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I'm now a beta associate although my association is still in beta. Which is fine - because that is the way it's supposed to be... I'm looking very much forward to be working with even more good people in my network. Very very exciting.
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Over at CPH 127 they are discussing "Beta" after posting "The Beta Manifesto". I've decided to post my ranting comment here as well: "Warning: Rant coming..... I'm happy that you don't mean "Under Construction" the way most 1.gen. websites tended to present themselves just a few years back! Thomas is on to something by saying that the reason why we need to call it beta is, that we compare it to another era (industrial) where atoms - bricks and mortar - made products and services "finished". We don't just yet understand how this state of flux (beta) is the norm and not a state "before" finishing. Two remarks: Many years ago (20 something) this was often referred to as the "zen" of everything - and budhism was popular among "new age" thinkers in the west. The point was - primitively put - that the important part was "the way" or "the process" and not the end product or the goal. Computer gurus from California were often into alternative culture - like "zen" culture. One proponent of ...
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Pando is free software that lets you send and receive files and folders of any size* with your existing email account. And it runs on Drupal.
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Creating Incentives! What's the deal? Here's a deal. Very cool. Incentivizing knowledge sharing - Filed under: collaborationRandy Morin over at The RSS Blog has a post today about his 10 favorite blogging tools. The most interesting thought there to me is that he rewards whoevever tags the best link for:randymorin in del.icio.us each month with a free book of their choice (up to $20) from Amazon.com! I think that's pretty interesting. Link love is often the incentive for knowledge sharing online, but this makes me wonder if anyone else does things similar. The engadget mobile giveaways are apparently wildly successful. The nonprofit organization I work for, Net Squared, recently gave away an iPod nano to one respondent in their survey of nonprofit organizations about Web 2.0 adoption.What other methods of providing incentive for people to share have people come across? I think I'm going to do something like Morin is doing myself. Such a good idea, but are there better ones out ...
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RSS - a membership organisation. Very well put. So what to make of it? Let me think for a while... Examining the roots and growth of Web 2.0 - Filed under: blogging, RSSHeather Green and Steven Baker's excellent blog at Business Week has two interesting posts available this morning both related to the nature and extent of Web 2.0 tools. The most recent is an intro to a new Business Week online segment called Web Smart. The series of stories will highlight in text and a podcast a different company "that's using the Web to improve productivity, reach out to the public, rev up marketing, or streamline internal operations." The first Web Smart profile is on Boeing, who apparently uses blogs both internally and externally. Sounds like a great series. Examples of corporate use of new web tools, amongst companies large and small, are very useful for those of us who try to get others turned on to the possibilities. Perhaps Biz Week's series will shed some light on the debate over Steve ...
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Microsoft taking aim at Macromedia? Microsoft Readies Dreamweaver Rival - PCWorld: Developers will get a chance to test Expression Web Designer, a Web layout and design tool. [Web 2.0 Findory News]
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First Monday is at it again. Good articles in recent issue: First Monday, GroupWare and Latent Semantic Analysis - ... For hard core geeks, it's fun to play the "follow the definition" game with academic papers, looking up references (hopefully canonical, often not) and following them backwards (or across) until you either arrive at the tenuous source of an idea, or are totally lost, your metaphorical canoe all tangled up in the mangroves. I burned some cycles ...Architectonic [Technorati - Semantic Web]
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Here's something I'll delve into: Social semantic networks and ‘taste’ Permanent Link to Social semantic networks and ‘taste’ - ... Social semantic networks and ‘taste’ Posted by Marc @ 12:29 pm From Topix.net Social Software News via Jack Vinson via Corante Web Hub via Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs, comes a pointer to an interesting report by Hugo Liu, Pattie Maes, and Glorianna Davenport at the MIT Media Lab called “Unraveling the Taste Fabric of Social Networks” (PDF), ...EisenBlog - Marc Eisenstadt's Home Page Blog at The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute [Technorati - Semantic Web]
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Google trends - a simple but potentially powerfull tool to get the flow of buzz... RDF vs Semantic Web vs Web 2.0 Web 2.0 vs. Semantic Web vs. RDF - ... Here’s a Google Trend chart comparing the number of Google searches for Web 2.0 versus Semantic Web versus RDF. [ Google trend search for Web 2.0, Semantic Web, RDF] While I was not surprised that Web 2.0 overtook both in 2006, I was surprised that RDF consistently dominates Semantic Web. Note that the search terms used for RDF is RDF -media. ...UMBC eBiquity Blog [Technorati - Semantic Web]
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Yes (see below) I've felt like that for almost 15 years now - trying to explain what I've just grasped myself. It is by no means an easy position to be in, but it is exciting. If Semantic Web fell in a forest, would it make a noise? - Does anyone else feel like the evangelizing of Semantic Web is akin to demonstrating the power of radio to Homer Simpson by showing him a circuit schematic with a... [Semantic Web Blogpulse]
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Here are a couple of cool links to co commenting services. How on earth will I keep track of all that is happening now in the web 2.0 world? I won't! co.mment.com coComment.com
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Now we're at it again. Politics. Alaa - egyptian blogger, activist and Drupal contributor was arrested a few days ago for being on a demonstration for democracy (or so the story goes - I can't confirm it, but nevertheless [UPDATE: Story is confirmed!]). So what to do? googlebomb the egyptian government with the word egypt? Sign a petition? Write a blogpost? Read the news? Digg it? List your post in a wiki? Read about Alaa in Wikipedia? Mail 50 contacts asking them to blog it? Or all of the above? That's what I did Please join the campaign. Also visit Manalaa to check it out for yourself! This story will be updated. Thank you all for keeping me posted. Best.
