Tag: MySpace

Yapp events app builder

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Let The App Creation Era Begin: Yapp Events App Builder Launches Out Of Beta
Jordan Crook, techcrunch.com

Remem­ber the time when web sites were reserved for busi­ness­es, or niche design­ers? Before the days of Tum­blr and Word­Press and even MySpace (where I learned my first bit of basic code). Now any­one can eas­i­ly build a web­site, to the degre…

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The politics of the internet: orkutificação or becoming “orkutised”

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search
Image representing Orkut as depicted in CrunchBase
Image via CrunchBase

In contrast to utopian ideals of some, the Internet like most other domains of social conduct is rapidly being divided into closed networks, haves and have nots. MySpace has been branded “lower class” and in Brazil wealthier citizens are migrating to Facebook from Orkut (Google’s social network) and branding those who still use the older network  as orkutificação, or becoming “orkutised”. The word in fact has been expanded into other areas of social life: A place undergoing orkutificação is full of strangers, open to anyone.

E-communication and society: A cyber-house divided | The Economist.

VisiblePath: MySpace for the Office?

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy
Building a Company with Social Media
Building a Company with Social Media (Photo credit: Emilie Ogez)

MySpace for the Office.

Another social scientist developed networking tool like Facebook, LinkedIn but for corporate users.

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Free People Search – Find People – Wink

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science, Security & Privacy, Sustainable Design
Tue 5/8 Search SIG mtg on People Search (Spock...
Tue 5/8 Search SIG mtg on People Search (Spock, Wink, Zoominfo) (Photo credit: davemc500hats)

 

 

Free People Search – Find People – Wink – Wink.

 

Wink is a people search engine that culls results from social-networking sites (MySpace, LinkedIn, Bebo, and more), followed by results from other sites where users keep public profiles, followed by results from the Web at large.

 

 

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