At this year's DLD conference Facebook's and Google's algorithms, which have been abused by politically biased spammers, were the subject of several debates. Facebook's Elliot Schrage explained what they plan to do to solve this…
Google Grops allows us to grade other users?…
The 'Google Groups' service has been letting us access to Usenet newsgroups? contents and create our own discussion groups for years.In order to grade the relevance of these groups? contents while searching, Google looks for…
Influence and social networks
Not long ago, two rankings about the most influential people in Spain were published. They are lists of politicians, businessmen, journalists, sportsmen and people that work in other cultural fields. One of the rankings even…
Gencat, Web 2.0 in the civil service
Catalonia has always been ahead from the rest of the country as far as using new technologies is concerned, so I?m not surprised that Generalitat de Catalunya, the Catalonian government, is the first civil service…
Olympic blogs: How to make the most of…
Six Journalism students from Germany, Austria, Canada, China, the USA and Italy have been invited by Coca-Cola to travel to Turin (Italy) and report the events of the Olympic Winter Games through six blogs known…
Fon and the maturity of the Blogosphere
If there is something that the recent multimillionaire investment in Fon has proved it is that blogs can be used for something more than telling personal stories. Varsavsky blogged the whole creation of this new…
Podcast: leave me a voice comment
Macromedia Flash technology gives Web pages the multimedia characteristics that HTML can't give. I wrote yesterday that Macromedia itself is using this technology to develop the Breeze platform, which allows users to communicate among themselves,…
Only one blog mentioned in AIMC’s questionnaire about…
Blogs still have a long way to walk to become a mass phenomenon. Despite growing very fast, even the most visited ones are far behind the main portals and online Spanish newspapers, not to mention…
Fon and viral marketing
There is a very interesting article written by the Wall Street Journal. It describes the blogger-gaining strategies used by Fon to generate viral marketing on the Internet. We did already talk about this the day…