Social Media

Operator11 looks like a truly groundbreaking social web service: it’s a social television network. It’s like a live version of YouTube (though you can upload preproduced video if you want) but what makes it a real killer for me is that other people can request to be involved in your show, you can have them … Keep reading

Nice article from The Guardian: This week came the news that “William Wales” had joined the social networking site Facebook. Yesterday there was much argument about whether it was a hoax or not. Would Prince William really post a profile on the net? The answer is: well, why not? After all, this is how most … Keep reading

Right, the virtual community is now live, kinda. You can find it at http://virtualcommunities.eu. Be warned: it isn’t pretty. But prettiness can come later. So, the point of this site is to create a community platform using different social media services. The point being that I already have a blog, and a flickr account, so … Keep reading

Warning: mildly incoherent rambling ahead… I’ve been giving a lot of thought recently to what the best way of creating online communities are. This is partly Simon Dickson’s fault. Back in March, Simon wrote, in a post titled “Because you can’t do bettr than Flickr”: I’ve just started work with a local community group keen … Keep reading

VodPod is a really cool way of collecting and republishing video. The way it works is this: you create a pod, which is a library of video you have chosen as being particularly good, and then add to it using a bookmark in your browser. Easy. The videos can be hosted on YouTube, Google, blip.tv… anywhere! … Keep reading