If ExponentialWeb was around on the 22nd of July 2009 I would have blogged about that. Since it was not, you have to excuse my two-month delay. On that day, Amazon bought Zappos and in the same day a video with Amazon’s Founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos talking about the acquisition was released.

The blank stare I receive after telling any friend or relative what I’m studying has become a cliche among me and my fellow Information Systems students. When I first started in the field as an undergraduate 4 years ago, many of us didn’t even both using the term ‘Information Systems’, calling ourselves Computer Science majors or at least defining ourselves in terms of our relation only to CS.

There seems to be quite a lot of social media-powered promotion for the upcoming G20 Summit here in Pittsburgh (Sep 24-25). Many mini projects have been launched. I decided to briefly present each one in this blog post.

G20 Buzz

Smart, simple and real-time. G20 Buzz mashes up G-20 related twitter conversations, youtube videos, flickr phots and google news. It is powered by Mullen and Full Stop. To take part in the conversation use these twitter hashtags: #g20, #pghg20, #g20summit,