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Social Media, innovation
Social Collider - visualizing Twitter connections and conversations
03.20.09 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

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 [...]

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 [...]
Social Computing, innovation
Interesting things - Taglets
01.15.09 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

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 I [...]

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 I [...]
Participatory Media, Social Media, Social Tools in Disasters
Are we asking the right questions?
12.03.08 | Dina | Permalink | 9 Comments

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 … [...]

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 [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Indian Culture
Why I am deleting comments
11.30.08 | Dina | Permalink | 11 Comments

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 [...]

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 [...]
Social Media, soulfood
Twitter meetup at Leopold Cafe Mumbai 30/11/2008
11.29.08 | Dina | Permalink | 15 Comments

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 [...]

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 [...]
Ethnography, Mashups, Social Media
Mashup for Ethnography
11.12.08 | Dina | Permalink | 1 Comment

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 [...]

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 [...]
Frameworks & Models, Mobile, Phweet, Social Computing, Social Media
The Future of Social Networking?
09.11.08 | Dina | Permalink | 8 Comments

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 [...]

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 [...]
Blogs & Blogging, Phweet
Phweet afloat in the Twitosphere and Blogosphere
08.23.08 | Dina | Permalink | 2 Comments

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 [...]

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 [...]
Social Media, Social Tools in Disasters
Jaipur Blasts
05.14.08 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

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

Rohit Gupta is updating us on the real situation from Jaipur on Twitter.
Enterprise 2.0, Ethnography, Frameworks & Models, Qualitative Research Perspectives, Social Media
Virtual Ethnography Thoughts
05.13.08 | Dina | Permalink | 2 Comments

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 [...]

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 [...]
Frameworks & Models, Market Insights, Social Media
Twitter research .. in action!
02.05.08 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

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 [...]

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 [...]
Participatory Media
Benazir Bhutto Assassination
12.27.07 | Dina | Permalink | 3 Comments

I’m tweeting reactions from India as reported on English TV news channels around Benazir Bhutto’s brazen assassination. Follow the updates here, if you’re interested. Updates so far:
- Musharraf says political parties should be united against terrorists. Feeling here … how convenient blaming terrorists. 7 minutes ago
- Musharraf on TV now: This is [...]

I’m tweeting reactions from India as reported on English TV news channels around Benazir Bhutto’s brazen assassination. Follow the updates here, if you’re interested. Updates so far:
- Musharraf says political parties should be united against terrorists. Feeling here … how convenient blaming terrorists. 7 minutes ago
- Musharraf on TV now: This is [...]
Social Media
Tweeting about a Twitter Meet-up in Mumbai
12.20.07 | Dina | Permalink | Comment?

It’s a first for Mumbai Tweeters. Gaurav Mishra has the details. See you there!

It’s a first for Mumbai Tweeters. Gaurav Mishra has the details. See you there!