Web 3.0 Lab

MySpace making a comeback?

2012-02-13T19:07:00.003Z

MySpace comeback would be a strange story in the development of cloud living, but Apple came back from the edge. This industry is dynamic and fast, unless you are Yahoo.

Google Maps and Not Google Social

2012-02-13T18:36:00.000Z

Okay this is trying to make web 3.0 seem cute but this video frankly does not explain what it is about Web 3.0 that makes it of value. Google's techie culture has consistently failed to understand social, and the youTube video above demonstrates that this is still the case. They can execute core technology which will enable the geo-social web, but they don't get it.

This video probably captures Google's comfort zone. Geeky music, geeky concept, geeky games. It is clear that Google sees the world as clever technical problems to be analyzed and solved in clever ways. This was an improvement on Microsoft's obsession with market share and is why Google has conquered areas like search and online advertising. But it lacks the social understanding.

Google is like the engineer that built the bridge that you and your wife had your first kiss on. The bridge helps support thousands of people every day doing things they want to do, but they don't make that much money from the doing of things.

Tracking real time tweeting intensity in Bahrain

2012-02-13T17:25:00.003Z

So far we are only seeing moderate tweeting coming from Bahrain where demonstrations and police repression is said to be taking place. This tool will track twitter intensity in real time. Click around the map to check the twitter 'temperature' at any location.
We have been seeing some surges in tweeting around Burhama, which is just outside of town near Lulu, where we assume a large demonstration is taking place.

The day after tweets

2012-02-13T09:56:00.000Z

Zambia tweets win

2012-02-12T22:33:00.000Z

Zambia tweets mapped with the Clima.me tweet

Twitters global reach has been demonstrated with this map of tweets from Zambia, and locals tweet celebrations at their football triumph in the Africa's Cup.

Tweets from the Battle for Athens

2012-02-12T20:59:00.000Z

This map shows the locations of tweets from mobile devices during riots in Athens on 12/02/12 mapped with the clima.me tool.

Athens Greece is not a large area for tweeting. These are some of the highest levels of tweets we have ever seen for Athens mapped over an evening of violent riots and mass protests.

MMGEISSLER instagram image from Athens after the protets

Notice a cluster of tweets to the north of parliament, this is where the Attikon theater is(was?) located and the tweets cluster is a classic gawkers cluster. A group of people are standing around photographing the fire and posting images with instagram to twitter.

Closer view shows tweets coming from both Parliament and streets, and a division between riots in the squares and side streets

The above map shows a distribution of tweets and foursqaure checkins. As one would anticipate there is almost not checkins, people are tweeting news events. But it is interesting that someone checkined during a riot.

This shows the tweeting for the next day. There is still continued heavy tweeting down the side streets, we assume these are people photographing sites of damage more than anything else.

Web 3.0 in Chicago

2012-02-11T22:01:00.001Z

Clime.me tool showing web 3.0 activity in Chicago

Free Syria London Tweets

2012-02-11T14:54:00.001Z

Tweets coming from Syria demonstrarion in London.

Anonymous Hacks CIA?

2012-02-10T22:52:00.002Z

At about 11 pm GMT here in London the CIA.GOV website is still down.

UPDATE: Its 10am London time, 12 hours since we last noticed the cia site down and it is still down in the UK.

Anonymous, who whoever, seems to have launched a denial, or worse of service attack on the CIA's public web site, and been rather successful at it. https://www.cia.gov/

This recent video in the Anonymous genre would indicate that perhaps Israel will be a coming target over the Iran issue.

About the same time another Anonymous video was released, one of very different style.

Anonymous promotes diversity of networks. The drive is to get as many people as possible to post as Anonymous.

Greek Parliament Tweets

2012-02-10T16:29:00.000Z

Holding down the fort, through today's heavy protests in Athens we have seen a constant flow of tweets coming not as much from the street where violent protests have started, but from inside Parliament. Map made with the clima.me tool.

Normally we study the use of twitter by protest movements to get around official censorship and to organise crowds in an agile way, but there is also the other side of twitter: a tool of political power. As the streets in front of the Greek Parliament explode in more traditional demonstrations inside of the Parliament itself we have seen a constant flow of tweeting. Probably either political leaders trying to contact their base of journalists. But in a world where celebrity has so much power we are seeing more and more state sponsored tweeting.

Future Hipsters

2012-02-10T11:15:00.000Z

So is the whole point that we all know that much of the Internet is just hype? Are we finally growing up enough to see that culture is value from nothing, that we simply make value? What is the value of a song? What is the value of a joke or a smile?

