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Twitter Announces @Anywhere Platform

During his SXSW keynote interview today, Twitter's Evan Williams announced the service's new @platform. While the keynote interview itself was rather forgettable (a large part of the audience left before it was over), the @platform will have wide-reaching consequences for Twitter and its ecosystem. This new platform will allow publishers to integrate Twitter deeper into their site and recreate the "open, engaging interactions" their readers expect from using Twitter "without sending them to T... Read more

Thoughts on Community Management

Chris Myles, an active Buzz user, albeit a critical one, has a buzz post out suggesting that Google Buzz needs a “Customer Advocate,” to do “community management” for Buzz. I suspect that as Buzz grows over time, that community management types might begin being added to the product team. Having been very involved in web communities over the course of the past seven years or so, I thought I’d post some of my own thoughts on this subject matter. So far to date, I think Google has been doing... Read more

3 Ways to Subscribe to Any RSS Feed with Your IM

Did you know that you could subscribe to any RSS feed with your instant messenger client? There are actually quite a few ways this can turn useful: (!) Be one of the first to learn about any breaking news; () Be the first to Digg a post from the Digg-friendly site (and this can be tough, you may know that); () Free up the clutter from your email subscriptions; () Never forget to check the blogs which are important to you. Besides, you can create an aggregated feed combining the resources t... Read more

Some Thoughts on Location Based Services Like Gowalla and FourSquare

I was recently on a panel at the South by South West interactive conference (SXS) where we discussed multiple applications of the real-time Web and the things that might prevent us from seeing its true potential. I’ve found it interesting that the key take away from the panel is that privacy issues will be one of the biggest problems we will face as we move forward. You can see this perspective in CNN’s coverage of the panel in the story Privacy concerns hinder 'real-time Web' creation, dev... Read more

Introduction to OAuth Basic

OAuth allows you to share your private resources (photos, videos, contact list, bank accounts) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out your username and password. Giving your user name or password to a social media site is like giving them the rights to access your account. Common Terms These are some of the common terms that we should know when dealing with OAuth: Service Provider – the Service Provider controls all aspects of the OAuth implementation. The Service ... Read more

Buzz Lists

die abwesenheit von listen / filtern bei google buzz hat mich ziemlich genervt, aber man kann sie eh emulieren: zunächst muss man sich eine suchanfrage bauen, die via dem from:username suchoperator alle leute erfasst und via OR verknüpft. zb. eine liste für die hackr.work members: from:"matthias pfefferle" OR from:"pierro marie" OR from:"dominik schwind" OR from:"martin lindner" OR from:"saurier duval" wenn man will kann man das dann noch über quellen mit dem source:sourcename sucho... Read more

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Is Privacy on the Social Web a Technical Problem?

How to deal with user privacy on social networks as they grow, mature and become more sophisticated has been a frequent topic of conversation at this year’s SXSW — and not just in researcher Danah Boyd’s keynote address that argued aggregating public information can be a privacy breach, and slammed Google and Facebook for their missteps with users’ expectations. Is privacy just a technical problem? That’s what Google engineer Brett Slatkin, co-creator of the PubSubHubbub real-time syndicatio... Read more

Why Google Releases New Apps: They're Desperate for Content

It seems like in the past few months Google has relentlessly released new applications, some of which perhaps could have used some more baking in the oven before they were unleashed on the general public. To some it's becoming a tiresome exercise simply to try to keep up with everything that Google is doing week in and week out. But there is a method to the madness, and it has a lot more to do with Google's bottom line than you may think. We all know that the way the search engine giant make... Read more

Users vs. Companies: Conflicts over the Real-Time Web?

If 2009 was the year of real-time Web, with practically every major service finding ways to bring content to its users instantly, 2010 is about optimizing the new real-time world, expanding interoperability between sites, finding more ways for users' content to be discovered, and taking the potential of real-time out of the status world and into the real world. Today, at the South by Southwest Interactive event in Austin, Texas, one panel asked if we were making serious progress in this visio... Read more

Semantic Web In Action – Faviki | davidkuhta.com

The Object Supposed To Know

sehr schöner artikel von m. lindner zu sozialen objekten im kontext marketing. (wobei er den begriff social objects nicht im semiotischen sinne (und also mit engeström) sondern im social media sinne (und also mit gapingvoid) interpretiert; es geht also primär um die effektivität von objecten im sozialen raum)/via @lotman # social objects engestrom

Activity Streams Aim to Be DNA of the Future Web

When the well-respected open source advocate Chris Messina announced he was joining Google in January, many folks were concerned that his being absorbed in to the big company Borg would mean a cessation or redirection of some of his projects targeting the next generation Web, possibly in exchange of proprietary efforts to promote the company's products. Today, at the South by Southwest Interactive event in Austin, Texas, he spoke on how he and others in the community, both at Google and outsi... Read more

Warum wir Daten verlinken müssen

Man stelle sich vor, es gäbe keine Links im WWW. Oder noch besser: Wir packen linkfreie HTML-Dokumente in ein Zip-Archiv und bieten dieses zum Download an. Klingt total bescheuert? Ist es auch. Denn mit einem “World Wide Web” hat das dann nichts mehr zu tun. Aber wie gehen wir eigentlich mit Daten um? Die Einsicht, dass Rohdaten in maschinenlesbarer Form veröffentlicht werden müssen, breitet sich so langsam aus. Doch reicht das wirklich aus? Ist es in Ordnung CSV- oder XML-Dateien in ZIP-Arch... Read more

Truncated RSS Is A Bad Business Decision

A few years back, I wrote about why we had found full text RSS feeds to be much more powerful and useful than truncated RSS feeds. The reason that many sites push truncated feeds is the belief that it will force people to click through, and the ads on the webpage are worth a lot more than the ads found in RSS feeds. But it's a short-sighted view. Because what it's really doing is trying to push readers to do something that they don't want to do. Many of them use RSS readers because it's a... Read more

Was fragen Menschen ihr soziales Netzwerk?

