By James Burke on
29 May 2010 15:21
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By James Burke on
25 May 2010 21:09
Bike to Work is a great “Digital Guide to Bicycle Commuting” by Carlton Reid (@calrtonreid). This 98 page guide covers cash incentives (including the UK cycle2work scheme) “women on wheels”, security and clothing and more. Yes, there are lots of adverts but much of this is just “cycle porn”! There are some great counter points to “I don’t have time”, “I’ll get all sweaty”, “I’ll smell”, “My co-workers will laugh at me”, “Only expensive bikes are good”, “I can’t, I have to wear a suit” and so on. For me, I’m going to return to my 23 mile each way commute to the office on the back of this and use @runkeeper to keep track of commutes…!
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By James Burke on
25 May 2010 15:56
LinkedIn(CrunchBase profile) is the “de-facto” business/professional social networking site.
Personally I use LinkedIn as a “CV” but I’m not an avid “connector” in the business sense using this platform nor a user of this platform in the “social media” sense, however, my use case aside, the growth of the platform is undeniably impressive and this platform is around to stay as a “whuffie” component.
This infographic by Vincenzo Cosenza (licensed under a Creative Commons licence) provides a good current overview of the platform.
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By James Burke on
23 May 2010 18:09
The term "curation" appears to be on the rise lately in many web, iPhone and iPad applications emerging and mainstream blog articles being published such as “Why Content Curation is Here to Stay” and “Curators of the Real-Time Web: Distilling the chatter to relevant, actionable information” although this is not showing up too much yet on google trends. User Generated Content (UGC) has become the "norm" in many web2.0 and post web2.0 applications where text, images, audio, video etc. is openly shared and licenced with licences such as Creative Commons or freely shared via the "embed" where legal reuse and repurposing rights and obligations can sometimes be difficult to ascertain due to that lack of an adopted content licence. RSS is well established for sharing a "collection" of resources from a single source and OPML is gaining adoption for "collections" of resources from multiple sources. On the real-time-web front protocols such as PubSubHubbub allow the real-time publishing of feeds but the usefulness and relevance of these feeds appears to be sparking a new area of interest in web apps. One aspect of "Web 3.0" could be seen as the "return of the expert" and the rise and validation of the "subject matter expert" where their curated "works" is seen as holding value over and above other people and their collections due to them having more contextual social capital or "whuffie".
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By James Burke on
22 May 2010 10:18
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By James Burke on
21 May 2010 16:25
The Fiat Mio CC (@fiatmio) is a concept car where more than 15,000 people have submitted their ideas and contributions against 21 topics / discussion areas. All contributions have been submitted under a Creative Commons licence (see Fiat's terms) and have been used to shape the Fiat Concept Car III (FCC III) - "a car to call your own". Users were stimulated to think in broad terms about traffic and life onboard. From the analysis of almost 17 thousand contributors, a briefing was elaborated containing the most popular ideas, suggestions and demands that make more sense with regard to the scenery faced by most participants. The end result was summarized as follows: “A compact and agile car, comfortable and safe with innovative traffic solutions for big cities, a pollutant-free engine and the capacity to receive personalized updates, and changes in configuration, and having interface between car and user”. The FCC III is the end result of this briefing. Fiat will unveil this future Concept Car at the Automobile Show in October 2010.
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By James Burke on
19 May 2010 16:52
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