"They begin to see another world, a world where the Web is social and interconnected, where we all benefit from the trails of data created by one another's everyday use of the Web. That's just the beginning."

Originally entitled "Zuckerberg: People Are Comfortable Without Privacy, So We Threw Them All Over The Cliff", this is a good read on the way Facebook's userbase is being driven from default-private to default-public, and the reasons for the change.

I am trying to organise a thing, in about a week, for people who code against the Flickr API. Does that sound like you? Come to sunny Fitzrovia!

"groups tend to spend most of their time discussing the information shared by members, which is therefore redundant, rather than discussing information known only to one or a minority of members" "people talk about more famous people more because it's a social lubricant to have a shared topic, therefore making the famous more famous" This probably explains why talking about The Terminator works so well as an icebreaker.

A reasonable rant on not trusting data to websites. I like Les Orchard's comment, though: "I’ve also been thinking that this is the year that I write self-hosted replacements or archiving proxies between me and all the cloud services I use." I don't care for replacements, but a local proxy (what I've been calling 'deep aggregation'): hell yes. One day...

"Despite gaming being seen as a male activity, female players now make up about 40% of the gaming population.

"The BBC also plans to hop needlessly on to the social networking bandwagon, in what iPlayer chief Anthony Rose is already painfully describing as “Broadcast 2.0”." Er, that's not needless at all; I get a lot of useful tips from Watchification, and baking in user recommendations is a great idea. (The 2.0 moniker is a bit rubbish though.) Also, I hope an Air desktop client doesn't mean Flash is gone from the website.

"Use it to collect and share bookmarks, notes, videos and other content. Twine organizes your content, learns as you use it and recommends new things to check out."

It's only 0.1, so it's more promise than execution at the moment, and I don't think I "get" BrowsaBowsa. Still, it doesn't need me to log in to everything afresh, it supports userscripts (somewhat), and so I'll try and keep an eye on it.

An activity stream of people talking about / posting photos of / etc Picnic. There's also a live stream, but I prefer using VLC: mms://streams.hosting.nob.nl/live01

Matt Jones on friendship and sharing - a lovely presentation at Picnic.

This sounds a lot like a script from O'Reilly's Collective Intelligence book, but I should still try and make some time to look at it.

Phil distinguishes between what he (sensibly) calls data-centric and people-centric aggregation, and goes on to note that duplication is a problem. As I note in the comments, there's beginning to be a consensus here.

More post-Shirky commentary, this from Tom Armitage, arguing that TV-by-choice is different from TV-that's-on, taking in participation and radio as he goes.

Of course I've been tangentially wittering about this as I talk about personal aggregation (itself threatened by the likes of Friendfeed), but this is a good "stating the obvious" post about the death of the home page. (Sometimes you need to state the obv

How come I'm suddenly seeing ffffound competitors everywhere?

How come I'm suddenly seeing ffffound competitors everywhere?

A plea to change the model for pulling in social graph data: "Rather than just importing the data once and forgetting it, the subscription pattern embraces the fact that your source of data knows more about that data than you do"

Tom adds Google's social graph info to Shelf, and also stops to think about whether or not that's actually a good idea. Hopefully he'll make it past the refactoring hump.

"Identity and sharing can make everyone warm and fuzzy, but also came face to face with sobering consequences that kept me up at night with a bottle of tequila."

"you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information [to Facebook] now that he knows the politics of the people behind [it]" a nice attack on the politics and philosophy of west-coast technoutopians.

Social weather forecasting. Lovely idea, this, although I'm not so bothered about the "what are you wearing" bit, given I have the same outfit more or less all year. I just hope it's not irredeemably UScentric.

Simon Batistoni on Facebook, and the fact that if you "leave" it freezes your social network and still, amazingly, offers to send you emails anyway. Of course, the truly hardcore never join, but who like that is left?

Sounds relevant to some things I've been thinking about, and also probably interesting for the hell of it anyway.

I'll be interested to read this, especially as I've contributed a (tiny) bit of code to a project that's trying to lay some of the groundwork for this sort of thing.

"a music video player which matches your music taste from last.fm to videos on YouTube" I've wondered if I should submit music videos I've watched to last.fm. Can't quite decide. Maybe this does that too?

Apparently photographic societies are a bit, er, old-fashioned, but this one even has a Flickr group.

on twitter

se71summarises: " SL is just another fad, like the last incarnation of 2D worlds". I'm amazed there's still anyone clear-minded enough to write stuff like this in the midst of Bubble 2.0, but hurrah.

I'm unconvinced Twitter has lasting power, but this post (and the previous one) are both fairly cogent commentary.

Matt Webb on the possibilites of a socially-networked printer.

Distasteful, obvious-ish tips on how to game interestingness and views on Flickr. Pretty much tells you to spam groups, for example, something I absolutely loathe; also suggests only posting one photo a day.

Sounds stupid to me. Doesn't work on SE phones either. Go Java!

'Apple also announced a new public beta of “Just for You” personalized music recommendations and the debut of online customer reviews.' - for all the "iTunes isn't social enough" people