Dr. Matthias O. Will
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Tagcrumbs vs. review sites - 197 days ago
While I understand that tagcrumbs , being a startup company, attempts to clarify in what sense it is different from review sites such as Qype or Yelp , I still find that from a long-term perspective, there are more similarities than differences. The core. Topics: tagcrumbs "review sites" qype yelp
The Success of Crowdsourcing - 219 days ago
Interestingly enough, the term crowdsourcing was invented by a journalist and not someone from IT or business. Of course, a must-read in that context (and a great overview, too) is Jeff Howe's Wired article form 2006 entitled The Rise of... Topics: crowdsourcing
Microblogging is not micromessaging - 238 days ago
While I understand that from a technical perspective, microblogging is in fact micromessaging, I would rather argue that from a conceptual and communication-oriented perspective, the term microblogging for services such as twitter or jaiku is indeed more.
E-Books and their readers - 244 days ago
I have often asked myself what the benefit of e-books and their associated hardware is. With incompatible formats (e. g. Amazon's custom format vs. Epub and Adobe's EBook format), being dependent on energy sources, I am convinced that there must..
Future of News? - 246 days ago
Newsmakers are increasingly going online, which started with selected articles from their printed publications, sometimes abbreviated versions to give an overview and offering full articles for an additional fee. In most cases, it is possible to leave...


