Chinese social media landscape

It's interesting to see how very different the social media market is compared to the one we take for granted in the west.

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sinotechblog.com.cn

Nya idoler från web2.0 expo/summit

Efter att ha tagit sig igenom video, intervjuer och artiklar från årets web2.0 ( #w2s ) är det klart att det händer sjukt mycket häftigt just nu. Några minnesvärda saker var den extremt förtroendeingivande Aneesh Chopra, Ev Williams om hur Twitter närmar sig en färdig affärsmodell, Mary Meekers från Morgan Stanley med intressanta siffror på hur extremt framgångsrik iPhone varit, samarbetena mellan twitter och Microsoft + Google (och den talande svala entusiasmen den sympatiske Qi Lu med kollega fick för sin demo av bing.com/twitter), en givande dialog om journalism. Se ett urval videos på:
http://tv.web2summit.com/

Qi Lu (PHD och chef för web services på MSft) svarade intressant på en fråga om innovationsaspekten på partnerskapet med Yahoo att R &D handlar om att testa hypoteser, ju fler hypoteser som testas, desto fler framsteg...

Men kanske starkast intryck gjorde Tim Berners-Lee, mannen bakom www. Hans entusiasm och otålighet gjorde det klart för mig att det fortfarande finns många delar av de grundläggande principerna bakom interwebben kan bli mytcket bättre. Se hans pratstund med Tim O'Reilly via länken ovan eller se hans TED talk (som tyvärr inte är lika fantastiskt) nedan.

Mozilla Raindrop

Earlier today, I realized that my gmail doesn't automatically separate my important emails from the many newsletters and automatically generated updates that I want to receive but not care about as much as the messages I get from friends, colleagues and family. It does a great job of filtering out spam (haven't seen a spam-mail in my inbox for years), so the filter is obviously smart, but I got frustrated with the limited possibilities of setting up your own filters.

Skip to half an hour ago when I got word of Mozilla Labs newest project, Raindrop, aimed at this very problem: automatically treating various types of email differently to better correspond to the way I wan't to read them. (See the demo below.)
This is the first time in ages that I am considering using a different app to read emails.

Read more at
Mozilla Labs - Introducing Raindrop
Mashable - Mozilla Raindrop: is the intelligent inbox coming?
IDG - Här är Mozillas svar på Google wave

Us now


the whole film

"Us Now is a documentary film project "about the power of mass collaboration, the government and the Internet"  The documentary weaves together the perceptions of leading thinkers on the power of the web, with the overriding suggestion that people gain a sense of satisfaction from active participation rather than symbolic representation in decision-making processes. The project claims the founding principles of mass collaborative projects, including transparency, self-selection and open-participation are nearing mainstream social and political lives. Us Now describes this transition and confronts politicians George Osborne and Ed Milliband with the possibilities for collaborative government as described by Don Tapscott and Clay Shirky amongst others."