Tech Monday: New Media News Roundup
| posted by Lynne d Johnson- New York City Launches 9/11 Health Website
New York City has launched a 9/11 Health Website, which not only has the city owning up to the fact that 9/11 has contributed greatly to the poor health of thousands of its inhabitants, but it also works the other side of the fence and does the clean up act and its part for social responsibility by providing beneficial resources. - Viral Campaigns Waste Marketers’ Time
The recent JupiterResearch report “Viral Marketing: Bringing the Message to the Masses,” states that only 15% of viral campaigns launched within the last year have proven successful. Funny thing is, it's not that viral campaigns don't work, it's that marketers don't fully understand their audiences or what they're doing. - Bionic Woman Fan Community Launches on Ning
After watching an Amazon.com free first episode of the NBC's Bionic Woman, a fan decided to enlist the power of community and create a social network on ning dedicated to the show. So far only the creator of the network, myself, and the series' cast are members, but hey you've got to love the power of the Web for even making this possible. - Social Networking Sites Don't Deepen Friendships
Dr. Will Reader at Sheffield Hallam University and his team found that although the sites (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo) allowed contact with hundreds of acquaintances, as with conventional friendship networks, people tend to have around 5 close friends. Also, 90% of contacts that the subjects regarded as close friends were people they had met face to face. - Frogify Your Mobile Phone
Frog is like the iGoogle or MyYahoo homepage for mobile phones. It's a free set up that enables you to easily access your most used Web services simply from one home page. It's better than creating a Favorites list, and it's definitly made my mobile surfing a lot easier. - YPulse Tween Mashup Comes to New York
The Mashup conference, produced by Ypulse.com in partnership with Modern Media, helps media and marketing professionals understand how to reach tweens using technology in a multi-platform world. Kyra E. Reppen, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Nickelodeon MTVN Kids and Family Group's Neopets will provide the opening keynote focused on the original youth-oriented virtual world, while Renee Hobbs, Professor of Communication and Director, Media Education Lab, Temple University, will present the luncheon address focusing on MyPopStudio.com, a media literacy project for girls. Early adopter registration open until September 15.
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September 12, 2007 at 1:40am
Hashim WarrenThanks for linking to the Bionic Woman fan site.
To tell the truth, I'm more of a fan of the technology that made the site possible than I probably will be of the show.
It took about 20 minutes for me to create a working social network and a chat room using only Ning.com and Meebo.com! Behind the scenes I use Google Analytics to keep track of the traffic.
How much time and money would all of that have taken just 3 years ago? I'm blown away by this new media world we live in.
September 12, 2007 at 3:33am
Lynne d JohnsonThanks for sharing the information Hashim. I created a similar site for students I was working with in a writing and technology course. Once I started putting in all the widgets and embedding HTML for such things as chat rooms, calendars/schedules, file uploaders (though you can upload files when commenting in certain areas) -- it made the course worth what the students paid for it. All of the educational tools I surveyed couldn't deliver what ning could. I wonder what the company's endgame is though.