DataPortability Workgroup

January 9, 2008

At Worldchanging I recently posted a couple of columns wherein I mentioned a lack of complete data portability. In one of those pieces, I said “what I’d really like to see, and haven’t yet, is a good Open Source approach to the social graph, and standards to make identity and social graph portable.” The DataPortability [...]

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Scratching your niche

December 21, 2007

Clay Shirky explains the meganiche. [Link] I define a meganiche as a thin slice of the Web that nonetheless represents roughly a million users. The meganiche is something new, and it will have a lasting impact on online business and culture. For most of the past decade, the basic strategy for building a successful Web [...]

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Via Workbench: “Long Bet Winner: Weblogs vs. The New York Times”

December 21, 2007

In 2002 Dave Winer bet that, in 2007, a Google search on keywords for the top five news stories of the year would show weblogs ranking higher than the New York Times. Winer wins: blogs ranked higher for three out of the five top stories. Even more interesting: the real winner, had it been included [...]

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Adweek’s Top Ten Trends of 2007

December 17, 2007

Adweek has a very interesting list of 2007 business/marketing trends. The list includes convergent web “spinoffs” from/to television; “all us, all the time” – a world where everybody publishes and everybody’s a celebrity for fifteen microseconds; moving from PC to mobile – the phone as Internet device (though I’m skeptical that anyone’s thinking of leaving [...]

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The Facebook Lab

December 17, 2007

Scholars are using Facebook as a social laboratory. it is Facebook’s role as a petri dish for the social sciences — sociology, psychology and political science — that particularly excites some scholars, because the site lets them examine how people, especially young people, are connected to one another, something few data sets offer, the scholars [...]

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Ownership

December 10, 2007

Facebook screwed up with Beacon, and, intitially, they didn’t handle the screwup very well. Mark Zuckerberg published a very necessary apology today, but his apology can’t address the larger problem: it’s hard to run a community system for big profit. Attempts to monetize community systems are too readily seen as exploitation by community members. Zuckerberg [...]

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JCMC: Social Network Sites

December 10, 2007

danah boyd and Nicole Ellison co-edited the of latest issue of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, on Social Network Sites. Some of the articles: “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship” by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison “Signals in Social Supernets” by Judith Donath “Social Network Profiles as Taste Performances” by Hugo Liu “Whose [...]

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The Latest on Enterprise 2.0

December 10, 2007

Dion Hinchcliffe writes that “Enterprise 2.0″ – social software or “Web 2.0″ technology in the Enterprise – is maturing, and points to a Radicati Group analysis, via a post at SocialText, suggesting that the business social software market will reach over $3.3 billion by 2011. Hinchcliffe says The big question for many of those on [...]

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