Google seems to be offering to add a layer of social interaction across sites that have limited ...
"Many sites aren't explicitly social and don't necessarily want to be social networks, but they ...
So now we can all have MySpace widgets cluttering up our other web spaces. For some reason my pu...
In the past sites like MySpace have locked users into their own site and jealously guarded membe...
More details of the 'modular hardware' approach to radio with built-in social networking. confir...
Olinda is an extendable and customisable radio. On the side of Olinda is a studded, magnetic con...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/05/olinda_a_new_radio.shtml
May 06, 2008
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Superbly concise post on the nature of the problems facing the advertising industry. Favourite q...
Extracting attention using advertising agencies isn't suddenly impossible, it's just gradually b...
http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2008/04/dying-like-coal.html
May 01, 2008
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Some quite scary information about how Facebook apps can steal not just your personal data, but ...
We wrote an evil data mining application called Miner, which, if we wanted, could masquerade as ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7375772.stm
May 01, 2008
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Great little intervention in the 'slow web' -- using postcards instead of twitter for 'status up...
dawdlr is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: what are yo...
Abstract of a research paper by Nancy Baym about what friend relationships on Last.fm actually s...
We found that on average, the relationships were of moderately low strength, just below the midp...
http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/how-good-a-friend-is-a-lastfm-friend/
Apr 29, 2008
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Very extensive and detailed account of all the rights and permissions involved in putting a musi...
Is it now safe to include music in videos you upload to Google's YouTube? I don't mean uploading...
http://www.consumingexperience.com/2007/09/google-youtube-music-in-videos-legal.html
Apr 24, 2008
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It's not clear from this article whether there is substance to this new psychology of persuasion...
The Psychology of Facebook is the brainchild of Professor B J Fogg, a pioneering persuasion psyc...
Interesting perspective borrowed from evolutionary biology: Rich argues that relying on just one...
Evolutionary biology shows us one metaphor for this trap of stylistic boundaries, in terms of sp...
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/04/the_reality_of.php
Apr 22, 2008
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Geist investigates the cost of copies of works held by museums and public collections. Sometimes...
Many museums receive regular requests for copies of works in their collection to be reproduced i...
A competitor for Jadam Kahn's Music 2.0 directory. The clincher will be how well it is maintaine...
We have one simple mission: To list the best social services available on the net. Web2.0 simpli...
Neat little story from Derek Sivers about the impact of piracy on niche artists, and how this wa...
I spoke at a conference last weekend, where a woman in the audience was SO mad about piracy that...
http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/whats-really-keeping-you-from-where-you-need-to-be-its-not-p.html
Apr 17, 2008
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I'm going to blog about this Slow Blogging idea in a bit. When I've had plenty of time to reflec...
Slow Blogging is a rejection of immediacy. It is an affirmation that not all things worth readin...
http://web.mac.com/holycola/iWeb/SlowBlog/Slow Blog/607E1A7A-AB39-44D1-BBEC-033958252F42.html
Apr 16, 2008
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Everyone likes to give Ticketmaster a kicking now and again. I'm no exception.
Looking at Ticketmaster's friends, he discovered that many lacked profile images and any friends...
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/ticketmaster-ap.html
Apr 15, 2008
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Zac Johnson highlights a smart, if kitschy, little Facebook app for identity projection/presenta...
It allows users to offer a visual snapshot of all of the things they are into. Just like new wav...
http://datawhat.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-new-denim-jacket.html
Apr 13, 2008
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Very mucky business, this. As Tim Berners-Lee said, it's my data, I want to control it, and I'll...
Ad-targeting system Phorm must be "opt in" when it is rolled out, says the Information Commissio...
This article is in some ways quite a big deal as Nicholson Baker previously wrote a whole book (...
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, ca...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/10/wikipedia.internet
Apr 09, 2008
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Interesting (though very long; I haven't read it all) piece on the consequences of introversion,...
Another typical introvert trait is wanting to compose one's thoughts carefully before sharing th...
Interesting conclusion, but begs all sorts of epistemological questions like how the researchers...
Surprisingly, answers to most of the basic type of questions, like those found on social network...
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/your_facebook_profile_isnt_realy_you.php
Apr 03, 2008
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I like the candid bluntness of 50 Cent's management company in saying that the reason they're se...
"The thing that separates Thisis50 from MySpace is we control the e-mail database," says Chris "...
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKN2830064820080329
Mar 31, 2008
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Good account of Clay Shirky's talk and interview yesterday. Audio and video will be available la...
http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/03/18/clay_shirky_here_comes_everybody_at_rsa.php
Mar 19, 2008
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Key quote from Tim Berners-Lee arguing against Phorm "Sir Tim said his data and web history belo...
Sir Tim said he did not want his ISP to track which websites he visited. "I want to know if I lo...
Good succinct assessment of the pros and cons of Twitter at conferences/festivals/etc
If last year's SXSW was Twitter's coming out party, this year it achieved utility status. A util...
Mar 11, 2008
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Critique of why OpenID is not the solution to all our problems with identity management on the w...
OpenID was designed as a lightweight solution for “trivial” use cases in identity management...
http://idcorner.org/2007/08/22/the-problems-with-openid/
Mar 10, 2008
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