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Is Couchsurfing.com an Actual SNS?

In her research paper "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship", Danah Boyd makes explicit what the features of a social network are and what their purpose is. I decided to check if these features are present in the...

The Building Blocks of Information Visualization

Thursday Christian Behrens and Yuri Engelhardt did a workshop on the Universiteit van Amsterdam on the building blocks of information visualization. Christian Behrens created out of his master thesis on designing pattern taxonomy for the field of data visualization and information design,...

Patrick Lichty’s manifesto, The 50-Year Computer

The Slow Computer Movement is born:
I have a proposition to make – when I am ready for my first mind/body transplant in 2058, at age 95, I want to be using the same computer I am today.
Google Meets Mark

Google Meets Mark

Mark Kamau speaking on behalf of Nairobits (project initiated by Butterfly Works)

The most rewarding speech during the 'Surprising Africa' special at PICNIC came (according...

MapTheGap 3rd place!

The Masters of Media blog would like to congratulate Laura van der Vlies and Edial Dekker for their 3rd place at the PICNIC’08 Vodafone Mobile Clicks competition and the 10.000 euros in price money. After a hard selection process...

Come Have a Corporate PICNIC!

Collaboration...If there's one word I would suggest to compress PICNIC'08 into, this would be it. To be perfectly honest, the whole concept has gotten a bit hollow after three days of this greenly, grassy, commy conference. A small impression...
Pushing the HOT100 Button @ PICNIC

Pushing the HOT100 Button @ PICNIC

In 2007 the Virtueel Platform started the HOT100. The HOT100 is a group of the most promising and successful new media talents in the Netherlands. It gives...
PICNIC 08 – “Homophily Can Make You Stupid” by Ethan Zuckerman

PICNIC 08 – “Homophily Can Make You Stupid” by Ethan Zuckerman

In a presentation given yesterday at Picnic for the Bloggers Lab, organized by the European Journalism Centre, Ethan Zuckerman brought up an interesting concept that has quite remotely been discussed over the internet for a while now.    ...
PICNIC 08 – E-Art & the 1st Captured Impressions

PICNIC 08 – E-Art & the 1st Captured Impressions

Short presentations, few both clickable art visualizations and physical artistic prototypes from presenters, and conglomerated art projects without neither explicitly separating lines nor accessible explications for the few curious ones is the best way to describe the first impressions...

PICNIC 08 – The Long Here, The Big Now, and Other Tales of the Networked City

Adam Greenfield talked at Picnic about how new technologies changes our perception and experience of cities. According to Greenfield the networked city is no science fiction anymore, it is becoming reality. We live in ubiquitous cities where information systems...
PICNIC 08 – Surprising Africa

PICNIC 08 – Surprising Africa

A presentation by Ethan zuckerman;  co-founder of Global Voices, a research fellow at the Berkman Centre and a prodigious blogger interested in the impact of technology on the developing world. Binyavanga Wainaina Kenyan author and journalist and Helen Omwando head...
Google Analytics: The Implications of an Easy Setup

Google Analytics: The Implications of an Easy Setup

Here at Masters of Media it is time for a redesign. As students of the new year we are encouraged not only to contribute with fresh new content to the blog, but also to re-think its shape; both in...
PICNIC 08 – Commercial Collaborations: Tools, Things and Toys

PICNIC 08 – Commercial Collaborations: Tools, Things and Toys

Presenter: Michael Tchao, General Manager; Nike Techlab/ Nike+, at Nike which connects physical products with virtual online services and athlete communities. 11.55 AM, 25 September 2008 Mike Tchao started his presentation by introducing Nike’s digital collaboration with Apple computers...
PICNIC 08 – Let All Things Be Connected

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...

PICNIC 08 – ‘We Think’ by Charles Leadbeater

Today on Picnic Amsterdam, Charles Leadbeater (author of the book ' We Think' ) talked about the new dynamics of creativity and innovation using new media. Firstly, he briefly discussed the influence of the web by comparing...

Intrade Being Scammed?

One of the more interesting developments in the 'Many Minds' area of Web 2.0 is the futures market, where people basically bet on an outcome of a particular event, such as an election or, recently, whether Hurricane Gustav would...
Control Rates in User Generated Content: PoliticalBase.com, the Moderated Political Wikipedia

Control Rates in User Generated Content: PoliticalBase.com, the Moderated Political Wikipedia

  Technological developments, resulting in free user-friendly interface applications, led to the second step in the evolution of the World Wide Web, the Web 2.0. The Web 2.0 reflects a paradigm shift, from the “read web”, another platform of...
Aim For Mozilla’s Ubiquity

Aim For Mozilla’s Ubiquity

The developers at Mozilla Labs believe that the problem of the web in 2008 is that it is "disconnected: information and services are far apart". Basically: data is restricted by the web pages on which it lives. ...
Web 2.0 + Second Life

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...

Personalizing the Public Sphere: From Personal Start Pages to Personal Webtops

Your personalized Internet. You can add what you like and remove what you don't like and it's totally simple. - Pageflakes* - Pageflakes is only one of the dozen sites that offer to personalize your internet experience by creating a...

‘FuckFlickr’ by the ‘Free Art and Technology Lab’

  An interesting application on the web, made as an alternative to Flickr, Yahoo’s web 2.0 app for sharing images on the web is FuckFlickr. According to its own description its ‘open-source image gallery software that won’t narc you out....
‘TinEye’: Searching for the DifferAnce

‘TinEye’: Searching for the DifferAnce

‘Language depends on difference, as Saussure showed … the structure of distinctive propositions which make up its basic economy. Where Derrida breaks new ground… is in the extent to which ‘differ’ shades into ‘defer’ … the idea that meaning...

Does the DailyMe Dissolve Our Social Glue? Analysis of a Web 2.0 Application

The term ‘Daily Me’ was first coined in 1995 by author and MIT Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte. Law professor Cass Sunstein took up this notion in his book Republic.com published in 2001 (he also wrote about it in the...
Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus: Mapping Pre-defined Association

Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus: Mapping Pre-defined Association

Due to rapidly evolving technologies new information-gathering tools have been developed to support our ‘information retrieval needs’. Because times have changed, information retrieval systems will have to change too. The Virtual Thesaurus is an example of how an...