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Category Archives: web 2.0
Quora
Quora is an interesting looking service, providing a fairly straightforward question and answer platform. It’s been in closed beta for a while, but now has been unleashed onto the public at large. It’s all about capturing the activity we all … Continue reading
Disruptive communities
A few interesting sites I’ve come across in the last few weeks have got me thinking – always dangerous – and have also connected some stuff in my head. As always, I might have got this wrong, but thought it … Continue reading
Posted in Communities, Social Media, web 2.0
Tagged clg, Communities, enabled by design, freelegalweb, idea, patientslikeme, signpostr
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Tom Watson’s Christmas Message
Our Minister for Digital Engagement’s blog has a stark message: Globalisation in a connected world did for Woolies. When my son is a teenager, his friends will arrange to meet online and share their music tastes before pressing the ‘buy’ … Continue reading
Posted in web 2.0
Tagged credit crunch, economy, online, sharing, tom watson, woolworths
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What do people want to know?
I am planning a series of posts on this blog that will go right back to basics on a number of social web topics, partially just to be helpful but also to help develop the documentation for some workshops I … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Social Media, web 2.0
Tagged davepress, documentation, guides, howto, Social Media
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I’ve Gotta Knol
Knol is a reasonably new service from Google, which has been described as their attempt to kill, or at elast steal some traffic from, Wikipedia. It’s basically a way for people to publish information about what they know in the … Continue reading
