Posts on ‘October 1st, 2008’

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October 1, 2008 - 9:06 am PDT - by Mark Drapeau 
This is part of an ongoing series about government 2.0 written by Dr. Mark Drapeau. To view previous posts in the series click here.
Recently I had the chance to attend an event called “Government 2.0 and Beyond… Harnessing Collective Intelligence,” which was hosted by [...]

The following is a list of Government of Canada groups that exist on Facebook.  For the most part, these groups appear to have been created for social purposes; employee groups, etc.  This is not a complete list.  The groups below have been reached with the official Department or Agency name being used as search terms. [...]

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October 1, 2008 - 5:40 am PDT - by Adam Ostrow 
Oddcast is taking its talking avatars to the next logical place: virtual worlds. The company is launching a new product called AvatarSpace, a Web application that enables custom avatars to talk to one another through voice or text. However, as opposed to massive services [...]

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By David Chartier  | Published: October 01, 2008 - 07:07AM CT
NPR has taken a further step into social media by introducing NPR Community, its own social network wrapped around the organization’s vast content library. Facebook and Digg certainly won’t have anything to worry about, but Ars Technica signed up to see what a [...]

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By Ryan Paul  | Published: September 30, 2008 - 09:35AM CT
Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman spent yesterday condemning cloud computing and is calling for users to reject popular web applications. He insists that reliance on web-based software poses a serious risk to freedom and privacy. Cloud computing is just a “hype campaign” [...]

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By Aaron Strout and Joe Cascio
Although experts in the social media space have been talking about how businesses might adopt microblogging tools like Twitter and Plurk, only recently have we started to see a series of new vendors cropping up in the enterprise microblogging space. This has been due in part to businesses needing [...]

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by Jason Kincaid on September 30, 2008
YouTube has launched a new feature as part of its Insight tool for content creators that allows members to visually examine exactly where in their videos their viewers gain and lose interest. The new feature, called Hot Spots, displays the dropoff data in a dynamic graph that [...]

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September 30, 2008 - 3:52 pm PDT - by Doriano “Paisano” Carta
OpenID is an excellent solution for establishing a single identity for all your online accounts, but many people haven’t even tried it yet. For some, the concept of using a URL address for a login ID instead of the traditional email address is [...]

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September 30, 2008 - 8:14 pm PDT - by Doriano “Paisano” Carta 1 Comment
Mzinga has been around for over eight years so they’re by no means a startup. They’ve been building white label social networks for companies such as ABC, ESPN, Amex and other big time players without much fanfare or media coverage. They’ve [...]

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By Nate Anderson  | Published: September 30, 2008 - 11:30PM CT
It’s not all bailout negotiations, partisan recriminations, and White House meetings this week in Congress—our elected officials also found some time to pass the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008. Its name might suggest that the bill “settles” something, but it does not. Instead, [...]