Author Profile: Ritchie Blogfried Pettauer

Über Ritchie Blogfried Pettauer

Bio:
I started online publishing about 10 years ago, for the last four years I've been blogging - I'm passionate about social media and current web 2.0 trends. I teach at the University of Vienna and I work as a social media consultant. And I just luv blogging!

Homepage:
http://blog.datadirt.net

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Dex­ter con­tin­ues in Sep­tem­ber — more than 1 mil­lion fans have seen the sea­son 5 trailer in the last three days.

Look­ing for a cure to stop those social media data loss night­mares? Social­Safe might come in handy: the Adobe Air pro­gram grabs your pho­tos, friends list and wall and it even keeps track of all the changes in your con­tact list.

Thanks to Bob Kings Com­ment Rat­ings plu­gin, all datadirt read­ers can now like or dis­like any com­ment: just use the new thumbs-up / thumbs-down icons — should be pretty self-explanatory.

Is it legally and/or eth­i­cally okay, to build a busi­ness based on a GPL licensed soft­ware? To those of you unfa­mil­iar with the not-so-uncomplicated details of open and com­mer­cial licens­ing, this ques­tion may sound like a ques­tion you’d ask a stu­dent of media law. But the­ory turns into vir­tual real­ity when we take a closer […]

[ Novem­ber 13, 2010; 9:00 am to 11:30 pm. ] Join the World Blog­ging Forum 2010! A1 Telekom Aus­tria and datadirt invite inter­na­tional top blog­gers to con­nect with the Aus­trian scence and dis­cuss the future of the inter­net. Tick­ets are free yet highly lim­ited — so secure your spot now by telling why you want to join the event on Novem­ber 13th.

Nokia def­i­nitely has a prob­lem, and that’s why Symbian-Guru.com shuts down. The sad thing is: he’s com­pletely on point.

Today the Word­Press team released the long-awaited ver­sioni 3.0 — it comes packed with new fea­tures and a new stan­dard theme.

Eric Qual­man, Social­nomics, datadirt, video, pod­cast, inter­view, social media, busi­ness, For­tune 500

Last week­end Aus­trian geeks met at Microsoft head­quar­ters in Vienna to do some seri­ous uncon­fer­enc­ing. Bar­camp 2010 was the biggest Aus­trian bar­camp yet and the feed­back was sim­ply amaz­ing — here are some pictures.

Thomas W. Mal­one, found­ing direc­tor of MIT’s Cen­ter for Col­lec­tive Intel­li­gence, talks about his research, the impact of the inter­net on global com­mu­ni­ca­tion and our chang­ing notion of privacy.

Many Face­book users are afraid of shar­ing infor­ma­tion with peo­ple they don’t know with­out even real­iz­ing it. This tools might come in handy.