Open Social How To

Today Reddit, a community driven news and information website like Digg, is going full bore open source, For some time many have suggested that more openness is not only inevitable, it is the best thing for both users and for companies, essentially acting as a sort of miracle grow fertilizer for the internet ecosystem, allowing cross pollination, mashups, and broad use of good ideas. I’m still convinced that open source is great for users, but I’m starting to think it is *not at all* the bes

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June 17th, 2008 Posted in Gay Marriage, News | By David Benkof, LA Daily News DEFENDERS of the same-sex marriages set to start today in California have repeatedly claimed that the new definition of marriage will in no way hurt male-female marriages. Even the state Supreme Court decision paving the way for these June weddings declared its move would not deprive any male-female couple “of any of the rights and benefits conferred by the marriage statutes.” But marriage is not just about rig

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With online networks and a plethora of desktop applications connecting people across the world, there’s no reason why online store can’t be better integrated into all of these platforms. That’s what ShopIt thinks, at least. Given the freedom for communication that the web has allowed, the ability to build on such freedom has allowed for the growth of web-based banking, dating, and shopping. It’s expected for these forms of communication and commerce to want to go where the people are. It’s th

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WidgetWebExpo Coverage June 17th, 2008 I am in Brooklyn and everything I know about Brooklyn I learned from a Beastie boy song and I drank a few beers and it may just be me, but it seems as though I am damned good looking and everything is sparkle-ly. Oh, the conference thing, WidgetWebExpo has a good mix of developers, advertisers, and curious clients. A good mix, but I find myself rewriting my presentation a little (I will present tomorrow) to be more welcoming to different types of folk

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WidgetWebExpo Coverage June 17th, 2008 I am in Brooklyn and everything I know about Brooklyn I learned from a Beastie boy song and I drank a few beers and it may just be me, but it seems as though I am damned good looking and evrything is sparkle-ly. Oh, the conference thing, WidgetWebExpo has a good mix of developers, advertisers, and curious clients. A good mix, but I find myself rewriting my presentation a little (I will present tomorrow) to be more welcoming to different types of folk.

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Last week at the PRSA Digital Impact conference I met Steve Rubel, SVP Director of Insights from Edelman Digital and famous (sometimes infamous) PR blogger at Micropersuasion. He presented “2008 Digital Trends: Open Files” which talks about the framework Edelman uses (Faint Signals, Watch List and Hallucinations for tracking digital/social media trends. Read my live blogging notes below or you can view the entire presentation over at Slideshare or Rubel’s post about tracking digital trends

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Okay, so the title of this post is a little bit harsh but let’s face it, brands have been doing a terrible job of leveraging Facebook (one might say this is true of the social media space at large, but that is a story for another day). My good buddy C.C Chapman sent over a social media press release about the new CokeTags initiative and my first reaction was, “just what we need, another branded app that will interrupt and annoy, and claim to be joining the conversation”. I was quite wrong (ha

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In about 40 minutes, I will give a presentation on BPM 2.0 at a conference taking place on the Australian Gold Coast (Winter is nice down there). While I was going through my emails and blogs before the event, Google Reader recommended that I take a look at a post titled Do We Really Need BPM 2.0 and authored by Jim Sinur, a former Gartner analyst who recently went to work for Global 360. While I’m glad to see the moniker Bruce Silver and I created two years ago being adopted on the marketplace

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Open Text Corporation has announced a number of enhancements to its range of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. Among these enhancements is a new offering that lets customers manage compliance rules for social computing capabilities like blogs, wikis and forums on websites, as well as a set of Web 2.0 collaboration tools that kick employee interaction up a notch.

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WidgetWebExpo, er, Widget June 13th, 2008 Here is a widget for the conference: Or use the iPhone version with video streaming of the event. Find out more at the conference blog Also of note, my comments are turned back on! Posted in webdev, widgetwebexpo, Open Social, widgets, google gadgets, google | No Comments »

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