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August 11, 2004
The Next Social Revolution

"Q: Where do you see the social revolution
you've been talking about going next?"

"A: It's too early to say. The question is:
What does it point toward? Some kind of collective action...
in which the individuals aren't consciously cooperating...
Google is based on the emergent choices of people who link...
Then there's open source (software)... Benkler uses open source as an
example of peer-to-peer production, which he thinks may be pointing
toward a third means of organizing for production...
We had markets, then we had capitalism, and socialism was a reaction
to industrial-era capitalism...
...the Internet, reputation systems, online communities, mobile devices...
These may make some new economic system possible...
These aren't just widgets. These are the building blocks of innovation."

BusinessWeek Online - Howard Rheingold's Latest Connection



Aug. 10, 2004
Social Networks, the New Buzz

"Social networking is one of those phrases like the phrases of recent years, whether
it's B2C, or B2B, peer-to-peer - I'm not sure what it really means," he said.

"There will be a bunch of services that will blossom and flourish. Five years from now,
they'll be but little footnotes in the back of next set of history books written about
Silicon Valley."

Bambi Francisco talks success with venture capitalist Mike Moritz.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news



March 15, 2004
The Aesthetics of Social Networks

"At SXSW Interactive, the panelists explored the explosion of Net-based social networks
and the opportunities for group forming, analysis, and intent connections.
What follows is a partial transcript of their discussion."

"Jon Lebkowsky: Social networks are most simply stated people connecting to people.
Some people are just nodes and don't have many connections.
Some people are hubs and have many connections.
Some people are connected indirectly through degrees of separation.
There are potential ways to map social networks through immediate connections and
light hops through degrees of separation. Network terminology is not too obscure..."

[...]

"Honoria Starbuck: By aesthetics I mean not just technical elegance but balance, beauty,
and social values. Social groups go through birth, growth, decline, and death. The
cycles -- forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjoining -- have aesthetic beauty."

[...]

"Molly Steenson:...
The field of networks is huge, and the study of social networks crosses over sociology,
mathematics, physics, computer science, and biology."

"Historically, it comes from graph theory. Books like Linked, Six Degrees, and even Urban
Tribes, deal with this approach. Social networks does not equal social software all the time.
You need to take into consideration the complex systems and the value exchange. The end result
could be social software. But the end result could also be a physical space."

"So what is social software? Software for social networks. That includes blogs, instant messaging,
friend-of-friend networks, email, cell phone software, and the whole Web. We need to open up the
bigger question of what people are really doing and then come up with the things they need to
support that."

[...]

"Danah Boyd: ...
There are two ways that social networks come about. One is graph theory. And one is kinship.
People figure out who people are based on how they're connected. This comes from Judith
Donath's Visual Who. Whenever you put out a map of people and their relationships to other
people, people look for themselves first. Then they look to see who else is around them.
The people around you are the best representation of who you are."

http://blog.fastcompany.com



January 22, 2004
Google Releases Orkut Social Networking Service

"Google has quietly released a social networking service called orkut,
named after Orkut Buyukkokten, a Google software engineer who developed
the project during personal time allowed to him by Google.

All employees at Google are allowed to spend twenty percent of their time
working on personal interests, a policy Google has to encourage creativity.
Buyukkokten had an interest in social networking and so developed his service,
Google says. Now the company has decided to open it to the public..."

By Danny Sullivan, Editor, http://searchenginewatch.com

"orkut is unique, because it's an organically growing network of trusted friends.
That way we won't grow too large, too quickly and everyone will have at least
one person to vouch for them."

orkut.com



January 15, 2004
Social Networking Goes Tribal

Thousands of tribes have been created since the site launched in August 2003...

After joining, you encourage friends to join up. Then you watch your network grow.
Tribe serves up the ability to connect you with others who are separated by up to four
degrees, so you can have thousands of friends or potential contacts and not even know it.

CEO Mark Pincus says that Tribe.net "connects the dots" between dating sites,
bulletin board and classified services, and a Web-based email service.

Melanie Kim, g4techtv.com



June 2003
A social network caught in the Web

Lada A. Adamic and Eytan Adar
HP Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA

Orkut Buyukkokten
Google, Mountain View, CA

Abstract

We present an analysis of Club Nexus, an online community at Stanford University.
Through the Nexus site we were able to study a reflection of the real world community
structure within the student body. We observed and measured social network phenomena
such as the small world effect, clustering, and the strength of weak ties.

Using the rich profile data provided by the users we were able to deduce the attributes
contributing to the formation of friendships, and to determine how the similarity of
users decays as the distance between them in the network increases. In addition,
we found correlations between a user's personality and their other attributes, as well
as interesting correspondences between how users perceive themselves and how they are
perceived by others.

