43 Social Profiles
One challenge any community site faces is how to let users express themselves. It is hard to express the sum total of any individual on a web page, but in the virtual world that…
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This Clears Things Up a Bit
I’m not sure if anyone has seen David Wiley’s blog today, but I think his efforts help to illustrate the idea of distributing the social network. Take a look at it. It might…
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Utah WordPress Meetup
I spent this afternoon with some really cool and interesting individuals from around utah. Matt Mullenweg, the original developer of WordPress was in town and was willing to come…
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Facebook as an Authentication System
I have been playing with OpenID for about a year now. It is a very cool, distributed authentication system. The concept is great and I love that I don’t have to create accounts…
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iPhone App
I have an iPhone. It is an awesome little toy. I couldn’t just own one. I need a reason to play with it so I wrote an application. igag.us It lets you gather your favorite news…
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SEO – rip offs-R-us
I sat in a meeting at the university today and listened to a sales pitch by an SEO company. We get calls at The Plan Collection for these all the time. I need to setup one of…
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Yahoo opens browser authentication
You can use Yahoo to authenticate your users if you want. http://developer.yahoo.com/auth/ This might be worth looking at. 500 million people have accounts at Yahoo. Numbers tend…
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BlogHer Presents…World Domination via Collaboration
Jory Des Jardins, Co-founder, BlogHer LLC Caterina Fake, Co-founder, Flickr Jessica Hardwick, Founder and CEO, SwapThing.com – people exchange whatever. Uses social collateral…
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web 2.0 conference day one
I am attending the Web 2.0 conference this week. There is an interesting combination of people here and I must admit that I feel like a foreigner as I am part of an academic…
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I thought I paid a lot for internet
I don’t like AOL, but this $1,595.69 bill ensures that I will never use them.
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WOW, The Internet Archive
One of the most impressive presentations giving at the Instructional Technology conference was not attended by nearly enough people. Stewart Cheifet explained in detail the…