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Posted in mobile web, social networks on Apr 10th, 2009
Combine Facebook and twitter and Google Latitude. You have aka-aki.
Operated by a Berlin, Germany based company, aka-aki is an online community that puts social networking on the street. That’s why aka-aki does not only consist of this community website but also includes a mobile phone application. Using the GSM, Wi-Fi or GPS information which ever [...]
Posted in Internet, automobile, mobile phone on Jan 12th, 2009
At CES 2009, Blaupunkt and miRoamer have announced a partnership that will put internet radio into car dashboards for the first time.
Blaupunkt has put together two prototype devices, the Hamburg 600i for single-height dash configurations and the dual-height New Jersey 600i. The devices use the 3G phone’s Bluetooth connection to get online and access miRoamer’s [...]
Posted in web 2.0 on Jan 4th, 2009
We’ve seen this initiated in the Iraqi war and in the recent attacks in Mumbai but in the on going conflict on the Gaza Strip, Web 2.0 methods are widely used to communicate as much as possible on each side. Two examples ; Israel demonstrates how precise Tsahal’s bombings are but posting videos on YouTube. [...]
Posted in microblogging, social networks on Dec 28th, 2008
Do you twitt?
A recent study provides some interesting insight of the State of the Twittersphere based on about 500,000 accounts tracked by Twitter Grader.
Twitter has lots of newer and less active users
70% of Twitter users joined in 2008
An estimated 5-10 thousand new accounts are opened per day
35% of Twitter users have 10 or fewer followers
9% [...]
Posted in social networks on Nov 30th, 2008
A Facebook group calls for a one day Facebook blackout on december 15th. This group has a quite strong momentum as it is reaching 900.000 members, 700.000 members planning to “attend”.
Why? A protest against the Facebook administrators: “Friends account deleted, limited in sending message or poking, stupid new layout”.
How many members will this group reach? [...]
Posted in web browsing on Sep 8th, 2008
May be not. Media RSS is a media syndication format extension to RSS developed by Yahoo! in 2004. More than a simple technical niche extension, Media RSS is a powerful while easy to implement means of sharing media and in particular photos.
From the insider point of view, support of Media RSS simply consists in adding [...]
Posted in web browsing on Sep 2nd, 2008
Just a couple of days after the announcement of the reconducted partnership between Mozilla and Google and although the link is not yet active, Google has just announced its soon release of its new open source browser, Google Chrome. Among the sources, Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox.
The Google Chrome download link is to be made [...]
Posted in web browsing on Aug 28th, 2008
Mozilla Labs introduces Ubiquity. While still in a very early stage, Ubiquity is a pretty impressive functional addition to future Firefox. Ubiquity’s goals are to:
Empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.)
Enable on-demand, user-generated mashups [...]
Posted in blogging on Aug 26th, 2008
Mad about your iPhone? Here is a good way to spend a lot of time playing with its virtual keyboard: write posts on your WordPress blog. Install WordPress for iPhone now and off you go!
WordPress for iPhone is a free application available from the AppStore and installs very easily.
WordPress for iPhone supports the minimum requirements [...]
Posted in social networks on Jul 12th, 2008
Would we accept in the real life what we accept on Facebook? Probably not…
