Over lunch I was flipping through the 24 April 2006 issue of Newsweek and came across a brief tech article (available online via MSNBC) on a new cell phone from Virgin Mobile that’s being marketed to tweens. (For those of you that don’t know, a tween is a kid aged between eight and twelve.) The title of the article is Technology: Calling All Tweens so it’s clear as to this device is for. Then the article says:
“As for entertainment features, the phone comes with three game demos (Lemonade Tycoon, Tony Hawk Underground 2 and Sexy Poker) and access to downloadable content from Comedy Central and MTV. [emphasis added]
Uh, what? A device for tweens that includes a game titled “Sexy Poker”. Maybe I’m misinterpreting the title of this game (unlikely) but they can’t be serious.
Who’s to blame? Is this people at Virgin being idiots or is it a reporter at Newsweek attributing a device for the older set to the younger set? We’ll probably never know.
In working on my next book I’m looking to see how people “tag” photographs. I’ve put together a preliminary survey of four photographs. For each one you will be asked to enter three to ten keywords you feel appropriately describe the photograph. This should only take a few minutes of your time. Comments on the survey itself may be posted here. Thanks!
In the interest of not repeating myself, I’ll just point you to my post regarding the first Second Life Library 2.0 orgizational meeting on the SL Library blog.
ClustrMaps keeps statistics for single Web page, not a whole site, so it’s perfect for a blog’s homepage. Accounts are free as long as you get fewer than 2500 hits a day and once you’ve signed up all you so it place a small bit of code in your template. The results show your visitors plotted out on a world map. This way you can see where your visitors are coming from without having to interpert domains and IP addresses yourself. (My map is in the right column of this page.) Stat reports (shown right) are not overly detailed but enough for my purposes. Maybe I’m stretching the definition of 2.0 a bit here since this isn’t quite a mashup but it’s close. (If they integrated with GoogleMaps I suppose that would make it a true mashup.)
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