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  • 03.26.08
    Thomas Vander Wal Speaks at AOL work | (0)
    This afternoon I had a chance to listen to a talk by Thomas Vander Wal, the innovator that coined the term folksonomy circa 1994. He speaks on social media and two of the key factors that he looks at are folksonomy and circles of sociability and does workshops diving in depth on a particular service or platforms. Thomas does a really good job of breaking down the components of any social media site, whether a social network, bookmarking service or social news. The most fundamental concept of social media is what he calls 'object oriented sociality.' That is the ...
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  • 03.20.08
    TwitSig: Add Status to Your Signature on the go | (1)
    Twitsig has just released a new service that turns your current status into an image so that you can add it to your signature on email or anywhere online. basically you just reference your username as a PNG file on their domain as such: http://twitsig.com/TwitterName.png With their quick code grabber you can get your status in HTML or BBcode or even get code to reference a particular status. This is another cool little hack around Twitter technology that is helping to make status ubiquitous on the web. See how it works after the jump. Continue Reading...
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