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A very cool company.... Pandora Squared - Business and Web 2.0 Consulting, Social Media Marketing, Software and Blogging Any media firm that takes the path of News Corp. demonstrates a good understanding of the commercial viability of the web as a content delivery and advertising generation platform. And while MySpace is still to produce the advertising dollars that its owner hopes to recover, the fact that it has so far generated 70 million registered users may just be a good starting point for capturing the ever-elusive youth market.
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This article deals with interaction design bigtime. There's even a book coming up! The Elements of Interaction Design :: UXmatters In much the same way that inert gases don’t mingle with other gases, objects that don’t move don’t interact. An interaction is some sort of communication, and communication is about movement: our vocal cords vibrating as we speak, our hands and arms writing or typing as we send email or instant messages, sound and data moving between two entities.
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Primer: Social Software - ... WHAT IS IT? http://www.learningcircuits.org/2003/dec2003/kaplan.htm Published: December 15 2003 Many companies created what is derogatively termed by some as shovelware: text-heavy content dumped online without much thought given to its usability or interactivity. Fortunately, that’s changing slowly. More companies are using real-time ...faye’s blog [Technorati - Social Software]
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Yahoo is publishing its designpatterns in the Yahoo! User Interface Blog and on Yahoo! Developer Network.Cool stuff. Technorati Tags: design patterns, User Interface, Interaction design, Information Architecture -->
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The LEGO Difference Engine. Just unbelievable. Found it on reddit. Remember the Babbage difference engine? Bruce Sterlings book?Here it is in LEGO. Technorati Tags: LEGO, difference engine, Bruce Sterling -->
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Consultant Commons is a Drupal (CivicSpace) powered site."ConsultantCommons provides an online collaboration space and community for non-profit technical assistance providers to collaboratively build and share knowledge. The goal of ConsultantCommons.org is to provide a resource for nonprofit technology assistance providers to share and develop consulting tools and resources. The system is designed so that consultants can find, contribute and collaborate on tools and information they use to maintain a consultancy and provide services to nonprofits."Very cool site and very nice service. Technorati Tags: open source, open content, drupal, ressources -->
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The iranian newspaper Hamshahri has launched a competition to find the best cartoon about the holocaust. This reminds me of the old joke:Question: How many jews can can you put in a VW? Answer: 105 - Two on the front seats, three in the rear and a hundred in the ash tray. No offense. We laughed a lot when I was a kid. Here's a link to some jew jokes. :-) Here's a link to some Jesus jokes. I don't have a good drawing for that above joke, but I have a few other images. I know this is tasteless, and more or less offending. I don't mean any offense. This is an illustration, that such images are a part of western culture. The Mohammed drawings were not very special in that sense. When some muslims claim that we would never make fun of jesus and jews - they are plain wrong. In our part of the world we make fun of everything. I'm sorry some people take offense. We should be more careful what we say. But Jyllands Posten was actually trying out whether there was reason to fear. The direct ...
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I just dug out my copy of Huntingtons "The Clash of Civilizations". This book offers great insights to the nature of the conflict between Denmark and the Islamic civilization. There's now an excellent article in Wikipedia summarizing the main points of the book.There's also more than one version of the original article on the web. One point made by Huntington is that we in the western world often mistake our values for universal values - and so insist that every country in the world should adopt these values - as they are superior to other sets of values (I too think they are but....). This entails a secular political system with parliamentary democracy, freedom of expression etc. It is not at all clear to all people in the other civilizations why they should adopt these "western values". We should take note of that - while maintaining that our values are untouchable in our part of the world. It is exactly the insistence that values are universal that sparks such controversy, and ...
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Technology plays a part in the ongoing conflict between Denmark and the Islamic world. As Trine-Maria points out in her excellent short analysis of the media usage (danish language sorry), some of the media carrying the messages are not so smart and not so good at dialogue. SMS is a problematic form of communication. It may well be that Howard Rheingold celebrates smart mob behaviour in his book "Smart Mobs", but (as he's not entirely unaware of) SMS "chain letters" can go bad. Rumor has it that SMS messages ran amok in the mideast - carrying rumors that the Koran had been burned in the streets of Copenhagen. This is - according to the danish police authorities - untrue - a total falsehood. But an SMS carrying such a message would be very useful to get people agitated I guess. In Denmark we saw a number of demonstrations saturday - fighting to set the agenda. Some of the people gathering had been summoned by SMS.Blogs are more dialog ready. They take comments and thus blogs will ...