Yet what would human life be without these? Doing things that make commodities for sale is an obsession of ours, but is it really that important? Is not social media just hype which most of us co

BBC on Groupon

2012-02-08T19:06:00.001Z

Where it is hot in Istanbul

2012-02-08T10:09:00.000Z

A map of real time twitter and foursquare activity showing where social is most hot in Istanbul

Last year we started a study of Istanbul's tourist scene as a case to establish a web based tourism tool. We found last year using clima.me tool that the North Europe side is the place to go for fun. Though all the major tourists sites are in old city in Sultanahmet at night this area is kind of dull. The places to go are almost all tourist joints with high prices and so so food. We found a lot of people complained about being bored in Istanbul at night.

We discovered, like countless tourists before us the Northern area via trial and error. Going there first to check it out as a historical curiosity we soon found that the area just north of Sultanament is lively place full of clubs, restaurants, art and fun. This is one of the most lively and enjoyable areas in Europe.

We conducted a series of tests on twitter density to see if we could see a distinct difference between twitter usage in the two areas, which we did.

Now with the full happnin.clima.me tool we have create a real time tool which shows Foursquare checkins and recent tweets to give you a picture of where web3.0 users are most engaged.

Mapping Super Bowl Tweets and Check-In

2012-02-05T20:28:00.000Z

Maps created by our clima.me technology show the concentration of tweets and foursquare checkins around the site of the Super Bowl today.

Mapping tweets at Occupy DC eviction

2012-02-04T22:27:00.001Z

We can see a tweet cloud clearly over the Occupy DC where an eviction is being carried out.

Tweets from 'Battle of Tahrir'

2012-02-03T09:56:00.001Z

Distribution of tweets in downtown Cairo shows a mixture of protests in Tharir and running battles. Created with the clima.me mapping tool

Mobile tweets from the morning of the third shows the 'event' is ongoing. Created with the clima.me mapping tool

We are following mobile tweeting in Tahrir Square over the last 24 hours. There are clearly large protests over deaths in a recent football game in Egypt. But the crowd of active tweeps has moved out in to the narrow streets and high buildings behind Tahrir where protests with the police have become more confrontational.

Twitter is a powerful tool for recording and publishing news from events by citizen journalists and bloggers, it is also a power organization tool. Such heavy tweeting must be coming from a combination of protesters and onlookers. The combination of radical protesters and sympathetic onlookers is a powerful dynamic that mobile phones and twitter help to enable.

6.57pm: More and more tear gas fired, people running back. #Tahrir#Ahly #Egypt

17 hours ago

Retweeted 45 times

RawyaRageh Rawya Rageh

Chant in #Tahrir agnst ruling military council: 'You want to rule the country when you can't even secure a stadium!' #Egypt

5 minutes ago

MinaNaguib90 الداعية/ مينا نجيب

This lady is leading the chanting against the #scaf #tahriryfrog.com/hwkpslzj

29 minutes ago

nellyali Nelly Ali

one of my favourites.. RT “@MinaNaguib90: A whole family in #Tahrir sq. Carrying signs with the demands yfrog.com/h6mcoazj”

33 minutes ago

MinaNaguib90 الداعية/ مينا نجيب

A whole family in #Tahrir sq. Carrying signs with the demandsyfrog.com/h6mcoazj

34 minutes ago

RawyaRageh Rawya Rageh

5 ambulances driving thru #Tahrir en route to Interior Ministry, as reports circulate of 1st gunshot fatality there #Egypt

1 hour ago

EidH Hossam Eid® ™

RT ‎@Mtwfeek‏: وفاة علي حسن علي مخلوف (٣٢سنة)، فنان تشكيلي من عين شمس وأب لطفلين بطلقة خرطوش بالصدر والبطن ‎j.mp/wVuWYk‏ ‎#Tahrir‏

1 hour ago

mflakah Marie-France Lakah

I'm infront of macdonalds marghany in a black 1 series. Collecting supplies for #tahrir.

