MySpace claiming back its valuable real estate: Got this in the mailbox today. MySpace might be hungry for traffic in the facebook-war. Of course they never ever delete your account :-)You have not logged into MySpace since January 1, 2007. That makes us sad!You're also holding a very valuable piece of MySpace real estate, which is the username/URL you chose. That makes MySpace users sad! Why? Because you've got a URL someone may want, and you're not really using it! Since it doesn't look like you're an active user on this acc...
The Grand Tour: Rubens at large in the streets of London: This summer, the Grand Tour turns the streets of London into a giant art gallery by hanging life-size replicas of paintings from the National Gallery all across the centre of town. The accompanying website provides a printable map (including a selection of ‘mini-tours’) along with audio downloads and further information about the paintings. They even opened a "photo...
LinkedIn delivering APIs to developers : I say it's about time! Leading professional social network and infamous walled garden 2.0 LinkedIn will finally let its users data out of the cage. It's going to happen within the next 9 months, Dan Farber reports . Although maybe a bit late (why another 9 months?) and definitely in response to competitor Facebook's rapid growth and general acclaim after doing the same, they've definitely made the right...
Screenshots of Sony Home: Slowly but steadily screenshots of Playstation Home, a new virtual world designed for Sony's Playstation 3, are finding their way to the internet. This social space annex game matchmaking environment is expected for release in October, as a free download for PS3. Currently, Playstation Home is in restricted beta (which explaines the leaked screen caps). If Sony plays it well and finds a way to combine the visual looks of the current gener...
Presentation on folksonomic 'attitude' in the VACF-project: Yesterday I gave a presentation (in Dutch) on the study-afternoon , dedicated to 'Participation in e-culture'. Subject of this talk was the use of folksonomies and the folksonomic 'attitude' in the Virtual Arts Centre of the Future project, funded by IBBT . You can download the presentation here . The event was organised by the departement of Culture, Youth, ...
On the Last.fm Viacom acquisition rumours: I’m not feeling particularly well today, and in part it has to do with the rumours concerning a possible acquisition of Last.fm by Viacom . Viacom is a large media group which assets include MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures and Paramount Home Entertainment. For some time now, this company seems eager to get a new media success story under its wings. Last year there was the ...
MyBlogLog.com brings the blogosphere together: The new ‘MyBlogLog Readers’ widget in the right column deserves an explanation. One of the aspects of the Web these ‘2.0’ days is the fact that online communities have become more fragmented and ephemere. People (readers, bloggers) assembling around a blog (or number of blogs) may form distributed communities overtime, that currently only materialize in the comments people leave in these spaces. And the majority of readers who don’t contribute (the lurkers, what a terrible word!) remain unkno...
Humble Voice, a community of artists: Humble Voice is a new community for artists (and art lovers). Not unlike Myspace, it offers the possibility for artists to create profiles. Photography, art, films, writing and music may then be added to this profile and shared with the community. Additional features include calendars to track local readings, art shows, band performances and community events. Each artist community homepage contains featured artists, each day's top listened to/viewed/read...