Mashable: Bob Dylan’s Facebook App Rocks. It’s a customizable version of the famous music video of Dylan’s "Subterranean Homesick Blues." Add your own words and Dylan will hold them up. To promote his “Dylan Greatest Songs” album that’s coming out in October, Bob Dylan has created a Facebook application that lets you enter 10 lines […]
Social networks
Social media widgets and Facebook
Wikipedians are in another spat, over the usefulness of the term "social media." Here was Wikipedia’s entry before it was emasculated to its current entry: Social media describes the online tools and platforms that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other. Social media can take many different forms, including text, […]
A milestone in presidential politics?
Editor’s note: Joe Biden’s video response at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYQS_Hg5p6U has been removed. I’m not sure why. Jeff Jarvis got around to blogging this before I had a chance to: PrezConference: A candidate answers! (Here’s my original videoblog post.) From Jeff today: We have our first reply to a PrezConference question from a candidate. Joe Biden […]
Next-generation social networking
Big news: Here is what a next-generation social network looks like. The Mercury News’ Silicon Beat today carries a story about the new site that Marc Canter (my partner at Ourmedia.org) has built for Tony Perkins. It’s called GoingOn. Version 1.0 will be unveiled soon at his AlwaysOn site. Marc has been talking for years […]