MsBehaviour talk about the evolution of online communities or as they are know these days ’social networks’. The form these networks have taken has changed over the years in much the same way as the web has evolved and changed but the purpose of these networks has remained the same. An example is thebigidea.co.nz which has gone through a very recent transition. Check out more audio and video over at theG33kShow.com.
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Chelfyn has created a neat little “see tune, hear tune” search hack by Chelfyn using Firefox, Diigo & Fizy to find almost any tune you read about instantly. Just highlight, search, click and the song is playing within seconds. Check out the wee instructional video over at theG33kShow.com.
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MsBehaviour wraps up the past week’s twitterisation of New Zealand with the arrival of the next messiah @twitchhiker.
MsB talks about the power of the medium, the implications for corporate PR, twitter fatigue, celebrity tweets and news making twats. More including a video of The Twitchiker arriving is over at TheG33kshow.com
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After a 13 hour flight Paul Smith aka The Twitch Hiker touched down before dawn in Auckland City. MsBehaviour of theG33kshow.com spirited him straight to the Kiwi FM studio for a coffee and a chat.
His aim is to travel as far from his home (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) as possible within 30 days. That means getting to Campbell Island, or as close to it as he can. Paul talks about his travels so far, how the idea came together, the people he has met, the problems he has encountered and his prospects for making his way around New Zealand.
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MsBehaviour from theG33kshow.com says that artists across the world are taking their careers into their own hands, opting out of the ‘All Rights Reserved’ way of thinking, and publishing under Creative Commons (CC) licenses, to encourage mashups and remixes of their work. But what is it and how does it work? All the show notes are over at The Big Idea.
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This week Chelfyn is quite taken with a new RSS reader interface called Feedly. It works by taking content from your Google Reader account and presenting the information in a magazine like format. It also has plenty of tricks and social media integration. Find more tech goodness over at theG33kshow.com
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Chelfyn explains how the Internet changes basic economic principles such as finite supply and demand. New models and ways of doing business are evolving at a stunning rate. All the show notes are over at TheG33kshow.com.
It is very easy to forget with the omnipresence of the Google search engine that there are other ways to find digital media and information online. MsBehaviour from TheG33kshow.com rounds up some of the cutting edge search tools that can find just what you are looking for. All the show notes are up at theg33kshow.com.
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Many talented people have become freelancers due to redundancy, or have been forced to move away from permanent to contract positions. So is this a good opportunity to work from home or venture into the world of start-ups? MsBehaviour thinks so and explains some of the reasons why. Show notes up at the Big Idea and more at theG33kshow.com.
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Why bother with a new TV and a set-top box when you can buy a TV tuner device for the computer for $80? Chelfyn explains how he created a media server, and got all his other computers to stream TV, and share his music and movie collection, using a great piece of free open-source software called MediaPortal. For more info head over to TheG33kshow.com