Archive for September, 2006

Open Studio Event NYC

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Just a quick post from the Nokia Open Studio Event in New York City - hanging with the creme de la creme of social media who have all been invited from around the world for an exclusive preview of the latest Nseries goodies. May I introduce Mssrs Steve Garfield, Darla Mack, Rafe Blandford of All [...]


Mike Davison, September 26th, 2006
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Report a driver

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Another interesting social media experiment. Better Driving Please allows any upstanding citizen to submit reports documenting other road users’ driving.
Submitted by Blonde 29 in reference to X583XFM.
"I was driving along the M58 at 64MPH. I noticed this Rover 200 on the hard shoulder at stand still. The vehicle then pulled away, but didn’t build up speed, [...]


Mike Davison, September 21st, 2006
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Exploring la blogosphere

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Following on from Steve’s article on Wikipedia on the growing ranks of bloggers with Wikipedia pages, I thought I’d share a tip I use to understand foreign blogoshperes better. Wikipedia has a small but growing repository of fascinating information on movers, shakers, platforms and history behind country based blogging networks. For example, a search for Belgian blogosphere brings back some great [...]


Mike Davison, September 21st, 2006
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Video buzz tracked

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Interesting new site tracking the most talked about viral video material. Provides daily, weekly and monthly lists of the most noisy clips. Would love to know how the metrics are arrived at.
Would also be a good addition to add links to conversations about each one.
http://www.viralvideochart.com


Mike Davison, September 15th, 2006
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Move over You Tube

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Well not quite, although there’s some other pretty cool sites out there for video sharing - some of which also contain some social networking functionality as well including vlogging platforms for users. Here’s just a few movers and shakers.
http://www.blip.tv http://www.veoh.com/http://grouper.comhttp://eyespot.com/http://ourmedia.org/http://revver.comhttp://jumpcut.com/http://videoegg.comhttp://vsocial.comhttp://www.zippyvideos.comhttp://www.gofish.com


Mike Davison, September 2nd, 2006
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