BIT320 Remix — social

December 13, 2005

Bloglines

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Bloglines is a FREE online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. With Bloglines, there is no software to download or install -- simply register as a new user and you can instantly begin accessing

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

BlinkList | Your personal start page and social bookmarking engine

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Another social bookmarking engine. Looks interesting, I like the interface

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

outfoxed| Personalize your Internet

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Outfoxed uses your network of trusted friends and experts to help you find the good stuff and avoid the bad. (And a lot more, too.)

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

December 3, 2005

The MySpace Generation

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Bolsters my perception that the world is becoming an online one. In essence, online is holding court with the real world.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 12/03/2005 | Original | Archive

November 26, 2005

Critical Moment | Issue 13 | November-December 2005

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In del.icio.us/supermatt, 11/26/2005 | Original | Archive

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters

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In del.icio.us/supermatt, 11/26/2005 | Original | Archive

Evite - Free online invitations, party planning tips, local event listings and more.

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In del.icio.us/supermatt, 11/26/2005 | Original | Archive

digg

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In del.icio.us/supermatt, 11/26/2005 | Original | Archive

Wired News: Digg Just Might Bury Slashdot

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In del.icio.us/supermatt, 11/26/2005 | Original | Archive

November 15, 2005

apophenia: justice, fairness, power and privilege

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Actually a fairly thoughtful piece on how the cost of blogging is time, and time is the result of having liesure, often a side-effect of privilege.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/15/2005 | Original | Archive

November 14, 2005

Critical Moment

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a political newspaper working to provide a forum for education, debate, and dialogue around the political issues affecting communities in the Southeast Michigan area.

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 11/14/2005 | Original | Archive

November 12, 2005

I don’t just “use” the Internet, so why am I a user?

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It’s because whenever I hear that term I always translate it to “slave generated content.” Here’s why: there’s a lot of companies who are expecting you to help out their business models

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/12/2005 | Original | Archive

Niall Kennedy's Weblog: Amazon receives customer reviews patent

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The patent covers the solicitation of a review and what metrics might be used to determine the right time to solicit a review. The patent was originally filed over five and a half years ago to better compete with a site such as Epinions.com.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/12/2005 | Original | Archive

November 9, 2005

Blog-Spotting With IBM

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Not entirely clear how this works. It's not a service. It seems like it is a software that you install and then I suppose set it loose on some set of blogs. Wouldnt' it be better if it were a service, for scalability if nothing else?

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/09/2005 | Original | Archive

October 31, 2005

USATODAY.com - Teens wear their hearts on their blog

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Unprecedented numbers of teens are using blogs — Web logs — for: cementing friendships with classmates, seeking new friends, venting, testing social limits, getting support and getting all emo

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 10/31/2005 | Original | Archive

October 24, 2005

Crayonpeople.com

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News, Dialogue & Discussion for People of Color

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 10/24/2005 | Original | Archive

Google spam suite primer

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Niall works for a technorati competitor, but he does an excellent job pointing up the flaws in google's ecosystem. The question, as always, is what is the alternative.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 10/24/2005 | Original | Archive

October 8, 2005

Ning Playground Beta

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a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for building and using social applications.

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 10/08/2005 | Original | Archive

October 4, 2005

Ning | Home: Front Page

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Ning is a social software development platform. Basically, you build an application and others sign up to be part of it. But, they are also signing up to be part of the whole platform. Your application becomes part of a whole ecology to attract users.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 10/04/2005 | Original | Archive

September 22, 2005

Google's Big Problem, or Google vs the Social

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Google search is algorithmic, meaning no explicit editors. However, Google's use of links to determine relevance means there are many implicit editors. I wonder if the novelty problem the author mentions is not due to freshness, a real google problem.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/22/2005 | Original | Archive

September 19, 2005

Googlebombing Now A "Prank" And Not Web's Opinion, Says Google

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Links are the currency of the web. If you interlink, you gain visibility, period.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/19/2005 | Original | Archive

September 15, 2005

Search: Big indexes versus microformats

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Makes the point that adding metadata like tags and microformats needs to be ridiculously easy.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/15/2005 | Original | Archive

Slashdot | Dutch to Open Electronic Files on Children

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Is this big brother or just a better way to service these people as they go through life.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/15/2005 | Original | Archive