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By amandacallaghan | November 25, 2008

Title: Puppies power a web video start-up
Summary: A Bay Area couple’s pet Shiba Inu, a kind of Japanese hunting dog, had puppies so the owners decided to train a webcam on the newborn pups so they could keep an eye on them from work. The live video feed debuted October 8 on Ustream.tv, a video site that lets anyone [...]

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Our Generation – Interesting article about our contribution to the world

By ja056411 | November 19, 2008

http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12591038
 
This article talks about the implication of growing in a digital world. I describes our view of the world and how we interact with problems in society and in the workplace. Its worth reading!

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Obama asks people what they want from an US Government CTO

By ja056411 | November 19, 2008

http://www.pcworld.com/article/154142/what_should_obamas_cto_do.html
This article its really interesting. It talks about the community that President Elect Obama has built online and how the website obtains feedbacks in issues dealing with technology. The website asks the public who they would recommend as the next American CTO and what are the key issue this person should focus on. This PC [...]

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Online Church Communities?

By cdiguer | November 19, 2008

I thought this article was really interesting:
Zondervan Acquires Online Community-Building Resource for Churches – The City
Plans to Equip Churches Worldwide to Create Interactive Church Communities
www.onthecity.org.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Zondervan-Acquires-Online-Community-Building/story.aspx?guid={57A05E7B-FDDA-4C24-B774-2C8AC5A9A82E}
The Christian church wanted a way to improve communication, have more contact with their members, and build a stronger church community, so they developed a web site named “The City”.
After just [...]

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A toyota Community

By cdiguer | November 17, 2008

Toyota F1 Canada
Facebook has a Toyota F1 community in Canada and has over 7000 members.
This group is member and administrator operated:
Administer gnereated: Keeps members updated with Toyota stats and The team, the technology, and everything else Toyota F1 has to offer.  They also provide a portal to the ToyotaShop.
Member generated material is wall posts, adding [...]

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MTV Virtual Worlds Community

By cnuez | November 16, 2008

The article below discusses the MTV’s 4D virtual worlds where fans participate and communicate in their favorite MTV shows “virtual world.”  MTV’s virtual worlds allow people to discuss the shows, communicate with each other about other interests, “buy” clothes inwhich other can comment on, and add comments to the reruns of MTV shows.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1043_3-6171474.html

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Blogs – Community

By amandacallaghan | November 12, 2008

Title: Blogs and the Purchasing Decision
Summary: Blogs are becoming increasingly useful for individuals getting information about purchases. More than one half of the respondents who trusted blogs for purchase decisions in the past said the information they found on blogs helped determine when they decided to make a purchase.
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006716

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Toyota.com Communities – as per presentation

By cdiguer | October 22, 2008

From my group’s presentation
For Owners – administer and member generated communities
-    MyToyota Login – keeps track of scheduled maintenance
-    Stories from the Road:
o    Member generated content of experiences with their Toyota cars.
o    Divided into sub-communities of Trucks, Hybrids, and Cars/Vans/SUVs
o    The stories not only celebrate the joys of owning a Toyota, but allow story teller [...]

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