Monthly Archives: January 2007

Joga: Football Social Networking

You might have probably heard about Joga.com - Social networking website which is a result of the collaboration of 2 giants:
Well thats probably old news. You might have also heard about Orkut.com - Google’s Social networking site popular in South America, Asia and far-east. But whats really interesting is how Google tied them together. Instead [...]

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Web 2.0 Logo Generator

Often I meet users looking to build their own communities. Once they have the software the next most important thing seems to be the logo. I thought it will be really useful if I could introduce them to the Web 2.0 Logo generator. It makes me laugh to see how naive we can be when [...]

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Hybrid Toyota Sociability

Have a look at this one.(you need to click the ‘Enter the site’ link)http://www.toyota.com/hybrids
Satchi and Satchi designed it and Firstborn in conjunction with Vital Stream produced it.
Totally over the top!!
Don’t know what its like inside once you register your Hybrid car/yourself. But could you get further away from the spare text based look of [...]

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Europe 2.0 Boom?

It is honestly great, as a UK based Web/Software Company, to see the European web market catching up with the US. I guess VC’s and business angels realising the true potential of the so-called web 2.0. Some obvious evidence:
Tech Crunch reported: “Luxembourg-based Wikio, Europe’s best hope against Digg, Google News and Technorati (it is sort [...]

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Web Science

Tim Berners-Lee, a father of the web, Is one of the initiators of a new field of research: Web Science. As the name implies it is more about the web than the computers that run it. And the web is people really. There is a brand new journal dedicated to the field.
Foundations and Trends® in [...]

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Get voted into jail!!

I love this. Democratic policing of bad behaviour. Normally the members of a community can only complain and leave it up to the moderators to solve. Check it out.
22people are in a virtual prison in a social network website.

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Social Networks and Real World Business

Thought Ill paste this too from our old on Web2Interact.com dated: 14th November 2006

In business we strive to reduce costs (less people) while trying to improve service (0870 to Bangalore).
Competition and shareholders demand it. But the customer is the loser and they know it.
The new generation of internet tools known as Web 2.0 can help. [...]

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Is Social Network our Future?

Thought Ill paste this from our old on Web2Interact.com dated: 23rd November 2006
A recent edition of the Guardian (20.11.06) had a column in the media section written by Paul Robinson. In it he discusses the drop in radio listening in the 15-24 year old bracket. It seem that almost 1 million people in this bracket [...]

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GapTube Anyone?

IconNicholson, a digital design that merges retailing and technology, presented a concept at the recent National Retail Federation (NRF) BIG Show 2007 in the USA; Social Retailing(TM). A ‘magic mirror’, essentially a video camera linked via computer to a mirrored flat screen. The idea is that not only can you see yourself so can [...]

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