Is there a need for an open-source news media platform?

September 21st, 2005 by erik

Campware is an organization that is an initiative of the Media Development Loan Fund, Inc., a New York-registered public charity organization. Personally I will contribute to that organization by developing an open source platform, for independent news media organizations with support by the Reuters Foundation. The idea is to create an online newsroom, which can [...]

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Taxonomy – The Advantage of Tagging and Folksonomies for Communities

September 21st, 2005 by erik

The marking of objects within a community with some marks/tags is called tagging. By this the users will acctually give the material the categorization and give it the ranking too. I friend of mine Hermann Keldenich has written an great blog entry about taxonomy and how it can be used.
Why taxonomy? The effects are that [...]

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About Erik Sundelöf

  • Erik Sundelof is the Chief Technical Officer of Spot.Us. Erik was previously the co-founder and VP of Social Media and User Interface at San Francisco based Allvoices, Inc. Allvoices is a new content-based social network around news and opinions which currently is the biggest citizen news media site on the web. It became one of the 3000 largest sites on the Internet within 6 months of launch. Erik was previously a fellow in the Reuters Digital Vision Program (http://www.rdvp.org) at Stanford University between 2005-2006. Most notably he created the Web site inthefieldONLINE.net, which was recognized by major global media including PBS, CNN and BBC, and got featured on Discovery International's Rewind 2006 as one of 25 highlights of the Year. He is active in the social media arena and has directed the launch of several social media sites including the biggest blog in Sweden during 2005-2007. Erik is a prolific blogger on issues related to social and user-generated media, group dynamics, cellphone technology and community building. His academic orientations are rooted in a Master?s degree in Chemical Engineering and PhD licentiate in Numerical Analysis from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

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