Posted in Social Media on May 8th, 2009 3 Comments »
As in the real world where people experiences harassment, lack of respect and gets victimised, the internet is unfortunately a fertile soil for these kinds of action, and especially the young ones would be familiar with this on different levels. Cyber-bullying is defined by Wikipedia as to “involve the use of information and communication technologies [...]
Posted in Social Media on May 7th, 2009 1 Comment »
Sometimes it feels like the whole world is on Twitter. A great number of celebrities, politicians and social-minded people are signing in.
According to the company Comscore, in the period from February to March, 131 per cent more Americans started using Twitter, and in one year the group of members has grown with around 1000 [...]
Posted in Social Media on Apr 21st, 2009 1 Comment »
The quick speed of what’s happening on Twitter and other social networks can prevent us in feeling sympathy for others. New research shows that the digital daily life has its bad effects.
The constantly updates of our status on Facebook, Twitter and MSN can appear as an endless line of superficiality glimpse into close and [...]
Posted in Social Media on Apr 8th, 2009 3 Comments »
The high use of social network sites at the workplace is a growing concern for the employer; some have even considered dismissing employees who used e.g. Facebook in the work hours.
According to a new study, done by the University of Melbourne, shows that workers that were allowed to use the Internet for leisure became [...]
Posted in Social Media on Mar 20th, 2009 6 Comments »
I assume most of you got the new Facebook layout last week, so what do you think?
On Sunday me and some friends were eating out, and then someone suddenly said “so, what do you think about the new Facebook?” Not actually shocking that this has been a hot topic the last week, and as always, [...]
Posted in Social Media on Mar 14th, 2009 1 Comment »
“A blog is a user-generated website on which the writers (bloggers) enter their remarks in journal style, which then appear in reverse chronological order” – Weber (2007)
My blog “career” started with Windows Live Spaces (MSN Spaces) and I was very active for a while. It was especially something I enjoyed doing while studying in Bangkok, [...]
Posted in Social Media on Mar 6th, 2009 No Comments »
As we all know by now, Twitter allows users to send updates in 140 characters or less. PRblogger Stephen Davies in his article “Blogging has gone mainstream”, in CIPR Profile Magazine (issue 70), describes Twitter in 140 characters (or less): “A public SMS for the web. You follow other people to receive their updates and [...]
Posted in Social Media on Mar 5th, 2009 4 Comments »
Last month Facebook could celebrate their fifth birthday, and this month, the 11th of March, they are launching a new design and are announcing new profiles for public figures and organisations, maybe you can say that they are trying to be more like Twitter?
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg writes in his Facebook-blog that some of the [...]
Posted in Social Media on Feb 23rd, 2009 3 Comments »
In Norway there has also been a rapid change in the way people, especially the young ones that tend to be early adopters and innovative users of new technology and media, use new social media, such as YouTube and Facebook. Norwegian social networks are also very popular, and you could say that the web community [...]
Posted in Social Media on Feb 16th, 2009 5 Comments »
- Talking about really letting people know what is happening at every second in your life…Some weeks ago soul singer, Erykah Badu, and her boyfriend, Jay Electronica, let more than 4500 followers know about their child’s birth in real time on Twitter.
Twitter is described as a service for friends, family and co-workers to communicate [...]
Posted in Social Media on Feb 9th, 2009 4 Comments »
…Is it time to be paranoid over all this new technology inventions, or is this simply what we have to get used to now?
Last week, Google launched the location-tracking service Latitude, an optional function in the Google Maps for mobile, that lets your contacts know where you are on the map. The function will not [...]
Posted in Social Media on Feb 6th, 2009 1 Comment »
“Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them.” - summarised by [...]
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