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This is a question I get asked a lot by people who are trying to understand where people find the time to participate online. My normal answer is that they do less of other stuff - including TV. But now I’ve got a much better answer thanks to Clay Shirky including this gem: “If you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project–every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in–that represents something like the cu

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Develop Open Source Alternatives to Corprorate Social Networking Sites April 30, 2008 at 6:28 am by jefbuder · Filed under Holistic ICT 4 EcoLiving, Open Source/Linux There was a recent wsfii (World Summits for Free Information Infrastructures) discussion that related to one of the members of the group the sending a Zorpa Invite to all members of the group. Alex Toland noted that with many social networking sites “everyone can join” but “it’s not so easy to leave once you’re in.” With Skyp

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I must say I’m very impressed with the look and feel of Insoshi. After strugling to get it up and running on my Mac (a path error resulted in MacPort not installing, thus FreeImage install having problems), I started to play around with the default users and Lorem postings. As with all new systems you spend some time wondering whether things are bugs or features. These are some of my initial questions: 1 Too open information when not logged in Being used to Facebooks closed environment you so

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Are you the last kid on your block without a social network?  I’m not asking if you’ve somehow avoided joining a social network - I’m almost certain everyone in the known universe is a member of at least two or three.  I’m asking if you haven’t actually created your own social network yet.  I’m guessing there’s at least two or three of you out there who haven’t. If you’re one of those folks sporting a frowny face now that I’ve exposed your secret shame, you can turn that frown upside down - n

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Great Services!! We’re meeting in Chicago this week to talk about building an online business. We can’t have a business without products and services to sell. Lot’s of us who can’t be there have great information and links that would be helpful for the folks who are meeting. Bring ‘em and lets share. We’ll be talking about products we love, services we wish for, ideas for new ones, remembering old ones, and how we found out about all of them. We’ll talk about whatever else comes up, too,

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Amerimexanada Mexamericanada Canamerimexica Oh dear. Seriously though, if the US threw open their borders and did an “EU-thing” with Mexico and Canada, that would add 108 million Mexicans (a good chunk of which are already in the US illegally) and 33 million Canadians. First step would be an open-immigration economic zone, next step would be a common currency, and then a hundred years from now, one big country. And why stop with Mexico and Canada - watch for a massive increase in visas for

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Read more 1 attachment Send to Friend 2 reads New ELI 7 Things… Brief Explores Ning Created by Peggy Kurkowski (EDUCAUSE) on April 28, 2008 Ning is an online service where users create their own social networks and join and participate in other networks. No technical skill is required to set up a social network, and there are no limits to the number of networks a user can join. The 7 Things You Should Know About Ning, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative’s (ELI) latest brief in the monthly se

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Sun Microsystems is in talks with two more Linux projects to ensure its open source software and tools are delivered straight into the hands of developers.

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