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Vote in the Open Web Awards TweetDeck and NowPublic on the list

by Tris Hussey on November 19, 2008 · 0 comments

in Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

Mashable’s Open Web Awards is one of the many ways we, as a community, can highlight and recognize the best and brightest on the social web. Voting kicked off today (and such an auspicious day that it is):
Mashable is proud to announce that voting has begun in the 2nd Annual Open Web Awards, a unique opportunity for the most accomplished websites and services to receive international recognition for their achievements. During the nominations round, we received over 43,000 verified nominations. We narrowed down this huge pool to the 10 most-nominated [...]

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Again The Globe & Mail Leads Newspapers Into Uncharted Waters: Mathew Ingram Tapped As Communities Editor

by Tris Hussey on November 3, 2008 · 2 comments

in Blogging, Citizen Journalism, Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

Image by cfarivar via Flickr

As conservative as Canadian business have been jumping onto the Web 2.0-Social Media bandwagon, the Globe & Mail newspaper has been ahead of the curve. Yes, they kept a walled garden up for a while, but Mathew Ingram has been blogging there for years now and maintaining his own personal blog as well.
Today Mathew announced that the Globe & Mail is taking another bold step: building communities around the newspaper online. What does this mean when the rubber hits the road? No one, even Mathew, is [...]

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Tip’d brings the hot tip to social media

by Tris Hussey on October 14, 2008 · 1 comment

in Citizen Journalism, Social Media, Web 2.0

When Truemors came out, Guy Kawasaki wanted to give people the chance to submit rumors and other tidbits and then have the community vote whether it was interesting or not. Now Tip’d give that ability to recommend to something more like Digg.
Mu let me know last night about a new twist on this idea with a new site called Tip’d. The twist is that the submissions have a Digg-like voting system (tipping). For example when the Apple Store closed this morning I put a tip in that Apple would [...]

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Most of Vancouver’s MostPublic list will be at BarCamp this weekend I’m sure

by Tris Hussey on September 26, 2008 · 0 comments

in Blogging, Social Media, Web 2.0

Michael Tippett and NowPublic published the fourth in their series of “MostPublic” lists today, and, umm, wow, I’m #12:
Vancouver, BC – September 26, 2008—NowPublic in partnership with the Vancouver Sun, today announced its fourth MostPublic Index, identifying the Web’s 20 most visible individuals in Vancouver.  The MostPublic Index is a detailed barometer of whose voices are most heard in the digital landscape as new channels—Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and the like—transform how media is created and spread.  Previously, NowPublic identified and announced the MostPublic influencers in New York, Silicon Valley [...]

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