Archive for April, 2006

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AT&T exec is hip to the future of social software

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

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Open source, ubiquitous APIs, Moore's Law bandwidth - lots of cool things discussed in this short (15 minute) presentation by president of AT&T Global Networking Technology services Hossein Eslambolchi.  Definitely worth 15 minutes of your time.  It's going to make me pay closer attention to AT&T ads in tech publications, for one thing.  Anything in here about Net Neutrality?  I missed it if there was, somebody else feel free to summarize or extrapolate.
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Technorati back up in China

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

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For those concerned about Technorati getting blocked in China, I just recieved an email from the editor of China Web2.0 Review, Tangos Chan, to let me know it is now accesible.  Here's his take on the situation.
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Gillmor Gang guested by Congdon, Jarvis and Edelman

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

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If you're in the mood for podcasts, the most recent edition of the Gillmor Gang is not to be missed. Topics covered include: new media vs. old and the changing advertising landscape. Amanda Congdon from , Jeff Jarvis from /About.com/NYTimes and Richard Edelman, head of the PR firm that represents Walmart and is smart enough to employ Steve Rubel, are all the guests. And it's only 30 minutes long! So if you are put off by the usual hour length of one of the best podcasts online - this could be your big chance to check it out. Very forward-looking stuff in this one.

Highlights off the top of my head are:

  • Did you know that Rocketboom gets around 300,000 viewers daily?  The long tail brings some episodes up to one million.  Having a deal withTivo helps I'm sure, but the conversation concluded that the future would be one where content finds its way to consumers in a wide variety of ways, not locked into a single Network.
  • Check out this Rocketboom interview with Dave Winer. (Winer thinks MySpace is training wheels for more sophisticated systems, like blogging.  Hmmmm....)
  • Richard Edelman says his company is talking to Technorati about some very interesting collaboration between advertiser conversation and bloggers.
Here's a link to the full episode, part I of several.
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This week’s highlights from eHub

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

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Lots of people love Emily Chang's eHub, a site she describes as "a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing."

I find it interesting that it has so many subscribers, almost 4600, and I imagine it's because people like the human editing of selections.  None the less, there are a lot of services posted there and I thought readers might enjoy an even further narrowing of the week's highlights.

From 39 services listed on eHub this week, my 5 favorite are:

EchoSign  you email someone a PDF that needs a signature.  They print and sign it, then fax it to an Echosign fax number.  Echosign then emails a signed PDF to all designated recipients. Lots of security, lots of cross platform functionality.   Pretty cool, I can imagine some uses for that.  It's a free service at the level where they store your 20 most recently sent documents.  More features and storage at higher price points.

BlinkSale online invoicing, 2nd version just released.  I'm going to look into this one later this month.

FeedRinse RSS feed filtering.  You set up conditions for an item in a feed to get past the filter, Feedrinse gives you a new feed that will only deliver the items that pass the test.  I love this service.  I use it all the time and just turned a client on to it yesterday.  With some creative thinking this opens up some neat possibilities.  Plus the site is so pretty to look at.  Doesn't seem like that complicated a task, but I've read elsewhere that feed filtering is process intensive enough that it makes sense to have a dedicated service in the consumer space.

EditGrid online, shared spreadsheets.  Editable with real time updates, imports and exports in
MS Excel, CSV, Gnumeric and OpenOffice.org Calc.  Looks pretty nice.  I know there a number of services like this out there, but I haven't done any in depth feature comparison.

Teamslide $99 bucks for AJAX based "screen sharing" type web conferency program?  I'm interested for sure, but don't know if I'll be plunking down a hundred for it.  It could be great, though!

Well, that's a wrap up of my favorites of the week from Emily Chang's eHub!  If people like this, maybe I'll make it a regular post.
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Blogdigger RSS adverts seek feedback

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

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It's been around awhile, but advertising in RSS feeds is set to expand greatly over the next few months.  Feedburner is making a big push.  I just found an ad in a Blogdigger feed that I found interesting enough to share here. 

