Continuing my end-of-year wrap up ...
Here are what I consider to be some of the "best" internet and technology posts from 2007. Again, some of these posts are academic, some are trivial, some just link to what other people say, and some are a little random, but they do represent what interests me and what I have posted on this blog in 2007.
Social networking:
- "For the Facebook generation, love now comes with a drop-down menu" - love, relationships and Facebook ... what does it all mean?
- MySpace vs Facebook ... again - a series of interesting perspectives on the differing demographics between MySpace and Facebook.
- More Facebook hype - a collection of interesting links on the future of Facebook.
- OpenSocial - Google tries to respond to the Facebook application platform.
- Is Facebook a threat to privacy? - the first of many posts on the privacy concerns raised by Facebook's Beacon advertising platform.
- Those dangerous, time consuming social networks - not everyone is a fan of social networking.
Blogging and microblogging:
- What the fuck? - I was unimpressed that apparently 80% of blogs contain "offensive" content.
- Still a Twitter - summarising the criticisms of Twitter.
- Twittering away ... - I was struggling then as now about how to best use Twitter.
- Stealing from Twitter - both Bebo and Facebook co-opted Twitter's defining feature this year.
- Jaiku - this Twitter clone (which I actually prefer) was one of Google's purchases for 2007.
- Best Blog Posts 2006 attracts some controversy - this project of Club Troppo and On Line Opinion was always bound to generate controversy ... after all, most bloggers are hardly shy and retiring types without an opinion.
Online video:
- The New RealPlayer - I review the latest version of RealPlayer.
- Paying YouTube content creators - what does this mean for the future user-generated content and YouTube itself.
- "Your shocker never ends" - thanks to YouTube that is; "In the age of mobile phone cameras and video websites, every excruciating incident can be enjoyed by an audience of millions".
- The trouble with a pole-dancing Gandhi - even though the Indian Government found it offensive, it was still easily available online.
- YouTube's ads - debating pre-roll and post-roll ads on YouTube.
Web 2.0:
- Porn 2.0 - one of my popular posts this year ... simply including "porn" in the subject line is seemingly a guarantee to attract readers.
- This is fantastic! - I was very excited about Yahoo! Pipes.
- Web 2.0 wars - a post on Google's plans to go head-to-head against Wikipedia and Facebook.
Politics:
- The first primary: the internet - an early summary of the online presence of the major Democratic candidates.
- techPresident and Tech President - a recent dispute between TechCrunch and techPresident.
Education:
- Uni by YouTube - where I suggest that posting classes on YouTube (or elsewhere on the internet) is not just Web 2.0 trendiness or good marketing for the institution involved, but that there are in fact sound pedagogical reasons for doing so.
- Using Wikipedia as assessment - an interesting trial of Wikipedia as an assessment tool that differed from own (ultimately unsuccessful) attempts to use a wiki in my teaching.
