Archive for June, 2009
How Cellphones, Twitter, Facebook Can Make History
In light of the recent developments in Iran, I thought it would be a good idea to explore how social media sites like Twitter and Facebook are playing a major role in these events. In the following video, Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, talks about the ways in which Social Media and mobile devices have made an impact in the way we make and receive news. (Photo by Hamed Saber)
OpenMicroblogging
OpenMicroBlogging is an effort to create an open standard for micro-blogging.
Jaiku
Jaiku’s goal is to bring people closer together by enabling them to have conversations. It offers a way to connect with the people you care about by sharing updates with them on the Web, IM, and SMS – as well as through third-party applications built by other developers using the JaikuAPI.
Ping.fm
Ping.fm is a free updating service that enables users to post multiple social networking and microblogging services simultaneously. Ping.fm currently support over 40 services and can be accessed from a mobile phone (SMS), instant messaging, email, and 3rd party applications.
Twitter is a microblogging service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages.