Tue 9 Mar 2010
Posted by RossB under OSS News
No Comments
The other day I posted about Nielsen’s stats showing that the over 25s (and over 35s in particular) are the most active on mobile social networks, as opposed to teens. The other giant metrics f…
Sat 6 Mar 2010
Posted by RossB under OSS News
No Comments
adeelarshad82 writes “Google’s YouTube announced that it has moved its automatic speech-recognition and closed-captioning technology out of beta and has now made it available to the YouTube community at large. Most, if not all, YouTube videos now include a ‘CC’ button that, if pressed, will automatically generate the closed-captioning technology. The technology processes the audio feed using the speech-recognition technology used in the core voice search feature that has also been built into the Android voice search feature, the GOOG-411 phone search, and other products.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Sat 6 Mar 2010
Posted by RossB under OSS News
No Comments
Why is it that Millennials demand instant gratification?? If you put yourself in our shoes, though, can you blame us? We grew up on technology. I used a computer for the first time in the fourth gra…
Tue 2 Mar 2010
Posted by RossB under OSS News
No Comments
Tue 2 Mar 2010
Posted by RossB under OSS News
No Comments
Mon 1 Mar 2010
Posted by RossB under OSS News
No Comments
Mon 1 Mar 2010
Posted by RossB under OSS News
No Comments
Remobo is self-defined as an instant private network application. It can be used in order to connect not just people but also computers, and access them from everywhere This means that files can be shared and that any application can be run between the different computers that make up the network. As a matter of fact, you can run just anything – games can be played, and media can be streamed as if you were standing there, not either side of the same city or in different countries as it is becoming commonplace with distributed workforce these days.
Read more Learn more about Remobo.com in Dataopedia.com Find out how much Remobo.com is worth with Stimator.com
Mon 1 Mar 2010
Posted by RossB under OSS News
No Comments
Are you in the market for an Android-powered eReader? The Nook has been available since last year and two new devices are about to be launched. I gave into the hype and actually pre-ordered a Nook, which I have been very happy with (see unboxing and initial thoughts). We also got to play with the upcoming Alex and eDGe at during CES and I chose the Alex as the Best eReader of CES.
A few notes about upcoming Android eReaders:
None of these devices have support for the official Android Market, but the Alex and eDGE can run standard Android applications. The Nook can also load Android apps, but it requires a little bit of hacking.
If you are buying a device solely to read books I would suggest the Nook,…
Mon 1 Mar 2010
Posted by RossB under OSS News
No Comments
Walled gardens are already under attack because of the ease of sending content like messages and photos from one website to another. Sites that don’t let content flow in and out freely, when that’s what users want, are fighting against the powerful tide of the internet.
Now a new proposal aims to take things to the next level and send a payload of item-type specific action options along with every piece of content that gets shot across the internet. A loose body of innovators from some of the biggest social networking companies online have begun discussing an addition to the Activity Streams standard format called an Action Stream. That could blow the world of social networking wide open, allowing users to try out other competing social networks without losing their ability to interact with friends on Facebook, for example.
Sponsor
Earlier this month social software designer Adrian Chan offered up a proposal for what he called Action Streams.
Action streams would not only share status/activity update meta-data but also permit updates to function as actions. For example, an invitation update posted in twitter could be accepted in Buzz. The vision for action streams thus involves a distributed and decentralized ecosystem of coupled action posts, rendered by third party stream clients and within participating social networks.
This idea was added tonight to the Activity Streams wiki where it will be discussed by the community building the Activity Streams format. The standard types of actions that can be taken in regard to content items of the same categories on Amazon and Facebook were listed as prior art. The discussion has just begun, and data interoperability isn’t something that everyone at big social networks agrees is in their best short-term interests. These idea are exciting and are supported by a substantial number of people, though.
The Activity Streams discussion is participated in by
Mon 1 Mar 2010
Posted by RossB under OSS News
No Comments
The latest study from Pew Internet analyzes the news consumers in America and various different ways of finding news. Based on a sample of 2,259 adults, the study reveals that three fourths of the people (75%) who find news online get it either forwarded through email or posts on social networking sites, and half of them (52%) forward the news through those means.
It translates to a large portion of all Americans. According to the report, 59% of those surveyed get news from a combination of online and offline sources.
However, the study also shows that very few people nowadays (7%) are getting information from a single media platform. In fact, nearly half of Americans (46%) claim they get news from four to six media platforms on a typical day. And while TV is still the biggest source of news (78% of Americans say they get news from a local TV station), Internet sits on second place (61% of users get news online), ahead of radio and newspapers. Interestingly enough, relatively few people – only 17 percent – claim they read news in a national newspaper such as the New York Times or USA Today.
Also interesting is the division between news consumers according to their relationship to news. 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones and 28% use personalized news, meaning they have a customized page that includes news from sources they’ve personally chosen. Perhaps most importantly, news consumers today participate in the creation of news; 37% have contributed to news creation, commented on news, or shared it via social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter.
The entire report is available here.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, enot-poloskun
Tags: News, social media, social networks,