I'm subscribed to a Blogdigger search for my name and in the feed a minute ago there was an item that was just an advertisement.  It was for OurMedia, which is very cool (even if only marginally functional), and that's contextual to my work in the both the nonprofit and social software sector.  It was strange to see a whole item as an ad, it took me a minute to stop looking for my search term in the item.  There's a link at the end for feedback on the advertising, which is great!  I took some screen caps that you can find along with more thoughts after the jump.


bloggdigger feed ad

So there's the ad.  Not as subtle as I might like, but as long as I know they are coming, they don't come too often and they are as contextual to my search as possible - then go ahead and make your money Blogdigger.  For goodness sake, we all have to make a living!

Here's the feedback page:

blogdigger feed ad feeback
I love that kind of communication.  Go Blogdigger!  The one thing that's strange is that clicking any of the above links takes me away from this page!  So I'd better have strong opinions about one of these questions and not the others.  Oops.

On a related note, if this Monday's episode of For Immediate Release catches your eye because of the discussion of RSS advertising - don't bother.  Unlike most of their shows, this one is a real stinker.  (Sorry!)  For much more informed discussion of RSS advertising and more, check out Rok Hrastnik's MarketingStudies.net
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On Salesforce.com’s service interruptions

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

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Bizweek's Steve Hamm has an interesting write up today on the all-too-frequent down time at Salesforce.com.  As probably the darling of the Software as a Service set, Salesforce's woes make an interesting case study for the sector in general.  Hamm chronicles the company's desperate attempts to make downtime less frequent and CEO Marc Benioff's frustration with the situation.

My thoughts include:

It's nice to see some one so prominent talking about this problem in a major forum.  The web application sector in general has got to get this problem under control and if web 2.0 is largely about transparency then it would be nice to hear more from other vendors about what they are doing about it.

Salesforce has taken great steps to keep users informed on the status of their services, including near real time reporting.  How many of your vendors don't even have a blog, much less regular communication concerning their service delivery issues?

Perhaps this can be a talking point for those of us encouraging people to have faith in other services in particular.  I know I've told people in the past things like, "You think the site I designed for you has a lot of validation errors?  You should see CNN.com!"  (Eek.)  I can totally see myself telling people similarly, "I know it's frustrating that service X is down right now, but even Salesforce.com goes down all the time!"  This is not ideal.

Benioff goes so far as to tell Hamm that service interruptions lead to more press which leads to spikes in sales!  Talk about no press is bad press.  I can't believe he said that, but I guess largess enables even further transparency.
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Milblogger conference coverage round-up

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

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This weekend saw the Milblogger Conference in Washington D.C. and online.  The gathering of military bloggers and their supporters has been covered throughout the blogosphere and by the BBC.  Good places to catch up on the role of blogging in the military world include: 

Blogs link families with children at war
, BBC, today
Milbloggers With Attitude, Beltaway Blogroll

It's interesting to see how the Command and Control paradigm mixed with Good Old Boy raucousness you see mixed in the military play out in the super free-form of the blogosphere.  It's also interesting to see where these blogs are in terms of technical adoption, aesthetic  priorities and editorial focus relative to blogs of different political persuasions.
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List of Social Bookmarking Websites

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

aworldofhelp - aworldofhelp.com is home to the highest rated links on the web. It is a community where users can ask questions and discuss whatever is on their mind.

Backflip - Backflip gets you back to the good stuff. It’s the easiest way to save and share important things you see on the Web. With Backflip’s organization and powerful search, you’ll never lose anything interesting again.

beanrocket - Beanrocket.com is a news reader and community.

BlinkBits - Start a Blink on a topic which pulls info from a list of suggested feeds, add additional feeds to the topic, share their own information on the topic, discover information from feeds and visitors on the topic, and edit and delete any information (from feeds or visitors). Also, share & discover from anywhere with tools like their Google Toolbar Buttons, BlinkBits Bookmarklets, RSS Feeds & more.

