Fabulizd – fabulized?
To fabulize- 1. To improve something. The Simpsons, Lisa: “Can’t a girl fabulize herself before the big dance?“ urbandictionary.com
- 2. To invent, compose, or relate fables or fictions. thefreedictionary.com
Author Archives: halans
Social paraSites
We already had online viruses and worms, now we got paraSites too. The word ‘parasite’ comes from the Greek ‘parasitos’ (but then in Greek) which means ‘person who eats at the table of another’. In general we use parasite to refer to “an animal or plant that lives in or on a host; it obtains [...]
A Twitter social support system
Just the other week I experienced two occurrences where Twitter was used by business for product support, which I’d like to share, for those who still doubt the power of social media. These are web businesses (UserVoice and Google) but that shouldn’t make any difference. Any business should monitor the Internet for their brand and [...]
The Power Of Social(ized) Search
We are on a the road to a major conversion of different technologies, a merger of disparate data points into a singular intelligence previously unknown (yeah, sounds preposterous, I know). And Google is (yet again) right in the middle of it. I won’t be fear mongering about a Skynet entity, or any of the privacy [...]
Reputation as a Service
I don’t remember who it was they were quoting yesterday morning at Sun’s Let’s Talk breakfast presentation on Cloud computing, but Facebook being defined as “Friendship as a Service” kinda made sense. In which case LinkedIn would be “Reputation as a Service”, I guess, and as Reputation Management as a business slowly starts to take [...]
Tackling Social Poverty – Blog Action Day
Poverty manifests itself through different guises. When we think of poverty, we’d immediately recall a homeless person or a malnourished African child, a reflection of economical poverty. Social poverty is the result of lack of social capital. As per J.D. Lewandowski, “the concept of social capital refers to the networks of social trust and social [...]
Reality Mining
Technology Review has a special report on 10 emerging technologies for 2008. One is Offline Web Applications, which I’m not going to talk about, it’s kind of obvious (Air, Gears, etc). Others are very “out there” (“Connectomics”, “NanoRadio”, “Probabilistic Chips” anyone…?). Another one though is pretty real: “Reality Mining“. So what are they talking about? [...]
Vanity Validator
Wired’s Vanity Validator widget for iGoogle, found on the Julia Allison Wired article: How famous are you online? Inspired by Chris Anderson’s best-selling book, The Long Tail, this gadget uses Google’s PageRank™ technology to give you a number based on how many good websites mention the name you enter. Try for yourself: What’s your score? [...]
What is Twitter anyway?
Great YouTube video explaining what Twitter is:
Passwords
Before you start building out your online presence, think for a moment about the use of your passwords. That’s plural. You do use multiple passwords, right? Oh, you don’t? Too hard to remember, is it? Let me guess, is it “password”? But seriously, you need a decent password policy. Think of the different web applications [...]
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