Archive for March, 2009
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Vancouver Digital Week is coming up soon (May 11-14), and it's a must-attend for anyone in the New/Social/Mobile Media scenes in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, it's an international must-attend event (even GDC is part of it this year, so it's going to be huge in 2009!). So all you ...
Posted in Mobile Muse, conferences, creative industries, culture & society, events, mobile, technology | No Comments »
Friday, March 27th, 2009
Having worked on this project personally over the past year and a half, I'm biased, but nevertheless, like Favianna, I'm urging everyone to cast their vote for Fearless City Mobile in the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge. There's fairly significant cash available for the top three projects.
Go ...
Posted in culture & society | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Last.fm (aka CBS) has finally thrown in the towel on free music. Well, I'm not going with them. It's not that Last.fm sucks; they still offer a great service, one that *might* be worth the subscription fee, even. But for those of us who are trying to give music away ...
Posted in creative industries, culture industries, indie, internet, labels, music, online communities, social networks | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
I'm going to call it now - Facebook has officially jumped the shark.
This comes with apologies to those who thought FB died hours ago, when it made another attack-user-privacy-or-otherwise-degrade-user-happiness move. And gosh darnit, if this isn't the type of action the FB population was just starting to get used to.
This ...
Posted in SNS, art, culture & society, internet, mobile, social networks, theory | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 20th, 2009
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What's wrong with this picture? The first person to answer correctly gets a free chin-wag w/yours truly about data collection ethics (includes coffee and croissant) ;-)
Well, we can talk about whatever you want, actually.
Posted in culture & society | 2 Comments »
Sunday, March 1st, 2009
Hey, read this:
The greatest threat to mobile innovations like the iPhone isn’t consumer behaviour, cultural differences or reception to features, but epic and unregulated telco pricing. What’s needed is nothing less than a telecommunications revolution in which mobile developers and consumers join together to demand better data plans that are ...
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