Micro Space of Oliver Ding

Slideshow of the Day again! Yes! It is for the Day of the opening ceremonies of Beijing Olympic Games.

The slideshow is for the #080808 Twitter campaign, started by Chinese Twitter users. #080808 means 08/08/08, the opening day of Beijing Olympic Games 2008.The official weblog of this campaign:http://tag080808.com

If you want to know the whole story, then read a article from New York Times:

Chinese Tweeters Celebrate Olympics With #080808

Using “#080808″ (pronounced “tag 080808″), a symbol for the date of the Olympics opening day, August 8, 2008, is “just for fun, a way to ‘write down’ the day,” said Steven Lin, one of the movement’s co-founders, who works for official Olympic Web site Sohu.com as a project manager.

Founded by Lin and two other Internet industry managers, they conceived of the idea on Wednesday, and only began propagating it on Thursday. Lin, who tweets as “flypig,” said they chose #080808 for a number of reasons but for one above all others: it was easy to type, including on a cell phone.

Although the number of #080808 tweeters is not known, a new one is being added about every half-second, as of noon in Beijing local time. Applications are now being written for the movement, including an Adobe Photoshop overlay, allowing users to superimpose the slogan over their Twitter avatars.

read full article.

The twitter campaign expands to other web2.0 communities. Junyu who is working for Google China created an great mash-up page. (http://tag080808.appspot.com/)

Web 2.0 unites around #080808 campaign by Danwei

The campaign is not limited to Twitter. The #080808 tag can be used to tag any online content (Flickr pics, YouTube videos, text blog postings, Technorati / Google Blogsearch, etc.). Click here for a mash-up Web site created by Junyu Wang that aggregates all the latest multimedia postings tagged “#080808″ into a single, simple interface.

As Elliott said,this past week was crazy. I created the first slideshow for China Earthquake six days ago. The slideshow has received 2,380 views, 11 comments, 7 favorites, 54 downloads and 18 embeds.The China Earthquake group has 23 slideshows.

Last weekend, after I uploaded my first slideshow Please Help Earthquake Victims In China to slideshare.net, I read Jeremiah Owyang’s post “To Inspire You To Donate: PhotoBlog from China” and thought it is a good idea to make a slideshow. Then I wrote e-mail to asked Jeremiah Owyang if I can use his photos. He said below:

Yes you may use the photos, but you must credit me with a link back to my original post.

The slideshow is here, its description is below:

This is slideshow version of Jeremiah Owyang’s post ” To Inspire You To Donate: PhotoBlog from China” (http://tinyurl.com/59p7wq). He said: “You know what to do, consider not going out to that nice dinner, and donate that money to the Red Cross, it would mean a lot to me if you donated, if you don’t have money to spare, blog it, tweet it, Facebook it, spread the word, that means just as much.

I’m Chinese, and have been to China a few times, here’s some of my favorite pictures compiled over a few trips, I hope they inspire…”

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In fact, I add some twitter screenshots to expand the whole story. Some people like this story, they believe it is a case of social web tools such like twitter.

Jacqueline Wechsler wrote:

I have been collecting links and posts about Twitter for a while now, trying to undertsand the micro-blogging platform and it’s applications.

Something that I thought worth posting about was the use of Twitter by Jermiah Owyang to inspire people to donate to the Red Cross to help the victims in the recent Earthquake in China

He created a photo blog post here and discussed it on his twitter feed. (Note having 7,542 followers would definately help!)

Jeremiah’s post about it here, and Oliver Ding (Blog, Twitter) has created this slideshare showing how the images and twitter inspired others to help the people of China!

Rachel Beer also wrote a post Social networks take word of mouth to a global level:

I’m still totally captivated by the enormous possibilities of social media to share ideas and information, and am inspired to post (yet again) on the subject of how people are using them to come together and do good – because I’ve been motivated to give in the last few days via Twitter.

