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DIGG: Wisdom of the Crowds or Famous for 15 minutes
Social Networking site “Digg.com” puts quite some efforts up to show its users that they are just submitting a duplicate news story. While the duplicate search often comes up with some unrelated stuff it almost always finds duplicates. And when we see that somebody before us has already spread the news we just digg that story and cancel our submission. Not so for many other Digg users as it seems…We just had a look around in their Apple sections and the image below shows the results…
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Video: Google’s Master Plan
Here’s your daily dose of conspiracy theory. The Video Google’s Master Plan - recently made available on YouTube - is looking into the “underlying” plans that are driving Google’s business. The movie is greatly done and uses excellent visualization techniques. A high quality version together with additional information is available at…
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Video: This thing called the “Internet”
A great 6 minutes TV documentary from 1993 about the thing called the “Internet”. We haven’t heard the sound of a connecting modem for a long time (3:00)…
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Quote of the day: Internet and Society
The Internet is a mirror of the population that uses it - in reference to the proliferation of fraud, social abuse, and other online crimes.
If you stand in front of a mirror and you don’t like what you see, it does not help to fix the mirror…
Google Inc.’s vice president and Turing Award winner [...]
Video: 1h Blogumentary
Have a look at this one hour documentary on blogs…
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Time: Visualize the Blogosphere
Swedish company PrimeLabs is providing a new screen-saver called “Twingly” that visualizes worldwide RSS feeds on a globe in real time…
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Video: Web 2.0 explained
Kansas State University Professor “Michael Wesch” has made the second draft of his video available online that provides a flyover from early HTML to Web 2.0 in less than 5 minutes. Great work…The video is also online at “mojiti.com” were you can write your comments directly into the video itself…
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Second Life: Best quote on what it is
We documented some background information on Second Life a few weeks ago. Now Robert Scoble has provided us with the best definition from an interview he has done last week at LIFT show in Geneva:
He was interviewing Sister Judith Zoebelein, who manages the Vatican’s Web site and asked her:
“… do you think we’ll soon go [...]
Web: Why movie downloads are not getting off the ground
Gadget web log “Gizmodo” has a great top 10 list why movie downloads still didn’t make it. They estimate that it will take a few more years until movie downloads from the Internet become as common as DVDs or rentals. Their list of reasons includes…
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USA: H. Clinton’s web site traffic peaking
Interest in U.S. Democrats front runner Hillary Clinton seems to be on the rise - at least when you believe in web site statistics. Her web site was this week’s number two of Alexa’s “movers and shakers” with a rise of 40,000% in traffic…
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