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Steve O'Hear

Steve O'Hear
Steve O'Hear is a London-based consultant, educator, and journalist, focussing on the Internet and all aspects of digital technology. He advises businesses and not-for-profit organisations on how to exploit the collaborative and publishing opportunities offered by the Web, and has written for numerous publications including The Guardian and Macworld. Steve is also the director of a new documentary on Silicon Valley, called In Search of the Valley, and in 2002 was made a fellow of the UK's National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Art.

About The Social Web

From Facebook to MySpace, YouTube to Second Life, social software is reshaping the world we live in. Steve O'Hear provides daily news and analysis of the emerging social web.

  • Goodbye ZDNet

    By Steve O'Hear | December 11, 2008, 1:28pm PST

    As of today, I have to say goodbye to ZDNet. After just over two years of writing this blog, I’m sad to say this is my last post here on the Social Web. I’ve been ‘let go’...

  • MySpace comes to Blackberry

    By Steve O'Hear | November 13, 2008, 8:57am PST

    It was only a few days ago that I noted how Facebook and social networking as a whole is fueling the mobile web. And news comes today that RIM have released a native MySpace client for its...

  • Microsoft gives Windows Live a social networking makeover

    By Steve O'Hear | November 13, 2008, 8:15am PST

    Microsoft have announced a major overhaul of its Windows Live service that, similar to Yahoo’s ‘Open Strategy’, rewires the company’s suite of consumer web-based products to turn them...

  • Is Facebook the mobile web's killer app?

    By Steve O'Hear | November 11, 2008, 8:29am PST

    Active users of Facebook’s various mobile products has grown from 5 million to 15 million since the beginning of the year, says the company. Handset maker and carriers are hoping to cash in...

  • Careful what you say on Twitter - delete option removed? (updated)

    By Steve O'Hear | November 5, 2008, 6:38am PST

    It appears that the micro-blogging service Twitter has removed the option to delete a ‘tweet’ once it’s been published, making the service a haven for digital litter — the...

  • MTV and MySpace partner to monetize pirated content

    By Steve O'Hear | November 3, 2008, 7:20am PST

    Similar to YouTube’s most recent proposition to copyright holders, News Corp-owned MySpace is offering to identify pirated content uploaded by users, insert advertising and share the...

  • LinkedIn apps arrive - another platform play

    By Steve O'Hear | October 29, 2008, 8:58am PDT

    LinkedIn has finally switched on its own OpenSocial-powered apps platform, which, on the surface at least, borrows quite a bit from Facebook. Unlike Facebook, however, apps are being heavily...

  • Social Web news: Twitter terrorism, YouTube ads, Social Networking on TV

    By Steve O'Hear | October 27, 2008, 11:01am PDT

    A few interesting links from today on news relating to the Social Web…

  • Celebs on Twitter: Britney, Lance Armstrong, Stephen Fry and more

    By Steve O'Hear | October 20, 2008, 1:42pm PDT

    The tech blogosphere went crazy over the weekend with news that Britney Spears had opened a Twitter account. Or more accurately, someone from Britney’s PR team has begun Twittering on her...

  • Social Web news: Facebook, MySpace, Google, StockTwits

    By Steve O'Hear | October 17, 2008, 11:00am PDT

    A few interesting links from today on news relating to the Social Web…

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