The Birmingham City University has announced that it is offering a masters in Social Media. Â You can read more about it on Mashable and also in the Telegraph for example. Â Mashable have a conversation going on with a number of different opinions. There are a fair few people who read this blog who [...]
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December 19th, 2008 - 8:05 pm § in Uncategorized
"A few Chirps about twitter"
“A few Chirps about twitter” gives valuable insight into how we use the application and why we use it. It is a paper written by Balachander krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs), Phillipa Gill (Uni Calgary) and Martin Arlitt (HP Labs – Uni Calgary) “Our goal is to characterize a [...]
December 3rd, 2008 - 8:32 pm § in Uncategorized
Making Twitter bots
As some companies have figured out, there is a lot of information to be gleaned from Twitter that can benefit their business. Â They can manage reputation and customer service for example. Â There are however other reasons to collect information which do not involve marketing motivations but for exa[...]
August 7th, 2008 - 11:09 pm § in Uncategorized
Google gadgets hacked
A quick post on those cool little gadgets for iGoogle. 2 security consultant from SecTheory demonstrated such an attack at the Black Hat hackers conference in Las Vegas. They broke into a web browser and read all the personal searches in real time. Gadgets that store personal info are the most at[...]