Just look at what Jeremiah Owyang has started through his blog and through his Twitter feed, which Oliver Ding then turned into this presentation on Slideshare…

Through the content that Jeremiah and Oliver have generated, people have been driven to charity sites and give a donation, and/ or to pages like this one.

There are at least 30 people who have indicated they’ve given through Jeremiah’s updates on Twitter, and more – no doubt – who have given privately.

I’m sorry to say that I had previously received an approach from two charities - one via Facebook and the other by email - but hadn’t yet made a donation. However, Jeremiah’s Twitter message changed that.

Jeremiah Owyang also said it’s great to see how the web community comes together on his post Thank you, Global Citizens:

Dozens of you left comments, blogged, or tweeted that you donated, and I am thankful.

In the last week, I’ve been doing something I’ve never done before, using my platform to help non-profits to help China during this horrific disaster. I felt pictures (positive ones, to inspire, not make you feel guilty) would be more emotional than anything else.

…You are great, thank you all for being global citizens.

Yes, it is very interesting. We know There’s a New Conversation, every thing has been change. Innovation technologies release the power grassroots on web.

This week everybody is groundswell participant for China Earthquake.

I visit clear lake yesterday, if you want to view new photos, please visit my flickr or yupoo.

Socialthing!

AS IT HAPPENED #2 Socialthing ‘Desktop’ App (Mac) from Ross LaRocco on Vimeo.

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Find more screencasts like this on Ning Network Creators

Mashup: SocialActions.con

Vivid World is my new scrapbook on videos:) I’d like share videos I watch here.

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It is cool article and cool comments:)

Antisocial: Social Networking is Just Another CB Radio

By Robert X. Cringely

Social networking has a lot of problems as both a business and a cultural phenomenon. To start with there is generally no true business model. This can vary a bit from application to application but most are vying simply for eyeballs and hoping for Google ads to pay the bills until Time Warner or News Corp make them an acquisition offer they can’t refuse. That might be okay for Facebook or MySpace and maybe Linked-In, but there are more than 350 general-purpose social networks out there and I will guarantee you that no more than 5 percent of those will be still operating two years from today.

If you are a social networking entrepreneur and your operation isn’t among the top 10, I’d be either looking frantically for an acquirer or turning your site into a social networking aggregator, linking to many others in exactly the way the chat networks appear to be merging while still retaining their individual identities.

Then there is the annoyance factor, which for me is rapidly accelerating as the major social networks try to establish themselves as hosts for third-party applications. This would appear to be a no-brainer tactic for the two or three social networks that are likely to survive. In fact I could argue that what is more likely to survive than most social networks are the truly compelling applications that run upon them, eventually subsuming their hosts. But in the meantime there is all this annoying crap. How many groups do you have to join, how many causes do you have to support, how many silly applications do you have to run until you come to realize that you are being included TO DEATH?

There are many cool comments to Robert’s article, I like the first one:

I think the exact opposite will happen. Pretty much what spriteless said, that “every site starts adding a profile and find friends w/ common interests widget and groups and chatting” except that they’ll all be interconnected and you’ll have people on one site friending people on another site. (i.e. you can add someone on MySpace to your Facebook friends list…. ok, maybe that’s a bad example . This will all be down with OpenID, FOAF, and OAuth.

Once that happens the big sites will lose the network effect that forces users who already have a social networking profile on another site to sign up with them to be ’social’ with their userbase. And it really doesn’t matter if the big sites want this to happen or not. The long tail of social networking sites is probably bigger than the the head, and they’ll be the first to benefit from opening their borders in this way. Once the ‘long tail’ of small social networking sites are interacting with each other then the network effect will force the big players to open up or lose their userbase as they move to platforms that allow them to keep in touch with all their friends on the twenty to thirty, maybe even hundreds of different sites where their profiles reside.

That’s why I haven’t bothered to sign up to Facebook yet, because I know that one day I won’t have to.

by Sam Hasler

There are three key elements within competition of social networking websites. Data, Code and Interface.

Code: open source software is coming…

Data: open data is coming…

Interface: it is not about open, just about creative, branding and psychology…