Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
All pictures from the Next Web Conference 2010 on Flickr. All photos licensed under a CC license: Non-commercial use allowed with a name credit: Photo by Anne Helmond Please contact me at anne.helmond(at)gmail.com if you would like to use a picture for commercial use.
Joe Stump is the CTO of SimpleGeo, a company that could be described as a S3 for location services. A few stats: Lat-long timestamp per user id: every 30 seconds users update their location which amounts to 1,6 petabytes per year. Location-based services amount to about 128.000 dollar a month in S3 costs: No wonder… Read more The Next Web: Joe Stump on “Combining Location and real time, that’s hot!”
This post is the first in a short series exploring my hypothesis of RSS as the technological foundation of Web 2.0 for my PhD research. I have had the honor of talking with Dave Winer about my research and to pose him some questions. I would like to thank him for his time, thoughts and… Read more Dave Winer on the terminology of RSS
Google’s indexing of the updatesphere is going quite well with the recent news that it will soon show all tweets going back to March 21, 2006. However, there seems to be a very basic flaw in its search design: it returns the platform name for a query! So if I search for Google it will… Read more Dear Google, please fix the updatesphere
Last summer during our DMI summerschool I worked with Vera Bekema, Liliana Bounegru, Andrea Fiore, Simon Marschall, Sabine Niederer, Bram Nijhof, Richard Rogers and Elena Tiis on a project titled ‘The Nationalities of Issues: Rights Types.’ We looked at the most significant rights types per country according to local Google results of the query for… Read more The Nationalities of Issues: Rights Types
A few hours ago the following tweet by @librarycongress appeared in my timeline “Library acquires ENTIRE Twitter archive. ALL tweets. More info here http://go.usa.gov/ik4” All your tweets are belong to us This is big. The ENTIRE archive containing ALL tweets? But if we read the official announcement on the Library of Congress blog it states… Read more Twitter acknowledged as a small piece of the mosaic of humanity