Full Paper: First Monday, volume 8, number 6 - http://www.firstmonday.org



Instant Messaging (IM) Phones


Motorola's Personal Instant Messenger sets you free from your PC

"The IMfree Personal Instant Messenger is a wireless device that allows a user
to send and receive instant messages from up to 150 feet away from a computer.

... the IMfree can actively carry on instant-message conversations with
up to six people..."

JAMES CUMMINGS, 08.09.04 Forbes.com




Motorola's  latest creation, designed to appeal to text-messaging fans,
offers an array of bells and whistles packed into a compact mobile phone.


http://www.motorola.com/




Mon, Aug 09, 2004
Microsoft Says It's Testing Web-Based Messenger

"SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) is testing a new version
of its MSN Messenger that can be used over the Web without having to install software,
the world's largest software maker said on Friday.

[...]

MSN rivals America Online Inc. and Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) already offer
Web-based instant messaging, as do other Web-based messaging service providers."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news


July 15, 2004
MSN, AOL, Yahoo Join on Instant Messaging

AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo are making an aggressive effort to make instant messaging
safe for the enterprise... collaborating on an interoperability effort...
to send and receive messages to each other using any of the three networks.

http://wireless.newsfactor.com

Research firm IDC estimated that as many as 255 million people will use IM at work in 2005,
up from 65 million in 2002. But the vast majority of workers use free systems available from
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo! or rivals, including America Online Inc. and Microsoft Corp.


RE: Marketshare Instant Message Programs (AIM,MSN,Yahoo, ICQ)



Open Source Software

the foaf project

The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is about creating a Web of
machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between
them and the things they create and do.



http://www.foaf-project.org/



March 29, 2004
Interview with software pioneer Marc Canter

"Marc: I've been working for both my company and the open source world
to help establish open standards like FOAF , and new standards for
OpenReviews, OpenEvents and ThreadsML."

"You could even imagine standards called OpenRecipes, OpenResumes and
a People's DNS."

"The current memes are:
- PeopleAggregator.com  - open source social network built upon FOAF 
- WebOutliner.com  - still working out the kinks. It's an open source online outliner.
- Digital Lifestyle Aggregator  = the future
- Activity based computing - the future after that
- New kinds of tools"

"Ziff-Davis  will be releasing a DLA I designed for them, under the name 1Up.com,
around E3 time - May 2004. It'll be the first example of what the hell it is I've been
talking about. If you'd have asked me in the past about this, I would have told you
that if we didn't launch one of these things by 'Dec. '99 it was all over. But here
we are spring '04 and we've barely begun."

"Oh and let's not forget scalable content, multimedia personalization and rich media
platforms. Laszlo Systems  has the rich media platform."

Richard MacManus, www.readwriteweb.com



Jabber is a set of streaming XML protocols and technologies that enable any two entities
on the Internet to exchange messages, presence, and other structured information in close
to real time.

The first Jabber application is an instant messaging (IM) network that offers functionality
similar to legacy IM services such as AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo.

However, Jabber is more than just IM, and Jabber technologies offer several key advantages:

Open -- the Jabber protocols are free, open, public, and easily understandable; in addition,
multiple implementations exist for clients, servers, components, and code libraries...
[...]
Diverse -- a wide range of companies and open-source projects use the Jabber protocols to
build and deploy real-time applications and services; you will never get "locked in" when you
use Jabber technologies.

http://www.jabber.org/



What is RSS?

RSS is an acronym for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. Also referred to as an
RSS or XML Channel/Feed , this protocol is an application of XML that provides an open method
of syndicating (or distributing) and aggregating web content.

RSS allows you to deliver and distribute your content summaries and links in such a manner that
they can be read by feed reader software, news aggregators, or implemented on other websites to
deliver links to your latest content in the most accessible format today - XML.

Why should you offer RSS Channels?

First, RSS is an easy way to extend the reach of your message by syndicating to subscribers and
other websites. Second, in this anti-spam era where the credibility of email as a communication
channel is threatened, good corporate citizens are using RSS to augment (or even replace) their
email campaigns because it doesn't clutter people's in-boxes, it's easier to manage for recipients
who get a lot of news online, it's easier to manage than an e-mail and suppression list, and it's
spam-proof -- only the feed publisher can designate what information gets into the feed, and the
only information the subscriber pulls down is what the publisher put there. When you subscribe to
an RSS feed, you're not giving your e-mail address to anyone and they can't send you stuff you
don't want.

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