Michael Zimmer reports on the Yale Information Society Project symposium Reputation Economies in Cyberspace, to be held December 8, 2007 at Yale Law School. Michael helped put this symposium together, and the speaker list is absolutely top notch – you’ll hear from Michael Bauwens, Jonathan Zittrain, Allesandro Acquisti, Bill McGeveran, John Clippenger and many [...]
It’s likely this is the umpteenth article you’ve read about Google’s OpenSocial initiative, so I’m going to see if I can’t make this one worth your while.
First – what is OpenSocial? Briefly, OpenSocial is a set of Google-defined API’s and methods for passing “social” information between two applications. Therefore, one application is the “datastore” [...]
This weekend, I received a notice from Kiva that one of the first loans I made was repaid completely. To commemorate this happy accomplishment, I thought I’d break out of my normal boring blogger role and recommend that you join Kiva as well. If you’re not familiar with Kiva, it is a micro-lending [...]
It’s been two days since MicroBook (or Face-o-Soft, if you will), and the dust is finally starting to settle after the announcement. As someone who has watched the company for the past few years, I want to congratulate them – this is a big deal and a major validation. I’ve been collecting a [...]
Just a quick note to let everyone know about the great writeup of ClaimID and OpenID over at Library Journal. Written by Michael Habib, this comprehensive piece takes a look at the challenges of online identity.
MySpace, Facebook, and other Web 2.0 tools led TIME to name you, yes, you, 2006 Person of the Year. [...]
First off, thank you to danah, Raquel and Alla for trekking to Milwaukee to take part in our ASIST panel entitled “Research Directions in Social Network Webites.” I’ve received great feedback about our panel – Jeff Pomerantz shares his thougts here. (The check is in the mail, Jeff). A couple people contacted [...]
In the October 20 edition, the Economist wades in to the social graph discussion, declaring “There’s less to Facebook and other social networks than meets the eye.” Ouch. But there’s something refreshing about the Economist’s measured point of view. From the article:
How much of this is hype? Facebook has made two genuine breakthroughs. [...]
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