Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Social Media Tools Are Like Phones

From Chris Brogan’s blog, Social Media Tools Are Like Phones
“One thing we misunderstand frequently when talking about how great and amazing social media is comes from the fact that we’re thinking from the perspective of what we want the tool to do while the people who are receiving the message might be thinking about the tools [...]

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Mapping the News 2 (TED talks 1:Why we know less than ever about the world)

We are probably all familiar with maps of the world with the south pole at the top, or showing relative size per capita income or use of global resources etc: they act as an immediate visual paradigm shift in our perceptions in a way that simple raw data on a subject can’t match.

In the same [...]

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

adobe photoshop express

adobe have just launched a beta version of an online image storage and sharing service called adobe photoshop express
you are supposed to be in the US to sign up, but i just checked the box and it let me in
it is free at present, and the T&C dont seem too scary in that adobe aren’t [...]

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Pic lens

Piclens is a new and very cool way to search images online from sites like google and flikr, like something from minority report