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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

People can now create mashups without fear of reprisal. The new law provides a safe harbour to those who create and also those who host that content, for example.”. It was during the 2006 election that first signs that a grassroots movement was taking hold were spotted, according to Geist.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

The constant parade of new verbs and nouns has been interesting: texting, “going viral,” mashups, memes, flashmobs, friending, unfriending, likes, retweets, crowdfunding, “add me,” rickrolling, circles, FollowFriday, hash tags, Pandora, Instagrams. Blogs — “web logs” as they were first called, began to appear.

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API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

One popular widget was the Nintendo wii (see programmable web) mashup of available/in stock Wii’s and a Google map. Embeddable media is critical for spreadability and distribution – YouTube is a clear example of content that is watched 30% or more of the time “off site&# … through an embed on Facebook, blogs and so on.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Humans can relate to emotional content, and laughable content is always golden. If you’re in need of viral content , you don’t have to look much farther than videos that teach users how to do something. It shows the power of mashup. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. All rights reserved.

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The FASTForward Blog " Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? : Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Will they freely submit to such structured information environments as those provided by SAP and Oracle, content and knowledge management systems, and communication by email? December 2006. search, the user revolution, the future of content, and much, much more. January 2008. December 2007. November 2007. October 2007.

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How to Build Community for Niche Site Success

ProBlogger

When I first started blogging about my three legged dog Jerry back in 2006, never in my wildest dreams did I think helping those facing amputation for their dogs would be my full time job five years later. For details about the fledgling Tripawds site, don’t miss my submission for the 2008 ProBlogger Video Mashup.

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Contents Introduction Towards a Definition Driving Forces Developments to Date Barriers Future Potential References Web Links Introduction A definition for the term Personal Learning Environment ( PLE ), remains elusive. The primary purpose of the systems is to organise course content for transmission to enrolled students.

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