Blinklist - Social bookmarking with nice interface, rating system, thumbnails, easy import options, and new ways for organizing tags.

blogmarks - Blogmarks.net is a free & open bookmarks manager based on keywords (aka Tags) and sharing. With Blogmarks.net you’ll be able to store and share with other users your favorite websites trough a “blog-like” technology. Your bookmarks will now be available from any internet connection and accessible from a variety of others services trough their API.

Buddymarks - At BuddyMarks.com you can store all your favorites on-line and be able to get to them from anywhere. So, you can have your favorites with you anywhere, share them with your friends, learn about new websites from your friends, and browse and add to the public favorite space.

CiteUlike - CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there’s no need to type them in yourself.

Clipmarks - Clipmarks is not a bookmarking solution! Clipmarks is about breaking down the web into pieces instead of pages. When you find something in a web page that interests you, clip it. By adding tags to clipmarks, you’re able to create your own searchable collection of things you’ve clipped from the web. Clipmarks is also about seeing and discussing things that other people are clipping.

CommonTimes - CommonTimes is an interactive news site where you select the top stories and share your views about the day’s events. You can also add stories from the CommonTimes site by clicking Bookmark on any story. You can automatically add stories to CommonTimes when posting to Del.icio.us and vice vera.

connectedy - Connectedy lets you easily add new links to your account while you are surfing the web.

Connotea - Connotea is a free website to help researchers and clinicians manage and share information.

del.icio.us - The most popular bookmarking application, del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else’s. Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, restaurant reviews, and more on del.icio.us and access them from any computer on the web. Share favorites with friends, family, and colleagues. Discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone’s favorite - they’ve already done the work of finding it. Explore and enjoy.

de.lirio.us - Social Bookmarking, Tagging, Blogging & Notes. Mmmmmm, Notes. Moving to Simpy.

diigo - By combining social bookmarking, clippings, in situ annotation, tagging, full-text search of everything, easy sharing and interactions, Diigo provides a powerful personal tool and a rich social platform.

digg - Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

DinnerBuzz - Dinnerbuzz is a social guide to restaurants, bars, and coffee shops. It’s designed to make it easier for you to find a place for dinner or drinks anywhere in the world.

FeedMarker - Feedmarker is a free, web-based RSS/Atom aggregator with bookmarks and tagging. Feedmarker lets you bookmark items from the Web and read RSS and Atom feeds. It also lets you organize all your stuff (feeds and marks) using an open tagging system. Tags are an important part of Feedmarker. When you add feeds or marks, make sure to tag them with keywords that make sense to you, so you can find them later. You can also look at what other people have saved by using the tags menu on the right side of the page.

Feed Me Links! - Feed Me Links is a web application to manage your bookmarks/links/favorites. Although it provides several interesting features for sharing links, it’s primary goal is to help you organize and use your links, while helping you find new things you’ve not seen before.

FlipSkipper - A social bookmarking manager that allows users to pull concurrent searches from Yahoo, Google News, and del.icio.us while surfing.

frassle - Frassle helps you read and publish weblogs, track bookmarks, and find relevant content organized your way. Note: Frassle is no longer being actively developed. It still functions as a blog publishing platform, but the aggregator is disabled and many other pieces are left in an incomplete state.

Furl - LookSmart’s Furl.net, one of the first tagging and social bookmarking tools to hit the Web, was honored in the May 2006 issue of PC World, the most widely-read computer or business magazine, as one of the “101 Fabulous Freebies.” Furl will archive any page, allowing you to recall, share, and discover useful information on the Web. Browse your personal archive of Web pages, and subscribe to other archives via RSS.

GetBoo - Keep links to your favorite news, blogs, music, games, and more on GetBoo and access them from any computer on the web. Import/Export these links from your browser’s bookmarks and view them with the same hierarchy. Share favorites with friends, family, and colleagues. Find new things. Everything on GetBoo is someone’s favorite - they’ve already done the work of finding it. Explore and enjoy.

