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Social Networking for the Energy Department

Filed in archive News on July 22, 2010

Social Networking for the Energy Department
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It seems that the even United States Government Departments are joining the web 2.0 bandwagon. This is a new and innovative development, and demonstrates the growing impact of social networking in various realms of life, from business to politics to social relationships.

The Energy Department had recently taken the lead into web 2.0 by increasing its internet presence. As part of its social networking campaign, it launched a Twitter account, Facebook page and even a blog. These are web 2.0 features are in addition to the Energy Departments You Tube channel and Flickr page which they had already established before.

These social networking efforts are an attempt by the Department to increase its transparency and to connect more closely with American citizens, to demonstrate to them the work that the Energy Department does on a daily basis.

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Second Life's Slide? Hard to Tell Yet...

Filed in archive Virtual Worlds on June 25, 2010

Second Life's Slide? Hard to Tell Yet...
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The official line is that Linden Labs and their virtual world brain child, Second Life, are growing and healthy. They're also laying off almost a third of their staff - cutting customer suppose workers so they can outsource customer support, and closing their software development office in Singapore.

If those two statements (the company is health and growing, and it's laying off workers) seem contradictory to you, well you're not alone. But according to the Wall Street Journal, Linden Labs is restructuring in order to focus more completely it's core business - helping residents of it's Second Life virtual world sell virtual goods and services to each other.

According to VentureBeat, virtual transactions in Second Life are up 30% Q-on-Q for the first quarter of 2010.

Many analysts have talked about how the virtual economy has continued to grow despite the Recession. Second Life often gets referred to as a barometer of sorts for the larger virtual economy. So layoffs at Linden Labs make some observers reconsider their assessment of the strength of the virtual economy.

I was pleasantly surprised to stumble across some revealing figures about the potential to make money in Second Life. The virtual world's population is hard to measure. The most common figures are 18 million accounts and about eight million active users. At any given moment almost 40 thousand people are playing Second Life. Given that context, Linden Lab said that 64 thousand people made a profit in Second Life back in February of last year. Of those, about 60% made less than ten bucks in real dollars. Some 233 people made $5K or more, and a handful made a million dollars or more (in real money).

Unless things have changed a lot in the last year, Second Life is a place to have fun (not to get rich).

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Augmented Reality: Changing How We See the World

Filed in archive Augmented Reality on June 17, 2010

My friend Scott McLeod pointed out this video on augmented reality on his blog a few days ago.

I haven't tinkered much with augmented reality before now. But it is easy to see the implications of it in a huge number of areas - including education (my own profession).

Will augmented reality eventually become commonplace? Will the kids in my classes at school all have glasses (or even contact lenses) that allow them to overlay data on top of what they see me doing in front of them (not that lecture is a very big part of teacher in the elementary grades anymore)? Will the windshield of my car have augmented reality built into it - sort of a sophisticated version of a Garman or a Tom Tom? Maybe... Time will tell.

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The Growth of Crowdsourcing

Filed in archive crowd sourcing on June 7, 2010

The Crowed: Can you get these people to work for you?
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I learned a new word this week: Micro-volunteering. The idea is simple enough. Next time you're stuck in a traffic jam, stuck sitting in your dentist's waiting room, standing around during that 25-minute wait for a table at your favorite restaurant, or just plain bored, open up your iPhone or your Blackberry and spend a little time volunteering online. YOu can put your time that might otherwise be wasted to good use by performing small tasks for non-profit companies over the Internet.

That's just one new take on crowdsourcing. The idea fo crowdsourcing has been around for a while. Wikipedia is the poster child for crowdsourcing. They've build their free online encyclopedia with the help of volunteers (the crowd) who write their articles for free. Wikipedia has been around since 2001. It wasn't until 2006 that someone came up with a word for what they were doing: Jeff Howe coined the term crowdsourcing then.

In the past few weeks I've seen crowdsourcing applied to a number of topics and problems: from helping the Republicans form a new political agenda to studying honey bees in California.

If Web 2.0 is about using the Internet collaborative and allowing Internet users to create content, crowdsourcing is fast becoming a driving force. It may take over journalism and the news industry, and it is becoming both a business model and a management tool for entrepreneurs.

Crowdsourcing is here to stay.

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Seen that? - Build your own web2.0 apps

Filed in archive Best of on June 3, 2010

Build your own web2.0 apps Web 2.0

Seen that? - Build your own web2.0 apps
Zoho Creator by AdventNet is a webbased interface that allows you to CREATE programs. The whole thing has a rich AJAX built interface that has a familiar look and feel for users known to AJAX apps in general and other zoho releases specifically, such as the zoho planner (reviewed by me before). Creation of an application such as a form is easy. The editor does everything for you - you [...] Read More


Google adds iPhone interface to Google Apps Web 2.0

The developers at Google are pretty smart, as we know.They clearly understand how to get a chip of the money from a good product, as Google has just released an interface to Google Apps on the iPhone. If you visit Google.com from an iPhone, you now get a menu of services to choose from - home (search box), Gmail, Calendar, Reader and More (docs, sms, goog-411, news, photos, blogger and [...] Read More


Buy and Sell Web 2.0 Web 2.0

At the Web 2.0 Marketplace you can buy and sell everything Web 2.0. Interested in buying an already established website business, you'll find all kinds of websites here for sale. Seeking a Web 2.0 job, look no further. There are blogging jobs, consulting jobs, development jobs and more. If you're a Facebook developer, you can sell your Facebook apps at the Web 2.0 Marketplace. If you have some domain names to [...] Read More


Emergency Cash Loans and the Apps that Make it Work Business Computer Blog (UK)

smartphones continue to take a central presence in our business lives, how we handle our money is quickly becoming a process that we expect our phones to help us handle. In this new age of phones that work like computers we expect to be able to connect to our bank at any moment, wherever we happen to be. Often you can connect to your bank's website from your [...] Read More


Yale wants to know where their Apps are The CIO Weblog

And in one of those "Ripped from the headlines" moments, it looks like Yale is among the first (or at least among the most public of the first) organizations re-thinking their Apps conversion on the basis of where e-mail and application data will be located in Google's cloud store. The scenario I suggested last week regarding taxation was a little less high-minded than Yale's concerns over the impact of [...] Read More

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