Notes"As I have written before, publishers are increasingly leveraging their authors’ own personal platform to market their books. With more than 400,000 books published each year, it is harder to make an impact without a platform strategy."Unfurl
Notes"There are some great things happening in social media in Metro Detroit. If there was one clear lesson from last night’s gathering of Twitterati from the Metro area, it’s that SF, Boston, Austin & Toronto are NOT the only social media hotspots."Unfurl
Notes"it really is true that if you haven't done it, that is: been intimately involved growing a social web app from prototype to large/giant-scale on a UNIX stack, then you really don't know shit."Unfurl
Notes"Cutting-edge social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia stopped issuing new user credentials last night and now requires new users to create a Ma.gnolia account using an OpenID from somewhere else."Unfurl
Notes"Here's a toolbar bookmarklet that looks for a MyBlogLog identifier on the page you're on, and uses the MyBlogLog API to dig out information about its reader roll"Unfurl
Notes"Enter the infobot: an autonomous program that converses with users. Infobots are an ongoing experiment in how we can interact as communities with a common institutional memory."Unfurl
NotesNoticing one thing missing from most tagging schemes: Preservation of the order of tags as entered with the item. Seems minor, but it's actually important for capturing intent.FeedUnfurl
Notes"HelloTxt is an aggregate of microblogging services through which the user can insert their messages on all main microblogging services in a simply and simultaneous way."Unfurl
Notes"which is 150, represents a theorized cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable social relationships,"Unfurl
Notes"Filip has his RSS feed set up to include daily summaries of his del.icio.us activity. But I already get that data through my network feed. I just want his regular blog posts."Unfurl
Notes"Imagine if Google made a more open social networking tool than Facebook all via RSS feeds? Stick that into your RSS feed reader and smoke it!"Unfurl
Notes"Language allows you to "pick fleas" on more than one person at a time. Allows us to keep track of lots of poeple and who knows what and who and how they fit together and how you fit in with them."Unfurl
Notes"The Next Big Thing? · Two fearless predictions: it’ll be about a new way to connect to people, and it won’t show up first on either Techmeme or TechCrunch."Unfurl
Notes"A Level 3 platform available BOTH as a hosted service and source code download. Now anyone can have their own platform, running it on GoDaddy and mesh into a distributed web - which will connect into open APIs from Google, Microsoft and hopefully Yahoo aUnfurl
Notes"Will people show up just to see me without having their friends, photos and Zombie bites one glance away? Facebook has become to the Internet what RSS readers are to the blogosphere."Unfurl
Notes"The following describes a simple protocol for enumerating the members of a group and for determining whether a given identifier is a member of a group."Unfurl
Notes"Disemvoweling (also spelled disemvowelling) is a technique used by forum moderators to suppress trollage, vandalism, and other rude behavior in online discourse by removing all the vowels from the offending material."Unfurl
Notes"As good as the social networks and tags in sites like del.icio.us and Flickr are, we need more vias and more back-at-yas to shape the flow and promote the conversation, and therefore the implicature, that is necessary for the personal, meaningful, helpfuUnfurl
Notes"I hearby declare to you, don't let your children grow up to be Generalists. Save them before it's too late. Teach them the value of specializing in niches."Unfurl
Detroit Tweetup Recap : Colin’s Blog
Layoffs and Social Media (by Jeremy Zawodny)
Identity Hub (WebSeitz/wikilog)
BBC NEWS | Technology | Pull down the walled gardens
