Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Ashley Klein landed a real job after she graduated from Ball State University in 2006 – just not the one she wanted.Ever since, the English major turned business consultant has kept her résumé posted on the professional networking site LinkedIn, hoping it will help her find an editing or writing job better suiting her inter (Read More)
louisgray.com
Uber-blogger Robert Scoble came under criticism in late December when TechCrunch's Michael Arrington said he had neglected his blog, in factor of spending time on FriendFeed and Twitter. Arrington said It’s Time For A Friendfeed Intervention, saying he was contributing to the popularity of those services but getting nothing (Read More)
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From Discovery News:The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has given the green light for the world’s first commercial spaceport, New Mexico authorities said Thursday.…The system plans to take passengers approximately 100 kilometers (62 miles) into the sky. Virgin Galactic plans to welcome 500 passengers per year who will (Read More)
: There is so much potential to discover a world's first commercial spaceport. Like on a children's TV programme. Nice for them to have such big active plans for space. Third World crisis in Africe and such forth
FriendFeed hoffmann
With yesterday’s news that Social|Median was sold the start-up to German social network XING, CEO Jason Goldberg has cemented himself as the lead figure in what will surely be a case study in successfully developing, managing and exiting a Web 2.0 business. In whatever sequel there is to Sarah Lacy’s Once You’re Lucky, Twi (Read More)
: @thomaspower I have to assume since you work in the social media space that you have insights into germinating ideas. How exciting! As with every technologically-enabled social application advance the challenge will continue to be monetization. How to make profits to pay founder, staff and overhead.
Submitted by Eristoddle:
Social media mimics real relationships — in many cases. Would you do the following within real face-to-face relationships?. (Read More)
: Well, I like tje article and I am here for peaceful networking. I view yesterday on LI a pps by a dutchman that I liked particularly one of his slides:
To own is about building your ego. Sharing is about building a Network. To share means that what is good for you, can be good for others. Why keep it to yourself! The message is important. The messenger should not be a messiah
The Geek Media
Breathtaking and useful designs happen because the UI has been worked on tirelessly. It takes a real UI Master to understand how to make a terrific user experience on a website. Here are 10 extremely useful principles from some of the brightest minds in the User Interface field.User interfaces (UI) are what separate top-not (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
Twitter is emerging as a major force in breaking news. But some people disagree.Today we saw yet another illustration, when people in Mumbai got the word of terrorist attacks out to the world well before mainstream media even knew something was happening. Mathew Ingram points out previous examples of Twitter users breaking (Read More)
: That is the key that we have more primary witnesses to events. First hand history is always better in the long run than secondary and even tertiary sources or channels of information. As someone else mentioned it is brand new reporting territory and it is difficult to fact check tweets as well as there should be some sop's set up for how to use the channels in time of an emergency. So folks make situations potentially worse. Still twitter and Friendfeed are where I turned.
: twitter is a news source like conversations in the street are a news source. there is some value to verification of sources, to gathering information from news sources, to filtering out repetition and to presenting the news in a coherent fashion. these things twitter doesn't do but that is not to say it has no news value. as somewhere to trawl for raw data in the case of a breaking story, it may be valuable.
Submitted by Jonfa:
As a final word of warning, proceed cautiously with any polls that were in the field last night. Friday nights are difficult enough to poll, and holidays are difficult enough to poll, but when a Friday night coincides with a holiday (in this case, Halloween), getting an appropriate sample is all but impossible. (Read More)
: This is beginning to look like a five-state election. Those states are Virginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Nevada. Essentially all relevant electoral scenarios involve some combination of these five states.
I should caution that by far the most likely scenario is that Obama wins some relatively decisive victory of anywhere from 3-12 points in the popular vote. If Obama wins the popular vote by anything in this range, he will find plenty of blue territory, accumulating somewhere between 300-400 electoral votes. The electoral math will matter very little.
: The last time is tomorrow, i think what will be, will be, may God direct all America in order to make the right vote, and stay the first nation in the world.
Submitted by Nikki Pilkington:
Xing manages an easy second in terms of European business focused networks if seen in terms of user numbers, with France’s Viadeo third with around 1.5 million members. The UK’s Ecademy has around 170,000 individual profiles, but only 7,500 paying members - just 4% alongside Xing’s 8% of total paying membership. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
At the Web 3.0 Conference and Expo in Santa Clara today, Dave Beckett (principal software architect at Yahoo!) and Tom Hughes-Croucher (technical evangelist, Yahoo! Developer Network), answered questions about the recent consumer release of Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) and discussed the company's future plans to open up almo (Read More)
: The following is an excerpt of an article I wrote on the practical evolution from Web 2.0 to the semantic-based 3.0, and the eventual introduction of the Web 4.0 platform. (Note: a good portion of my research that led to the development of the Web 4.0 platform was funded by the Government of Canada's Scientific Research & Experimental Development Program.)
"And in a world of increased expectations, social technologies or platforms (nee Web 2.0) are refelctive of the speed by which critical information or knowledge is exchanged and made available on a mass populace basis.
However, one of the main keys to adoption are the filters that are used at the point of entry to differentiate opinion from viable subject matter. And this is where Web 2.0 serves as the starting point for the dynamic exchange of tangible ideas and ultimately the business processes that will define supply chain practice for the next 25 years and beyond.
In the latter instance, and extending beyond the semantic elements of the soon to be “released” Web 3.0, the Web 4.0 platform is an intelligent engagement mechanism that is capable of assembling and managing seemingly disparate streams of information (relational strands) into a collective outcome that has real-world applicability. And it is in this real-world applicability that the greatest value from a supply chain perspective can be achieved.
Think of it this way, what are the common element(s) linking the different strands represented by Kodak’s digital imaging marketing strategy, Higher Education supplier engagement programs and the development of regionalized (supply) clusters? Web 2.0 in its present form as an “important” entry point to Social Networking has not been structured to address this kind of query. And Web 3.0, which relies extensively on semantics or the correlation of common words, has proven to be unreliable in terms of providing accurate insights. Only Web 4.0 will be able to identify the relevancy of the link in a matter of seconds, and how the collective outcome of these individual elements will impact your organization’s supply chain practice.
Given the evolution of supply chain capability and professional competency through the Web 4.0 platform, the move by CPPC-CCMP to embrace Web 2.0 as a critical resource is not only timely, but also essential to maintaining it’s memberships’ ability to continue making a meaningful contribution in the arena of public sector procurement."
Links to associated articles in which the practical utilization of the Web 3.0 and introduction of the Web 4.0 platform are discussed:
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Here at team socialmedian, we think that this is how product development is supposed to work.Just last week we surveyed a sample of socialmedian users on a range of topics including potential new socialmedian features.Based on a user's suggestion, we included in the survey the potential new feature of enabling our users to (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Here at ReadWriteWeb, we've talked about how the hot new trend of lifestreaming has been taking off lately. Now the social news service Socialmedian aims to capitalize on that trend by releasing an upgrade to their service that features something they're calling "news streaming." Like lifestreaming, news streaming lets user (Read More)