Two years or so ago during my time at Stanford University, I was carrying out research on the impact of mobile phones around the world for a conference. I was after specific articles, reports and projects — but it was spread all over the place. I spent so much time I wondered why a ‘one-stop,’ […]
Archives for July 2009
Good.ly: a tiny url service for charity
Good.ly: a url shortener to benefit charity from JD Lasica on Vimeo. During the Traveling Geeks‘ visit to London last week, I twice met Alicia Navarro, founder and CEO of Slimlinks, an automated affiliate marketing service for blogs and websites. During our talk she mentioned a little-known service that deserves wider visibility: good.ly. In this […]
BBC’s praiseworthy Save Our Sounds project
Save Our Sounds from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the Traveling Geeks‘ Tweetup in the Chelsea district of London on July 5, I ran into Kate Arkless Gray, “microblogger-in-residence” at the BBC World Service, who looks after its Save Our Sounds project. SOS seeks to preserve disappearing sounds in society. Kate explains how the project […]
Symbian: Going open source has made huge difference
Symbian goes open source from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Probably few people have noticed that Symbian, the operating system that powers nearly half the world’s smartphones (compared with the iPhone’s 1.1% overall market share), is opening up its platform and going open source. “Being open source has made an incredible difference in how we interact […]
Using Twitter for a global conversation
Over the last few months, we have seen Twitter serve the global community by playing an important role in communications – whether it’s finding new friends (#FollowFriday), or telling the world about your government/election/political state (#IranElection), whether it’s having a conversation together (#4Change), or non-linearly replacing your RSS feed. What do those # mean? That’s […]