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links for 2009-10-24

October 25, 2009

Sentient City: Interview w Fabien Girardin | research on how new tech shapes public spaces and hybrid cities Clips: "I understand a public space as an area or place that is open and accessible to all citizens without discriminations; Nowadays public spaces have their digital counterparts where people gather, share, and engage with each other [...]

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links for 2009-10-22

October 23, 2009

How C.K. Prahalad's Bottom of the Pyramid Strategies Are Paying Off – Knowledge@Wharton | mobile phone industry as an eg.! An interview with C.K.Prahalad where he talks of the wireless cell phone industry at the bottom of the pyramid. Clip: "I can illustrate it with a simple example of one industry, which has broken many [...]

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links for 2009-09-10

September 11, 2009

Evangelist: Think! says @elsua in a great post on social computing and the corporate world CLIP (ed): "During all of this time I have been thinking about my role as a technology evangelist, specially in the area of Social Software, and its impact within the corporate world. & how the change towards a new, more [...]

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links for 2009-09-06

September 7, 2009

There Will Be Web Jobs for Social Scientists | good news [via @ndhanthro at anthrodesign group] "Social Science Meets Technology in Next-Generation Jobs," – report by Gartner that discusses four areas of jobs in the near future, which implies that "most companies aren't really geared toward taking advantage of the impact of these online communities, [...]

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links for 2009-09-05

September 6, 2009

Facebook Claims 65 Million Mobile Users | via @raquelrecuero Facebook said more than 65 million people are actively using the social network on their mobile devices. The social network said it had just 20 million active mobile users at the beginning of the year. The site has seen explosive growth in the mobile department thanks [...]

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links for 2009-08-31

September 1, 2009

FutureChat – Indian Crafts and Mobiles | interesting thoughts around craftsmen, artisans & mobile innovations! CLIP: Since I work with craftsmen in rural India, the applicability of mobile innovation, and the changes it could bring in my field about seem almost limitless. 1. Craft services – this service could actually tie up with either a [...]

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links for 2009-08-04

August 5, 2009

InfoLady – the rural mobile troubleshooter | via @rmack & @whiteafrican Clip: "The village information workers, 'mobile ladies', were renamed 'info ladies'. An info lady possesses a laptop or classmate computer, internet modem, headphone, webcam, digital camera, photo printer and a mobile phone for giving the entire livelihood information services at a cheaper rate, and [...]

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links for 2009-07-30

July 31, 2009

UsageWatch | Observing the evolution of technology usage – my friend Rama sent me this link on facebook. Clips: "… We have thousand of pages of heartwrenching accounts of separations by people sent off to work, fight or study in more or less distant lands. The geographical distance was not the only reason for this [...]

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links for 2009-07-24

July 25, 2009

#FollowFriday: Dead Or Alive? | nice lil dipstick survey results by @pujamadan Imagine this: you take the same bus to work everyday. You spend a good one hour, sitting, looking out the window, reading a book, chatting up your neighbour, immersing yourself into an experience called the bus-ride. And you notice something else: that on [...]

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links for 2009-07-23

July 24, 2009

Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll — New York Magazine Clip: " … She has a MySpace page and a Livejournal. And she tells me that the Internet brought her to New York, when a friend she met in a chat room introduced her to [...]

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links for 2009-07-21

July 22, 2009

Religious Groups Turn to Technology | cool article by @evgenymorozov If you had to choose one weapon for fighting the next religious war, you could do worse than to pick an iPhone. In recent months, the foot soldiers of religion have come out with a bevy of new programs designed to win converts and make [...]

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links for 2009-07-17

July 18, 2009

Tweetable Eats: What Street Vendors Can Teach Businesses About Twitter | nice post from @marketingprofs Clip: "Lots of businesses on Twitter are doing it right. But, lately, I’ve been finding inspiration less from those companies that have become the poster children for leveraging social media (this means you Comcast, and Zappos, and Dell) and more [...]

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links for 2009-07-16

July 17, 2009

Over 100 Million Rural Mobile Subscribers In India – Opportunity For MVAS | WATBlog.com – Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India Clips: "According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), there has been a rise of 18% in use of the mobiles by rural subscribers. Rising from 93.2 million users at the end [...]

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links for 2009-07-13

July 14, 2009

Mobile Market Report – SMS Usage in Urban India |mobile Clips: "The report is analyzed using mobile service usage data for March 2009 to May 2009 time frame. 5,959 respondents were interviewed and their data projected to Urban Indian population owning a mobile phone, approx 271 million. Margin of error is 1.27%." "Some key points [...]

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