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I think I’m probably not alone when I say that Technorati may have put too much in at once when they decided to move from focussing on blogs to many other types of tagged content some time ago.
Luckily, they also implemented a stripped-down version for those who remember and just want to use Technorati [...]
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In the niche SNS area, Yokohama Tyre Corporation recently implemented the Pringo white-label SNS solution for their “online presence and green marketing initiative” called Eco Treadsetters.
LA-based marketing agency PCGCampbell built the site using Pringo so that Yokohama consumers across the US could communicate with each other, create and navigate custom profiles, form sub-communities, and [...]
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(I got my invite today to buy a Chumby, but apparently they don’t do shipping outside the US.)
Here’s an extract from the Wikipedia definition if you haven’t already heard about them:
Chumby is a consumer product created by Chumby Industries slated to go on sale in November of 2007. It is designed as an [...]
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At the 2007 Web 2.0 Summit today, Radar Networks are officially announcing the invite-only beta version of Twine, a new service that uses the power of Semantic Web to enable an intelligent way of sharing, organising and finding information.
During today’s 4 PM panel (that also features Powerset’s Barney Pell, Metaweb’s Daniel Hillis and Web [...]
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It must be acquisition season: Google yesterday announced that they have acquired microblogging service Jaiku. Jaiku, founded by Jyri Engestrom (whose post on object-centered sociality I’ve referenced more than once!) and Petteri Koponen, is a direct competitor to Twitter, another popular microblogging service from the US.
Here is a copy of the blog announcement from [...]
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The Microsoft and NBC Universal News joint venture MSNBC has acquired the Newsvine community of citizen journalists for an undisclosed sum.
Newsvine, based in Seattle, publishes stories from both the mainstream media and a community of users together on the site. Users can vote on their news stories of interest, similar to the Digg [...]
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Nova Spivack’s “best official” definition of Web 3.0 was posted today in response to Jason Calacanis’ “official” definition of Web 3.0. You can also read Tim O’Reilly’s reply to Nova’s Web 3.0 definition. The picture on the right is Nova’s graph of the current and envisaged evolution of the Web (with versions).
As [...]
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The event “Graphing Social Patterns: The Business and Technology of Facebook” is being held this weekend (October 7th to 9th) in San Jose, California.
This is a conference for both technology and business people on how to build and distribute applications for the social networking platform Facebook. There will be some interesting speakers at the [...]
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From the Houston Chronicle, we read of a case in Paris, Texas where a defamation lawsuit has been filed by a hospital there to reveal the identity of a blogger who has been severely critical of the hospital and their practices:
A state district judge has told lawyers for the hospital and the blogger that he [...]
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Jessica Zenner, an employee of Parker Services (a technical recruitment contractor for Nintendo) was fired on the 31st of August by her employer following concerns expressed by Nintendo about posts on her blog “Inexcusable Behavior“.
On the blog, where she talks about herself, her friends and co-workers (none of whom are mentioned by name), Zenner [...]
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