Bild von Flickr Sprechen Menschen im Internet über Finanzen? In der Ficoba Community tun sie dies definitiv. Aber wie sieht es in Communites aus, die sich nicht explizit mit Geld & Co beschäftigen? Gigacom hat sich mit dieser Frage beschäftigt. Eine Studie von MIT und Microsoft Research hat Antworten auf die Frage, was Menschen ihr soziales (Onlin) Netzwerk fragen, gefunden. Einschränkend sei gesagt: Es wurden nur Mitarbeiter von Microsoft befragt. Am häufigsten wird offenbar nach Empfehlun... Read more

Cadmus Adds Twitter Lists Support, Including Trends

Cadmus, the Twitter filter and conversation collector we have covered a few times on the site, has just introduced support for Twitter lists, providing personalized trending topics by list and conversations from that list, giving you an instant update as to what your friends or a specific group of friends are talking about on Twitter. Also, in parallel with the start of the SXSW Interactive 2010 event in Austin, Cadmus has created a dedicated page for speakers at SXSWi.We've recently seen Twi... Read more

OneLogin: Enterprise-Class Security Services and OpenID For The Sma...

We're seeing a lot more discussion on the topic of single-sign on for SaaS environments. The issue is becoming more important as security emerges as a top concern for companies considering making the move to cloud-based environments. OneLogin is a new company that offers single sign-on, cloud-based service that allows for small and mid-sized companies to enjoy the same level of security as large enterprise companies. Sponsor Most small companies do not deploy security methods that employ S... Read more

IT failure: ‘Evil is the cure for incompetence’

I got a laugh from this Dilbert cartoon: Dilbert has a harsh view of the world that also contains some truth. I almost laugh when people tell me that human or cultural factors play no role in IT failures. Well, maybe I want to laugh, but actually, those views make cry. In general, technology from reputable vendors does work as advertised. Yes, the software may contain complexity, but enterprise software reflects real world business processes that are… well, you know, complic... Read more

While Facebook & Twitter Sit on Sidelines, MySpace Jumps Into Bulk ...

MySpace has taken a bold step and put a large quantity of bulk user data up for sale on startup data marketplace InfoChimps. Data offered includes user playlists, mood updates, mobile updates, photos, vents, reviews, blog posts, names and zipcodes. Friend lists are not included. Remember, Facebook and Twitter may be the name of the game these days in tech circles, but MySpace still sees 1 billion user status updates posted every month. Those updates will now be available for bulk analysis... Read more

Twitter Location? Thanks, But No Thanks

Twitter announced yesterday that it would finally be adding location support and, while they certainly appear to be doing it right, we have to wonder about the new feature. Twitter seems like it's a bit late to the game on this one, even though we've all been talking of the "location-based wars" lately. We already have Gowalla, Foursquare, MyTown, BrightKite and more - do we really need Twitter too? Sponsor First, we have to say that we're quite happy with the opt-in, "back out at any momen... Read more

Microdata support for Rich Snippets

Webmaster Level: AllHTML5 is the fifth major revision of HTML, the core language of the World Wide Web. The HTML5 specification includes a description of microdata, a new markup standard for specifying structured information within web pages.Today, we’re happy to announce support for microdata for use in rich snippets in addition to our existing support for microformats and RDFa. By using microdata markup in your web pages, you can specify reviews, people profiles, or events information on yo... Read more

AOL Launches Lifestream As New Standalone Product. This Is What Goo...

Aol launched Lifestream, a social aggregator and publisher, as part of their AIM platform at TechCrunch50 Last Fall. Since then it has gained nearly 2 million users, say Aol. Based on that success Aol is now launching Lifestream as a standalone product at lifestream.aol.com. Like Friendfeed, Lifestream aggregates a number of third party social networks – Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Foursquare, Delicious, Digg, Flickr, YouTube, etc., so if you follow a Lifestream user you’ll see all of the con... Read more

Introducing the Cycle of Transparency

In einem bemerkenswerten Artikel beschreibt Jake Brewer von der Sunlight Foundation die verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Instanzen, ihre Rollen und ihr Zusammenspiel für einen transparenten Staat: Introducing the Cycle of Transparency Government transparency is that rarest of political phenomena — a great idea with support across the political spectrum and popularity among the public. Yet, here we are in the 21st century with every tool we would need to make government more transparent and a... Read more

6 Thoughts About Location Madness

Location based social networks - are you over it already? It feels like location is all we ever hear about anymore, especially this week leading up to SXSW. We're excited about location too; see our enthusiastic write-ups What Twitter's Geolocation API Makes Possible and The Era of Location as Platform Has Arrived. But it's getting a little ridiculous. We offer below a few thoughts to consider about all this location madness. Sponsor That Phrase: "Location, Location, Location" You're go... Read more