Obama preacher video. I can see watching a bit of it why Obama’s come in for criticism. Anyhow, guess on the positive side ‘all’ Obama has to do is back up his talk about transcending racial differences, with some real transcendent action. Now that should be interesting to see. Would win him some votes too, [...]
Stuart Glendinning Hall
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Report: Web 2.0 funding in U.S. slows, except at Facebook
Venture capitalists pumped a record $1.34 billion into 178 so-called Web 2.0 deals in the U.S. in 2007, up nearly 88 percent over amounts invested in 2006 — but social networking company Facebook Inc. accounted for 22 percent of it all..
Facebook establishing new privacy controls
PALO ALTO, California: Facebook has announced the introduction of privacy controls that give users of the social-networking site the ability to preserve social distinctions between friends, family and co-workers..
The machinery of hope?
…”They’ve married the incredibly powerful online community they built with real on-the-ground field operations. We’ve never seen anything like this before in American political history.” (That’s the Obama campaign, btw;-) (Rolling Stone, March 2008) — follow-up blog at ‘Portals and KM‘, March 17, 2008.
What Cambridge taught me, to teach myself
Apart from the value of a sense of humour/what Cambridge taught me was <not surprisingly having studied history and sps> = the theory & practice of dialectics.
PS: it’s Ted’s 95th birthday today..
AOL to buy Bebo — is the bubble already over?
AOL to buy social networking site Bebo:
(Andy Beal, Market Pilgrim) As you’ve probably heard AOL today (er, yesterday for me;-) announced the acquisition of social networking site Bebo for $850 million.
Sure, we could discuss how this will help AOL turn AIM and ICQ into an uber-social network. We could also discuss how Yahoo and Google [...]
Integrating social networks behind the corporate firewall
It occurred to me that with the current trend for building social networking sites behind the corporate firewall that this will stimulate demand for existing data to be able to interact with that. Which is not an easy job, but one with real business benefits. Then the social network is not just a nice place to [...]
Getting Real
To get the online version of the 37Signals blockbuster go to http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ then click on http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php then begin reading with http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch01_What_is_Getting_Real.php though I personally skipped to the value of writing skills.
Facebook’s key lesson — give users more control
Zuckerberg said the episode (the Beacon furore) taught him an important lesson. “Almost all of the mistakes we made, we didn’t give people enough control,” he said. “We need to give people complete control over their information. The more control and the more granular the control, the more info people will share and the more [...]
Don’t get mad, get ‘even’
Scrapped this off my Google Alert. I’d just like to say, what do you mean ‘even people in The Long Tail’? I mean surely this is a classic case of where the Long Tail is going to really hit some home runs. No ‘even’ about it. Forget Facebook etc, the Long Tail niche has got [...]