Category Archives: Metadata

Amazon’s Silk Road Opens New Routes To Commerce

Posted on October 4, 2011 by laura

Since its announced launch last week, much has been written about Amazon’s Silk, a hybrid browser that promises to deliver an improved user experience by performing the resource-intensive part of displaying a webpage on the server side. The architecture is … Continue reading →

Posted in Amazon, Internet, Metadata, Transmedia | Leave a comment

Evolution and ‘Pollution’ of Twitter hashtags

Posted on January 13, 2011 by laura

@RobinSloan posted an article on Twitter Media last week that piqued my curiosity, The Art of the Hashtag. In it, he described how media outlets such as MTV are carefully crafting Twitter hashtags and promoting them on TV to encourage … Continue reading →

Posted in Metadata, Social Media | Leave a comment