Give a Link - GiveALink is a public site where people can donate their bookmarks for academic research to the Web community. Bookmarks are analyzed to build a new generation of Web mining techniques and new ways to search, recommend, surf, personalize and visualize the Web.

Gravee - Gravee combines the results of many different search engines together for the best of all search algorithms in a single set of results. In addition, Gravee applies its own proprietary TagScore relevancy algorithm on top of that to further refine the quality our results. The Gravee Search Affiliate program enables Web site owners to make money twice - once via our AdShare program just for having a Web site whose content appears in our search results when ads are clicked, and again for driving search traffic to Gravee.com.

igooi - igooi is Free Social Online Bookmark Community that help you save your web findings, and share your web findings with others easily. You may think igooi = “i google it”. It means you own your collection of web findings, and find it again easily and efficiently.

jots - Jots is a collaborative bookmarking system that allows you to store, share and discover relevant links. Store your own links and choose whether to share them with the world, with a select group of people or just for yourself to use. Discover new links based on specific users or topics of interest.

kinja - Kinja is a weblog guide, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web. Visitors can browse items on topics or they can create a convenient personal digest, to track their favorite writers.

Library Thing - Catalog your books online or keep a reading list. Show everyone your library, or keep it private. Find people with the same books as you. Get recommendations from readers like you. Tag your books as on Del.icio.us and Flickr.

Lilisto - Lilisto lets you store, manage and find your favorite links (or bookmarks) and removes the need to maintain them through your browser.

Linkagogo - With their unique dynamic bookmark toolbars you will have your favorite sites always at hand. Also, provides additional presentation customization ranging from text-based, fast-loading lists of bookmarks to a feature-rich colorful online Favorites Portal.

linkfilter - linkfilter.net is just what the name implies, a link filter. All links are posted and moderated by users. Links can be ranked on several levels: clicks, votes, age, or a combination of all three called points.

Linkroll - Linkroll is not a place to store private bookmarks, everything is public. At a personal level you can bookmark, categorize and comment on all the great web pages/links you find. All your bookmarks are then sortable and searchable by category and date. Also, Linkroll enables you to create personal podcast channels.

Listible - By using Web 2.0 features such as AJAX, folksonomy (tagging), social elements such as voting/commenting and the listible’s listonomy (listing), resources can be sorted in a way that will be digestible. You can search what you need quick.

looklater - Bookmark links, pages or images; automatically save context with each bookmark; search in titles or context or browse by date or site; tag bookmarks and import your existing tags; no software to install, just a bookmarklet; integrates with del.icio.us, Google, eBay and more!

lookmarks - Lookmarks helps you organize your links. Unlike traditional bookmarks, the links you create with Lookmarks are searchable and available from anywhere.

LQ Bookmarks - Social Bookmarking, tagging and annotating all things Linux and Open Source.

Magnolia - Access to a human-organized bookmark collection that numbers in the millions, but is as easy to use as a search engine.

MemeStreams - MemeStreams combines the power of weblogs and social networking. The members of our community work together to find interesting content on the web. As you use the site, it learns your interests, and provides new links it thinks you will like.

My Progs - Keep a list of the programs you use online and find new software.

netvouz - Netvouz is a social bookmark manager where you can store your favorite links online and access them from any computer. Netvouz features your own bookmarks page, public and private bookmarks, hotpickes, automatic link validation, easily bookmark new sites, import and export, RSS, JavaScript and HTML feeds, clean user interface and more!

Newsvine - A place to read, write, and discuss the news. A free Newsvine account allows youto begin commenting, chatting, and writing your own column.

Raw Sugar - Socially enhanced web search based on hierarchal tagging of bookmarks and favorites. Includes multi-word categories, a mechanism to define and rename categories, import from del.icio.us and hierarchy relationships to tagging.

