Millennials have close to $200 billion in purchasing power each year, yet despite knowing the considerable value, few brands have discovered how to build meaningful relationships with millennials within Social …
Scientific journal Nature makes all its academic papers free for the Public
Macmillan Science & Education will allow the public to access its treasure chest of rich scientific research was announced today. Articles on nature.com will be made widely available to read and …
Google’s Prediction API
Google has announced new or improved APIs at I/O 2011: Prediction – predicting new results from historic data, Fusion Tables – sharing and visualizing data online, and Books – accessing …
Designing for Openness & for Loss of control
Tim Leberecht has written an insightful article on the design for openness, ideation and the design for the loss of Control. Openness is no longer just a nice stunt but …
IBM User Experience Technical Report: Inside Social Network Analysis
I came across this interesting article the other day, whilst doing a little research at work on Social Networking. The paper titled, Inside Social Network Analysis, is a technical report …
Referential & Experiential blog users
An interesting discussion and blog post about two identified types of blog users. Referential Experiential It’s interesting because when building blog and personalisation areas to websites, we can now identify …
The success of YouTube & MySpace
The secret to success is to make everything one-button easy, then get out of the way. If you think collaborative architecture matters more, Flickr, Digg and del.icio.us have plateaued with …
Beating spam with Movable Type
The folks over at Six Apart have written a useful article on the whole issue of spam and how to beat it, it’s quite informative if you are new to …
The marketing value of social networks
Alexa comments on the marketing value of social networks and graphs its growth from January 2003 to September 2004. See also: Unlocking the elusive potential of social networks – McKinsey …
Trust and accuracy of collaborative software
Orante has commented on the credibility, trust and accuracy of Wikipedia and other collaborative editing software and websites such as wiki’s. Slash dot has also added to the discussion with …
Go Digital on the BBC World Service
I was up late listening to ABC News Radio and I came across the BBC World Service programme Go Digital with presenter Tracey Logan. The programme is quite interesting, covering …
Rob Kling’s introduction to What is social informatics?
Rob Kling, who has sadly passed away recently, and worked at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, wrote a thorough and interesting introductory journal document on …
Clay Shirky’s post on Social Software Politics
Clay Shirky has posted an interesting blog entry called, Social Software and the Politics of Groups, which looks at the political approaches, group experiences, and barriers to public development of …
Oxford creates world’s first Internet Institute
CNET reports that Oxford creates world’s first Internet institute – Britain’s Oxford University says it will create the world’s first institute dedicated to studying the Internet. The Institute (OII) is …