I’ve been hearing radio ads for gold for some time now.  The basic premise and message is something like
The dollar is going down the tubes.  It’s lost 40% of its value in the last few years, and we’ll be facing massive inflation soon.  You need to own GOLD!  Buy our GOLD COINS NOW!
What do [...]

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I’ve been asked a couple time recently for a list of ‘web’ people that would be useful to follow.  Here’s a partial list of some people off the top of my head.  If you’re not on the list, and I follow you, and you’d like to be, just add yourself and what sort of stuff [...]

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IttyBiz has an insightful-yet-still-just-commonsense view of what’s happening with Social Media.  The insightful aspect is that someone’s actually got the clarity to recognize the shift right now, and the commonsense aspect is “of course, what did we expect?”
I don’t have much to say explicitly about that article, but it’s made me think a bit about [...]

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This is just a short one from Chicago, talking some about the upcoming interview with Patrick O’Keefe about his new book, Managing Online Forums.  I’ve got a copy to give away, as well as a copy of “Dreamweaver 8 – The Missing Manual”.  To enter in to the drawing for the book, send in a [...]

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Michael Arrington posted a fresh lament about the state of his inbox. He’s got 2400+ emails in his inbox right now, and he will likely nuke them all and start over (yet again) shortly. This got me to thinking (yet again!) about email/spam/inboxes. The article rightly pointed out that right now we [...]

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Robert Scoble just switched his home pages from TechMeme to FriendFeed.
“So what?” is likely what you’re thinking. Yeah, big deal, right? Well, TechMeme had a clustering algorithm which would group together news articles of related content, and give you a good idea of the ‘hot topics’ of the day. It did this [...]

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There’s an article on TechCrunch about Yahoo offering support for a number of microformat standards.
They are saying that they will support a number of microformats at the start: hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom and XFN. They will support vocabulary components from Dublin Core, Creative Commons, FOAF, GeoRSS, MediaRSS, and others. They will support RDFa and eRDF [...]

Posted in Ideas, Social, Society, Software, Tools, Web, Yahoo, opensource 3 Comments »

I was having an interesting conversation with Joe Brinkman from the DotNetNuke project this evening, and he got to talking about the ’social networking’ focus in the next DNN release.  I had a small brainwave and suggested something to him, but the implications might be larger than I originally considered.
He mentioned that they’d be looking [...]

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Some area tech guys put together SocialCarolina.org, a site which maps what’s going on across the various social networks in the RTP/RDCH area.  At least, that’s what I think it does, and if it’s not doing that, it should   In any event, it’s a slick looking site with some definite potential.  Check it [...]

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