del.icio.us links for 25-31 October 2008

October 29, 2008 in Bookmarks

links for 2008-10-31

• DCLG | Online Social Networks – Research Report
  Stating the seemingly obvious: “social networking sites are increasingly allowing relationships to be built up with people right across the globe and from all walks of life”
  (tags: socialnetworking socialmedia)

links for 2008-10-30

• Social networks ‘could replace’ public services
  Gartner reports says government could work with online communities to support or even replace certain online services government provides.
  (tags: technology socialnetworking)
• AbilityNet | assisted technology collections
  Assistive technology – low cost collections of support for disabled people wanting to use technology
  (tags: accessibility assistivetechnology)
• Demos | Network Citizens
  The Demos think tank report – increasingly powerful argument for social media engagment in government. And not banning it!
  (tags: technology socialnetworking socialnetwork socialmedia)

links for 2008-10-29

• New Features In Windows 7
  More on the Windows 7 preview, this one has lots of screen grabs
  (tags: microsoft windows technology)
• BBC | MS offers peek through Windows 7
  Early peek at the next version of Windows. Although Microsoft claim that Vista is a success, no one else thinks so, so Windows 7 has to restore the Windows brand. They’re doing it by ealing from Mac OS X by the look of it – and incorporating the iPhone’s ‘pinch to zoom’ feature.
  (tags: windows microsoft technology)
• BBC | Obama rules the TV ad airwaves
  A report on just how much Obama is outspending McCain on TV ads at the moment – plus news that the campaign will also broadcast a half-hour commercial on the three TV networks tonight, something unheard of since Ross Perot in 1992 becaus no one, till now, has had the financial reserves to try it.
  (tags: uspolitics obama mcain)
• BBC | Bosses ’should embrace Facebook’
  Attempts to control employees’ use of such software could damage firms in the long run by limiting the way staff communicate; and if social networking sites are the thing of the future, cpampnies may miss out key comms developments.
  (tags: facebook socialnetworking)

links for 2008-10-27

• UK confirms e-voting death
  Apparently e-voting is simply not going to happen in the UK. Trials are over, nothing to see here.
  (tags: ukpolitics e-voting)
• Guardian | The end of the story as we know it
  How digital media is reshaping our expectations of news coverage.
  (tags: journalism wikis blogs)

links for 2008-10-26

• The Real Britney Becomes a Bit More Real
  How to improve a celebrity Twitter feed
  (tags: twitter)
• Political Radar: Palin a Diva?
  Anonymous McCain aide call Palin “a diva” and said “she is playing for her own future” adding: “She takes no advice from anyone. She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”
  (tags: palin mccain uspolitics presidential)
• is.gd – technical information
  API information on the URL-shotening service
  (tags: url is.gd api web2.0 tools)
• LineBuzz.com
  Inline blog comments: a blog reader drags their mouse over text in your blog entry, clicks a button and writes a comment about that piece of text. The text gets a dashed underline and other readers can see the comment, no matter what browser they’re running, and they can reply to the original poster.
  (tags: web2.0 tools blogging blog)

links for 2008-10-25

• Embracing failure
  Why ‘failure’ can still be a success for social media in the public sector online.
  (tags: socialmedia government)