Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Twitter Newspaper Visualizer – Paper.li

28 Oct 2010 at 07:53

enzofsilva

News, social media, Technology, Web 2.0

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I’ve been meaning to play with Paper.li for a while but haven’t found time to do it (even though it takes 30 seconds to set up). I know. This is a great visualization tool for information shared on your (or someone else’s) Twitter stream. Links, photos, videos and other media are all nicely distributed on [...]

Social Networks Around the World – Trends in Social Media

21 Dec 2009 at 14:17

enzofsilva

learning

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This map published on TechCrunch recently just makes me wonder if we are doing the right thing when using social networking to reach our customers, learners, partners. It seems to me most of our “campaigns” in social media tend to focus on Twitter, Facebook and social networks that are popular here in the U.S. With [...]

Entire Novels on Twitter – Starting with Moby-Dick

18 Aug 2009 at 08:05

enzofsilva

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Dan Coulter created a robotic feed that tweeted automatically 140 characters from Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick every hour. This is an interesting concept that remind me of when novels used to popularly come in “episodes” on newspapers with cliffhangers making the readers “stay tuned for scenes of the next episode”… More detail on the story [...]

Microblogging and Learning

13 Nov 2008 at 22:24

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0

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I am sitting at the “140 Characters or Less: Microblogging in Learning” session at DevLearn 08. Discussing the use of Twitter and I started to dig up some websites… If you just google “twitter” or “microblogging + learning” you will find tons of info out there… Of course Twitter is the first one that comes [...]

TwitterCamp – visualizing tweets

13 Nov 2008 at 18:05

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0

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I was impressed by how the DevLearn 08 organizers were using the TwitterCamp application to gather tweets (Twitter messages and updates posted by the conference attendees) in one appealing visual interface. Here is a link to the application which was created by Daniel Dura for ApolloCamp 07 and is being open sourced. The visual interface [...]

Twitter Tags

30 Sep 2008 at 15:12

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0

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I have just found out how useful Twitter tags can be. I have for a while been a skeptic of the use of microblogging for Education and in general, for that matter, Although I am a believer in many aspects of social media (Web 2.0) and that it can in fact provide tools for the [...]

Matt – Building a Web Application in 32 Hours

03 Jul 2008 at 19:03

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0

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I have to admit that,typos aside, TechCrunch remains one of my favorite sources of information on technology, especially Web technologies. I suppose that unmerciful deadlines and the increasing speed of publication everyone ends up committing some spelling mistakes (I have noticed this especially in academic press). Well, let’s not get into that. TechCrunch and other [...]