For developers and others interested in social media, SocialDevCamp East is this Saturday, Nov. 1, at the University of Baltimore. Details here. I can’t attend and no, I will NOT be following the event twitter feed – but I will look for a decent post-event summary. Andrew NachisonAndrew Nachison is founder of We Media. He […]
We’ve heard enough. That’s why we want – and get – something different from tonight’s final presidential debate. Sosolimited, three MIT-educated software engineers-slash-culture jammers, will remix the debate using software that allows them to sample and analyze the video, audio, and closed captioned text of the television broadcast. Through a series of visual and sonic […]
One of the loveliest social media startups I’ve run across in the last few years is Scrapblog. I say lovely because it’s well designed and design itself is a core value of the service and the user experience. Users create multimedia collages with Scrapblog, then share them with embed codes, just like you share YouTube […]
This spring we noted the launch and alpha testing of SocialMedian, a new link aggregator that five months ago looked something like a more social version of delicious or Diigo. It has been undergoing continuous development since then – and the newest release should be especially noteworthy for bloggers, researchers, journalists, marketers and activists. If […]
Earlier this week I was mesmerized by two young adults playing Madden NFL 09 on a big screen at the neighborhood Best Buy. The experience was a lot more fun than watching the Skins-Giants snoozer on NBC last night, even with analysis from Madden hisself. This Sunday, ESPN merges video game graphics with real-life analysts […]
“Launch early and literate,” comes word from Googlezon on its new browser. An online comic book explains the technical aspects, which the Digital Daily had to explain to me. There’s no shortage of instant analysis on the sudden release: more than 8 million search results by mid-afternoon Tuesday. And that doesn’t include the Mac and […]
Or, if we want to get highbrow about it: Widgetized political discourse Amid the sea of online opinion, polls and analysis, maybe less is more. That could be a selling point for a pair of new political widgets launched by Civis Online. Andrew NachisonAndrew Nachison is founder of We Media. He lives in Reston, Virginia. […]