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Radio 2.0 – Using Innovative Technologies in the Effort to Connect the Unconnected

Radio 2.0 – Using Innovative Technologies in the Effort to Connect the Unconnected

Web 2.0 for a Global Society ? As defined by Wikipedia, the term Web 2.0 “encapsulates the idea of the proliferation of interconnectivity and interactivity of web-delivered content.” Tim O’Reilly, often recognized as the first person to coin the...

iGoogle Review

A few years ago I started with using iGoogle, a personalized starting page from Google. iGoogle is one of the best 100 web 2.0 applications according to Webware (from Cnet). With iGoogle you can add applications in the starting...

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...
‘last.fm’, Mainstreaming the Long Tail?

‘last.fm’, Mainstreaming the Long Tail?

On the blog on Last.FM you can access the Mainstream-O-Meter which is interesting if you consider the long tail (Anderson) theory. It becomes a ‘mainstream’ interest to have an obscure music interest to end up high in the ranking....
Watching You Watch Me!! (…on Facebook)

Watching You Watch Me!! (…on Facebook)

The Web 2.0 application FACEBOOK analysed through FOUCAULTS PHILOSOPHIES ON SOCIETY. WARNING|DANGER: With this knowledge a consciousness is created with which people become aware about the possibilities of people watching/observing/monitoring people, both virtually as in the real world.
‘Whisher’, Opening Up the Internet?

‘Whisher’, Opening Up the Internet?

A short analysis of Whisher, a web 2.0 application. With the tagline ‘Building the world’s largest WiFi network’ the goal of Whisher doesn’t leave anything to the imagination. Whisher tries to create a global and dense WiFi network with...
Run Like You’ve Never Run Before: Reviewing Nike+

Run Like You’ve Never Run Before: Reviewing Nike+

What increases people’s motivation to start running? And if they’re already experienced runners, what helps them to cope with the loneliness of long distance runs and improve their performance? Nike and Apple recently established a collaboration called Nike+, which...

‘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...

‘Worth1000’: Artists 2.0

Products of post modernity, made by volunteers are gathered in a big online commercial community: Worth1000. Mash-ups, parodies, manipulations made by Photoshop are submitted in contests and are rated in this digital musuem of amateur art. With Photoshop, everybody...
Review of a Web 2.0 Application: ‘deviantART’

Review of a Web 2.0 Application: ‘deviantART’

“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master.That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory...

Web-Kare Review

Last week a new sort of web 2.0 application was launched in Japan. Web-Kare (Web-Boyfriend) is a social networking site for Japanese girls, which allows the girls to date a virtual boyfriend. There are four cartoon boys to choose...

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...

senduit.com

Senduit.com does not connect your wisdom (wikipedia), pictures (flickr), your videos (you tube), does not show your words (wordpress), your profile (facebook), your character (felonspy), your location (plazes) or your voice (snapvine). Senduit.com is a friendly stucky homing pigeon...

What Can We Do With ‘Swurl’?

Most social network sites have the option for their users to post what they are doing right now, to post pictures and show the music they listen to, all real time. On Swurl.com all features come together and thus...
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...
Book review: ‘Sound Unbound.Sampling Digital Music and Culture’

Book review: ‘Sound Unbound.Sampling Digital Music and Culture’

Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid is the pioneer artist of electronic and experimental hip-hop music. Combining jazz, electronica, reggae and various other musical genres, his work has been labeled illbient or trip-hop. From recording sounds made...
An Analysis of Web 2.0: ‘YouTube’

An Analysis of Web 2.0: ‘YouTube’

Introduction Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. In short, Web 2.0 emphasizes the...

‘Wiktionary’ and the Limitations of Collaborative Sites

Wiktionary is probably one of the oddest projects currently run by the Wikimedia Foundation. Started in 2002, it is a free and open dictionary working on the collaborative content creation model of Wikipedia. It currently boasts more than 900,000 lemmata for both English and French,...

Surf Around the World! An Analysis of ‘couchsurfing.com’

Couchsurfing is a non profit organisation based primarely on volunteers and donations. It is a site for people who want to meet new people and travel cheap. The site only works because there are mostly non opportunistic people on there,...
Book Review: Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity, by Louis Armand

Book Review: Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity, by Louis Armand

In this work the thread of eternal philosophical thoughts embracing the Greek schools of thinkers and sciences of the 20th century, psychoanalysis, cybernetics, semiotics, etcetera, leads to a new theoretical approach in questioning the dichotomy of existence...
“Get to the top on Google” Book Review

“Get to the top on Google” Book Review

Get to the top on Google: Tips Techniques to get your site to the top of search engine rankings and stay there. Get to the...
PROblogger: book review

PROblogger: book review

PROblogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income INTRODUCION For some time now I’ve been interested in the eBook phenomenon for a couple of reasons: the business model that lies beneath it (how to make money by...
Review: Technology and the Rural Youth – A Surprising Journey with a Sociologist Through Morocco

Review: Technology and the Rural Youth – A Surprising Journey with a Sociologist Through Morocco

          Author: Fatima Mernissi Original Text: 2004 Pages 240 Published in Italian and Dutch       Stereotype 1: Changes are most seen in the central part of Morrocco than in the more rural regions....