Howard Rheingold of the ‘Travelling Geeks’ in London this week speaks with Micha Benoliel about the merger of the online and the offline world. He makes a distinction between the virtual world and the physical world. Hope to have dinner with Howard on Thursday, along with having my first tele-conference with the good people at global financial regulation website FinReg21 earlier in the day!
Howard Rheingold – Digitrad – Traveling Geeks from Micha Benoliel on Vimeo.
Twitter climbs the ranks of popularity in 2009 — especially if you include traffic from mobile devices (which aren’t counted in this piece).
Facebook simplifies privacy settings, removes regional settings, and upsets the experts. But what do its users think?
Personally my take on this is simply to converge my identity to one username: stuartgh — for this blog (and new url stuartgh.com), for Twitter, and following the vanity url release, for Facebook. That it turn brings up my real name so that people who want to network with me do so on that more personal identity.
Note that in Twitter the real name field is somewhat space restricted so I can’t write my middle name in full! I see they have an account on GetSatisfaction where I can log this as a change request, so here it is.
After all technology is supposed to do the integration for us, but as recent issue with the Twitter’s own Facebook api shows, it’s sometimes best to do the connecting for oneself!
Photo by suethomas
Amplified Individuals and Business Resilience 18th June 2009
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We’re all looking thoughtful at the recent #nlab event on 18 June!
RT @suethomas Thanks to @Solobasssteve for recording AudioBoos at the 18 June #nlab day. Here come the Boos: http://is.gd/1lOxx
Interesting post critiquing social media jargon and hype from Scott Berkun:
While I like and use Facebook and Twitter, there’s enough hype and abuse of words like innovation, transformation and revolution around all things social media that a critique is warranted – if only to take a shot at calibrating how people talk about this stuff. I hope this post is used whenever someone feels they’re being sold something phony or that makes little sense and wants a skeptical opinion to help calibrate where the truth is.
For starters: social media is a stupid term. Is there any anti-social media out there? Of course not. All media, by definition, is social in some way. The term interactive media, a more accurate term for what’s going on, lived out its own rise / hype / boom cycle years ago and was smartly ignored this time around – first rule of PR is never re-use a dead buzzword, even if all that you have left are stupid ones. I’ve been involved in many stupid terms, from push-technology to parental-controls, so I should know when I see one.