3 days ago
Rod Begbie : Raptr - Just-launched social network site for video-gamers. A month ago, I wouldn't have paid much attention, but having really gotten into the social side of Xbox Live, I can see the appeal. [via] #
# copy
10 days ago
Rod Begbie : Social Networks: The Case for a "Pause" Button | 43 Folders - Great post by Merlin, particularly for this description of why I can't be arsed with the hype about Friendfeed: "On a site like FriendFeed, which has quickly become the platform of choice for the web's least interesting narcissists — and the slow-witted [via] #
# copy
14 days ago
Linkorama : Edge 255 - Clay Shirky and Tim O'Reilly on social software, the web platform and gin
# copy
15 days ago
Andy Baio : Tom Armitage on what games can learn from social software - I love this talk, great reading for both game and web geeks [via]
deusx : Infovore » Playing Together: What Games Can Learn from Social Software - "MMO servers are currently limited by technological sizes. But what does a server where you know everybody (even a little) look like? What if we limited group sizes for social, not technological reasons? ... We wouldn’t have these servers that rese
# copy
15 days ago
deusx : Ma.gnolia Blog: The Open Road Ahead - For awhile, I thought something like this would have been a good idea for Delicious, but I never took much time to think it through or make a case to anyone. It'll be interesting to see where and how far this goes: "As we develop M2, it means
# copy
28 days ago
Linkorama : Trepidation 2.0 - Common questions based on old fears - What's different about all of this is that the 2.0 generation of technology is so much more social than collaborative, by which I mean software that can provide value to the organization without the first prerequisites of explicit group creation and
# copy1 month ago
Linkorama : Great To See You. Just Not Around Here - If I’m frank, one of the enjoyable aspects of that small bar around the corner is that I’m not going to bump into you.
# copy1 month ago
Linkorama : /Message: Corante Is Dying? - Many2Many was once a hotbed of leading thought on social software, but the last post is a 28 February announcement by Clay Shirky about his book. danah boyd's last post there is 13 November 2007, David Weinberger's 25 July 2007, and Ross Mayfiel
# copy
2 month ago
Linkorama : Why MediaWiki is not the right product for my clients - This experience matched with reviewing most client capabilities has led me to the belief that MediaWiki requires far too much technical awareness to recommend as a platform for clients. I have found applications such as SocialText to be a far more attract
# copy
2 month ago
deusx : disambiguity - » Some unformed thoughts on Ambient Intimacy for the next generation - "For example, assuming that within the next few years, more and more people will have a social presence online, my little guy will have no real excuse to ‘lost contact’ with anyone he makes contact with."
# copy
2 month ago
Linkorama : Here Come The CMS Vendors - We’re at the very beginnings of this journey, with most white labels being around for just a few years, and the established CMS vendors starting to sniff this sector and gather requirements (many are coming to me) we’re clearly at the R&D stage, w
# copy
3 month ago
Linkorama : Study: Social networks may subvert 'digital divide' - "Students are developing a positive attitude towards using technology systems, editing and customizing content and thinking about online design and layout," Greenhow continued. "They're also sharing creative original work like poetry and fi
# copy3 month ago
deusx : How Book Authors Can Promote Their Work with Social Media - "As I have written before, publishers are increasingly leveraging their authors’ own personal platform to market their books. With more than 400,000 books published each year, it is harder to make an impact without a platform strategy."
# copy3 month ago
deusx : Social Media Monitoring Tools for PR Professionals – Radian6 - "Millions of blog posts. Viral videos. Reviews in forums. Sharing of photos. Status updates via microblogging. All social media conversations, all happening online right now and affecting brands, reputations, sales, you name it. "
# copy3 month ago
Linkorama : Most companies who try to do Enterprise 2.0 will fail - And it will be for these reasons in no particular order:
# copy
3 month ago
Linkorama : How not to be viral - If you behave like a disease, people develop an immune system
# copy
3 month ago
Linkorama : Jon Lebkowsky on Early Days of Web 2.0″ - Jon Lebkowsky talks about the early days of Web 2.0, how Austin is evolving in the digital media space, and what he proposes to grow it.
# copy
4 month ago
deusx : Detroit Tweetup Recap : Colin’s Blog - "There are some great things happening in social media in Metro Detroit. If there was one clear lesson from last night’s gathering of Twitterati from the Metro area, it’s that SF, Boston, Austin & Toronto are NOT the only social media hotspot
# copy
4 month ago
Andy Baio : Schulze & Webb show off the Olinda prototype - their social radio for the BBC, modular hardware that adjust to your habits and social network
Rod Begbie : Olinda - Schulze & Webb's hardware prototype of a socially-networked open-source digital radio. Some excellent ideas for internet-enabled physical objects in the pamphlet. #
# copy4 month ago
Linkorama : The importance of pigheadedness - But we also need to recognise that the biggest speed bump in social software projects is invariably going to be the social, not the software. The technology is improving every month, mainly because it's being developed by small, nimble vendors who use the
# copy
4 month ago
Linkorama : Information Arbitrage and the Window of Opportunity - This is a similar point to what I was attempting to make in my Content = Community post in that until people *do* something with information, it might as well not exist in terms of value.
# copy
4 month ago
Linkorama : Scott Heiferman's Notes: insurance - Historically, when people are free to assemble & associate, they self-organize insurance, cooperatively. Later it became the centralized, professionalized industry we know today.
# copy
4 month ago
Linkorama : My Social Media Consumption Workflow - Sounds like someone needs to use an RSS newsreader
# copy
4 month ago
Rod Begbie : Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Clay Shirky's talk from web2expo, which was by far the best of the keynotes. "Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat." #
# copy
4 month ago
deusx : random($foo): Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition - "it really is true that if you haven't done it, that is: been intimately involved growing a social web app from prototype to large/giant-scale on a UNIX stack, then you really don't know shit."
Kellan : random($foo): Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition - I miss Leonard, Gordon, and Andy. But now that they’ve dispersed from Big Purple it’s nice to see all three of them schooling the internet in what real tech reporting might look like. You almost forget how bad it’s gotten until you see #
Simon Willison : Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition - Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition. Leonard says what needs to be said about the most recent case of Twitter scaling flame-bait. [via]
# copy
