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The Social Web also known as Web 2.0

September 11th, 2006 by erik

I read an article on the Swedish business news site N24 on the web 2.0 and what that really is. I decided I needed to clear up a few concepts and wrote a Swedish blog on the subject at http://www.sundelof.net.
Web 2.0 is probably one of the most discussed topics in the valley today. Everyone [...]

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Oops, the traditional media did it again… ;)

September 11th, 2006 by erik

It is only about a month ago since a Reuters photographer got revealed tampering pictures when covering the events in Lebanon and Israel. Now it is BBC’s turn to create some bad publicity due to employees’ extremely poor judgments. It just gets worse when these things happen inside big news organizations such as Reuters and [...]

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I shouldn’t be surprised…

September 11th, 2006 by erik

… but I am. Yesterday I read an interview with of the more well-known authors and journalists. He basically said:
I can never see any important being written inside the blogosphere that would not end up on the news.
Maybe he is right about that part. However is that the purpose of blogs? Definitely not, it never [...]

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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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