A Manual for the WWW

The home of the Social Media Marketing Class at Portland State University. This site aims to collect information and resources about the modern web from which a manual will be constructed. We need your help What questions do you have or answers can you provide? Join us and let's write a web manual.

TED – Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech

Interacting with the world around us will never be the same. The way we tell stories and our daily interchanges will be radically shifting over the next few years. Technology acceleration is finally moving us out from behind the key board and integrating computing into our real lives in meaningful ways.

What’s transmedia’s story?Transmedia storytelling occurs when an integral element of a fiction get dispersed across multiple channels — including comics, videos, websites, and games — to create a unified and coordinated entertainment experience. Ideally content produced on each medium makes its own unique contribution to the story. So this content not only becomes part of [...]

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Details: Twitter’s New @Anywhere Platform

by John Hartman on April 30, 2010

Twitter CEO Evan Williams just announced at SXSW that his company is taking another step to integrate with the rest of the web with a new platform called @anywhere. Operators of third-party websites will be able to plug in @anywhere to integrate some basic Twitter functionality without requiring their users to navigate away from a [...]

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FiOS to offer YouTube, Net radio

by John Hartman on April 26, 2010

FiOS to offer YouTube, Net radio
Media Manager lets subscribers stream music from PC to TV
By Georg Szalai
April 27, 2010, 12:01 AM ET

NEW YORK — Telecom giant Verizon’s FiOS TV service has signed new deals that, it says, make it the first TV [...]

Assessing the openess of Facebook’s “Open Graph Protocol”
Posted: April 25th, 2010 | Author: Elias Bizannes | Filed under: Analysis | Tags: facebook, open graph, open graph protocol | 13 Comments

This is an analysis by DataPortability chairperson Elias Bizannes and former chairperson Chris Saad.
Summary In essence, Facebook is striving to create a [...]

Facebook Presence: Location At f8 Through RFID

April 21, 2010

Today at Facebook’s f8 conference in San Francisco, the company have given all attendees a small RFID tag attached to their conference badge. This tag is a part of something called “Facebook Presence” which allows you to “check-in” at various places around the conference simply by swiping your badge. Yes, it’s location. [...]

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Tech Tweets of the Week: Chirp – Digits – WSJ

April 21, 2010

Twitter was the hot topic among tech tweeters this week, as it unveiled its long-awaited advertising model.
Starting with a blog post at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday Twitter began unveiling an advertising platform centered around the idea of highlighting advertiser’s “Promoted Tweets” amid search results.

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Twitter CEO Evan Williams at the Chirp conference.

At the same [...]

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Facebook Makes Major Announcements at F8 [LIVE]

April 21, 2010

F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making major announcements to an audience of developers and press. Here are my live notes: Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote – It took only 15 months for 100 million users to use Facebook Connect. [...]

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Standards for the Modern Web

January 25, 2010

Standards are essential in creating uniform behaviors while coalescing efforts to achieve a desired results around a proposed idea. To play nice and just work is the aim of most standards. The web was built on standards and thrives because of that fact. However many other factions have imposed de facto “standards” based on market dominance of a particular [...]

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Lawrence Lessig’s “It Is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right”

December 23, 2009

Lessig is amazing and as always helping to evolve the big C and how CC can give us more options. Everyone needs to understand how in this converged remix culture that old models are not working and creative commons is an excellent licensing option for collaboration.

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