Thematic Web Archives

Current Apple iPad marketing approach not recommended by ex Apple evangelist

Mittwoch, Februar 3rd, 2010

Guy Kawasaki (who worked in the past for Apple as evangelist) explains in Seth Godin´s free ebook “What matters now” that you:
Never describe your cause by using bull shiitake terms like “revolutionary” and “paradigm shifting.” Instead, explain how it helps a person.

Apple just launched this new product everybody was so excited about before it was [...]

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Explanations for Twitter trending topics getting a trend

Mittwoch, November 25th, 2009

This is part 3 of our Twitter related mini-tutorial (part1, part2).
Twitter.com is providing a short list of currently popular keywords from within the most current stream of tweets.
This list is called “Trending Topics”.
It provides a convenient way to connect to what is currently happening on that global message bus called Twitter:

Recently some explanations started to show [...]

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How to show all tweets related to a web page with a single click

Sonntag, Oktober 11th, 2009

Tweets link often to web pages. The reverse direction works too: with one click you can see tweets that are related to the current page your browser is showing. This is the second part of our mini Twitter tutorial (part 1 here).
You could use a URL Twitter enabled search engine like http://backtweets.com/search?q= to find tweets [...]

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Thematic Web Archives: Capture reality as it shows up on the Web

Samstag, September 12th, 2009

“A thematic Web collection is an archive of Web objects identified and captured using a set of URLs believed to be relevant to a specific theme or topic”
Source
The outstanding, best documented and analysed case is obviously 9/11:
http://september11.archive.org/
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2002/One-year-later-September-11-and-the-Internet.aspx
http://bibnum.bnf.fr/ecdl/2003/proceedings.php?f=schneider
In this sense our article about Carl Backstrom´s death and his traces on the web can be seen as [...]

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Death: when the life behind shared social streams ended

Donnerstag, Mai 14th, 2009

The Internet is changing not only our life.
It is also changing what is left after we are gone.
Social life streams stop when the life behind ended.
But those streams of activity continue to be accessible until the service provider will delete the account or close doors.
We dont know Carl Backstrom, but we can access his feeds:
Carl [...]

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