Submitted by Nikki Pilkington:
The Twitter universe visualized in differnt ways - grouped into four categories - network diagrams, maps, analytics, and abstract. (Read More)
Submitted by Amitai Givertz:
Social Media is everywhere these days. In the past 6 months, I must have signed up to dozens of social media sites, used them once or twice and then abondoned then to the box of neglected toys. The onslaught started slowly. We made friendster/MySpace/Facebook profiles, some of us started personal blogs, we got digg, del.ici (Read More)
: I would venture to say that what is noise to one may in fact be signal to another: personally, I get tired of slogging through all the tech feeds to find the 5% that are useful for work and perhaps 5% that interest me personally. But then again, that's what I've got Yahoo pipes for: to help me filter the noise before it ever gets to me. Don't see why one couldn't go the same route to filter, say, an unwanted Twitter follower.
: @nigelwalsh @isthisstupid Merge them and filter them when you do! I like the notion of a signal to noise ratio, and I also remember not to pigeon hole. Some fool might be mostly noisy (mostly cloudy?), but as the good Bard has helped us to know: often the fool says the most profound thing.
It's possible that the one signal from a noisy "friend" might surpass the many signals from a guru.
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
socialmedian users can now instantly TWEET any story on socialmedian on Twitter. Just click on "Share" then "Tweet". (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
NEW YORK, New York -- July 31, 2008 -- socialmedian,http://www.socialmedian.com, a new social news network that isworking on solving the information overload problem, opened itswebsite to the public today. The public launch follows a four monthinvite-only alpha period with more than 4300 participantsfrom around the world. T (Read More)
: socialmedian is a user-driven website both in the manner in which it has been developed as well as in the functioning of the site.
The company released its first code to an early set of alpha users in March 2008. Users can submit feature requests directly on the website. More than 350 user-submitted features have been built and launched on the site during the alpha period.
Submitted by Rafe:
I'm testing out socialmedian by posting this story. I'm also hoping that socialmedian does not fall into the category of products I discuss in this post. (Read More)
Of course, we too hope that socialmedian does not fall into the category of products you discussed.
Here are a few reasons we think not.
1. We have built socialmedian over the course of 2008 with the direct help and input of thousands of people from around the world who have participated in our alpha. It's not a product looking for an audience rather an audience-built product.
2. We have chosen not to demo at Demo (asked but we turned down because there is no point in us paying $18K to demo socialmedian at this point), nor at TC50 (discussed with Mike but we both agree that socialmedian with 4300 alpha users is further along than stealth startup). We are working with TC on a different sort of presence by socialmedian at TC50. Stay tuned.
3. We're solving a real problem here at socialmedian: The noise factor. All these web 2.0 apps have turned the volume way up. We're helping people filter down the noise to personal interests. Which we think may be a web 3.0 beginning.
: Heh - I love Rafe. He is our generation's John C. Dvorak. Rafe, what age did Dvorak transition from being a krumudgin to being a cranky old man? "Get off my Web 2.0 you darn kids!!!"
Submitted by Antoine Bertier:
Very good article by Cory Doctorow, analyzing the consequences of a scary deal in the UK whereby the record industry got ISPs to spy on traffic and reduce performance of the internet connections of copyright infringers. (Read More)
Belongs to the News Networks :
none (yet) -- click "share" to share with a network.