Twitter – part 2
Continuing a series of three articles re use of Twitter - Why do I use twitter? What are the benefits of using twitter? In the first article I referenced twitter as a community – perhaps more accurately as providing a platform to support an infinite number of communities. However these are communities without regulation – [...]
University education in the age of web 2.0 and 3.0
Happiest days of my life. Very fortunate to have attended Trinity College Dublin in the early 80′s. Computer engineering – learning to program assembler for the Motorola 68000, learning fluid mechanics. Friends, fun, social development, cricket, rugby, chess, campus in the city centre. Developing wider interests. But what opportunities there are now for everyone in [...]
What about those not using social networking?
Twice today I was asked by people who are infrequent or non users of social networking solutions (and blogs) – how do you avoid leaving the non users out? Or, when you are looking at a restaurant recommendation ot a wine recommendation – how valuable is the recommendation, given it is only based on information [...]
Golf making most of web and social networking
I thought 3 made a brilliant job of promoting the Irish Open – using networks including facebook. However I think the opportunity to play a virtual round at Bethpage for the US open beats this. This is an example of the web adding significantly to the the user experience ie to the TV golf spectator [...]
Social networking – is it what always came naturally to the Irish?
I participate actively as an online ‘social networker’. Seems to me there are many benefits – through linkedin, facebook, twitter, blogging. Interesting piece recently about whether we should blend the personal and the business stuff in social networking activities. There are many reasons to do so – the technology increasingly means people are available to [...]
Dangers of overdoing political social networking
The WashingNote had an interesting piece on 14 May referencing the use of the Web by the US Democrat party for election fundraising. Clearly in the last election the ability to raise small amounts of cash from lots of people put President Obama’s campaign way ahead. Seems they are at it again for the next [...]
Semantic web in Ireland
Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 and then some!
Reading the news online
I have restricted myself to reading the news online