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"To accelerate your learning, we've come up with a list of a few light-hearted recommendations around building good social applications."
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"A system like this, which is able to predict what I would like based on the likes and dislikes of people I know, might be called 'collaborative micro-filtering.'"
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"As it happens, we already have a platform on which anyone can communicate and collaborate with anyone else . . . It's called the internet . . . "
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Forrester's new Social Technographics report
"At the heart of Social Technographics is consumer data that looks at how consumers approach social technologies – not just the adoption of individual technologies."
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How Aggregate Displays Change User Behavior
"A fascinating study demonstrates how simply displaying aggregate data like Top 10 lists heavily influences the way people make decisions on social web sites."
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Second Life: What are the real numbers?
"If most of the people who try Second Life bail (and they do), we should adopt a considerably more skeptical attitude about proclamations that the oft-delayed Virtual Worlds revolution has now arrived."
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"How do you do it? By honoring your community, making reasonable and transparent rules, getting experts to help you, and encouraging positive, thoughtful behavior from your site's members."
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My printer, my social letterbox
What if the printer took some cues from social media and allowed your friends and family to print to it remotely?
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Influential Interactive Marketing: 5 Rules of Social Media Optimization (SMO)
"Implement changes to optimize a site so that it is more easily linked to, more highly visible in social media searches on custom search engines (such as Technorati), and more frequently included in relevant posts on blogs, podcasts and vlogs."
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"A computer by itself is a piece of antisocial hardware. It is all about a person alone in from of a glowing, captivating screen. But once that computer is connected to a network it has potential to become a social tool, but only if unlocked by software."
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Apple Making Huge Social Software Push?
Does Apple have social software in its future? Also, when reading this I had a thought: Wouldn't it be perfect if Apple bought Last.FM?
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number games and social software
"Who is motivated by what number games? Who is demotivated? Does it make a difference if the number game is about the group vs. the individual, about one's self directly vs. about some abstract capability?"
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MySpace a launch pad for next-gen media biz
A nice look at how MySpace plays into Fox's strategy.
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"It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it."
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Your social life will never be the same, thanks to a digital service called Dodgeball
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"I’m not one to believe that we’re in a Bubble 2.0 or anything like that (aren’t we always bubbular?), but here are a few ideas about why some of the web apps out there fail."
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How Public Prediction Markets Simplify Concepts about Buying and Selling Events and Ideas
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"Marktd is a library of marketing articles weighted in importance by users. Click below to read the top stories, or use the left menu to browse marketing stories by specialist category. It's work in progress but we invite you to join in."
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An interview with Esther Dyson.
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"I say no, tagging isn’t stuck. Just don’t try and make it the primary thing to do. Instead, make sure personal value preceeds network value. Then you’ll have plenty to aggregate."
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Ross Mayfield profiles the different levels of participation.
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Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad?
"Social technologies succeed when they fit into the social lives and practices of those who engage with the technology."
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An Adoption Strategy for Social Software in the Enterprise
A very good approach for bringing social software into the business world.
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Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace
Danah Boyd's excellent look at MySpace and it's impact on youth culture.
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How Social Bookmarking can lead to the Semantic Web
How combining the collective knowledge of individuals through tags can create some level of intelligence.
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Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers
"Everyone becomes a programmer without even trying, and that programming can be socialized, shared, distributed, etc."
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Usable exhaust: The active ingredient of effective social media
"Usable Exhaust: The unintended benefits you or others get out of a service just by using it."
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Jeff Jarvis writes a newspaper state of the union.
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Joshua Porter: "They’re networked. And being networked allows them them to accurately model our social behavior, of course!"
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"SuprGlu is about bringing the pieces of your web content together into one central place for you, your friends, and maybe even your friends to-be."
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"Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for building and using social applications."
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How to build on bubble-up folksonomies...
"For me, this is a pretty compelling argument that understanding semantic relationships between concepts makes folksonomic tagging even more exciting"
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What eBay Could Learn From Craigslist
NYTimes: "Unlike eBay, which is dedicated to removing geographic obstacles to trading and defines "community" along national boundaries, Craigslist thinks and acts locally"
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Two cultures of fauxonomies collide...