1 hour ago

SlipknotMody \m/ Mody

RT @Sina_86 CBC live feed shows Masour street flooded in tear gas #egypt #tahrir

2 hours ago

BBC News can't escape web panic

2012-02-02T20:56:00.000Z

BBC News was interesting today, one of the lead technology stories was:

BBC News - Don't scare people over cybersecurity, say MPs:

Sounds good, but read the rest of the stories for the day:

BBC News - Hackers outwit online banking identity security systems:

BBC News - Caution on Twitter urged as tourists barred from US:

BBC News - Kim Jong-il tweet: South Korean Park Jeonggeun held:

BBC News - Google changes enable 'per country' blog takedowns:

Ohh my

Tweets coming from conflict in Cairo

2012-02-02T20:27:00.000Z

Tweets from the evening conflicts in Cairo on 02/02/12, mapped with the clima.me tool. Not only is there a large body of protests in Tahrir but as with earlier conflicts the demonstrations have fanned out in to more built up areas of Cairo around Tahrir.

We are seeing very heavy tweeting not just from Tahrir Square but also from east of Tahrir in what we assume are areas of conflict with the police.

Adam Taylor-Awny

Twitter map from London, Paris and New York

2012-02-01T19:30:00.001Z

Maps made with clima.me tool on iPad showing distribution of tweets in major cities.

The Internet is about Money not Democracy

2012-02-01T16:24:00.000Z

There is strong belief among many people that the Internet both requires democratic freedoms and promotes democratic freedoms. But looking at nations Internet use charted on the ratings of Democracy and Income makes it pretty clear that money drives Internet adoption. In fact what relationship between Internet adoption and Democracy seems to be simply produced by the fact that western nations are both rich and democratic.

Graphs made with gapminder.org graphing software.

The graph of Income per person and Internet adoption produces a very clear graph. Clearly income is driving Internet adoption.

Charting Democracy ranking and Internet usage produces are far less clear graph. A few nations with very poor standing on the Democracy score have high adoption of the Internet, while a few very democratic nations have low Internet adoption. There are a few western nations with both high income and Internet, but there is no clear relationship with many Democratic nations offline.

In fact the entire relationship of Democracy and Internet usage can be explained by this graph of Democracy and Income.

Conclusion, Internet adoption is being driven by wealth. As nation get richer they adopt the Internet more and more. If there is a relationship between Democracy and Internet usage it is because of a possible weak relationship between wealth and Democracy. But it is obvious that over a million people are poor and without access to the Internet and yet have the blessings of Democracy.

Who is online?

2012-01-31T22:37:00.000Z

Taking a looking at the demographic of nations with higher on line populations. Seeing who is on line at the level of nations. Graphs made with gapminder.org graphing software. Not many surprises but still worth reflecting. It seems that people on line are rich, educated, old, single, happy and fat. But there are nations which are educated, single, fat and happy that don't have high on line participation. But no nations that are rich or old are not highly online. So its wealth and life expectancy which are the strongest predictors of participation on the Internet.

Rich. Nations with high Internet users tend to be richer, in fact wealth is the clearest predictor of Internet participation, far more so than social freedoms or democracy.

Educated. Nations with high Internet usage need to have high literacy rates (that is obvious) but literacy does not predict high Internet usage. That is literacy is required to be a Internet using nation but plenty of nations have high literacy and low Internet usage.

Old. Very surprising graph, a very strong relationship between life expectancy and rate of Internet usage. There is no cause here, wealth causes both long life and Internet usage, but we tend to think of the Internet as a domain of the young. But there is a strong dimension to the Internet also being the tool of nations with lots of old people and ageing populations.

Single. High Internet users tend to marry later in life. Probably explains the popularity of on line dating. It will be interesting to see what happens when women who marry at 20 are using the Internet in large numbers, on line dating might be replaced with child care sites.

Happy. This did surprise us, there is a tendency for nations with high Internet usage to have lower suicide rates. This probably relates to overall quality of life, the Internet along with wealth, education and late marriage being elements of a happy life. We tend to think of our modern western life as isolated and unhappy, and the Internet as a sorry replacement for real social engagement, but the true story may be that the Internet is a part of a very fulfilling lifestyle developed in the west.

Fat. No surprise here, heavy Internet user nations are heavy nations. Though we don't see any cause here, the Internet is probably not helping. Actually this one looks more like education. Nations with low BMI probably lack enough economics to support the Internet, as the BMI levels increase some nations have higher Internet usage but other do not. There is a tendency for an increase but nothing like the association between wealth.

Conclusion: not surprisingly Internet users are from richer nations. They marry later in life and date more when they are young, they live longer, are literate and are more prone than the global average to have issue with weight but less likely to be suicidal and therefore less depressed than most people in the world. The Internet seems to be a key part of the good things of life.

The data is pretty clear, people who have the Internet are better off than people who don't have it. In the first years of the Internet the media was full of stories of the dangers of the Internet, but likely the benefits for people are pretty strong.

