Tag Archives: collaboration

Shirky @ the ICA

By Dhiren | Published: February 4, 2009

I went to see Clay Shirky at the ICA today, it’s always good to listen to him speak about all things collaboration and social media. I’ll spare all the finer points of his seminar as I don’t want to turn this into another collaboration/social meeja blog post. If you haven’t heard him speak before, it’s [...]

Posted in Social Media | Also tagged clay shirky, ICA, social media, social networking | Leave a comment

The power of tagging

By Dhiren | Published: October 27, 2008

A seasonal post from me today… People often ask me why the hell they should bother tagging content? Lot’s of reasons for this and I could sit here and yammer on about tagging, taxonomies and folksonomies etc etc. Instead of me giving you guys a drawn out explanation I’ll let you do the reading into [...]

Posted in Digital Photography and Art, Social Media | Also tagged diwali, flickr, folksonomies, now public, Photography, social media, tagging, taxonomies, UGC | 1 Comment

FOWA

By Dhiren | Published: October 15, 2008

I was at FOWA for the second day of the conference last week, it was an insightful day out of the office and I walked out feeling quite informed about all things going on in the world of web apps and social websites. My day kicked off with Tim Bray giving a good on talk [...]

Posted in Cloud computing, Social Media, Technology | Also tagged Cloud computing, credit crunch, facebook, FOWA, oAuth, Open Source, social media, web applications, zuckerberg | Leave a comment

Kool collaboration

By Dhiren | Published: September 28, 2008

I was on the Vice website and saw this yesterday. Yes I know, I know, I read Vice. What can I say…I like the quirky photo journalism. I think it’s great how Volvo, Yahoo, Vice and The Independent have come together for this brand mash-up concept. All the underpinnings of a good social media exercise [...]