Archive for October, 2005

Rapidly evolving media landscape

Monday, October 31st, 2005

In November 2004 we came across this futuristic video on the Internet.

The ending was updated earlier this year to reflect a rapidly changing landscape.

Its creator Robin Sloan works with Current Media, Al Gores new media project.

Both the WSJ and NYT recently ran stories of Google’s impact on Madison Avenue.

Google continues to pioneer a new […]

Amplifying the genuine conversations

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

The Search by John Battelle gives a good overview on the history of Internet search.

Technorati founder David Sifry has pioneered a new way of thinking about search.

He spoke about sociological change of the Internet in this Economist interview.

David also recently issued his fifth State of the Blogosphere report.

To summarize :

- As of October […]

Wikis a totem for people to interact

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

Wikis are the brain child of Ward Cunningham.

Ross Mayfield shares his transcript of Wards opening keynote at WikiSym 2005.

A wiki is a work sustained by a community. Often asked about difference between wiki and blog. Something tangible is ve The blogosphere is the magic that happens above blogs — the blogosphere is a […]

Personalisation, collaboration and co-creation

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

MTV has been an innovator within mainstream media since its founding in 1981.

One example of this is mtvU, MTV’s 24 hour college network.

Todate it has been exclusively available on-air within 730 campuses across the US.

On Monday it announced the launch of mtvU Uber.

Driven by overwhelming student demand, “mtvU Uber” is available everywhere, through both non-stop […]

Weblogs and podcasting at IBM

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Sher Taton is the marketing communications lead across IBM on weblogs.

We have followed Shers posts on her personal weblog since it launched in June 2005.

Sher has been providing insights into how weblogs are gaining traction within IBM.

IBM have released a series of 6 videos titled ‘Blogging means business’ viewable here.

It has also released the third […]