then my husband, Mr. Anti-Social Networking himself signed up for Twitter yesterday. So I had no choice.
Then the husband got me going on this rad Google mashup that scrolls around the world displaying the latest tweets. Mesmerizing. Just sit and watch the world tweet!
I tweet from an easy little (Mac) desktop app.
But, the question remains: What's the point? The NY Times is using this to "tweet" the latest headlines. But, is it just yet another distraction on top of my ever-refreshing inbox and IM? Dunno yet. Jury's still out.
Posted by Meghan at 12:07 PM | Comments (0)
February 13, 2006
Why the phone should never die.
Last night, The Sum of All Fears was on the telly. At the climax, Washington and the Ruskies are IM'ing each other after a small nuclear device is set off by fascists on U.S. soil. The fascists are attempting to provoke the Russians and Washington into a nuclear war. If they would have read this Wired article perhaps they would have picked up the phone and avoided the awkward, seconds-to-destruction nuclear snapcount. Comfirming what is obvious to many, textual communcation poorly conveys emotion. It seems that people are no better than chance at correctly picking up the tone of an email. Which brings us to our word of the day: Egocentrism.
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February 08, 2006
money for nothing...
Here's a quick link to Wired's recent piece on "Making a living in Second Life".
For those who haven't heard of it, Second life is a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), but without the trappings of many of the other popular role playing games. In second life, most of the content is created by the users themselves, making it a perfect breeding ground for entrepreneurs.
Of course, it helps that Second Life encourages this sort of thing.
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January 19, 2006
Myspace for Businesses
Sometime in the not too distant past, First Avenue redesigned their website. (They claim it was in March of last year, but I think they've been rolling out new features ever since.)
Anyway, I like the new site quite a bit, but there are a couple of nitpicky thing that really bug me about it. The first is that their sub-navigation items (in the form of dropdown menus) don't appear until you get to an "internal" page. The second is that they have rotating news items on their homepage, but there is no way (that I have yet discovered) to see all the news items at once!
One of said news items was a link to First Avenue's myspace profile. This got me thinking about myspace in the business sector. If all kinds of bands are creating successful relationships with their customers using myspace, why shouldn't it work for a music venue? (For that matter, maybe Clockwork should have a myspace account...)
Posted by Martin at 02:27 PM | Comments (1)
December 29, 2005
Internet: The Great Equalizer
Recent Survey results from the Pew Internet & American Life Project reveal that the gap between number of male and female users of the Internet is closing. Young women (between 18 and 29) are actually more likely to web surf than males of the same age.
Surfing through other news stories that cover these results is also kind of fun.
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September 16, 2005
MinniWiki
Minnesota Public Radio has come up with a fine use of Wiki. The MinniWiki is the Minnesota Music Encyclopedia. Browse, create, and contribute to the ever-growing catalog of MN Music information. Artists, bands, venues, resources...
It's cool.
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