Linkeracy 21 July 2009

nix — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:39:43 +0000

Nathan Barry exposes how experienced web developers happily allowed someone else access to their Twitter network. Wth the exponential growth of Twitter and other Social Networking applications, people are excitedly giving away their passwords in order to quickly jump on the latest trend.

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I’m really excited to be attending Wordcamp NZ in a couple of weeks time. I started using WordPress in August 2004 just love the way that it can be manipulated and stroked into amazing websites. I might not be the best manipulator or stroker but I still thik it’s the best blogging software out there. I’m really looking forward to meeting other WordPress geeks and afficionados.

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Another favourite, MetaFilter, celebrated its ten year anniversary last weekend. MetaFilter is the best community out there – bar none. The site is not a Web 2.0 site and that’s one of the best things about it. The community is intelligent, snarky and real. They are (mostly) self-moderating, full of real personalities and a site with really interesting subsites.

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Download Wired editor Chris Anderson‘s Free, for free.

But the funny thing about waste is that it’s all relative to your sense of scarcity. Our grandparents grew up in an age when a long-distance telephone call was an expensive luxury, to be scheduled and kept short. Even today, many find it hard to keep people of that generation on a long-distance call for very long—they still hear a meter ticking in their head and rush to finish. But our kids are growing up in an age when long distance is free on their cell phones. They’ll happily chat for hours. From the perspective of 1950s telecom costs, that’s incredibly wasteful. But today, when those costs have fallen to near zero, we don’t give it a second thought. It doesn’t feel like waste at all. Wired Magazine

And there is much, much more.

Linkeracy 18 January 2009

nix — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:48:45 +0000

Obama’s Social Media Toolkit – how to grow a brand / use new media technologies effectively / the crawl, walk, run, fly philosophy – from Steve Rubel

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The next step in applying Gladwell/ Tipping Point theories to twitter users. An interesting look at the Tipping Point and Twitter. Are you a connector, a salesman or a maven?

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The Official Google Blog reports that there are now more that 100,000 knols. What’s a knol? It’s a unit of knowledge, an article written by someone who is an authority on a topic. Better, worse or different to the Wikipedia?

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Check out the VisualWikipedia for a mashup of the Wikipedia, pictures and videos. Might be worth keeping an eye on.

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Why translating need to be taken seriously. A good laugh from the BBC.

Tangled up in Purple » social_media

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