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Watch Alexis Ohanian’s “How to make a splash in social media” talk at TED
In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale's rise to Web stardom. The lesson of Mister Splashy Pants is a shoo-in classic for meme-makers and marketers in the Facebook age [...]
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Watch Clay Shirky’s “How social media can make history” talk at TED
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics [...]
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Internet in China: ban on use of virtual money for real goods trading
China has unveiled the first official regulation, banning the use of virtual currency in trade of real goods and services to limit its possible impact on the nation's real financial system [...]
Listen to Andrew Hinton’s “You are (Mostly) Here: Digital Space and The Context Problem” talk at IA Summit 2009
Lead Information Architect in Vanguard’s User Experience Group, Andrew Hinton provides engaging examples (including Mr. Spock, a speeding trolley, and a Dada urinal), illustrating how language powerfully affects context, and vice-versa. Andrew connects this understanding with real-life Information Architecture design issues such as Twitter’s syntax or Facebook’s Beacon and challenges us to think more carefully about how we shape context in the digital dimension [...]
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Internet in China: A glimpse at the Chinese Parallel Cyber Universe, where Users Prefer Clones of Popular Global Websites
The Straits Times (Singapore) has an interesting article the contrast between the popular global Social Networks and the local websites in China [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-26
Going offline: 18,000 words thesis to hand in tomorrow, so I better focus! # Autodesk Brings Historic Designs to Life in New Discovery Channel Series “Doing DaVinci” – http://tinyurl.com/cl8pnz # 2,000 words to go: “eye of the tiger, it’s the cream of the fight” # Just posted: “Autodesk’s Support to the User Experience Design Community in China” (http://tinyurl.com/ddbchh) [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-12
[Technology] Chinese Bias for Baby Boys Creates a Gap of 32 Million: Sharon LaFraniere reports in th.. http://tinyurl.com/crhau5 # [China] ‘Positive signs’ for China economy: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says that his country’s economy is.. http://tinyurl.com/cus4ha # Apparently @DanielLannon (from “The Frail”) is following me: either this is a hoax, or I’m so not worthy! # [Technology] 7 [...]
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Autodesk Student Engineering and Design Community is Redesigned and Reaches Record Number of Members
Just in time for the Back to School season, Autodesk has redesigned its Student Engineering and Design Community website with a new look and feel that is more closely aligned with other popular social networking sites frequented by students. The enhanced Student Community offers several new features and benefits to more than 350,000 students and educators...
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Education in China: 56% of student startups get low marks