Bruce Sterling and the Transition Web
Best I can gather, Bruce Sterling just spun everybody’s head around from a New Zealand pulpit with a fantastic blizzard of words about the silly vagueness of Web 2.0, and offered up as its replacement a monumentally vaguer futuristic apparition he calls the Transition Web. And nobody’s really sure if they like that or not.
Skype Now Offering Voice To Text Messaging Conversion
Skype has introduced a new feature that converts voicemail to text via speech technology firm SpinVox.
SpinVox converts voice messages to text in English, Spanish, French, and German. The messages are sent by Skype as an SMS text directly to a mobile phone for users to read.
Mobile Phone Sales Grew 6% In 2008
Global mobile phone sales increased 6 percent in 2008 over the previous year while sales declined 4.6 percent in the fourth quarter due to the economic downturn, according to Gartner.
Worldwide mobile phone sales reached 1.22 billion in 2008, up from 1.15 billion in 2007.
A Lawsuit Featuring Dunkin’ Donuts, Online Anonymity, and Dirty Bathrooms
The Maryland Court of Appeals has overturned a previous ruling that would have required a website that was being charged with defamation due to comments from anonymous ‘users’ to turn over their identities immediately.
A Great Story Of Making A Sale On Twitter
Want to hear a great Internet marketing story? It has a very happy ending. Well, let’s not get ahead of the story.
Hitwise Names UK’s Most Searched-For Brands
This article’s going to lead off with two admissions: yes, 2008 ended a while ago, and sure, the majority of Murdok readers don’t live in the UK. A list from Hitwise names the 10 most searched-for brands from that year and in that region, though, and since it’s quite new and rather interesting, we’re delving into it.
Koobface Returns To Facebook
Social networkers, you’ve been reclassified. You’re now sitting ducks, neatly corralled by the millions with six degrees of separation or less, and the infamous Koobface new and improved is using your friend as both decoy and digital bird flu carrier.
Reportedly the fourth rogue app to hit Facebook in a week, the new variant of the Koobface worm that once before terrorized the network poses as a social network friend, profile photo and all, and sends a message with a link to a video. The message claims the recipient is in the video.
Social Media Boosts Local Flavor
Once a month a small but growing troupe of modern beatniks gather at a dive bar in what has traditionally been considered (and still is in some circles) a rough part of downtown Lexington, Ky., for the Holler Poets Series, a live literary event focusing on local talent. Thanks to social media and the Internet, poetry is experiencing a bit of a resurgence in the collective artistic psyche, and the Holler Poets are no exception.
White House Still Cool with YouTube
There have been numerous reports claiming that the White House has stopped using YouTube for its video addresses to the nation. According to both the White House and Google, this is not the case.
Google Analytics Certification Program Launched
Today Google announced a new online course that will help interested parties prepare to get a Google Analytics certification. It costs $50 to take the test to get certified, but to me the more interesting part is the course itself.