CDG Interactive Blog

Location, Location, Location

Apparently it's true even in social networking. CNET reports that Facebook is apparently preparing to launch their own version of FourSquare-like check-ins.

Twitter goes global

If you've noticed an increase in Tweets in other languages, there's a reason. According to comScore, the global audience has doubled in the past year, and the Latin American audience has quadrupled. Indonesia, Brazil and Venezuela are leading the way in new subscribers.

You like me, don't you?

The Poparazzi blog at the New York Times asks how much validation do we really need?

Activist tool now available as web app

The functionality of the crisis management tool Ushahidi (it means testimony in Swahili) that was created to report election related violence in Kenya, is now available to everyone through the new web application CrowdSource. Ushahidi has been used to direct rescuers to trapped earthquake victims in Haiti as well as catalogue reports of damage from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. 

Just because it's cool