Actics: social networking for "ethical" businesses
Posted on Boingboing by David Pescovitz, October 25, 2007 11:38 AM
My friend Jens-Martin Skibsted, co-founder of the amazing Biomega bicycle company, and economist Nicolai Peitersen have launched Actics.com, a site that TreeHugger has dubbed the "ethical facebook." Basically, it allows companies who act right to show off their ethical values and those who might need their services to find them more easily. You can browse members by their values, such as environmentalism, integrity, openness, tolerance, transparency, and confidentiality. Jens-Martin first talked to me about this project two years ago and I'm thrilled that he and Nicolai have brought it to fruition. Here's what TreeHugger had to say about Actics.com:
How does is work? Like with any other social network, you register and define who you are for your profile. Since this one is all about actions and ethics, you get to choose your corporate or personal values and state how you act them out. It is then up to your friends, clients or investors to rate you out of 100 for how true you are to your values. To help you out, they can also send you suggestions and endorse you. A great feature of this software is that a plugin, showing your ethical performance, can be integrated into your website or your company’s intranet if you want to share your results with a bigger network.
Link: http://www.actics.com/
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10.8 billion texts for Australia
By Darren Osborne December 18, 2007 04:13pm
Trillions of texts worldwide, billions in Australian alone
Social networking and bundled plans have helped increase SMS use.
AUSTRALIANS are set to send more than 10 billion text messages in 2008, as mobile phones become the preferred form of communication.
Telecommunications analyst Gartner has forecast that the number of mobile phone messages worldwide in 2008 will pass 2.3 trillion messages, a 19.6-per-cent increase from the 2007 total of 1.9 trillion messages.
Within Australia, Gartner predicts 10.8 billion mobile messages will be sent in 2008, and top 11.2 billion in 2011.
Gartner research director, Tole Hart, believes the increase in mobile messages is being driven by social networking and the number of carriers offering bundled pricing plans.
"The market is being driven by increased penetration of users, more frequent usage of peer-to-peer messaging, and unlimited and bucketed messaging plans," he said.
Hart said that despite the availability of email service via mobile phones, many users were sticking with text messaging.
"There has also been some uptake of mobile e-mail via POP3 mailboxes and mobile IM service, but it's very small compared with the uptake of SMS."
Revenue from messaging is expected to grow 15.7 per cent in 2008 to $US60.2 billion ($70.45 billion), up from $US52 billion ($60.85 billion) in 2007.
Actics: social networking for "ethical" businesses
Posted on Boingboing by David Pescovitz, October 25, 2007 11:38 AM
My friend Jens-Martin Skibsted, co-founder of the amazing Biomega bicycle company, and economist Nicolai Peitersen have launched Actics.com, a site that TreeHugger has dubbed the "ethical facebook." Basically, it allows companies who act right to show off their ethical values and those who might need their services to find them more easily. You can browse members by their values, such as environmentalism, integrity, openness, tolerance, transparency, and confidentiality. Jens-Martin first talked to me about this project two years ago and I'm thrilled that he and Nicolai have brought it to fruition. Here's what TreeHugger had to say about Actics.com:
How does is work? Like with any other social network, you register and define who you are for your profile. Since this one is all about actions and ethics, you get to choose your corporate or personal values and state how you act them out. It is then up to your friends, clients or investors to rate you out of 100 for how true you are to your values. To help you out, they can also send you suggestions and endorse you. A great feature of this software is that a plugin, showing your ethical performance, can be integrated into your website or your company’s intranet if you want to share your results with a bigger network.
Link: http://www.actics.com/
10.8 billion texts for Australia
By Darren Osborne December 18, 2007 04:13pm
Trillions of texts worldwide, billions in Australian alone
Social networking and bundled plans have helped increase SMS use.
AUSTRALIANS are set to send more than 10 billion text messages in 2008, as mobile phones become the preferred form of communication.
Telecommunications analyst Gartner has forecast that the number of mobile phone messages worldwide in 2008 will pass 2.3 trillion messages, a 19.6-per-cent increase from the 2007 total of 1.9 trillion messages.
Within Australia, Gartner predicts 10.8 billion mobile messages will be sent in 2008, and top 11.2 billion in 2011.
Gartner research director, Tole Hart, believes the increase in mobile messages is being driven by social networking and the number of carriers offering bundled pricing plans.
"The market is being driven by increased penetration of users, more frequent usage of peer-to-peer messaging, and unlimited and bucketed messaging plans," he said.
Hart said that despite the availability of email service via mobile phones, many users were sticking with text messaging.
"There has also been some uptake of mobile e-mail via POP3 mailboxes and mobile IM service, but it's very small compared with the uptake of SMS."
Revenue from messaging is expected to grow 15.7 per cent in 2008 to $US60.2 billion ($70.45 billion), up from $US52 billion ($60.85 billion) in 2007.
Source: www.news.com.au