Hot diggidy, here’s Dipity! Great free interactive timeline toolkit. August 20, 2008
Posted by David Petherick in : 2.0, NewsPapers, authors, blonging, digital biographer, microblogging, share, social media, streams ,Sometimes, a name escapes you. This name escaped me when I was referring to an online tool that let you create your own private or public timeline of data, images, or references. Digiddy? Diggedy? Dittley? Bo Diddley? It just did not come to the front of my mind.
The name I was looking for was “Dipity“. Below, you can see how the increasing online-savvy LiverPool Post has made a timeline of 20.08.2008 to celebrate Liverpool’s year as City of Culture.
The service from Dipity is a great way to share images, text and video, and place them into a contextual container which automatically assumes an interactive timeline format. It’s an excellent way to tell a story about an event in a linear patten, but with non-linear input from amny different sources or individual contributors, and it’s worth visiting the site to see some examples of how Dipity is being used.
I’m working on some projects that involve usind Dipity and some of its associated ‘mashup tools‘ to illustrate an individual’s biography and ‘lifestream’ as outlined at British Blogcasting Corporation - and this is, of course, almost made for anything you’d want to call a ‘digital biography‘!
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I am an Author for “Age of Conversation: Why Don’t People Get It?”. March 24, 2008
Posted by David Petherick in : 2.0, authors, blonging, brand, digital biographer, share, social media ,274 authors, and I, are going to write a sequel to the hugely successful ‘Age of Conversation‘.
The details about this book, along with a full list of authors, and links to their blogs or sites, is here on Drew McLellan’s blog, and at Gavin Heaton’s Servant of Chaos.
I’m really flattered to be on the same page as some of those names - as one commented suggested, why not just call it “Who’s Who in Social Media?”.
By the way, you should buy the Age of Conversation from Amazon on March 29th, as 1) We’re aiming to get it into the Amazon Bestsellers list and 2) Aiming to raise a sh*tload of cash for charity.
Interesting but useless fact: there are Ten David’s on the author list, Eight Pauls, Three Matts, and Five Johns…
Tweet things are made of this… how to blow up your own Twitter Balloon. January 26, 2008
Posted by David Petherick in : blonging, share, social media, streams ,A wonderful twitter update badge you can customise to your heart’s delight and place on your blog, facebook, myspace… the slight drawback is that the site is almost entirely in Japanese, but don’t worry, I’ve found the English interface so you can make your own Twitter Balloon…
The important element that I love is the ability to go back and forward in time to folowo the history of one’s twitterings, or tweets, so one can follow a conversation or thread of insights and ideas. These may admittedly be somewhat disjointed, but more interesting that simply having the ‘latest’ information presented. I can see an nice extension of this with a tweet balloon gallery, or even a mashup where those referenced by one user’s conversation can be linked to dynamically, or to follow how a topic or issue is being discussed.
Here’s one I created for my friend Boris:
Do your own thing at Korelab’s English Twitter Balloon Creation Page.
Meet Robert Scoble & Werner Vogels in Amsterdam at The Next Web Conference 2008 January 3, 2008
Posted by David Petherick in : Conferences, authors, awards, blonging, commerce, social media ,Speakers are being confirmed daily for 2008’s European Web 2.0 Event: The Next Web, and include Robert Scoble, Tech Geek Blogger & Author of ‘Naked Conversations‘, Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon, and Gil Penchina, CEO at Wikia.
Now in its third year, the Amsterdam event’s focus this April is on quality content, and extensive networking opportunities. Organisers anticipate at least 700 web savvies, internet influentials, and industry journalists from over 20 countries will be in Amsterdam, to be inspired, have fun and do business. This year, attending The Next Web Conference gets you free entrance to BrightLive (European version of Nextfest).
Google quietly launches free viral social network. It’s called Reader. December 20, 2007
Posted by David Petherick in : blonging, corporate blogs, googlicious, search marketing, share, social media ,Google Reader is a free (and excellent) tool to let you manage your web feeds - to easily keep track of your favorite websites and see all the updates in one convenient location.
A few days ago, a little extra feature appeared. It was simple, and unobtrusive, and gently prompted me to add more information. What it means is that I can share my news from sites and blogs I find of interest with a click. But in addition, there’s a profile appearing on that page - my Google Profile. With as much or as little information as I choose to add there, including links to my choice of sites or resources.
It’s for sharing news and sites I find- for the moment. But think about it - that’s where facebook scores so highly. And delicious, and stumbleupon. And it does what bloglines and Rojo do, nicely…
Google just created a simple, easy, social network that already has some great content that i have selected. And like most of Google’s offerings, from Search to Alerts to Gmail, I’m using it simply because it’s really very useful.
I’ve created a widget from my shared Google Reader links to add to other resources online, and also created a shortcut to the shared links page: http://httv.biz/shared/
