Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 31-03-2009
If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to send a tweet about it, did it really fall? This is the question I’ve been trying to wrap my head around today, after reading Steve Gillmor’s latest missive from the realtime future (where they speak a somewhat different version of English than we do at present). Gillmor reports on a seismic event that happened near his home earlier today: This morning I felt a jolt and reached for my iPhone to check in with my wife on the highway. She immediately asked whether it was on Twitter…
Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 31-03-2009
Recession blues? This website has it all. Recession Junction has got recession-themed gifts like:
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Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 30-03-2009
Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 29-03-2009
Today’s Sunday Times features an interesting essay on Wikipedia by Noam Cohen, Rough Type’s Journalist of the Week (my last post was inspired by his article on ghosttwittering). Cohen draws an elaborate parallel between Wikipedia and a city: With its millions of visitors and hundreds of thousands of volunteers, its ever-expanding total of articles and languages spoken, Wikipedia may be the closest thing to a metropolis yet seen online … The search for information resembles a walk through an overbuilt quarter of an ancient capital. You circle around topics on a path that appears to be shifting … Wikipedia encourages…
Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 29-03-2009
Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 29-03-2009
Iconoculture: Restaurants are finding creative ways to play the culinary field while minimizing financial risk for themselves and their customers.
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Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 28-03-2009
The Eco Showerdrop is the worlds first low-cost, universal shower meter. A simple digital display lets you know exactly how much water your shower dispenses through user-friendly graphics. A simple alert tells you when the recommended amount of water has been dispensed.
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Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 27-03-2009
The great thing about the two-dimensionality of the realtime-realspace continuum is that the sense of intimacy gets disconnected from the act of intimacy. You get the pleasure of the intimate exchange without having to clean up afterwards. No risk, no mess. In today’s New York Times, Noam Cohen delivers the profoundly unstartling revelation that a lot of celebrities have hired flacks to feed content into their Twitter streams, their blogs, and the various other online channels of faux authenticity. A gentleman named Broadway (not his real name) thumbs tweets for rapper 50 Cent (not his real name), who has nearly…
Filed Under (Internet Business) by Admin on 27-03-2009
People try different ways to market themselves or a product they are working on. For example, here is the story of Jamie who thinks Twitter should hire her and thus she has started an online campaign via her blog and twitter (1386 followers). No matter whether you call it crazy or cool, she has definitely created some buzz in the market.
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Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 26-03-2009
