A couple of decades ago when you wanted to contact someone urgently you'd try the telephone. Failing that you might pop around to their home or workplace. If they weren't there you'd ask the neighbours or see if their car was parked the pub. Sure enough, chances are that you'd...

I hate to name drop, but a couple of weeks ago when I was at TED (there, I said it) there was a great presentation from the audience by Christian Marc Schmidt on a project he has been working called "Invisible Cities". Basically he has taken the data out of social networks and re-p...

Facebook will soon not only track your conversations and interests, it will also be able to track where you are..

When was the last time you saw 1/4 million people at the ballet? Thanks to clever use of social media - that's just what happened to the Royal New Zealand Ballet. They are a great example of an organisation that's doing a lot right in the social media space.  Here's some exam...

For more than a year now people have been forecasting that GPS phones would mesh with social networks. It's potentially a compelling combination of not only what you are doing, but where you are doing it (and with whom, once we all get connected). It's an area I've been researchin...