Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Gregory Culpin
It used to be that if a link was worth sharing, people would bookmark it for all to see on del.icio.us. Now, they just Twitter it (with a shortened URL). Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to separate out all the Tweets with links in them, and sort them by time or popularity? That is what MicroPlaza does in a nutshell.
Read the full article at www.techcrunch.com
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Olivier Verbeke
MicroPlaza provides you with a personalized memetracker based on the links that your friends share on Twitter. While we have seen a fair number of Twitter memetrackers, none of them feature the degree of personalization that MicroPlaza offers. If you follow a very diverse set of people on Twitter, you can also track micro-communities thanks to MicroPlaza’s ‘Tribes’ feature, which lets you organize users into different groups. MicroPlaza is currently in private beta testing, but you can get a glimpse of its non-personalized features on its home page.
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Gregory Culpin
“I’ve had a chance to be one of the early users of MicroPlaza and have come away very impressed. The site maps all links shared by the people you follow on Twitter and displays them by popularity (the number of times they have been retweeted) or by date in a Techeme-style link + sources view. MicroPlaza is great for a few reasons.” by Josh Catone
Read the full article at www.sitepoint.com
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Gregory Culpin
“A superhero is a hero with superpowers.”
An imaginative article by Matthew Cornell about personal productivity abilities and an enjoyable read.
Read the full article at matthewcornell.org
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Fabienne Vandekerkove
Are our brains being rewired by using the Internet? The evidence tends to be pointing that way.
As somebody interested in how the mind works, I read with interest the results of a recent study at UCLA that used the sexiest research tool around today, fMRI scanning. fMRI allows researchers to see which parts of the brain are active when participants are exposed to different stimuli. And for the first time I’m aware of, this was used to track brain activity while people engaged in various online tasks, including searching.
Read the full article at searchengineland.com
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