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Note to Social Media Types- Build Your Interfaces
via chrisbrogan.com by chrisbrogan on May 15, 2008
If you’re thinking about a future in social media, build your interfaces. This means, if you’re someone making media, build your text, video, audio, and your entire business with the mindset of how to connect it up to other organizations. Think TechCrunch meets the Washington Post, for instance. Think about how you will share: content, processes, financial back and forths, responsibilities....
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Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web
via blog.pmarca.com by Marc Andreessen on May 14, 2008
... for six months now so we're excited to be able to now provide Open Social in production to all of our Network Creators and users. Open Social will be available within all 265,490 social networks already running on Ning, as well as the 10,000+ new social networks being created on Ning every week now. Second, I'd like to discuss Google's new Friend Connect initiative and how we plan...
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Friend Connect means more users for OpenSocial apps and containers
via OpenSocial API Blog by Dan Peterson, Product Manager on May 14, 2008
Posted by Kevin Marks, Developer AdvocateWith yesterday's announcement of Google Friend Connect, making any website into a social website is now much easier. Website owners can paste a small bit of JavaScript into their site, adding social features for their users without having to write any code themselves.For OpenSocial application developers, this gives you a whole new audience for your...
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RSSmeme Launches API, Provides Filtering Tools Galore
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 12, 2008
Benjamin Golub has been busy. He runs the site RSSmeme, an RSS aggregator that displays the top Shared Items items from Google Reader users. For a brief time, RSSmeme was the only Google Reader aggregator in town after ReadBurner closed up shop. But not too much later, ReadBurner was purchased and relaunched (our coverage), putting the two sites in competition once again. However, it looks like...
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personal profile network graphs
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
a sophisticated visual aggregator that tracks the activities of about 32,000 noteworthy people, both living & dead. the dataset consists of a "Who's Who" including the curriculum vitae of each noted person (i.e. information such as date of birth, a biography, & other essential facts.)the resulting network graphs document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious, as...
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Why Yelp works
via The Equity Kicker by nic on May 13, 2008
Interesting article in the New York Times yesterday on why Yelp has been a success. It is relevant for a lot of startups here including TrustedPlaces and Qype.First some stats - according to Comscore Yelp had 3.3m users in March, up 87% on a year ago. At the time of writing their Alexa is 808.That is a good performance, to be sure, but it is too soon to call it a runaway success.According to...
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Social Media advice from Chris Brogan
via The Web Pitch by Jas on May 13, 2008
A solid Social Media compendium from Chris Brogan and Alexa Scordato, which I have reproduced below. This is a great collection of Chris’s insights into social-media and is worthy of being a reference for you to return to when you are tracking down any related materials or seeking answers.Check out Chris Brogan.com for some other great insights. I’m adding the blog to my Google Reader. I...
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It brought Scoble to tears, now WorldWide Telescope is here
via ||steve clayton: geek in disguise by stevecla01 on May 13, 2008
The technology that brought Scoble to tears is now available for everyone to play with The WorldWide Telescope is a rich, Web 2.0 visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground- and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless, rich media-guided exploration of the universe. It is also a platform providing a base for teaching...
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Google Friend Connect: A Distributed Ning
via Sexy Widget by lawrence on May 12, 2008
... start. You build your Ning social network from scratch, scrapping anything else you may have had online before. It lacks…. Incrementalism. Yes, it embraces the long tail by allowing anybody to create a social network for anything, but it demands a new long tail. It ignores all of those sites and communities and groups that are already engaged online.I’m not saying it’s not goin...
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PMOG, A Browser-Based Passively Multiplayer Online Game
via Laughing Squid by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Shared by SharonG for some reason, i signed up for the beta for this thing, and never bothered to use my account. anyone else using this? wanna play?
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