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“To Twitt or Not To Twitt”

As it is defined in Wikipedia – Micro-blogging is a relatively new phenomenon defined as “a form of blogging that lets you write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) about your life on the go and send...

By Maggie Badermadjian on 10/13/08 Comments Off

Second Life as ‘YASNS’

Danah Boyd is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her research focuses on how American youth use networked publics...

By Maggie Badermadjian on 10/05/08 2

PICNIC 08 – Let All Things Be Connected

PICNIC-08 Let all things be connected Lecturer: Rafi Haladjian Raffi is one of the co-founders of Violet, which was founded in 2003, its main aim was and still is connecting things to the Internet and by things I mean...

By Maggie Badermadjian on 09/25/08 3

Web 2.0 + Second Life

WEB 2.0 consists of Cooperative Behavior, Education, Information Storage and Retrieval, Interpersonal Relations, Organizational Innovation, Social Behavior, User-Computer Interface, Online Systems, collaboration, knowledge, participation and community. According to Best, the characteristics of Web 2.0 are: rich user experience, user...

By Maggie Badermadjian on 09/22/08 1

Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond

Dr Axel Bruns is the author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and has also authored...

By Maggie Badermadjian on 09/14/08 Comments Off