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links for 2009-06-24

June 24, 2009

Social Media – The Challenge of Adoption – [@robpatrob] Rob’s Dummies Guide, Rob asks, why is adoption not more evident?
Clip: "Most of the tools that are central to social media are very easy to use. Each year they get easier. Each year their power increases as well. Each year it becomes more obvious that any [...]

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links for 2009-06-23

June 23, 2009

How to Jailbreak your iPhone to OS 3.0 | via @rww
Clip: "PwnageTool versus Redsn0w versus Ultrasn0w: What?!? If you're new to jailbreaking, you might be confused by the names being tossed around out there: PwnageTool? Redsn0w? ultrasn0w? What are these people talking about?! Simply put, they're all tools that either jailbreak (allow you to [...]

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links for 2009-05-28

May 28, 2009

Not Nice…Necessary | Tara @missrogue Hunt's take on why Twitter 'Rawks' resonates.
Clip: "It’s the connection I feel to the people I follow when they make me smile, or feel sad or feel passionate about something. It’s the constant display of humanity sliding by on my screen daily. I know when someone thousands of miles away [...]

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links for 2009-05-25

May 25, 2009

Eyetrack III – What You Most Need to Know
Clip: "News websites have been with us for about a decade, and editors and designers still struggle with many unanswered questions: Is homepage layout effective? … What effect do blurbs on the homepage have compared to headlines? … When is multimedia appropriate? … Are ads placed where [...]

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links for 2009-05-24

May 25, 2009

India's massive general election – The Big Picture | Stunning photostory of scenes during the elections #indiavotes09
Absolutely stunning photo story of the Indian elections. A set of 40 pictures of scenes played out during the course of the recently concluded elections in India
(tags: indiavotes09 indiaelections elections09 India thebigpicture)

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links for 2009-05-22

May 23, 2009

Crisis planning now incomplete without social media | @euan calls for crisis mgmt teams to be connected to the social media world
Clip: "It would be naive to give the impression that there are no issues with this “crowd sourcing” approach to disaster communications and recovery. Panic can be spread using these tools just as effectively [...]

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links for 2009-05-21

May 22, 2009

hack for #fixreplies – shows what Tweets you’re missing | @mrblog's hack to bring serendipity & discovery back to Twitter
Clip: "I put together a little hack that shows the tweets you’re no longer getting.
It’s pretty hacky and requires some manual labor to use, but some people may find it entertaining. I decided to do it [...]

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links for 2009-05-20

May 20, 2009

Mobile creation & crowdsourcing in Japan (link via @grahamdbrown)
Clip: "Japan, on the other hand, joined the digital revolution from a position very different from the rest of the world, generally by-passing the PC and embracing a mobile culture that is just beginning to evolve elsewhere. Devices are becoming more functional, computers are getting smaller and [...]

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links for 2009-05-18

May 18, 2009

Zero for Advani 2.0| #indiavotes09 brilliant & pithy take on BJP's online campaign by @rjauhari. (via @additiyom]. i hated the ads too
Read the full post for sure! Here's an excerpt:
"It didn’t work.
There are plenty of post mortems floating around by now. I have 3 cents to add to the same.
1. [...]

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links for 2009-05-17

May 17, 2009

After the elections… « Lost! | not-so-lost @wanderer08 ! it’s a good post by a BJP supporter on looking ahead. #indiavotes09
“Lets take protests beyond the domain of the NGOs and do our own jobs beyond candle light vigils.
Lets ’stay awake’ , beyond a one day ‘jaago re’.
Lets organize ourselves as ‘youth’, as ‘taxpayers’, as ‘citizens’, [...]

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links for 2009-05-14

May 14, 2009

Greendex: Survey of Sustainable Consumption – Nat Geo | Nice green map. India has top score on Greendex. USA, Canada, Japan low.
"In this second annual survey to measure and monitor consumer behaviors that have an impact on the environment, National Geographic and the international polling firm GlobeScan have found an increase in environmentally friendly consumer [...]

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links for 2009-05-13

May 13, 2009

Megacities Threaten to Choke India – WSJ.com | Lucknow as a case in point. (via @stuarthenshall)
"What's happening in India is part of a world-wide challenge. Megacities are sprouting around the globe. But in billion-person India, the trend is on steroids. The country already has 25 of the world's 100-fastest growing urban areas, according to City [...]

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links for 2009-05-12

May 12, 2009

Twitter Bible: All You Need To Know About Twitter – great set of links via @jeanlucr
(tags: twitter business socialnetworking howto Social media marketing twittertools tips)

Data, Not Design, Is King in the Age of Google | Should Design Be Held Back by a Tyranny of Data? – NYTimes
"In a rare display of independence among otherwise tight-lipped [...]

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links for 2009-05-08

May 8, 2009

Open Translation Tools 2009 | Aspiration. Call for Participants. [disclaimer: OSI is a funder & am on the sub-board of the Info Program]
"The event will convene stakeholders in the field of open content translation to assess the state of software tools that support translation of content that is licensed under free or open content licenses [...]

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