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You may have noticed that we here at b2c seem to rather like social media. It seems we’re rather permanently plugged in, in one way or another. For instance, three out of five of our main crew have iPhones. Personally, although I have internet access at, uni and work where I spend some sixty hours a week, and a home where I spend the rest of my time, I also have a prepaid mobile modem for those rare times in-between where I seemingly must be online. But how good is this access? Well to be blunt, its closer to Kenya’s … Continue
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Tagged Australia, broadband, business networking, connectivity, servers
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Watching the Detectives
Who edits Wikipedia is a hot topic, WikiScanner can tell you who edits what. Continue
Twitter and the botnets
Facebook and Twitter were the subject of a Russian Denial of Service attack a couple of weeks back, aimed a silencing a Georgian blogger, in the latest example of the on-going Georgian-Russian war in cyberspace. Twitter was knocked offline by the attack. The mode of the attack is in dispute, it may have been a simple spam-and-link style attack, whereby users click on links in spam emails. However much more popular style of DDoS uses a distributed network of automated computers – or bots – to simultaneously hit the Twitter site, overloading its servers, and knocking it offline. Now it … Continue
Dating 2.0
As the internet changes the ways we interact with each other, and web 2.0 and social media change the way we interact with the internet, there is a curious lack of convergence in one area: online dating. Much has been made of the success of online dating, indeed eHarmony claims to have been behind 2% of marriages last year in the States. It has succeeding in bringing people to the internet, and people on the internet together – surely one of the primary aims of social media. Yet online dating sites are almost completely devoid of any sort of meaningful … Continue
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Tagged dating, eHarmony, facebook, Oasis Active, online dating, RSVP, social media, Web 2.0
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Twitter and Education
Twitter and Education As we here at b2cloud see it, social media is here to stay, and as with any up and coming technology, often it is the young who take to it quickly, this raises the question for all the school-aged web 2.0ers – while there’s no doubt that it can be fun, even informative, can it be educational? This article in USA News focuses on the educational potential of web 2.0 applications – and uses the current media darling twitter as an example. The idea of an online collaborative tool is not revolutionary, indeed, perhaps attempting to use … Continue
What is: the cloud
In the early days of photography the great Alfred Stieglitz was accused of always being in the right place at the right time. His photographs were great not because of his talent and eye for detail, but for where he was. In protest, Stieglitz then proceeded to take photos of clouds for the rest of his career – because they were the same to everyone. His photos remained breathtakingly beautiful. Today the cloud is simultaneously about both of these things – being in the right place, and being accessible. The Cloud is the name for a network of applications available … Continue
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Tagged cloud, cloud computing, google, microsoft, twitter
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New Media, Old Message
While news of out Iran is slowing down with the repression of the first wave of street violence, and a continuing lack of hard evidence the election was rigged, the role that twitter and other web 2.0 applications played continues to be debated. The Alliance of Youth Movements (AYM), a summit between youth leaders and industry such as Google, Facebook, NBC, and MTV set up by the US State Department, has the stated goal of “creating and promoting use of technological tools to advance … democracy”, and has a series of How To articles set up on its website aimed … Continue
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Tagged Iran, politics, propaganda, Public Diplomacy 2.0, social media, State Department, twitter
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Twitter: Britney Spears Dead
A bad week for celebrity deaths continues to get worse, as Mashable reports that Britney Spears is in fact still alive. Earlier today her twitter was hacked, and the following posted to her more than 2 million twitter followers: Britney has passed today. It is a sad day for everyone. More news to come. This has since been replaced by: Britney’s Twitter was just hacked. The last message is obviously not true. She is fine and dandy Mashable speculates that her Twitter account may not has been hacked directly, merely one of the many aplication that can auto-post to Twitter. … Continue
Twitter & Iran: The New Cassette Tape
Much has been made of the role of Twitter in the recent elections in Iran, from an excellent article on this site by Emily, to countless articles in the mainstream media (try putting “Iran” and “Twitter” into Google News). Twitter’s role in the ‘Green Revolution’ in Iran has largely been that of a dissenting voice against the election results on the 12th, and the covering – and creating? – the street violence that followed on the result, and publicising it to the outside world. In this role twitter has been hailed as revolutionary, and instrumental in events – achieving things … Continue
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Tagged Iran, media, politics, social, social media, tape, twitter
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