Fire Eagle open for business tomorrow: Very exciting news! A little bird told me that, as from tomorrow, Yahoo's brand new Fire Eagle service will be open for business. In private beta that is, so if you want to play along, request an invitation through the website: http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/ .Fire Eagle is (from the website): "...the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online while giving you unprecedented control over your data and privacy. We're ...
Meeting of Minds: The User is the Content: I will be present at the Meeting of Minds in Antwerpen (Belgium) on April 26th-27th. It will be an excellent opportunity to discuss the societal implications of the Web revolution, that has empowered us all to create, publish and share massively online. The people formerly known as the audience are no longer merely consumers, and the old-media players have lost their monopoly on content delivery - or as McLuhan exclaimed: the user is the content. His wor...
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...