Category Archives: Social software

SavvyChavvy

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As reported by the BBC social networking site for young gypsy travellers has won an award for the social use of technology. The SavvyChavvy site was one of eight projects honoured in the UK’s Catalyst Awards that recognise technology used to serve communities.

Cool news. When back in 1991 I did my grad journalism training my pet story was on police harrassment of a gypsy family, the Sweeneys, in Cardiff. I recall when interviewed by the BBC in Cardiff for a training placement being asked how long I would run such a story and making a fatal error, answering ’20 minutes’, when the right answer was 2 minutes.

Facebook update from F8

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23 July: Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote webcast “We’ve got one guy in Greenland”. “We’re opening up the translation tool.” Mr Z gets a big ‘whoo’ from the audience for the annoucement that you no longer will have to sign up for apps as a user, you can just use them. Right on.

23 July: TechCrunch liveblogging the conference

23 July: Notes from jowyang’s twitter stream, compressed on TinyPaste so you get a feel for it, sitting in front of the front row on ground, a few feet from Zuckerberg. His blog post highlights the Facebook Connect news:

“Facebook Connect will allow corporate websites to authenticate, interact, and share with their Facebook network –all without leaving the corporate website. Boring, static corporate websites can now become social.” Launch FC partners are CNET, CBS and Disney.