"So here is that hypothesis - that the shift from people using blogs to blog represents the increasing dominance of a Flickr-style paradigm of tagging."
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The Significance of "Social Software"
Danah Boyd: "Social software represents a new generation of social technology development - a generation that is dependent on moving beyond the laboratory and into mass culture."
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Backpack Preview #4 (the last preview): The Backpack Manifesto
Your information is everywhere. Scattered across notebooks, emails, post-it notes, and god knows where else. With Backpack, there’s a better way. Now Information is easy to organize, centralize, and retrieve. Information works for you instead of vice ve
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Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too?
Plasticbag.org: "A question I think we should be asking is how could we build services that let you decide precisely which groups of people should be able to see, link to, 'trackback' or comment on the work you do in a decentralised, disaggregated way?"
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zengestrom.com: "The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made up of people. They're not; social networks consist of people who are connected by a shared object."
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Plurn is an online music community where you can build and share playlists and musical tastes quickly and easily with a very wide audience.
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Free online invitations and local event listings
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The Event & Venue Database
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From open source to open services to open information
Jon Udell: "Don't lock in my data. Services that try to do that will fail because, in the final analysis, social applications are powered by the people who co-create them."
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The social wish list repository
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Guardian: Tom Coates is a BBC web producer and is behind www.Plasticbag.org, which just won Best British Weblog award at the SXSW Festival
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Essentially it looks like del.icio.us with the addition of notes -- which makes a lot of sense
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The iPod shuffle does not fit into a social-software ecosystem. Cityofsound: "design is dissolving in behaviour, and products are emerging from it."
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Tagwebs, Flickr, and the Human Brain (by Jakob Lodwick)
Understanding how the human brain works thanks to tags
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Well thought out description of just what social software is
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From Personalization to Socialization
"Replace the word information with relationship, and you get how people want to use the net, with other people."
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Tagging, the Web's newest game, lets you see what other people are reading and thinking. Welcome to the key-worded universe.
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Thoughts on the Digital Lifestyle Aggregator
Some possible pieces of the DLA
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Whether it be a media collection at home, a calendar of memeories of road trips or to do lists for a picnic in the park - DLAs (digital lifestyle aggregators) will become a major part of our lives in the future.
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Why Social Software Makes for Poor Recommendations
Friends aren't necessarily the people you trust most for recommendations
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A new editable search engine
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Turning New York into a webpage
You can "click" on any text in the city by SMS messaging it to an email address and getting back a reply with the predetermined response.
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Technorati brings us tag searching
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Show items with the same tag from both Flickr and del.icio.us
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Big news... Six Apart and LiveJournal!
Brad from LiveJournal announces the sale
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The Cultural Divide Between LiveJournal and Six Apart
If the acquisition rumors are true what effect will it have on LJ?
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Sociable "robots" believe in 43 Things
Short Seattle Times piece on 43 Things
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Click Clique: Facebook's Online College Community
The Washington Post examines The Facebook
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iPods get people laid and can improve their memories, too!
And that's why college students love them
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TrackBack and Pingback supported by CNET News.com
CNET adopts TrackBack
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Spurl.net is a free on-line bookmarking service and search engine. It allows you to store and quickly access again all the interesting pages you find on the web from any Internet connected computer.
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Annotate a world map using del.icio.us
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Why non-tradtional classification systems are so effective
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Ask your friends
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Tracing the Evolution of Social Software
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Once thriving, these sites are enduring tougher times as social networks online and flirting over mobile devices catch users' fancy
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Sites like del.icio.us lead the way in Internet’s grand experiment in information routing
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Content Creation and Organizing
Working off of Scoble's comments on the future of content creation
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A really cool way to see what's going on in your city
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A way to write text and post it to del.icio.us
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Connecting people via text messages
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NYTimes covers people using their cellphones to help them organize in a more decentralized way
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Profile of MoveOn
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Collaberative knowledge gardening
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Community Web Annotation & Content Aware Tools
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