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
30 May 2008 23:00
Another Plain English video from Common Craft - this video introduces Social Media by the way of a story about ice cream in the fictional town of Scoopville
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By James Burke on
14 March 2008 23:00
The two day Sport Relief Super Cycle undertaken by Alan Shearer and Adrian Chiles made good use of a wide range of technologies mashed together in a single page that provided dynamic updates of their progress
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By James Burke on
14 July 2007 23:00
Social networking sites are showing no end of losing their popularity with Facebook the new darling on the block, but what are they? - this short video from CommonCraft provides a great introduction.
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By James Burke on
26 April 2007 23:00
There is no doubt that social networking is showing little signs of letting up as user accounts continue to rise and people migrate from myspace to friendster to facebook and so on. There are now many Open Source social networking applications that allow specific purpose social network applications to be reused for other purposes and businesses are now being targeted.
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By James Burke on
23 April 2007 23:00
Clive Shepherd from fasttrack consulting has produced a great audio / slideshow introduction to “what is e-learning” that covers the building blocks of eLearning 2.0.
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