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Turbulence Commission: The ShiftSpace Commissions Program by Dan Phiffer and Mushon Zer-Aviv - Turbulence has commissioned ShiftSpace and now ShiftSpace commissions you. ONLY 27 DAYS LEFT! APPLY NOW! Ten development grants of up to $2,000 will be awarded to individuals and collectives using ShiftSpace as a platform to create new “Spaces” and “Trails”. About ShiftSpace: While the Internet’s design is widely understood to be open and distributed, control over how users interact online has gi

Original post by Networked_Performance

The much touted (and I gotta admit, kind of fun) not-Twitter clone has now opened to the public!  Pownce ended the limited enrollment beta this morning at 12:01.  Head on over and start Powncing!  Feel free to look me up as well. Technorati Tags: pownce, twitter, social network, open to the public

Original post by ArsGeek

I was invited over to Thinkbox last week to talk metrics with their Research & Strategy Director, David Brennan. For those of you who don’t know Thinkbox was set up three years ago to market the main UK broadcasters’ (C4, C5, GMTV, ITV, SkyMedia, Turner, Viacom) offerings to advertisers. Not an easy job in the current climate where the prevailing view is that TV is on borrowed time as its financial model gradually erodes. That said, TV is still big business and will probably be so for a

Original post by Modern Marketing - Blog by Collaborate PR & Marketing

The Web is already Social. But engagement and interaction is still a problem.     There are multiple networks. The trouble with API’s today is that one application is restricted only to one network. And there are multiple networks.   So developers have to question –   -       Which API’s should I learn? -       Which network should I get bet big on?     Distribution of the application is thus limited.   Open Social is about creating common API’s that can then be distributed a

Original post by WATBlog.com - The Refreshing Blog on Web, Advertising and Technology in India!

Google, The Core Driver Behind SEO Strategies, Looks to Become the King of Social Networking Optimization (SNO) Too. Published by The XBroker January 21, 2008 in Open Social Applications, RE Tech 2.X and Social Networking. 0 Comments I penned this post on another site back in November, alas I want to continue the thread of this conversation here on The XBroker.  Hopefully the big G doesnt penalize me too bad for duplicate content… Google, the core driver behind SEO strategies, looks

Original post by The XBroker

MySpace is about to gain back some of its cutting edge status by launching a separate venture that will act as a nurturing incubator for web start ups. Still in development under the guiding hands of MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe, the start up will offer a place for new web ventures to get their sea legs. This new venture will be a spin off from MySpace. Reports say the name tentatively chosen is SlingShot Labs. DeWolfe said that even though SlingShot Labs would receive funding from Murdoch’s New

Original post by Profy.Com - Web 2.0 News & Commentary

Filed under: Internet, Features, Blogging, Open Source, Social Software So, you got your domain name registered, your hosting plan set up, and you’ve configured your brand new WordPress weblog. Or maybe you’ve had WordPress set up for a while and you’re wondering what you can do to spice things up a little bit? Look no further, we’ll let you know how you can pimp out your WordPress and give you that happy fuzzy feeling about your blog again. It is after all, part of your online identity! Appl

Original post by Download Squad

In a guest column on GigaOm, Brian McConnell writes about the past and future of social networks. I appreciated the review of previous incarnations of online social networking, but I’m finding his postulations about the future to be a bit long-winded for a rather simple idea: an open standard will be developed/adopted for social profiles (much like RSS for articles, iCal for calendars), online publishing platforms (e.g., Blogger, Yahoo!) will adopt it as a feature, and then commercial social net

Original post by Profy.Com - Web 2.0 News & Commentary

Think of the social web as a huge town. Like each town it has central squares, where many road lead. It also has central authorities, which have enough connections to direct you almost everywhere. Finally, like any city it has your friends, acquaintances but also people you hardly know. Depending on who you know (the mayor, a police officer or a salesman), you can get some jobs done much faster, while others require days and days of hard work. But if you have the right connections and know wh

Original post by social media and green horses

So, this is something that has been brewing in the back of my mind.  It’s hardly a novel insight, but perhaps there may be some novelty in how I bring the insight to fruition.  The premise is simple enough: there is no one reason for someone to engage with a religion.  Quite the opposite, there are a great many different reasons, though one or more may play a greater role than others. This suggests that we might be able to sketch, in outline, a sort of typology of the different sorts of relig

Original post by social media and green horses