Chicks Rule in Social Web

Social Web is currently used to describe how people socialize or interact with each other throughout the World Wide Web. Such people are brought together through a variety of shared interests. There are different...

Simon Wiesenthal Center Study: Hate Goes Viral on Social Networks

A study released May 13, 2009 reveals a shocking trend on the social web.  According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center study there has been a 25% increase in hate on social networking sites, so called viral hate, and that the trend is on the rise.Looking at 10,000...

Death reaches Web 2.0: Social obituary aggregator

"Inmymemo.com is a social obituary aggregator", they say. It looks similar to Digg (it is powered by Pligg), and promotes news about personalities who recently passed away. There is also a category called Citizens where you can send obituaries about unknown people. Death...

Death reaches Web 2.0: Social obituary aggregator

"Inmymemo.com is a social obituary aggregator", they say. It looks similar to Digg (it is powered by Pligg), and promotes news about personalities who recently passed away. There is also a category called Citizens where you can send obituaries about unknown people. Death...

Last.fm should buy Shazam, Musicovery

I've been using Last.fm for yonks, and it's a place I don't frequent as often as I used to. The music discovery process is intuitive, and encourages a love-thy-neighbour kind of attitude, as those with similar tastes are nudged into your profile page. So rather than have...

Internet censorship and Digg democracy

Censorship on the 'Net is a fiery issue currently burning holes through the web in unusual places. It's contentious, debatable and causing some consternation for some. So why is the idea of calling for some silence or some order on the web the cause of so much dismay? And...

Firefox, Folkd sniff social glue

As you may have read recently Mozilla have announced an early development release of a social Add-On extension called The Coop to their Firefox web browser. Almost immediately, thoughts turned to Flock, fellow...

'Workstreams' for mobile business?

So Google made good on all their mobile machinations and release a product that knits together GeoRSS and KML and it's called Google MyMaps. Intrigued by the idea of drawing my own maps, I decided to plot out the route I take when I jog. What's immediately obvious is that...

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