Social media trends in 2012

January 3, 2012 1 Comment

English: Infographic on how Social Media are b...

What will be the major social media trends in 2012? According to this article, smartphones and tablets will play a significant role in the development of new services on the Social Web. We’ll also see the following trends:

  • More social media into corporate websites
  • An increase in social media usage on mobile devices
  • An increase in personal support
  • An increase in social media budgets
  • More social media advertising
  • More social gaming
  • News will be increasingly social
  • More websites will be compatible with mobile devices
  • More election campaigns will be run in social media
  • Your social media footprint will grow
  • Facebook users will surpass 1 billion

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Santa’s new helper

December 22, 2011 Leave a Comment

Christmas eve is coming soon, the busiest day of the year for Santa Claus :)
But this year, Santa has got some extra help!

Merry Christmas! ;)

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Free online course about Responsive Open Learning Environments

October 20, 2011 Leave a Comment

What is a widget? What is a Personal Learning Environment? How can I start building my own Personal Learning Environment? If you’d like to learn the answers to these questions, then visit our new course about Responsive Open Learning Environments. The course is free and also available for download, reuse and republishing.

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Steve Jobs

October 7, 2011 Leave a Comment

An amazing person. A beautiful mind. He’ll certainly be missed.

 

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I am not a robot. I am a unicorn.

September 21, 2011 Leave a Comment

Conversations with chat bots can be quite amusing. Their intelligence hasn’t yet evolved to a point where they would fool us to believe we’re talking to a human being. What would happen though if a bot had a conversation with another bot Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab tried just that. The result is at least surreal:

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ROLE widget contest

June 23, 2011 Leave a Comment

The ROLE project (Responsive Open Learning Environments) is organising a Widget Enchantment Contest. Build a widget using ROLE technologies, make it available through the ROLE widget store and win a prize worth 500EUR ;)

The contest will run till July 15th and the winner will be announced on July 31st.

UPDATE: The contest has been extended till August 31st.

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Linked Data at the Open University and the ROLE project

April 14, 2011 Leave a Comment

The Open University and the Lucero project have recently launched data.open.ac.uk, an RDF repository of metadata from Open University datasets, such as podcasts, courses, and more. The metadata from these datasets are interlinked and accessible through SPARQL queries.

Needless to say, this initiative provides excellent opportunities for harvesting previously disconnected datasets and providing new services to Open University learners. So, I’ve reused some code kindly provided by Fouad Zablith, in order to produce a widget for the ROLE project. The widget has been built as a Moodle block for recommending learning material inside OpenLearn courses. The widget queries data.open.ac.uk and displays a list of Open University courses, iTunesU podcasts, as well as OpenLearn tags related to the course that the user is currently viewing. You can try it out by logging in as guest at PlaySpace.

Here is also the blog post at the Lucero project: http://lucero-project.info/lb/2011/04/role-widget-consumes-linked-data/

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Google launches Gmail Motion

April 1, 2011 Leave a Comment

Tired of sitting on your desk, typing and clicking? Well, Google is changing this! Try the new Gmail Motion and you’ll never go back to the keyboard and mouse!

…but also look closer at this post’s date ;)

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It’s a small world…

August 10, 2010 Leave a Comment

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A Semantic Web service for the lazy blogger

July 26, 2010 Leave a Comment

If you’re one of the bloggers that love to blog but never seem to find the time to do it properly (it all sounds so familiar!), then the Semantic Web may have a treat for you. The Evri semantic web service claims to be able to help bloggers follow trends and developments and deliver curated content to their readers:

The idea is to put into play more elements of its technology, such as its notion of collections that lets users follow entities around topics they’re interested in, so that bloggers can become better curators for their sites. They then get better, that is, at pinpointing streams around their specialty and letting information about that flow to their base.

Of course, as the article claims, curated content is not supposed to be a replacement for original content produced by the blogger. Instead, it can be used more like starting material, on top of which the blogger will add an editorial layer. Sweet! :)

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