Internet of cities

2012-01-31T15:24:00.000Z

This graph provided by gapminder.org shows the relationship in 2008 between percentage of Internet users in a country and its urban population. The general trend is pretty clear, people who live in cities and other urban areas are more likely to be Internet users.

This actually is not surprising when you keep in mind that richer countries tend to have more urban populations. People who live in villages are going to find it harder to not only earn the money to get on line but also to even get connection to the Internet. The mobile Internet will likely change this, but it remains the fact that even today people who live in built up areas are more likely to be on line.

We conclude that the relationship is a bit deeper than just one of money, though money may be the cause. Cities are deeply connected to the Internet. We believe the concept of a cyberspace that is detached from real space is a misleading myth, in fact the same processes that create cities create the Internet. The creation of information on the web, from Wikipedia pages to twitter is being driven by the same social processes that make cities. That is the Internet extends the process of city creation, or to be even more precise the process of social organisation and economic organisation that have created cities go beyond just cities in creating and structuring the Internet.

Cyberspaces illusion of being separate from real space is an illusion. Our research shows that almost all on line data comes from cities, and most of it is about cities. Wikipedia data is far more likely to be about things in urban areas. More tweets come from cities, more foursquare check ins, more of all the behaviours of production and consumption of web data take place in cities.

Keeping up with the Joneses

2012-01-31T13:12:00.000Z

The Internet has changed the world, and it has tended to change the young faster than the old. This clever aid makes you stop to think about the duty parents and care givers have to keep up on the technology that has so captured the imaginations of the young.

Amsterdam tweet mapped on iPad

2012-01-31T12:04:00.001Z

IPad showing tweeds with the tracker.clime.me web app

Android augmented reality

2012-01-30T18:18:00.001Z

A image showing tweets in an augmented reality view and a map view on Android

Twitter in London Chinatown

2012-01-29T12:22:00.001Z

Happy Chinesse New Year from London. You can see tweets from events in London today.

Large Uncut disability protest in London

2012-01-28T13:10:00.001Z

We are seing a la large number of tweets coming.from an Uncut protest at Oxford Circus London. Uncut is a protest group that makes use of the Internet to self organize.

Tweets mapped with our clima.me tool on Android

Tweeps of New York

2012-01-27T19:53:00.000Z

Tweets from New York around lunch time Friday, mapped on the Clima.me tool. Notice that China town is a bit empty?

Mapping tweets at Macworld

2012-01-26T22:48:00.000Z

Tweets clustering in San Francisco Macworld, mapped with the clima.me geo-portal

Macworld is meeting in San Francisco. You can clearly see where the meeting is at by look at the darkest and most clustered tweets on the map. Each red bird shows a location where a tweet has been made over the past hour. The darker the bird the more tweets made there. You can see around the Moscone Center the tweets are very concentrated. Macworld is always a major event in the world of tweeting.

Our clima meter tool is showing some of the highest tweeting in San Francisco in that area now, with a score of about 94 out of 100, very high.

Rise of Android's tablet market

2012-01-26T09:54:00.000Z

"Android accounted for 39% of the market in the final three months of last year, up from 29% a year earlier, Strategy Analytics said. Apple's share fell to 58% from 68%.

"Microsoft's share stood at 1.5%."

BBC News - Android's share of tablet market jumps:

We at the Web 3.o Lab are not going to smile to much on this one. Though it does confirms our prediction that Android would grow in to the tablet space. Its only we can't help but kind of laugh at iPad nuts who 6 months ago seemed to believe this product space was resolved forever.

That said we still love our iPads and the iPad 2 remains, for now the best tablet in the market. But give it time.

Tahrir's Twitter Hangover

2012-01-26T09:09:00.001Z

Twitter map of Cairo on the evening of Jan 25, 2012 at a mass demonstration to mark the one year of the start of their revolution, tweets mapped with the clima.me tool.

And the next morning, perhaps Egypt over did it a bit last night?

Tahrir's Cloud of Tweets

2012-01-25T16:08:00.001Z

Mobile Tweets mapped January 25, 2012 in Cairo with the clima.me tweet mapping tool

We are seeing a unprecedented event on Twitter today. In Cairo it seems now that almost everyone who is tweeting on a mobile phone in the entire city, one of the most massive in the world, is in either or near Tahrir Square or moving towards Tahrir Square.

