"How does it work? It’s actually fairly simple: after you sign up, we provide a custom, unique short URL that we encourage you to share out via email, social networks, etc. When somebody visits that URL and signs up, we can track it back to you and give you credit for it. After 3 people sign up with your link, you make our “priority access list” and we let you know via email."

Talks about design patterns in social software a la Christopher Alexander et al.

"a core pattern for Web 2.0, in which a social network user can have many people following them without a need for reciprocity. Assmmetric Follow is unlike email for example, which tends to be within small groups, with all users knowing each other (newsletters are a clear exception here)." the comments are just as interesting.

big list of corporate presence in sns

oogle's real-time ad auction is the heart of their economic engine. Their stroke of genius, which gave them their seemingly insuperable lead over the other search engines in ad monetization, was to understand that selling the top ad position to the highest bidder was actually leaving money on the table. Given that advertisers only pay for clicks, Google realized that if they could project the likely click-rate on an ad, they could sell top position to the best combination of price and click rate. A $5 cpc ad clicked on 3x as often as a $10 cpc ad will make $15. By instrumenting, measuring, and responding to the click rate, Google made ad auctions smarter - through harnessing implicit user contribution.

Howard Rheingold's Stanford class portal built on Drupal. Nicely done!

i'm looking forward to lots of innovation in the signal/noise/attention space in NEAR future

"To be successful at social software implementations in business you need firstly to have a solid understanding of how people work and relate to computers, tools, and each other." exactly!

allows you to share your own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers

Covers the problems with Web 2.0-style tools in the enterprise.

Such a transformation requires that faculty, students, and institutions take risks. With those risks comes fear, which is often unarticulated. How do you tackle this fear and make real change?

(thanks preoccupations!)

excellent explanation!

the LA Fire Dept. is using Twitter to give instant notifications of fires it’s responding to (oh, did I mention that’s in addition to its blog, LAFD_ALERT service, Flickr Photo Gallery and YouTube Channel

how to make a trendy Web 2.0 style Beta badge...

my instinct is just to share everything on Flickr, from the 'quote slides' to holiday snaps to any other random stuff I collect, and only selectively choose to keep a few things private. Whereas for my friend, his instinct is the reverse, to keep everythi

"David Sachs: web 2.0 = networkification vs. web 1.0 = electronification. that may be the bset explanation I've heard."

incisive! "blog focused squarely on internet startups and web2"

Synchronizes files across your computers and your team's computers, integrated into Windows, but there's also a web interface. It also stores past versions of documents, handles huge files gracefully, and works both through firewalls and offline.

overview of current corporate uses of Enterprise 2.0 technologies -- blogs, wikis, tagging systems, prediction markets, signals like RSS, etc.

social bookmarking with delicious integration also allows public notes and clips

lets you verifiably extend your identity across social networks and blogs… essentially creating an ad-hoc social network out of everything you join.

the ultimate mashup tool new url: http://www.dapper.net/

Openomy is an online file system. You can store files on Openomy and access them from any computer. Openomy organizes files and users via tags (as opposed to folders). You can choose to keep your files guarded by Openomy, or allow certain outside applicat

this free, AJAX-enhanced eLearning web service is designed to bring out the teacher in all of us