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Ning | Home: Front Page
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.
Bud posted this on October 4, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Niall Kennedy's Weblog: More TypePad 2.0 details
Niall's take on Sixapart's move toward community sites like the learning remix. I think he misperceives the potential impact of the tools. They are not for lazy people but for people who want to pull together disparate community members.
Bud posted this on September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Project Comet
This is a project not unlike our learning remix. We expect to see it in 2006. The limit I see here is the extent to which it enables entrepreneurially remixing. It seems like a mass market project oriented toward family and friends.
Bud posted this on September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
apophenia round-up: posts that slipped through (danah boyd)
"Social bookmarking is different than blogging and mixing the two is cruel to users."
Bud posted this on August 25, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
MBA Bootcamp Changes Local Web Search Landscape
We ran a bootcamp where Michigan MBAs used “Web 2.0” technologies to compete with a prominent local business for searches on its targeted keywords. Bootcamp sites beat the local company in just under half of the searches and placed on the first page o
Bud posted this on August 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Jon Udell: Tags, social networks, and email
An okay article about applying tagging across a variety of media.
Bud posted this on July 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
For Musicians, MySpace Is Site to Be Seen and Heard
Music has helped MySpace generate Web traffic that rivals some of the Internet's titans.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A Simple Plan for KM using blog based communities of practice
An interesting post on using blog based communities for KM. This guy is doing some interesting experiments with things like delicious communities
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~
Downes' post on his talk at Northern Voice. He focuses on the fallacy of the long tail.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Road To Powerful Instant Vertical Communities: Personal Media Aggregators - Robin Good's Latest News
Allows you to create communities around specific topics. Sort of pulls everything together around those topics. Seems rather top down to me.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tracking Links Important To Our Conversation
A nice call to action for conversation tracking. It's hard if not impossible. Where is the business opportunity?
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Stephen Downes on Community
He talks about what it takes to break the power law distribution. He basically concurs with my thoughts on folksonomy.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
How To Add a Tag Board To Your Weblog
I like the focus on interactivity. Make it look like you have some action going on. Get people involved.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Stephen Downe's Talk at Northern Voice (raw,unlinked)
A remarkable reportage by Nancy White. Reading this post by Stephen Downe has convinced me to subscribe to him, but perhaps not link. He is already so well connected.
Bud posted this on February 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Raising ambitions: Developments to change our thinking
I like the non top-down nature of KM here. However, my experience is that these ecologies need animators. How is that different from top-down. May be subtle for some.
Bud posted this on February 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Online Groups: participation coaching
An important point about the need for facilitation in the group. I wonder if the participation coach ever goes away. Most real groups need communication facilitators, and they get paid a lot.
Bud posted this on February 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Submitting Ristek blogs to delicious
A way of creating community around delicious links. It must be using the RSS space for the particular tag. Interesting use. You might have to use hierarchical tags.
Bud posted this on February 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
From Personalization to Socialization (Ross Mayfield)
I'm not so sure weblogs are not social or that the interaction described is not social. What makes a social space is how you construct it, not the tool.
Bud posted this on February 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
"Two Roads Diverged in a Wood": Productive Digression in Asynchronous Discussion
Supports the notion that free-form discussion can actually aid a class in the online world. My cut is that limited digression works. Relinquishing control is clearly important.
Bud posted this on February 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Emergent or Structured Reputation: Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia
So, the notion of wikipedia just emerging without control is debunked. Control is a central aspect of wikipedia although exercised informally.
Bud posted this on February 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The economics of sharing
A key point is that not everyone believes in sharing. Evidence from experiments show that people just quit sharing when this occurs or form separate, sharing groups.
Bud posted this on February 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Levengers Launches and Online Community
This should be interesting to see how it works. It looks like something you have to join and contribute your content to. Is this passe post-blog?
Bud posted this on February 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A Folkonomy of Words (Ross Mayfield)
Exactly how people should use tagging. Use it to find other people who are tagging the same item. Then, see what they think.
Bud posted this on February 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Introducing: Tagback
A way of supporting conversations on the web. Also a nice way to spread the meme. But others have to catch on and do this by hand, a barrier.
Bud posted this on February 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Live Blogging Patty Anklam's Teleconference on CPSquare
A lengthy, stream of consciousness piece on a very interesting social networking talk. Many very good links on the inside. [Update: Nancy White writes to remind me that she was basically transcribing Patty Anklam in this post and added the links later.]
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Communicating More with Less
The title is misleading. A great post on how Sun is reaching 600K readers with its executive blog. The want to build community.
Bud posted this on February 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Finding Gatherers (human tag feeds?)
A good little tool that helps you find who on del.icio.us is linking to things you link to. That provides you a basis to find other resources via the shared interest network. This stuff should be easier. Could this become a paid service?
Bud posted this on February 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The social enterprise: APPLICATIONS : NETWORKING
An interesting overview of social software offerings from about a year ago.
Bud posted this on February 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Blogs we like?
Scoble has it right. Blogs are about building online relationships.
Bud posted this on January 31, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Marrying RSS and social networking
I think this speaks to the real use of things like folksonomies. People are interested in the tagging systems of other people who they think add value. Some of the more abstract posts about folksonomy seem to miss this.
Bud posted this on January 29, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Blogs vs. message boards
A fascinating view of blogs as a broadcast mechanism vs. an interactive one. I tend to see it just the opposite, but that is because I put people in blogging communities.
Bud posted this on January 28, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
seattlepi.com Buzzworthy: Blogs in a crisis
Subtly, Scoble emphasizes using blogs to build exisiting relationships. I suppose that is true, but many people use blogs to find new people. And, that does really work.
Bud posted this on January 25, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Enterprise Blogging In Practice
The key point in blogging success is getting critical social mass. It is not a technical issue. What are the benefits to sell this cost?
Bud posted this on January 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Cornucopia of Cooperation and Social Spillover (Ross Mayfield)
Nail on the head. The real issue in all of this folksonomy fuss is getting people to contribute. People really do have knowledge that it would be good to unlock.
Bud posted this on January 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
seattlepi.com Buzzworthy: Jobster to get word out
I always thought finding a job was about networking. It seems the value of applying social software to networking is getting all of that information in a central database that the corporation can control.
Bud posted this on January 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Technorati TAG! Your It! Information Clustering Among Social Networks
Another vote for the idea that adding individual content in a weblog has more value when it contributes to a larger social whole.
Bud posted this on January 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Reference Tracking and the Performance of Technorati, Feedster, and Bloglines (by Jeremy Zawodny)
A comparison of tracking services for syndicated weblogs
Bud posted this on January 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The magic of blogs to create relationships
Blogs are about communities
Bud posted this on January 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)