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09/09/2008 - Social Web Special

In this week’s take on digital technology, Gareth and Bill meet the webbies and the gamers at a special conference all about the future of the ‘Social Web’. Plus what ur txt msgs say abt u.

DCONSTRUCT CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WEB

In this week’s take on digital technology, Gareth and Bill meet the webbies and the gamers at a special conference all about the future of the Social Web. It's called 'dconstruct' and it took place in Brighton on England’s not so sunny south coast.

If you've ever used MySpace or Facebook, played an online game like World of Warcraft, or created an avatar on Second Life then you’re already part of the most rapidly developing web phenomenon. Gareth met up with some of the keynote speakers including author Steven Johnson, creator of Outside.in and the geeks behind travel social site, Dopplr.

WHAT DO TEXT MESSAGES SAY ABOUT YOU?

Also this week, wot ur txt msgs say abt u. Gareth talks to Forensic text analyst Tim Grant about using text messages in crime investigations. And Gareth puts him to the test - can Tim guess anything about listeners' just from their texts?

26 minutes

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Wed 10 Sep 2008 00:32GMT

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