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studiVZ et al – the local market/culture still matters
0 Comments Published by tobias.escher April 11th, 2007 in *OIINEWS, Germany, social networking, web 2.0Mainly unnoticed from the rest of the world, a German social networking site called StudiVZ (translates to something like student directory) is now the main pasttime for German University students. It is said to have more than 1 million registered users and judging by my observations of what German students use their computers for in [...]
Mobile Social Networking
1 Comment Published by tobias.escher March 20th, 2007 in *OIINEWS, social networking, web 2.0For those of you who cannot live any more without their daily dose of facebooking, here comes your perfect extension whilst you are on the move (well, if you live in the US at least): dodgeball.com. It lets you use your mobile phone to announce to your friends where you are currently so the guys [...]
There are not too many good news for Berlin these days but hey, it’s still popular. “berlin” is one of the “all time most popular tags” on flickr.com with almost half a million pictures tagged. Judging by it, there does not seem to be much daylight in the city but you can have fun in [...]
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Since October 2006 I am both a DPhil student as well as a research assistant at the Oxford Internet Institute and here I share with the accidental reader my musings on different aspects of the Internet and society. Feel free to comment or simply ignore :-)
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