links for 2007-12-01

• Close encounter with Facebook Beacon
  Forrester's Charlene Li bought a coffee table on Overstock.com. When she next logged into Facebook, she discovered that the information ("Charlene bought a coffee table") had been automatically broadcast to her Facebook friends.
  (tags: socialnetworking)
• Mobile activism
  From coordination to political ringtones to circumventing censorship and disseminating sensitive images, cell phones are increasingly at the center of protest and political activism. Interesting piece in the Economist.
  (tags: wireless activism mobile)

Comments

[Katrin]

Thanks for the link to the article! It referenced the conference we put on at http://mobileActive.org recently in Sao Paulo. We have much more there on how civic campaigns and democratic participation is enabled by cell phones, a completely fascinating topic. There is also a great discussion going on on the same at New Tactics for Human Rights -- see http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/new-tactics/using-mobile-phones-action. You might find it interesting. Thanks!

Best, Katrin Verclas, MobileActive.org