Peter Bihr on Social Media, Web 2.0 & Digital Life

Workshop: Social Media in Higher Education (Fr, 04 Jul 2008)
Next Tuesday, I’ll have the great chance to hold a workshop at UOC, Barcelona, on Social Media in Higher Education. UOC is a virtual university with students all over the world, so they’re very web-savvy to begin with. I’m very curious about their feedback on my two cents on Web 2.0 and social media. Also, [...]
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Waving Cats in China (Fr, 04 Jul 2008)
Photo by Frank Franz* Patzig (licensed under Creative Commons by-nc-sa). Thanks for the dedication! * Sorry :)
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Twitter feature request: Protected updates options (Mo, 30 Jun 2008)
One thing that’d be really useful for Twitter: If you could signal somehow why your Twitter updates are protected. Some folks do it because they prefer to communicate within their circle of friends. Others do it so they can monitor who subscribes to their tweets - which is the only way of making sure that [...]
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Is Twitter the new Google? (Mo, 30 Jun 2008)
Well, of course that title is slightly misleading. (Come on, what did you expect?) However, it’s not just there to draw a few more eyeballs. Let me explain what I mean. Google is everywhere. But not just in a general, universal “oh my god they’re everywhere” sense, but more concretely: I work with Google all day, [...]
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Twitter plus Flash as a simple CMS (Mo, 30 Jun 2008)
Patrick, one of the awesome flashers here at Panorama3000, has coded this neat flash website for an actor friend of his. Usually I’m not a huge fan of flash sites for all the well-known issues around flash (no direct links, lousy accessibility etc). What I like about this one, though, is its smart implementation of [...]
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Relaunch: Slowly getting there (Mo, 30 Jun 2008)
Slowly, but steadily, I’m getting to the point where my website looks acceptable again. To be fair, that’s only partly my achievement: The design is to a huge part based on on Boris Anthony’s theme for Joi Ito. (Of course Boris and Joi are referenced in my blog’s footer, and I’ll keep trying to get [...]
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Dopplr’s new public profiles: gorgeous stats (Mo, 30 Jun 2008)
Last week I noticed that some Dopplr users’ profiles looked somewhat different than others’ and wondered why. Well, now it’s public: Dopplr now offers trips with several stops (which is very useful), but also access to more travel stats, all neatly wrapped up in funky eye candy like Raumzeitgeist (seen below). My favorite improvement? I [...]
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[please ignore: design changes] (Fr, 27 Jun 2008)
Just recently I’ve made a few changes to this blog’s design, but somehow wasn’t happy with the way it ended up. So again, I’m tweaking a little. For the next few days, the whole site is very likely to look somewhat deranged. My apologies for any inconveniences - once it’s done, it’ll be more fun.
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Wordle: Create wordmaps on the fly. (Good fun!) (Do, 26 Jun 2008)
A word cloud of my del.icio.us tags, created with Wordle. One thing just became a bit clearer to me: Just how much I use my social bookmarks to really keep track of tools and resources.
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Documents Are Conversations: The Future of Work (is now) (Do, 26 Jun 2008)
A little while back, while I was visiting San Francisco, my buddy Max Senges (the proto knowledge entrepreneur) and I had a chat or two about the future of work, which both of us see in collaboration, sharing and networking/the cloud. Of course, just like for many of you, this has basically already become part [...]
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