Interesting inforgraphic. LinkedIn is for the educated and is about 50/50 - Male / Female. No big surprise that twitter users tend to be much older than the kids at myspace. Also no shocker that Redit and Digg users are dominantly male.
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Mashable.com reports that MSNBC has purchased the @BreakingNews twitter account. I'm not a news expert, however, this seems like a bummer. If I had wanted to follow MSNBC I could have. I liked the @BreakingNews guys because they they seemed to represent the real-time news experience for me in a way that other broadcast news venues didn't. I can't fault them for selling but I might not stay on with the new management.
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Here’s an interesting idea, the first Where 2.0 Online Conference organised by O’Reilly – a online mini where 2.0 with a focus on LBS and AR developments on the iPhone.
This could be the future of conferences, after all for many the trek to the West Coast is both time consuming and expensive and something you can maybe justify once a year, but a year is a long time in the industry at the moment so there is also the potential for more frequent events.
If you can’t bring the people to a conference, bring the conference to the people…
For us in Europe the time difference could be a problem, but there again we can always sit back with a nice glass of wine or hot chocolate depending upon preference and watch in our pyjamas !
Written and submitted from the Googleplex, California (37.421N, 122.087W)
Update: I fail at reading. Changed the title to accuratly reflect That Ed was commenting on a conference that was already planned. Sorry for any confusion and Sorry to Ed Parsons for mucking his words up.
Googles Ed Parsons raises some great points about the utility of streaming conferences. Many were able to virtually attend WhereCamp5280 2009 through a twitter hashtag and Dave Bouwman's GeoGeekTv video stream. The recent O'Reilly Web 2.0 conference was officially streamed and had a roaring twitter following th at turned it into a premier place to make announcements.
It would be interesting to explore the idea for many conferences. Ed outlines how LBS and AR on the iPhone could be split in to a mini offering. Following Ed's logic, one could organize conference video and possibly hashtags into different segments or tracks. That would allow virtual attendees to pick and choose what they follow live. If you still want to catch a presentation from another track you could watch it later on YouTube.
If presenters are given a way to monitor social streams like twitter they could respond to remote viewers directly or after the presentation. The social stream is probably just as important as live video for staging an online event in tandem with an offline one.
Ed's Ideas and those posed here are just the tip of the iceberg. There are many other benefits and probably some drawbacks to holding online conferences. Please feel free to add your ideas in the comments.
What a day! I have been away from my computer most of the day and just saw the google+twitter story as it broke. One of my twitter friends remarked after I tweeted the google story that "Bing finally had a feature Google did not for about an hour." Looks like Bing already has some sort of tool mashed up to integrate tweets.
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