Submitted by jasongoldberg:
Who are the top 50 people who made socialmedian great this year? Nominate your favorite Newsmakers by December 5, 2008. Nominate up to 5 Newsmakers by identifying their @username in the comments field to this story no later than December 5, 2008. The top 50 vote-getters will get a special socialmedian holiday gift (even (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It seems we're approaching a new age here on the Internet. Instead being anonymous, faceless IP addresses, social computing and changing technologies have allowed the lines between the "real" world and the "virtual" world to blur. Web 2.0 helped create a world where your identity is revealed in bits and pieces as you share (Read More)
: The new age is here, but the old one hasn't left...the "older" generation is still very skeptical...how many times do you hear people creeped out by the exposure while those of us leading the social networking age don't think twice
: I assume that everything I do while online is completely "naked" and exposed. Making the assumption of no anonymity seems to be a better course of action than making the assumption you have any privacy at all.
Submitted by magitam
from Google Reader:
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)It's that time again. The beginning of a new month, and also the time to highlight some unique, new and veteran members to follow on FriendFeed. In being true to one of my core values and practices of "promoting others more then I promote myself ", I like to give b (Read More)
Submitted by michaelfidler:
There aren’t many sites with 5 million users that we haven’t heard of, but Power.com is just that, and it’s a name you might be hearing a lot more of after it launches in the US today. (Read More)
: @michaelfidler I have yet to try it. I was going to until I read an excerpt of their TOS on Digg.
"Power.com will add unique links to your social sites which will allow you and your friends to conveniently access your personalized Power profile page (my.power.com/username), which contains all the value-added features and customizations you make to your Power page.
Integration of Accounts Power.com may at any time enhance your user experience with all the accounts that are added to your Power account by providing value-added services, inserting new features and functionalities, and adding new tools and widgets to your personal pages on all sites and accounts that you integrate together with your Power account."