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Bytes for Jan 25

January 25, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading

Mattel takes innovation to the dogs with its Puppy Tweets – CLIP: "Puppy Tweets is a plastic tag with a sound and motion sensor that you attach to your pet's dog collar and connect its USB receiver to your computer. Then you create a Twitter account for your dog and [...]

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Twitter & Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs … nay … Hierarchy of #Tweets

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs January 12, 2010

I was chatting with a friend today who’s not a Twitter user, and trying to explain why I like it, and why so many people do too. I found myself turning to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and his Theory of Human Motivations to try and explain this. I discovered this blog post titled The [...]

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Advertising using the route of rites of passage – Twitter responses

November 26, 2009

I asked this question on Twitter this morning and have had fabulous responses from a very alert and vibrant community there. Thought I’d share:
My question – need egs of advertising anchored in rites of passage – rituals assocd w transitional points – eg. grad’n, wedding, baby… help pls!!!
The answers:

Thank you all!  I love Twitter – [...]

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Social Collider – visualizing Twitter connections and conversations

March 20, 2009

This is a pretty fantastic visualization connecting your conversations on Twitter. From Google’s recently launched Chrome Experiments, which showcases JavaScript intensive games, apps, and visualizations.  I did some runs on some keywords and its pretty amazing. Here’s a screenshot of visualizations of the connections and cross-connections between tweeters I (@dina) have had conversations with in [...]

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Interesting things – Taglets

January 15, 2009

I’ve spent the morning playing with Taglets – which is very cool and has the potential to be quite revolutionary as it’s offering up an open platform and API for developers. It seems like reverse Twitter in some ways – I create or follow tags that are really keywords of interest to me, and [...]

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Are we asking the right questions?

December 3, 2008

A whole lot of questions are being asked about whether the Twitter #mumbai feed was citizen journalism or not. Many ’sides’ are emerging in this debate. I found this post (thru’ a tweet by @MaryHodder) which asks How Should Journalists Use Twitter? I’m not so sure it’s the right question to be asking … here’s [...]

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Why I am deleting comments

November 30, 2008

I’m getting a huge load of comments around the politics of religion, of division and hate at my last few posts on the Mumbai terror attacks. While religion and politics may have a lot to do with the state of our world today, my blog’s not the forum to air or feed these divisions. I [...]

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Twitter meetup at Leopold Cafe Mumbai 30/11/2008

November 29, 2008

From Suketu Mehta’s heartfelt piece in the OpEd at New York Times:
If the rest of the world wants to help, it should run toward the explosion. It should fly to Mumbai, and spend money. Where else are you going to be safe? New York? London? Madrid?
So I’m booking flights to Mumbai. I’m going to go [...]

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Mashup for Ethnography

November 12, 2008

Here’s a very neat mashup of GoogleEarth and Twitter for ethnography (it’s in French). @thiteu sent me the link on Twitter.

This work is a simulation of a 3 dimensional Geography using GOOGLE EARTH and of a social signal using TWITTER in ethnography nowadays.
Cool? Yeah. Imagine Second Life sort of re-enactments of the whole world [...]

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The Future of Social Networking?

September 11, 2008

This morning, I set up an Open Phweet around the Future of Social Computing, triggered by Jan Chipchase’s paper called Future Social, and my subsequent feeling of reinforcement and validation around a study we recently did around the future of Mobile Social Computing.  It’s been an interesting day, talking to a few people who joined [...]

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Phweet afloat in the Twitosphere and Blogosphere

August 23, 2008

I’ve been helping out with the PhweetTalk – the Phweet blog and I’m cross-posting this here. I’ll probably be doing more of my blogging there for a while. And I’ve become a real Twitter monster – I update stuff I am doing very regularly there – so do check me out!
Since the public alpha launch [...]

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Jaipur Blasts

May 14, 2008

Rohit Gupta is updating us on the real situation from Jaipur on Twitter.

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Virtual Ethnography Thoughts

May 13, 2008

Thought I’d share something we worked on last year – almost at the same time Twitter came into its own. and before we thought up Twitter for Ethnography.
We spent some time developing an SMS-Blog research prototype with Srinivas Mogalapalli at Netcore (Rajesh Jain’s company), built upon the MyToday SMS platform.
This was a module in a [...]

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Twitter research .. in action!

February 5, 2008

Rob Paterson alerts me to Jeremiah Owyang’s social media experiment in a comment at my post a few days ago on Twitter for Ethnography:

From Rob’s post at the Fast Forward blog:
This is how Jeremiah framed it:
I’ve created MicroMedia events before, this time, I want to frame it as an overlay to the multi million dollar [...]

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