Open Social How To

From our travels across cyberspace, it’s pretty clear that the social part of the Internet is becoming more and more important to people. From chat to games to messaging to sharing things like news, entertainment, pictures, maps, movies and other “favorites,” users are looking for more ways to give contacts a sense of who they are and what they’re into. As social applications take the mash-up world by storm, a growing number of companies and data sources are opening up to give people the inform

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A live event/webcast presentation about social media, using social media! TOMORROW, Wednesday March 26, 12pm CST/1pm EST/10am PST, in person (for Fallon employees) or on the social web (for everyone else). | View | Upload your own How do you attend this social? For Fallon employees, come on down to 27 Rotunda and you can see the presentation live (lunch provided). For everyone else, it’s an open social on the web (lunch not provided)! Attend Aki’s presentation (slideshow, live sound and

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WIRED Magazine’s editor in chief Chris Anderson, following up on the popularity of his Long Tail meme, theorizes in the March 2008 issue of WIRED about the modern tendency to put information online at no cost. I’ll start this blog with the implications of offering free information in the computer field, and build from there to what I agree and disagree with in Anderson’s article. Anderson’s taxonomy of “free” contains six models that justify giving the information away. The idea

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Here are the most recent bookmarks that I have saved to Ma.gnolia. Sketchnotes for SXSW Interactive 2008 “Sketchnotes I captured while attending SXSW Interactive, March 7-11, 2008 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. “Created by Mike Rohde. “ Rating: ? ? ? ? ? Tags: sxsw, sxswi, sxsw interactive, sxsw 2008, sxswi 2008 Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques ‘This is the first article in the four-part series, “Powerful guide to master Your WordPress”. Throughout

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Social networking and Open Access publishing in the Academy through Pronetos Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by David Pronetos, which appears to stand for Professor’s Network, calls itself “a social network for scholars and an Open Access publisher. It provides an intuitively designed, real-time, web based community platform that facilitates mass collaboration and democratizes content for global distribution among academics with the ability to archive and search that content.” The FAQ indicates t

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On his blog (Callahan’s Cleveland Diary), and at public meetings, Bill Callahan presents facts. He digs out the facts from the internet, from the news, and from public records. He keeps it up week in and week out. He posts originally researched content day after day.

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In this episode, John Federico, Ken Gellman and Steve Hatch review: Gigs: Ken started a new gig as the Director of Sales for MatchMine. Congrats, Ken. Events: Ken attended SXSW; Steve, Ken and John attended the Business of APIs Conference; John will be attending Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Breakfast The deal closed: Audible is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon. Congrats to all. Steve Jobs says, “No Flash for the iPhone.” Adobe would develop it, if they could, but claims they need lower l

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Today, we’re releasing a beta of our new open source Facebook Newsroom CMS application framework: The Facebook Newsroom CMS framework is generic Facebook application code which can be quickly and easily installed, configured and customized for any small organization wanting to establish a sophisticated Web presence within the Facebook community. We hope this framework will drastically reduce the barrier to entry for organizations wishing to leverage Facebook. See our demonstration site at

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Making it easier for NGOs to launch Facebook applications Hi all, awhile ago you may remember me griping about the ineffectiveness of Facebook Groups and Pages. They are easy to set up, but they are also quite limited in functionality. These features are not conducive to community-building, engagement or organizing. Today, I’m releasing the first beta of a new open source Facebook Newsroom CMS application framework. See the demonstration application site at Facebook: http://apps.facebook

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Ivan Pope, the founder of Sniperoo is presenting the WidgetWebExpo in New York on June 16th and 17th. This conference is his American version of the Widgety Goodness conference that he ran in the UK. Except this is bigger. Way bigger. I will be participating with this conference in a few ways, and can’t give out concrete details yet, but I will be speaking at the conference and I am hoping to do a day long, hands-on workshop for creating and promoting your website / business via gadgets whe

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