Photo posted to twitter by @SheikhaWhiskey

Tweeps mass in Tahrir

2012-01-25T10:43:00.000Z

Map of geo-tagged tweets in Tahrir Square Jan 25 morning. Created with the clima.me tool

Each red bird indicates a geo-tagged tweet over the past hour and its location. Tweets without geo-tags are now mapped. The more birds in a location and the darker they become. Notice that in the center of Tahrir Square there are a large number of people tweeting their geo-location, indicating a large crowd collected there.

Using our tweeter meter tool we are getting score of over 90 out of 100, which for a city like Cairo are very high. Such scores are more in line with cities like London or New York.

Following the twitter hashtag #Tahrir we can see that a lot of web data is flowing out of Cairo right now on the one year anniversary of the revolution that changed the world, inspiring people from India to Madison and perhaps leading to the Occupy movement.

Jummanak Jummana Al-Kahlout

If only we could join our brothers & sisters in #Tahrir today to celebrate the temporary victory & help shape the future....#jan25 #Egypt

44 seconds ago

markmedia Mark Comerford

some great pics of #tahrir street art from @Selnadeem atink361.com/#/users/117789… Follow #Tahrir onink361.com/#/photos/tag/T… as well

59 seconds ago

akhbarhurraJobs أخبار حرة - وظائف

‎#Egypt‏ ‎#Tahrir‏ وظائف: مطلوب طيارين للعمل بصيدلية بشارع القصر العينى ‎dlvr.it/177Rcy‏

1 minute ago

akhbarhurraJobs أخبار حرة - وظائف

‎#Egypt‏ ‎#Tahrir‏ وظائف: مطلوب بائعين وبائعات للعمل بمحل حلواني بمصر الجديده ومدينة نصر ‎dlvr.it/177Rc2‏

1 minute ago

MaffoBellamy Fareeda

Lots of people #25thOfJanuary #tahrir

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akhbarhurraJobs أخبار حرة - وظائف

‎#Egypt‏ ‎#Tahrir‏ وظائف: مطلوب موظفات استقبال فتره مسائيه لمركز طبي ‎dlvr.it/177RVQ‏

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akhbarhurra أخبار حرة

‎#Egypt‏ ‎#Tahrir‏ الدوري الاميركي للمحترفين: هاورد افضل مسجل في تاريخ اورلاندو ‎dlvr.it/177RWn‏

1 minute ago

rightnowio_feed Right Now I/O Feed

Thousands march from Shubra chanting "freedom" and "enough" #E... rightnow.io/breaking-news/… #Egypt #Tahrir #Noscaf #Jan25 #Cairo via @LaurenBohn

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akhbarhurra أخبار حرة

‎#Egypt‏ ‎#Tahrir‏ سوريا والبحرين واليمن بين المراتب الاخيرة في تصنيف حرية الصحافة ‎dlvr.it/177RVJ‏

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Egitto3000 Mohamed Allam

#Egypt #jan25 I reject the centrality in int. media discourse of #jan25. It started in Tunis,... dlvr.it/177RTC #tahrir #Egitto3000

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EgyptianTv1 EgyptianTv

‎#tahrir‏@egypt@25jan#H#تم خروج العقيد أركان حرب- عمرو جميل محمد بعد قضاء مدته حيث كان محكوم عليه بسنة وباقى الضباط... ‎fb.me/VMrX7FWF‏

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AbeerEtefa Abeer Etefa

Emotional day#Jan25 for many #Egyptians remembering #Tahrirsquare 2011amid concerns about #Egypt economy @WFPnytimes.com/2012/01/25/wor…

1 minute ago

OlivierGeay Geay Olivier

Parait qu'elle est sympa @TangiSalaun: @ClaudeGuibal a reçu le Prix 2011 de la presse diplo pr sa couverture des événements #Tahrir #Egypte

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YasserAhmad Yasser Ahmad

I see families, I see old people, I see young people, I see Christians, I see Muslims.. I am in #Tahrir #Jan25 #Egypt

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spasemaster Hazim

المسيرة التي إنطلقت من الجيزة في أول شارع مراد الآن. ‎#Tahrir‏ ‎#Jan25‏

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MohamedTarekAbd Mohamed Tarek عbd

‎#Maadi‏ ‎#Tahrir‏ هي المعادي عاملة كدإ ليه ؟ العيال كلها مره واحدة نازلة من بيوتها جري عشان تلحق المسيرة

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ENN_News شبكة أخبار مصر

اخبار مصر | القاهرة | مسيرة من المعادى تتوجه الى ميدان التحرير الان ‎#ENN‏ ‎#Tahrir‏ ‎fb.me/1xvcEGIYh‏

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