Reader2 - Put your reading list online and find new books to read.

reddit - reddit is a source for what’s new and popular on the web — personalized for you. Your votes train a filter, so let reddit know what you liked and disliked, because you’ll begin to be recommended links filtered to your tastes.

Rollyo - Create personal search engines. Your searchroll is a collection of the sites you trust and find useful. It’s a personal search engine you create to provide relevant results from a hand selected list of reliable sites. You can make as many searchrolls as you want and discover and save those created by others.

Scuttle - Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online. Must download software.

Shadows - Shadows is the link-sharing website for people. By people. With Shadows, you have the power to discover the web’s most fascinating content – the most interesting pages saved, discussed, and rated by you, your friends, and the Shadows community.

Simpy - Simpy is a social bookmarking service. With Simpy, you can save, tag and search your own bookmarks and notes or browse and search other users’ links and tags. You can be open and share your links with others, or keep them private. Simpy also helps you find like-minded people, discover new and interesting sites, publish your bookmarks, detect and eliminate link-rot, etc…

siteTagger - SiteTagger.com is a bookmark/favorite organizer. You can bookmark websites you find on the internet via a simple button/favlet/bookmarklet that you can add to your browser link bar. This button makes it as simple as a click to bookmark a website page that you are visiting. The true power comes from the tags.

Spurl - Best known for our online bookmarking service, Spurl.net, Spurl provides search and information management solutions for individuals, corporations and portals alike.
If you are a portal owner, looking for new revenue streams for your site, a website owner looking for a better search engine to use on the site or an individual looking for an online data storage, Spurl may have what you are looking for.

Squidoo - An online platform that makes it easy for anyone to build lenses on topics they are passionate about. These lenses help you find a unique, human perspective on things that interest you… fast. Not only can Lensmasters spread their ideas, get recognized for their expertise, and send more traffic to their Web sites and blogs—they could also earn royalties.

Stumble Upon - StumbleUpon helps you discover great websites. With a single click you can find and share cool sites matched to your interests. Must download software.

Sync2It - BookmarkSync is a private social bookmark community offering real-time automatic synchronization services that allow you to securely access your bookmarks and favorites from any computer or any browser, anywhere in the world. You can access your links through mobile devices, RSS feeds, javascript syndication, JSON feeds, and more!

TagHop - Add your latest links and thoughts; read, rate and comment on others. Choose your friends, know what they are seeing - let them know what you find cool. Join communties with similar interests. Collaborate.

tagtooga - Discover great sites difficult to find in Google/Yahoo by browsing categories. Submit your site and be automatically syndicated to other sites via HTML feeds. Keep your favorite links in a place that can be accessed from any computer.

Technorati - Technorati is the authority on what’s going on in the world of weblogs.

The Things I Want - A universal wishlist service with social bookmarking and RSS feeds.

unalog - You can look at what various people and groups of people are reading on the web here. You can get an account and add your own links, and create and join groups here too.

URLex - With URLex system you are able to leave a comment regarding any internet link on any site. The comments are available either only to you and your friends, or anyone visiting the site. You can enter communities, or create your own, exchange links there. You can restrict the access to your comments by creating a closed community and providing access to the information by issuing special invitation.

Web Feeds - Web Feeds is a social bookmark site with a difference. Users moderate and decide which items make it to the home page.

Wiklink - WikLink is a small web application
for a communauty of users who wants to share their bookmarks online. Anyone can freely edit or modify the links.

Wink - Tag pages you like. Create and share Collections about any topic, Re-rank search results. Vote up/down with your mouse to customize your results (and make them better for everyone).

wists - Visual bookmarks, wishlists, photoblogs and more.

Yahoo My Web - What you’ll see here only scratches the surface of what My Web can do. It’s not just an application—it’s an entire platform with an open API.

Yoono - Yoono is a tool for collaborative searching, sharing and exchanging information. Its particularity is bringing together functions which are more or less already available on the web but are scattered Yoono includes Social Bookmarking functions… Must download software.

technorati tags: bookmarks, bookmarking, social bookmarks, social bookmarking, bookmark sites.

