Category Archives: Web 2.0

“Down with spam! Up with Vioxx!”

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 9, 2009
If you blog, you may have noticed that you tend to get lots of spam comments. Lots. Possibly even three or four orders of magnitude more spam comments than legitimate posts. (Use WordPress? Run Akismet. Seriously.) Speaking personally, in my comment moderation queue, I see that Ab, Ada, Addie, Addison and Azox have taken offense [...]
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Social Tech Brewing Vancouver — Learning in Virtual Worlds!

By Catherine Winters | Published: March 19, 2007
This Wednesday, (March 21st, 2007) I and the rest of the Social Signal team will be at Social Tech Brewing Vancouver, for this month’s topic, “Learning in Virtual Worlds”.* From the Social Signal blog: If you work at the intersection of technology and community-building, we hope you’ll join us for the March gathering of Social [...]
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Northern Voice 2007: Day 1 — MooseCamp

By Catherine Winters | Published: February 23, 2007
So I’m at Northern Voice this weekend! Friday’s agenda is MooseCamp: the “unconference”. This morning, people seemed interested in a session about Second Life, so I signed up to run one after lunch. Now even more bloggers know about Goreans, furries and lag. Mission accomplished. Today’s highlights included: Realizing that it’s at the main Point [...]
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To My Web 2.0 Valentine…

By Catherine Winters | Published: February 14, 2007
This is what we came up with at Social Signal for Valentine’s Day this year. It’s the perfect way to say “I love you” to that special someone with 800 pictures on Flickr. See? It’s not such a bad holiday after all!
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