Social Computing Strategist

"One of the most anticipated days in the history of social networking site Facebook has finally come: the company announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos visible to the public at large by default instead of being visible only to a user's approved friends." - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

Hash tags were cool for about 10 minutes. But then they started to remind us of IRC, Meta Data, and reading a book written in another language. - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

"Metadata is "data about data" -- information like keywords, page-length, title, word-count, abstract, location, SKU, ISBN, and so on. Explicit, human-generated metadata has enjoyed recent trendiness, especially in the world of XML. A typical scenario goes like this: a number of suppliers get together and agree on a metadata standard -- a Document Type Definition or scheme -- for a given subject area, say washing machines. They agree to a common vocabulary for describing washing machines: size, capacity, energy consumption, water consumption, price. They create machine-readable databases of their inventory, which are available in whole or part to search agents and other databases, so that a consumer can enter the parameters of the washing machine he's seeking and query multiple sites simultaneously for an exhaustive list of the available washing machines that meet his criteria. If everyone would subscribe to such a system and create good metadata for the purposes of describing their... more... - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

"There are literally thousands of "web 2.0" companies, and until now, there's been no easy way to compare which ones are getting traffic. The list of 952 sites below was inspired by the list started by Bob Stumpel and then added to by many others" - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

"With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Future Internet, an initiative driven by the European Union, has become a prime research focus of STI International and the Service Web 3.0 project. In order to explain, promote, and attract new contributotrs, we created a video to be viewed by stakeholders, who may be non-experts, in a new generation Internet. The video outlines the basic themes of the European Union's Future Internet initiative. These include: an Internet of Services, where services are ubiquitous; an Internet of Things where in principle every physical object becomes an online addressable resource; a Mobile Internet where 24/7 seamless connectivity over multiple devices is the norm; and the need for semantics in order to meet the challenges presented by the dramatic increase in the scale of content and users. The video has proved to be popular and has already appeared on the main pages of the EU Future... more... - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

"CIOs think about privacy the way some people think about exercise: with a sigh and a sense of impending pain. Outside of regulated industries like health care - where patient privacy is paramount - privacy affects CIOs as a corollary of security when, say, a laptop holding millions of people's records is lost or hackers siphon off customer data. "CIOs generally don't care about privacy," says Peter Milla, former CIO and chief privacy officer at Survey Sampling International (SSI). Milla says most CIOs either focus on technology, or regard privacy as outside their domain, the province of a chief privacy or chief security officer. He finds both attitudes wrongheaded. CIOs, Milla says, should "want to be ahead of the curve" on privacy." - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

"First came the social networks: MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, LinkedIn, and the rest -- places to find and connect with people, share daily information about work and personal life, post photos, display content, and so on. Though their profit models remain somewhat elusive, their identities in the market are by now well established. Now here come the aggregators: FriendFeed, Ping.fm, MyBlogLog, Plaxo, and dozens more, with the promise to simplify and consolidate the process of participating in multiple social networks and bringing status updates together with social bookmarks, instant messages, blog content, RSS feeds, rich media, podcasts, gift lists, and even Netflix queues -- all in one simple view. Is this a radical move toward a truly open Web, where social relationships are detached from the custody of proprietary systems? Or is it a simple ploy to divert eyeballs -- and therefore advertising revenues -- away from the underlying networks? If so, what if it works? What if... more... - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

I'll need to take some time to read that article thoroughly - Zackatoustra

"A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 (aka Social Networking Tools) in Your Organization A lot of organizations are struggling with what to do with a host of costly, high-maintenance technologies that they have introduced in the last decade, hoping these technologies would produce (a) improved internal productivity, and (b) better relationships with customers" - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

"There are a slew of social media aggregation sites willing, waiting, and wanting to pull your updates, videos, photos, links, music, "shares," "likes," and other content from all around the web. A few of them work well, some have really cool features, and others have critical mass. But none of them are as drop-dead good-looking - or as customizable - as AmpliFeeder, a free, open-source distributed social activity aggregator. The only major drawback: It's the kind of web app that needs to be installed on a server. But a hosted version is in the works, and the screen shots prove it's so worth the effort. AmpliFeeder aggregates items from Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Google Shared Items, Tumblr, Digg, Reddit, LastFM, Stumbleupon, Delicious, Upcoming, Mixx, BrightKite, and more. It can also handle any RSS feeds you throw at it." - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

"Brad Fitzpatrick recently wrote an elegant and important post about the Social Graph, a term used by Facebook to describe their social network. In his post, Fitzpatrick defines "social graph" as "the global mapping of everybody and how they're related". He went on to outline the problems with it, as well as a broad set of goals going forward" - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

Media creation and editing tools for graphics, animations, video, audio - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

One of the most complex features of Twitter (Twitter reviews) for new users to understand is the hashtag, a topic with a hash symbol (”#”) at the start to identify it. Twitter hashtags like #followfriday help spread information on Twitter while also helping to organize it. - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

"As web users demand more convenience and interactivity, the old model of having a unique username and password on each site is being placed with a universal web identity." - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

"I enjoyed yesterday's lecture on the theme of symbiosis. The audience all understood the subject area and it was thus possible to go further faster than with a more general audience. It was recorded so I hope to be able to make the podcast available soon. My overall theme was that the field of knowledge management seen as an aspect of sense-making is caught between the horns of a dichotomy (well it begins with a d). On one side we have the traditional approach that was all too commonly focused on creating a hierarchical taxonomy and on the other the assumption that some how or other various semantic tools will manage to stitch together the rich fragmented fields of social computing. Now both of these extremes have high utility, but within boundaries. Where either dominates without recognition of the other an organisation is poorer in consequence." - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

Makes perfect sense. You’d like to share those moments with your friends, and they’re already there on social networks… why bother with an additional service… so I guess Youtube is next - Sachendra

"Depending on which numbers you look at these days, about a third of all companies right now are using Enterprise 2.0-style tools to enable collaboration and management of their knowledge. This is in stark contrast to just three years ago when the only tools most workers could count on for communicating with others and sharing knowledge was e-mail, the phone, and if they were lucky, an instant messaging or content management application." - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

"Although there is evidence that the two styles will converge in the future, enterprise and consumer Web architecture and technology are quite different today. If one talks to an enterprise application architect, he or she will probably say that while consumer Web applications are cute, simple, and sometimes useful, their architectures and technologies are merely a bunch of scripts and hacks put together. If one talks to a consumer Web architect, she or he will probably say that enterprise software is overly complex, often unusable, and based on over-priced and under-performing technologies" - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

"a list of over 100 vendors (and more in the comments) of vendors that offer commodity community software." - Stephen Dale from Bookmarklet

Nothing scientific here-just my favorite articles and posts about FB for Feb...some good pieces: Fortune profile, TOS controversies, Engaged brands on FB, Mixing Generations, Marking on FB, humor and more - mark ivey from Bookmarklet