Category: Experimenting

  • The Second Life hype cycle

    It seems that you can’t pick up a magazine or newspaper these days without seeing lengthy articles that focus on the negative side of Second Life. The latest comes from Time magazine in a feature last week. Reality is catching…

  • Easy audio-visual screen capture with Jing

    If you want a very easy and simple way to capture something on your computer screen and easily share it with friends or colleagues, look no further than the Jing Project. A new service from TechSmith – makers of long-established…

  • The social media press release is complementary communication

    AdWeek has a pretty good feature article today about the social media press release. Key points: […] Journalists are no longer considered the only audience for a company’s news because in the blogsophere “everyone can be their own journalist,” says…

  • Phone in your TwitterGram

    Last week, I wrote about TwitterGram, a tool/service developed by Dave Winer that lets you record a brief audio message and post it to Twitter. It’s already proving to be quite a popular tool, judging from the flurry of ‘grams…

  • Twitter and Jaiku but not Pownce

    I’m not quite sure what to make of Pownce, the latest entrant into the twittering micro-blogging and stream-of-consciousness field. Since signing up a few days ago (thanks again, pierro, for the invitation), I’ve probably spent 20 minutes with it before…