Corante on social software

every week a group of photographers visit and capture a different part of London Village in their own inimitable style. The project aims to see how differently people view and perceive the same place through the lens.

One third of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions come from residential households. Householders could reduce this by making their houses more efficient, generating their own energy, switching suppliers or simply switching off – but bills are confusing, en

IconNicholson mashes up social computing and near-field communication technologies with youth shopping habits – to target young adult shoppers. See why online never looked so good with Social Retailingâ„¢.

The new social media sites — blogs, wikis, Flickr and Digg, among others — underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, evaluating and distributing information. Digg is a social news aggregator

Designers of social software are less concerned with how well their on-screen objects mimic real-world objects than with how well they connect their users to each other.

The convergence of public participatory mapping and cybertography is having far-reaching impacts through a variety of creative applications. This paper presents three different types of Internet mapping applications