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.
Thanks Brandi for the link!
OpenMicroBlogging is an effort to create an open standard for micro-blogging. Our goal is a specification that allows different messaging hubs to route microblogging messages between users in a near-realtime timeframe. Current implementations of the protocol include Laconi.ca and OpenMicroblogger.
Website: OpenMicroblogging.org
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.
Jaiku is a part of Google. The service is maintained by volunteer Google engineers on their spare time.
Twitter is a microblogging service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. People write short updates (“tweets”) of 140 characters or fewer. These messages are posted to your profile or your blog, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter Search.
Twitter is currently the most popular microblogging network, with almost 23 million unique visitors to its home page in June 2009 (Source: Compete.com). Not included are the many people that access their Twitter data via numerous 3rd party applications.
