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Emergency Social-Repeater System

August 26th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Geo-temporal, Mashups, Microcrowds

Since I first posed the question in April “Has a Twitter emergency alert system been built yet?”, I’ve noted that several other people have pondered the same concept. Some examples are here, here and here.
It has already been substantiated that when an emergency occurs almost anywhere in the world, the first notification of the event [...]

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Captology and Microcrowd Influence

July 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Mashups, Microcrowds, Online Advertising, Tagclouds, Web 2.0, Web Marketing

I learned a new word the other day, Captology, and it helps me define an area of thought of particular interest (thanks to my buddy Crosby!) I was talking with him about some of my recent posts covering geo-temporal and microcrowd concepts and he suggested that I check out a particular Stanford University website. According [...]

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Even Laundry Rooms Twitter Now

May 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Geo-temporal, Mashups, Web 2.0

Even laundry rooms, like this one at Olin College Twitter now, so are you still waiting to create your own Twitter account?
When two washers, two dryers and a condom machine create content autonomously, broadcasting to the world their temporal status, available, unavailable, I smile because we are finally beginning to see a very [...]

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Twitter Emergency Alert System

April 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Mashups

Has a Twitter emergency alert system been built yet?

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Distributed Discussions and Geo-tagged Topic-of-conversation

April 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Mashups, Web 2.0, Web Marketing

My buddy Harry Garland is quite excited by the release of a Digg API, announced last night at Mezzanie during the Digg 1 Million Users party. He is determined to win the grand prize of a $10,000 package of some nice gear. He’s a very good actionscript developer, so he just might win it, but [...]

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“note this” now in Google SERPs

April 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Google, Mashups

I noticed for the fist time today a new “Note This” link next to “Cached” in the Google SERPs. I checked and don’t see it in co.uk or com.au, so I suspect they are rolling this out slowly…
When I click the link, a new Note has been added to my Google Notebook. Works only [...]

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