New in my Blogroll. A cultural center with a focus on internet and social media. "Mediamatic is a cultural institution in Amsterdam. We do exhibitions, presentations, workshops and other activities. This site combines an overview with news and theory."
ShowYourself is a simple to make, easy, free and fun utility to help establish your identity across the web. Have a Flickr account and a Facebook and AIM? Combine all your profiles on the web into one attractive widget that you can put on your blog, your
People everywhere, equipped with cameras and access are posting what they see, for a few friends or the entire world. It is the reporting of everday people and places and incidents that will never be ready for prime time, but are useful and interesting to
Status/presence indicator like in Jabber/IM-Apps, but web-based. Nice gui, including display of friends etc.; integrates with Jabber/GTalk and SMS. Company seems to be an Odeo-spinoff.
"Last week I had a great time visiting Innsbruck as part of the TenCompetence Winter School, which is a sort of retreat for postgraduate students....Presence is a tricky one - its such a major feature in applications today and yet there is very little lit
N. Kahnwald. www.elearningeuropa.info, (July 2009)This article is a translation of the orginal contribution:
Kahnwald, Nina (2008): Social Software als Werkzeuge informellen Lernens. In: Hug, Theo (ed.): Media, Knowledge & Education. Exploring new Spaces, Relations and Dynamics in Digital Media Ecologies. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, pp. 282-295..