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An enjoyable summary of the chatroulette…

Tom — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:38:20 +0000

An enjoyable summary of the chatroulette phenomenon: http://vimeo.com/9669721

Twitter Hashtag syntax for Haiti crisis….

Tom — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:03:48 +0000

Twitter Hashtag syntax for Haiti crisis. This interesting project by Leysia Palen and colleagues involves constructing (and disseminating) a hashtag syntax “to help direct Twitter communications for more efficient data extraction for those communicating about the Haiti earthquake disaster. Use only requires modifications of Tweet messages to make information pieces that refer to #location, #status, #needs, #damage and several other elements of emergency communications more machine readable. This allows for easier automated collation by any number of groups and good samaritans from any number of sources. HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!!!”.

See http://epic.cs.colorado.edu/helping_haiti_tweak_the_twe.html

An interesting analysis of Twitter by Ho…

Tom — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:29:12 +0000

An interesting analysis of Twitter by Howard Rheingold: http://bit.ly/XMvTs

Hey, this is kind of fun. Anonymous chat…

Tom — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:39:39 +0000

Hey, this is kind of fun. Anonymous chat with a random stranger. http://www.omgbash.com/

…Not that I’ve tried it, but there’s a best-of-omegle chats page that someone put up: http://www.omeglechats.com/

A sort of cross between a wiki and a dyn…

Tom — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:29:02 +0000

A sort of cross between a wiki and a dynamic mind map intended to support collective debate. I think it may fall into the class of ‘failures for interesting reasons.’ http://debategraph.org/