Tag Archives: flickr

SNS research proposal; Flickr

Martijn Dorresteijn | 06 October 2011, 10:15 pm | tags: , ,

Now that the use of social networking sites has become pervasive in our daily lives, the deluge of images floating around in the cloud is growing larger then ever. The Internet has moved from a mostly text-based medium to a multimedia smorgasbord; streams of images, still photography and video, are being uploaded and shared throughout the web. The producers and…

How Can Artists Use Social Networks?

Morgan Currie | 28 September 2009, 12:21 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Artists and the Ontological Web
“As an artist I find that social networking technology is ontological.” -Andres Manniste on Nettime, March 2008.

As we use the web we construct a portrait of ourselves over time: what sites we return to, what blogs we reference, what photos and videos we post, what cross-alliances we form, what written traces we leave. In…

From social networking sites to social experiences

Margarida Fonseca | 28 September 2009, 10:27 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

While thinking about what the future of social networking sites might be, I became curious about what Wired or Forrester think on the topic, what’s the trend?

In this article, Wired acknowledges what has become common sense: people are flocking to social networking sites in record numbers “as Facebook now boasts over 200 million users worldwide, and Twitter…

MA students present projects ‘Visualizing our World of Data’

Anne Helmond | 15 May 2009, 5:27 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , ,

Students from the MA New Media (UvA), MA Information Science (UvA) and MA Editorial Design (MaHKU) presented their interactive visualization projects at Crea.

Introduction by Yuri Engelhardt

Introduction by Yuri Engelhardt

The Visualizing our World of Data program contained eight presentations (not all of them are described here), many of which were based on Flickr. One of the…

Visualizing the network

Tjerk Timan | 22 May 2008, 7:05 pm | 9 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

As a result of the course information visualization, a public screening was organized where all project teams involved got a chance to present their work at the Waag Society venue. Within a tight 6 minutes, concept explanation and implementation had to be given, in an almost pitch-like setting.
All projects result from a collaboration between the courses MHKU…

Web 2.0 note conversation

Esther Weltevrede | 12 November 2007, 12:56 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

A few moths back @ PICNIC hackerscamp Timo Arnall told me he was working on super secret technology he couldn’t tell specifics about. A few weeks back @ recalling RFID he still was very mysterious about his super secret technology and I got really curious. I told him I set a Google Alert for “Timo super secret technology’ so that I would find out as soon as he made his technology public. This initiated a conversation 2.0 style publicly on the Web via tags, notes and alerts.

Call for New Network Theory conference photos

Anne Helmond | 30 June 2007, 2:34 pm | tags: ,

We heard the rumor that some speakers and/or visitors would like to share their pictures with us. That would be absolutely great. So, if you have any photos you would like to share with us, please e-mail us at mastersofmedia [at] gmail [dot] com. We will put them online and share them with you. Thank you!

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