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Cyber-bullying

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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“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, [...]

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Norway and Social Media

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 [...]

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 - 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 [...]

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Kine 2.0 – Web 2.0

“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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