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April 2, 2005
Tracing the term social software
Quoting from the term social software (danah boyd), which I meant to post six months ago when it first appeared... Christopher Allen does an excellent job of tracing the history of the term 'social software' - a resource for us...(See full entry.)
November 4, 2004
In this corner Yahoo and RSS, and this corner Google and Atom
Steve Rubel's Micropersuasion weblog is bursting with great insights into blogs, public relations, and the way conversations are changing marketing online. I find that in the first year or so of a new blog from an insightful weblogger like Steve...(See full entry.)
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September 27, 2004
Electronic whiteboards (wikis) in the news
A Syracuse paper which published an article that was skeptical about the how authoritative an online collaborative encyclopedia could be has now published a front-page article that is much more positive about wikis (Syracuse.com: NewsFlash - 'Wikis' offer knowledge-sharing online)....(See full entry.)
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by xian
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August 23, 2004
I've got XFN all wrong
Tantek emailed me to point me to some responses to Clay Shirky's mockery of XFN. I've been meaning to post a follow-up, since my headline was so snarky, and I've been busy working on this website and preparing for my...(See full entry.)
August 19, 2004
OK, forget XFN. Now what?
In Many-to-Many: XFN Relationships Clay Shirky convinces me that XFN is wack. But can we just pick a model and let people experiment with it? I don't care if it's FOAF or XFN or PeopleAggritude or whatever. What's the best...(See full entry.)
July 15, 2004
Flickr and Feedburner collaborate on photo streaming standard for webfeeds
Flickr visioneer Stewart Butterfield writes (in the Feed Thickens) that a proposed standard based on RSS will enable photos and photo sequences "spliced" into the in-line context of a weblog. Sites such as Upcoming.org and Tribe.net are proving out a...(See full entry.)
July 2, 2004
Next Mac OS has built-in RSS
The headline says it all: Apple's preview of its next OS, "Tiger," includes RSS aggregation built-in to its Safari browser. Apple may have found the magic phrase that popularizes newsfeed aggregation: "Personal News Clipping Service."...(See full entry.)
June 14, 2004
Please help improve the POM glossary
I'm doing author review of the glossary draft now (the book's appendix) and I'd like to hear suggestions from readers about terms we left out or improvements in definitions. I'm such a geek that I often forget which words sound...(See full entry.)
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June 10, 2004
Wikis grabbing attention
The business blog Cutting Through reports conversations with a client... [quote reformatted for space] And do you know which element of all this grabbed their attention the most? Wikis. Which coincides with the volume of postings on wikis over the...(See full entry.)
Genesis file of Electric Minds
The early history of the Electric Minds online community founded by Howard Rheingold (running from 1996 to 2000 is preserved at the beginning of a conference on the current site that keeps the history up to date. The period from...(See full entry.)
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June 7, 2004
The Importance of Being Mobile
Doc Searls points to a great piece by Russell Beattie on why Silicon Valley is living in the past and facing backward. Read it all; here's just one bit: I first noticed that the leaders of Silicon Valley are *still*...(See full entry.)
June 4, 2004
Why W3C wants Atom
bestkungfu weblog: Those of us at W3C who have been working on this each saw a hole that Atom fills, whether it's a simplified publication model, a more accessible means of getting to the core content of a site, or...(See full entry.)
June 3, 2004
ZURL: the midget Yahoo
ZURL claims to be "the last URL you'll ever need." This implementation of the Open Directory taxonomy is gussied up as a Yahoo!-style deeper-and-deeper heirarchy, but with far too few categories—the top level is currently only Business, Cities, Companies, Drink,...(See full entry.)
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June 2, 2004
Meatball wiki on communities
Though focused on online communities and written/populated mainly by hackers, Meatball wiki represents a fascinating resource for anyone studying how communities function in general and particular what tends to happen online and what patterns and anti-patterns are worth noticing. For...(See full entry.)
June 1, 2004
Popularizing Joi
Joi Ito is profiled in an AP story in USA Today, which of course has to define "blog" for its readers. "Most of the blog services are free so far. But once blogging gains acceptance as a self-publishing medium, business...(See full entry.)
