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January 2008
January 02, 2008
Facebook Is Getting Better
January 02, 2008
Whisper it, but has anybody noticed the various developments to Facebook which seems to be making it a better environment to work in? There have been developments to the user interface, such as the Facebook status no longer has to start with “Brian is …” and messages delivered via email now contain the contents of the message, ...
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January 03, 2008
Will Twitter Be Big In 2008?
January 03, 2008
Something IS Going On With Facebook! I said back in May 2007, in response to a comment made by John Kirriemuir, after he received a sudden influx of Facebook befriending messages. That was my first inkling that what had previously been a rather dull academic network might become the major talking point of 2007. The ...
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January 04, 2008
When Web Sites Go Down
January 04, 2008
A colleague of mine has just alerted me to the fact that the University of Southampton Web site is down for scheduled maintenance from 2-4th January 2008. She had noticed this as she regularly visits the Web site to access the wide range of resources it provides on institutional repositories (note added on 4 Jan ...
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January 07, 2008
Should Personal Data In Facebook Be Exportable?
January 07, 2008
On 2ndJanuary 2008 I described various recent improvements to Facebook. I also pointed out that the research community has been developing tools for exporting data from Facebook for use in other applications. However my post added a note of caution: Has the problem of data being trapped within Facebook now been solved? I don’t think so - remember ...
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January 08, 2008
Tower of WS-Babel
January 08, 2008
You know where you are with standards, right? But who remembers OSI Networking Protocols? And whatever happened to Corba? And what is happening to Web Service standards? There was a panel session at a WWW conference a few years ago entitled “Web Services Considered Harmful” which argued that Web Service standards were too complex to be successful. Interestingly ...
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January 11, 2008
Standards For Data Portability
January 11, 2008
In a recent post on Should Personal Data In Facebook Be Exportable I pointed out the potential dangers of allowing data to be exported out of an environment in which access control can be managed. I have previously suggested that in 30 years time potential new leaders of political parties will have their Facebook ...
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January 14, 2008
Is Second Life Accessible?
January 14, 2008
Is Second Life accessible to users with disabilities? If your views on accessibility are based on compliance with guidelines (especially WAI’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and you feel that all digital resources must be universally accessible to everyone, you may feel that an inherently graphical and interactive environment such as Second Life is unlikely to ...
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January 16, 2008
UCISA Award for UK Web Focus Blog
January 16, 2008
I’m pleased to report that the UK Web Focus blog was awarded a prize by UCISA (Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association). This blog will feature as a case study which will appear in a forthcoming UCISA Innovation and Communication best practice guide to be published by the Communications, Liaison and Information Working Group of ...
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January 17, 2008
Facebook Is So Last Year
January 17, 2008
The Guardian’s Predictions For 2008 Facebook is so last year. It’s official - it was in the Guardian. It was back in May (2007) when John Kirriemuir picked up on the buzz which Facebook was generating, with his post Facebook: Social Networking grows up? describing how “there is now a social networking site that: (1) is based ...
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January 21, 2008
Twitter Friday
January 21, 2008
The Background Friday turned out to be a day of experimentation with Twitter for myself and some of my Twitter friends including Andy Powell, Pete Johnston, Paul Miller, Owen Stephens and Josie Fraser. Friday actually began with an email discussion with fellow members of the Internet Librarian International advisory group over the theme for the conference. I expressed ...
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January 22, 2008
Is Pownce The Answer?
January 22, 2008
In the recent discussion about Twitter there was a feeling, from some, that it wasn’t well-suited for discussions. Indeed Andy Powell commented: i think you are right to question whether using Twitter for one-to-one or few-to-few conversations is the right approach. i (eventually) stopped Twittering on Friday cos it felt like we were mis-using it. And yet ...
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January 23, 2008
Who Should Own The Social Networks?
January 23, 2008
“With friends like these …” The Guardian recently featured an article entitled With friends like these … which Josie Fraser described as “a blistering critique of Facebook“. The article not only laid into Facebook but also social networks and communications technologies more generally. And, as can be seen from the concluding paragraph: “I want to reconnect ...
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January 28, 2008
IWMW 2007 - Call For Proposals
January 28, 2008
This year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW 2008) will be held at the University of Aberdeen on 22-24th July 2008. The theme of this year’s event is “The Great Debate“. The event will provide an opportunity for members of the institutional Web management community to engage in discussions regarding the future of institutional Web services, particularly ...
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