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Sad situation in bloglandAfter the first phases of the Iraq invasion, I promised myself not to post a lot about politics. I'll stick to that decision.However it saddens me to see a lot of thoughtless comments on the present controversy over the Jyllands Posten drawings of Mohammed.I'm all for freedom of religion and freedom of expression. I'm all for respect of each other, and peacefull debates over differences.I don't like the aggressive way some bloggers address this in. I don't think most of those thoughtless comments made in blogland were made by people who really thought about the fact that those same comments can be found by others - all over the world - and can spark even more controversy.Would it not be better to think before writing in this situation?Calm down everybody. Let's go back and take another look at the issue that started it all, and not act on rumors and word of mouth.We need peace and time to think - not war. -->
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If you're in any doubt that there are millions of creative people out there who do not fit the profile in a normal job application - please take a look at this guys hack! He took a MacMINI and fit it into the body of a MacSE30. I once had one of those critters. Cute as a kitten. Love the pictures. Technorati Tags: Mac, Hack, Creativity -->
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Former US President Jimmi Carter has a son Jack - who is now running for Senator of Nevada. That may not be so interesting to my readers. But it is quite interesting that his campaign site is done on Drupal!CivicSpace is a Drupal installation specially build to serve political organisations and political work in the Non Government area.I'm actually a little proud to have played a (small) part, in making this software see the light of day - and proliferate in the world of open source content management and community solutions platforms. Technorati Tags: politics, carter, drupal, civicspace -->
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IBM leads Open AJAX coalition the heading says. Apparently a coalition of companies such as: BEA Systems, Borland, the Dojo Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, Google, IBM, Laszlo Systems, Mozilla, Novell, Openwave Systems, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo, Zend and Zimbra - have started an initiative to promote the use of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) in a number of ways.It's Open - so no Microsoft. Sad. I wonder if Microsoft will ever see the light. Naturally a lot of what goes on in the Open Source world is not in the interest of Microsoft - just like some of what goes on in the Open Standards world is not in the interest of Microsoft - business wise. But Ajax and Open Standards document formats must be in the best interest of Microsoft. Only - Microsoft still believes (and perhaps rightfully so) that they can control the market because they own the desktop. So it is not in their best interest to support the development of the browser into an interface as cool as that in the next ...
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Here's how idiotic you can be if you're a big corporation like Microsoft: After downloading the public beta of IE7 - the installer wants to make sure that I'm running on a legal copy of Windows (which I do). Now the verification proces wants to run an ActiveX object, but apparently my Firefox won't run it. So Microsoft asks me to do something else - which i respectfully recline - as I don't have the required desire to try this beta on my home laptop anyway. So now Microsoft lost a potential user of IE7. Not that I harbour any ideas that they are mourning the loss - but they actually effectively prevent people from migrating from Firefox to IE. Strange but entertaining. -->
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This is a very long post. To read it in its full length click on the "read more" link at the bottom of the post (if it is there (if it is not there - you're looking at the full length post ;-))). Microsofts next sexy incarnation will be hard to beat for the competitors - both on the desktop and in the business backend. Microsoft is feeling the hot breath from Open Source solutions like Open Office and Linux desktops like Kubuntu. None of them are real threats yet - and if it goes the Microsoft way - they won't be in the foreseeable future. Also Microsoft is aiming its guns at the Enterprise and Business Solution competitors by integrating applications into the very office tools that Microsoft "owns". This is the way to OWN the market in a business setting - seducing "Information Workers" with sexy productivity enhancing tools build right into their everyday desktop applications like Outlook, Word, Excel etc. As you can see - this is not really a post about sex. It is about the ...
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Seth Gottlieb has published a report discussing how to select an OSS CMS - and how it differs from choosing a proprietary system. He has taken a look at a number of systems: Alfresco, Bricolage, Drupal, eZ publish, Lenya, Mambo/Joomla, MediaWiki, Midgard, OpenCMS, phpBB, Plone, Roller, Twiki, Typo3 and Zope CMF.Sadly his reporting on Drupal does not do Drupal justice as he totally ignores the real strenghts of Drupal - the taxonomy system, the APIs, etc - and thus misses the main points where Drupal excells and some of the others fail. But it's well worth the download. Technorati Tags: Drupal, OSSCMS -->
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NowPublic is a site where you can publish news about events you care about. It's easy and let's face it, you are more interesting than your television.And it runs on Drupal. Roland Tanglao wrote about it. Technorati Tags: drupal, socialsoftware -->
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The Blog Herald - a top 100 blog - was sold for 72.000$ the other day. That's business to me.Read more on Jeremy Wright's Blog. And on Blog Herald itself. Via Performancing. -->
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