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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

People can now create mashups without fear of reprisal. It was during the 2006 election that first signs that a grassroots movement was taking hold were spotted, according to Geist. “A new copyright bill takes effect this week, and it’s much transformed (from the one originally tabled),” said Michael Geist. “It

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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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Learning 2.0 - The Things

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Have some Flickr fun and discover some Flickr mashups & 3rd party sites. Note: This project is loosely based upon the website 43Things (which allows you to set and track personal goals) and the Stephen Abram article titled 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006).

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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. In November 2000 they opened up the API and by 2006 had 5 billion API calls a month. 60,000 developers in 2005 creating apps using the APIs and forming an ecosystem of development.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It shows the power of mashup. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. I like the Pork and Bean video. Reply Akash Sharma January 28, 2010 at 11:54 am Fantastic analysis Tamar, I think virality of a video depends on a lot of things most of them you have mentioned above clearly but it also depends a lot on the luck and timing as well.

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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

December 2006. January 2008. December 2007. November 2007. October 2007. September 2007. August 2007. April 2007. March 2007. February 2007. January 2007. Contributor Archives. Charles Armstrong. Jon Husband. Jevon MacDonald. Joe McKendrick. Sean McClowry. Rob Paterson. Paula Thornton. Phil Wainewright. Sponsor Posts. Jeremiah Owyang.

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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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