Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
In my previous post I wondered if social sharing services are breaking the web with data-rich hyperlinks and today I would like to pose that social sharing services are breaking search. Let’s assume the following scenario: You search for Facebook “proprietary protocol” in Google Web (the “regular” Google) and are presented with the following results: While we… Read more Social buttons are breaking search
Social sharing services such as Summify allow users to subscribe to a daily digest of stories that have been shared by their Twitter and/or Facebook users in what they call a “summary of your social news feeds.” In the process of tracking shared links on social media platforms, these sharing services are renaming and transforming… Read more Are social sharing services breaking the web with data-rich hyperlinks?
These are my quick and short notes on the Facebook F8 Developers Conference 2011 related to my research. Mark Zuckerberg describes how your Facebook profile acts as a five minute introduction when you meet someone and you share your common demographics such as your name, age, job and interests with them. The Facebook stream represents the next… Read more Facebook becomes a database for your life
In het kader van de Open Monumentendag Amsterdam 2011 bezocht ik de Centrale Markthal op het terrein van Food Center aan de Jan van Galenstraat. Ik fiets elke dag langs het Food Center en zie dat er op dit moment gewerkt wordt aan herstructurering van het gebied en de restauratie van de Centrale Markthal. Ik… Read more Foto’s: Open Monumentendag Amsterdam 2011, Centrale Markthal
Zaterdag was de feestelijke opening van de Tuin Jasper Leijnsenstraat 21 waar zich in de binnenplaats een gezamenlijke tuin en 11 individuele moestuintjes bevinden. Het project genaamd I CAN CHANGE THE WORLD WITH MY TWO HANDS is geïnitieerd door kunstenaar Natascha Hagenbeek en bevindt zich op dit moment in een testfase. Het weer was prachtig,… Read more Foto’s: Opening moestuin Bos en Lommer
Last week the Netherlands-German border was struck by a 4.2 earthquake which went unnoticed by many but not on Twitter. It was joked that the quake had a bigger impact on Twitter than anywhere else. I was interviewed by Radio 1 about this phenomenon and I briefly talked about the resemblance between the recent East Coast… Read more Interview on Radio 1 about Twitter and the Dutch earthquake