May 31, 2004
Bernstein's essay on 'writing the living web'
Looks like I hadn't linked to Marc Bernstein's popular essay yet. Marc credits the term to Dan Chan of Daypop, btw. (via my blogging-related outboard backup brain, A List Apart: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web @ Radio Free...(See full entry.)
RSS 2.0 branding strengthened
Generally, most followers of RSS and weblogs and syndication and the living web consider that the RSS tipping point has already been reached. There is mass buy-in to the approach. Even Atom advocates generally view Atom as simply a flavor...(See full entry.)
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May 19, 2004
Imminent death of webfeeds predicted --film at 11
Mark Nottingham questions the idea that polling-for-updated-syndicated-feeds won't scale.(See full entry.)
May 11, 2004
The blog tool you really want
Dave Pollard, at How To Save The World, posted a list of functions he wants his blog to have, such as "robust commenting" and "access to rest of personal 'filing cabinet'". He then scored its success at each: This article...(See full entry.)
May 3, 2004
Searls on open source
Jon Lebkowsky points to a Doc Searls presentation on open source and "do-it-yourself IT." It has some real gems, among them bits on the meaning of "public" and "private": The deeper battle is between metaphors. Hollywood sees the Net as...(See full entry.)
April 28, 2004
This Week on Many-to-Many
Ross Mayfield put up an "open post" based on an oversimplification: a two-by-two categorization of social software. (The JPEG matrix is here, the post is here ... and of course, this being Mayfield, the wiki that springs from the starter...(See full entry.)
April 20, 2004
Gmail and the IOS
In an essay that starts out about Gmail, Tim O'Reilly pulls together the disparate phrases that are groping at where computing is headed: small pieces loosely joined, the world of ends, IOS, the Internet as OS, software above the level...(See full entry.)
April 17, 2004
Syndication, aggregation, rah rah rah
Another Many-to-Many post by Ross Mayfield: He notes Jason Kottke's post titled "I think we should probably stop calling [RSS/Atom] syndication". Feeding, threading, and aggregation are all attractive features of RSS, but they're not necessarily syndicating. However, says Mayfield, "I'm...(See full entry.)
Extreme Democracy via wiki
Ross Mayfield has posted to a wiki the chapter he's contributing to O'Reilly's Extreme Democracy. (Haven't had a chance to read the chapter or follow the links yet, but Mayfield's pages look worth exploring in depth.) As he puts it...(See full entry.)
March 22, 2004
Branding the living web
Technorati has exposed its new beta redesign as its default look and unveiled a new slogan: Search the World Live Web...(See full entry.)
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by xian
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March 6, 2004
SenseCam
Microsoft gadget lets you spy on your own life. SenseCam, touted as a visual diary of sorts by Microsoft Corp., is designed to be worn around the neck. The prototype responds to changes such as bright lights and sudden movements...(See full entry.)
March 5, 2004
Desktop app for syndication
One of two products from Howell Development is Syndication Studio 2004, "the world’s first desktop application allowing creation of feeds in all flavors of RSS, Atom and OPML, supporting everything from RSS 0.9 to Atom 0.3." Putting Control Back Where...(See full entry.)
February 22, 2004
Event Share Framework extension to RSS
ESFStandard.org - The home of the Event Share Framework...(See full entry.)
January 22, 2004
News site customizes based on your habits
I asked Findory.com News why it was showing me this story: Why was an article marked * Personalized * for me? Findory News thought you would be interested in the article "Injectable scaffold aids rebuilding of nerves, www.newscientist.com, Thu Jan...(See full entry.)
January 5, 2004
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Eric Raymond's famous The Cathedral and the Bazaar essay on open-source philosophy is often quoted by people in the Dean campaign's tech corps (and probably the Clark people as well). Rayne of Rayne Today, one of my contributors at RFB,...(See full entry.)
December 28, 2003
A group is its own worst enemy
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (A Clay Shirky keynote from O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference last April.)...(See full entry.)
July 7, 2003
Time to learn a new thing
After a few half-assed attempts to make FOAF files and read up on the enthusiasts of this genre, I got lost in the thickets of RDF or otherwise distracted and waited for someone to build a nice interface ontop of...(See full entry.)