One of the ways in which Web 2.0 can be characterised is by sites which deal with “presence”, i.e. short form communication, which is constrained to bite-sized chunks of information.
Twitter is a contemporary web phenomenon which illustrates the phenomenon very well. Calling itself a “communication utility” Twitter recently announced it has raised US$20.4m of funding. [...]
Category Archives: Microblogging
Micro-blogging: When Does A Trickle Become A Flood?
July 30, 2008 – 6:48 pm
Can Social Networks Improve Productivity?
July 18, 2008 – 11:23 pm
Social networks are having an increasing impact upon behaviour at work. For well over year now, we’ve been seeing press reports about one corporation after another banning the use of social networking sites such as Facebook. Yet we’ve also seen many reports of management using information found on social networks to make decisions to hire [...]
The Advance of Unified Communications - Twitter & Jaiku
December 13, 2007 – 1:16 pm
Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have all reached for their chequebooks in recent months to snap up companies which are developing similar new technologies to use in very different ways.
One of Google’s most recent acquisitions is the social-networking platform Jaiku.com. The site allows its members to share their activity-streams via a wide range of technological touch-points. [...]
