Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told a live audience yesterday that if he were to create Facebook again today, user information would by default be public, not private as it was for years until the company changed dramatically in December.
Tim O'Reilly attempts to clarify just what is meant by Web 2.0, the term first coined at a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International, which also spawned the Web 2.0 Conference.
Craiglook is a useful mash-up, which uses Yahoo Pipes to aggregate RSS Feeds from Craigslist and Google Maps to create a new-and-improved Craigslist search facility. Filtering products by location, category, cost and relevance is much easier compared to the original, not to mention the enhanced visual appeal. Check it out!
Denise Pires, a student from University of Amsterdam, wrote in the blog "Masters of Media" about why we, as human beings, tend to use the well-known microblogging service.
In this post from the blog "The Innovation Diaries", the author tries to categorize people's tweets into a hierarchy resembling Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for human beings. Each category is well explained and then illustrated by a few examples.
In this talk, Jonathan Zittrain made proposes that the seemingly lost human kindness has blossomed on the internet. The talk starts with the basic infrastructure of the internet, all the way to the simple but brilliant ideas of information sharing, to explain the act of kindness of human. This differs from ratings on amazon in that it is proactive and conscious actions of internet users who give and pass on favors.
In an effort to add one more story to the list of reasons why Facebook already rules the world and can stop trying, we find that Facebook is the social-network-login of choice by nearly 2-to-1.
Navigation is a daily part of our lives any more. Several vehicles are made with GPS built in, and most of the rest of us have a GPS device of some sort. When it comes to getting where we need to be with out getting lost, well, we are pretty much …
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