Consumers Take Up The Battle Against Corn Fructose
Tuesday, den 5. August 2008The LA Times has an article to suggest that consumers are heeding the message that corn-fructose is bad for your health - but that the big soda brands are unable and unwilling to retool to… … continue reading
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Pic: Simple & Loving Ingredients
Tuesday, den 5. August 2008In a grocery store in Mission, San Francisco, this pack of corn chips caught our eye. Nice to find snack food that’s proud of the simplicity of its ingredients - ingredients that also seem to… … continue reading
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What’s The Future of Cloud Computing?
Tuesday, den 5. August 2008Hugh Macleod has been posting some intriguing questions about what’s next for cloud computing. He’s wondering who’s going to be the big player, and how it will all work. Based on Power Laws, Macleod envisions… … continue reading
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Pic: Anyone Want A Classic Car
Tuesday, den 5. August 2008This car we saw for sale near Santa Monica made us wonder if the classic car market has been affected in the same way the SUV market has. We can’t find any reports but it… … continue reading
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BoingBoing Shows Us Virgin Galactic, Behind the Scenes
Tuesday, den 5. August 2008Our friends over at BoingBoing TV recently posted a nice video showcasing the fanfare and technology surrounding Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo. We were fortunate enough to be in attendance; but for those who weren’t, Xeni Jardin… … continue reading
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Global Nightlife Trends: Cotton’s in Shanghai, China
Tuesday, den 5. August 2008To kick off our Global Nightlife Trends series, we asked Cotton Ding, owner of Shanghai’s eternally hip bar, Cotton’s, to fill us in on what’s going on after dark in China’s commercial capital. Here are… … continue reading
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Personal Learning Environments
Tuesday, den 5. August 2008Personal Learning Environments are an interesting idea we’ve seen codify recently. A PLA is a system that helps learners take control of and manage their own learning. Kind of like your own web based library… … continue reading
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Lifestreaming your blog - is it worth
Tuesday, den 5. August 2008What is next to blogging? Lifestreaming?
Sarah Perez from ReadWriteWeb published a post yesterday titled “The Future of Blogging Revealed”. She was talking about Lifestreaming [eg. SweetCorn] - the next generation blogging.
What happens there? You can read the post to get some idea. But let’s think where we are moving with Lifestreaming! Is there any fundamental change?
Why blogs came into existence is a different issue but we all know that how it is perceived today. Something that had been just a personal diary is now a big communication tool.
And more importantly, organizations are using it to bring a personal touch in their business. How does it happen?
Successful blogs try to show off the person behind the blog - what he does; his regular life; habits; likings etc. Those blogs and posts try to portray the social self of the blogger or the organization involved with that blog.
But web is not all about blogs - there are other platforms like micro blogs, networks, forums and obviously bookmarking solutions. To add to this, another very common trend today is feed sharing (what you are reading is no more a secret - people are sharing them via Google reader).
And your personality is actually split into all those spaces.
Last year (October 2007) we had, SEZ WHO, a tool that tried to link someone’s comments in a single thread to identify his or her worth as a commenter in different blogs. And then we had BlogCatalog, MyBlogLog, FriendFeed etc. - they tried to accumulate someone’s overall web presence in a single page.
All these are actually following simple proverb - action determines a person. Your overall web-presence is developing your identity. And that’s what “Lifestreaming” is doing.
But is it good enough as a complete blog?
I don’t think so - to the most it can be a widget - the real worth is still the content you are producing (not something that you are accumulating from different parts of the web).
And there is not alternative to good content.
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Getting Yelped and Fighting Back
Tuesday, den 5. August 2008User-generated review site Yelp is getting a bit of negative feedback of its own, as of late. According to CBS News, some business owners who have received less-than-glowing yelps on the 10 million-user strong site… … continue reading
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Visualizing Innovation and Cultural Data Flows
Tuesday, den 5. August 2008Lev Manivich is an author and Professor of Visual Arts at UCSD who’s looking for new ways to create quantitative measures of cultural innovation and visualize cultural flows and how trends change over time.
Using powerful… … continue reading
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