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BBC.com to undergo major overhaul - will become like MySpace

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

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The BBC's internet component is aiming to undergo a radical transformation putting user generated content and sharing at the center of its offerings. The Guardian has good coverage and calls the vision a "public service version of MySpace." They are even holding a contest for people to design the front page in a manner that best integrates Wikipedia, Technorati, YouTube, Flickr, etc.  Called Creative Future, the initiative is described by the BBC Director-General as "a big shock."

Also starting tomorrow,
site visitors will for the first time be able to search the BBC's entire program catalogue as far back as 1937.
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Enterprise wikis for knowledge capture

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

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InternetNews.com has a long story about a new enterprise wiki service called BizWiki from CustomerVision that includes some interesting discussion about enterprise wiki use in general.  Some highlights from the article:

It's all about capturing knowledge before oldsters retire - retaining intellectual capital and dynamically building a content bank.  Mass retirements may be right around the corner and organizations need to find effective ways to prevent devastating knowledge loss.

One Bank exec says he's using the wiki to respond to e-mail questions more efficiently.

"Financial services entities need quick, clear and concise responsiveness to electronic customer inquiries; these cannot take days to be responded to, nor can they build up into a project," he said in an e-mail to the author of the article.
The wiki company doesn't talk about wiki technology, they say, instead they focus on the need to collaborate.  The company site's front page does have the word wiki all over it, though - so it's not as if they are hiding anything.

The company says their software (and I'd contend wikis in general) are as easy to use as email and have much of the power of a formal document management system.

An interesting cautionary point:  the company emphasizes that enterprise-wide wikis are far less likely to be useful than wikis targeting particular communities of interest in an enterprise.  That's true of knowledge management initiatives generally, it's said.  It's in the Community of Interest/Practice context that key information is most likely to be findable and shared.
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Is vertical search viable still?

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

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Stephen Baker over at BlogSpotting writes a short post about vertical search as he watches a Vivisimo presentation on the topic.  Two examples provided by the speaker are firstgov.gov and  a Ben Franklin vertical search page on Clusty (Ben Franklin?).  It makes me wonder - is vertical search really a viable milieu? Baker titles his post "Could Vertical Search Supplant SEO?"  The only answer to that seems like a big No - general search and SEO are just so simple for users.

Conceptually it sounds great, but I don't know of too many consumer facing vertical search engines worth using.  Do readers here use vertical (topic specific) search engines?  Government documents might make sense.  Ok, job and classified search, maybe medical.  I like GovTrack.us.  Does blog search count as vertical search?  Does looking at intersecting tags in del.icio.us count? Local search?  Perhaps my interests are just too narrow, but I have a hard time getting excited about this field relative to it's impact in the abstract.  General web and blog search seem powerful enough that a good query finds me what I need. Some one please turn me on to some exciting vertical search options.
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Broadcast Yourself Live From Your Own Web Page: Stickam Is Here

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
Stickam is a new unique communication and online collaboration widget that can be embedded into any web page. It allows to publish audio and video clips, images, as well as to interact in real-time with other people via text chat......
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New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 49

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
Remote access to your PC from anywhere via mobile phone Podcast search engine allows creation and sharing of channels Server monitoring service makes it easy and free to track server status Desktop music player tracks and reports your music......
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New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 48

Sunday, April 16th, 2006
Where online collaboration starts and where individual isolated applications end is going to become a next to invisible borderline, as most applications are gradually drifting toward the integration of some form of collaborative features. Photo credit: M. Brozek Sharing, is......
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Social Networking Meets Music Listening: Mercora Launches Radio 2.0

Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Social networking is the ability to help to connect with friends, business partners, or other individuals using a variety of communication and social mapping tools. The more social networking systems self-embed elements and characteristics of what causes spontaneous person-to-person relationships......