Entries filed under '2.0'

My Wikipedia Prank

My Wikipedia spam lasted 20 days. My strategy: I posted on the List of Awareness Ribbons page on Wikipedia on the 18 September 2007. I suggested that wearing the green and blue ribbon was a symbol of support to people with ‘centophobic tendencies’. I referenced this fact with a link to http://www.centophobia.com/fromprank/. This sneaky addition [...]

December 19th, 2007 at 11:18pm

Last.fm, 30boxes, Jaiku etc.

So I have been joining a heap of social networking sites lately (I don’t know why I bother, no one ever visits me).  One of these sites was Last.fm. It has probably been around for ages but I just discovered it. It listens (scrobbles) the music you play on your computer and then matches you [...]

June 1st, 2007 at 05:19pm

Four Corners: You only live twice

I have heard about this ground breaking internet community and have studied virtual communities at university, however the story on Four Corners last night did reveal issues that I had never thought about, including: How would a virtual Stock Exchange work within Second Life? However later I also thought that the real world stock exchange [...]

March 20th, 2007 at 11:00am