6.8 Billion People on the planet
5 Billion Cell Phone Subscriptions
1 Billion with Internet Access
— Social Media and Mobile Growth are Exponentially Symbiotic
If you add your gtalk account to ping.fm and then add gtalk as a service to Google Buzz, you will instantly update Google Buzz exactly at the same time as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and the 50 social networks supported by ping.fm. It is also much faster than adding Twitter as a service to Google Buzz which can be delayed up to an hour for your updates to show on Buzz. You can then update ping.fm from any app supporting it (all seesmic apps very soon), sms, email or…. chat. Very handy.
Essentially, we are all media. We act like the media, espousing opinions—reporting from the field (Iran etc.) and in turn media has begun to act like us (blogging, tweeting and becoming more opinionated vs. hard news oriented.
The dissertation builds on available sociological approaches to understanding everyday life in the networked city to show that emergent technologies reshape our experiences of spatiality, temporality and embodiment. It contributes to methodological innovation through the use of data bricolage and research blogging, which are presented through experimental and recombinant textual strategies; and it contributes to the field of science and technology studies by bringing together actor-network theory with the sociology of expectations in order to empirically evaluate an area of cutting-edge design.
— A Brief History of the Future of Urban Computing and Locative Media - http://www.purselipsquarejaw.org/
