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The post I made a couple of days ago about Twitter’s coverage of the sustained terror assault on the city of Mumbai was by far the most viewed post we’ve made here. It obviously struck a chord. Bits of it ended up on CNN Asia.
…start following @stocktwits, where you can track real-time stock conversations. Twitter’s certainly making people creative. Take a look at this video to see how it works – Stocktwits for Dummies, pretty much!
There are a few reasons why I was interested in attending Amplified’08: one, I believe the UK has a very healthy system of interest-based groups, and this event aimed to bring them all together. Two, it was organised by NESTA (the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts), the body that serves as the front for innovation in the country and I was interested in seeing what they had to contribute, and three, I’m a part of a couple of the individual groups that were being represented atAmplified’08.
Chances are you didn’t know what to say. You probably didn’t realise at that moment, at the moment you posted your very first Tweet, what the hey Twitter was, how it worked or what it did. Can you remember what you said? Now you don’t have to – simply enter your Twitter user name at My First Tweet and be reminded.
This is what I said at 11:47am on 23 October 2006. God I’m interesting.
We at Made By Many are a bunch of interesting people. Over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed quite a few cool links being sent between us. I thought it would be fun to put some of them down here:
1. Google Flu Trends: Someone at Google realised that certain search terms are a good indicator of flu activity. The output of that discovery: Google Flu Trends! (courtesy Matt)
On Saturday I did a presentation at Ruby Manor on using recommendation systems in production featuring our plugin, acts as recommendable (AAR).
One of the issues that is gaining salience today is that of companies being generous and positive with their work and their information if they want to stay in the game. Jeff Jarvis has a piece in the Guardian on why Google defines the new economy in this matter. In his opinion, there are three main reasons why transitioning to a ‘Google economy’ is inevitable:
Iplayer, Hulu, Vimeo and Youtube have made it manifestly evident that TV is facing a huge challenge from the web, not just for revenues and mindshare but also as an alternative channel to market. But it’s not just a quantitative ‘cheap and many’ channels issue; there’s likely to be a profound qualitative change in how we watch television that threatens the value of things that conventional TV people hold as given: things like scheduling, channel brands and the primacy of television commissioning.
