Monthly Archives: February 2007

Comments are important

Posted on February 27, 2007 by

Interesting piece on the future of communities blog (Thanks Chris for pointing it out). It talks about what bloggers can do to incentivize more and better participation in communities. “Given limited time and resources, where do you spend your time … Continue reading →

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Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free

Posted on February 25, 2007 by

Fascinating piece in the Time Magazine, titled “Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free” by Justin Fox, about how the new wave of open-source kind of projects are creating real riches for some: It might seem very odd to … Continue reading →

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Public Connections

Posted on February 22, 2007 by

Great piece from Danah Boyd on her blog about the way Internet and social media makes it easy for people to document and publish their thoughts and feelings…and the effect it has on people’s behavior and relationships. “The presence of … Continue reading →

Posted in Identity, online communities, Reputation, Social Media | 1 Comment

Why People Are Such Jerks Online

Posted on February 21, 2007 by

Great Piece by Mike on TechDirt The concept of the flame war online is certainly nothing new. It’s been around since before most people were even aware the internet existed. However, more people are starting to look into the issue … Continue reading →

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Digg to support OpenID

Posted on February 20, 2007 by

Things are just going crazy for OpenID…Digg just announced that it is planning to support OpenID. While its not that big a deal in raw numbers (see our coverage of AOL announcement, which is far bigger in terms of sheer … Continue reading →

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AOL creates 63 million new OpenIDs

Posted on February 19, 2007 by

Over the weekend, I saw the announcement from AOL, to support OpenID for all of their 63 million AOL/AIM Ids (for those looking for a quick introduction to OpenID, click here). The details of the announcement are as follows (from … Continue reading →

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And What About Privacy?

Posted on February 17, 2007 by

Very interesting article in the NYT today about how people are blogging about their finances. When a woman who calls herself Tricia discovered last week that she owed $22,302 on her credit cards, she could not wait to spread the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Privacy, Social Media | 3 Comments

Yahoo! “Digg”s suggestions

Posted on February 15, 2007 by

Yahoo! has launched a new site for having their users vote on the new features. Yahoo! blog Yodel Anecdotal describes the feature as below: When you find something broken on the Web, product folks at small web sites are usually … Continue reading →

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Microsoft and OpenID

Posted on February 14, 2007 by

Check out my piece at ReadWriteWeb on the recent announcement of collaboration between Microsoft and OpenID. (Thanks Richard for great job formatting it.)

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Identity Vs Membership

Posted on February 14, 2007 by

Check out this interesting piece from ocean@concedere… But everybody does understand the concept of a community, and belonging to a community, and they would understand that such a membership would grant certain privileges. Membership is, I think, a far more … Continue reading →

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