So, someone tried to stake a claim as to what the official definition of web 3.0 is. And it’s all kicked off. Raises a lot of questions, main one being when will we stop going up in numbers. Thats all a bit “Windows 98″ isn’t it?
From Iain over at crackunit.com, an awesome blog that I probably link to way too much. It’s just really rather very good and Iain just gets it. Simple as that. Subscribe now.
Go here. I’ve just signed up, but if it’s anything like the other lists, should be really useful if you like that sort of thing.
Nice post over on the Bite blog (I work at Bite) right now talking about the genius that is Marc Ecko. He of “tagging Air Force One ” and now “buying a rather famous baseball and branding it with a *” fame.
Scoble is live Twittering the birth of his son. Blimey.
Via Hugh. If only he called him Twitter, or Meebo, or Ning or something like that.
UPDATE: Still in labour as of midnight Thursday.
2nd UPDATE: Milan has been born ! Welcome to this crazy earth.
Haven’t read and digested yet. Sure it will will be a sensible summary of plain old common sense but it’s always nice to have. Full post about it with lots of extra links here at Digital Influence Mapping Project. Wonder what Tom Coates thinks?
Bite is working with Peace One Day to help create the planet’s largest ever peace community and today we’re officially launching the world’s first “digiwristband” to enable people to make their own commitments to peace in support of Peace Day on 21 September 2007. (you can see mine on the right)
Peace One Day began as a film project founded by British filmmaker Jeremy Gilley in 1999 to establish the first ever-annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence. In 2001 the Day was unanimously adopted by UN member states as 21 September annually - Peace Day. Jeremy has amassed an impressive list of high profile supporters through his work including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Chris Martin, Annie Lennow, Sam Taylor Wood, Jonny Lee Miller, Simon Fuller, Sir Richard Branson, Kofi Annan and others. In 2006, 200 countries committed to Peace including all 192 UN member states, directly involving 27.6 million people. Pretty amazing stuff.
On Peace Day, Friday 21 September, there will be activity taking place in hundreds of countries around the world. At Peace One Day’s flagship concert at the Royal Albert Hall a host of star names will perform live and contribute through messages and films. Annie Lennox, Corinne Bailey Rae, James Morrison, Beth Orton and Marc Almond will all perform live, and they will be supported by video messages and specially filmed pieces by David Beckham, Jude Law, Lord David Puttnam and others.
In support of Peace One Day in the run up to Peace Day and beyond, we are trying to make as many people aware of the project as possible and inspire individuals, schools and corporations to make a commitment to peace, create a “digiwristband” and help spread the word by displaying their commitment on their MySpace profile, Facebook, profile PC wallpaper, mobile wallpaper, email signature, blog or website.
The Peacemaker wall displays all Peacemakers around the world and you can see Jeremy Gilley at number 1, Simon Fuller at number 19, myself at number 27 (!), Corinne Bailey Rae at number 186 and Bite at number 219.
You can help support Peace One Day by:
1) Making a commitment and displaying your digiwristband on your blog, website, MySpace or other online profile that you can add HTML to
2) Adding the Facebook Peace Commitment app to your Facebook profile and inviting your friends and networks to do the same
3) Blogging about Peace One Day and encouraging other people to make a commitment and spread the word
4) Spreading the word about Peace One Day in any way you can by emailing your friends and colleagues, including it in a newsletter, featuring it on your website etc etc
Go on. Do it now. Help us create the planet’s largest ever peace community.
All images, logos and other assets can be found here.
I’m not the only one feeling this. I commented about this on the Bite blog a while back.
Also, I’ve been looking at this report from JupiterResearch that says social networking sites are having little impact influencing online retail sales and this (via Jonny) which talks about advertising on Facebook and the low click-though rate they are apparently experiencing.
The internet really is like a big blender really isn’t it? Everything is being chucked in and all sorts of stuff is cropping up - good and bad.
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