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Introducing User Driven Services
User Driven Services put users in charge. Users start each interaction, manage the flow of the experience, and control what and how data is captured, used and propagated. Users are the cause and the controller, working with service providers to co-create collaborations that create value for all parties.
How Google Stole Control Over Content Distribution By Stealing Links - Publishing 2.0
Google isn’t stealing content from newspapers and other media companies. It’s stealing their control over distribution, which has always been the engine of profits in media.
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before new systems are in place. They are dem
Recovering Journalist: Editors as Curators: What's Taking So Long?
the news judgment skills of editors should be more valuable now than they've ever been before to newspapers and other news organizations. That's because, in a world in which the walls around journalistic walled gardens are being (slowly) torn down, editor
Can Twitter Survive What is About to Happen to It? | Twine
I am worried about Twitter. I love it the way it is today. But it's about to change big time, and I wonder whether it can survive the transition.
louisgray.com: Charlene Li Predicts Social Networking Will Be Ubiquitous, "Like Air"
Charlene Li (Altimeter Group) at SXSW: "Social networks will be like air - everywhere around us."
The Great Restructuring « BuzzMachine
what we’re living through is instead a great restructuring of the economy and society, starting with a fundamental change in our relationships - how we are linked and intertwined and how we act, nothing less than that.
Blog Action Day 08
On Blog Action Day '08, October 15, bloggers around the world are asked to post their thoughts on one issue: poverty.
For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time - WSJ.com
Advanced skills for people with brains really did get more valuable over the course of the 20th century, but the acquisition of those skills got conflated with the existing system of colleges, which had evolved the BA for completely different purposes.
Vitamin Features » Working with web developers in India: why, whom, and how
Ryan Norbauer has been there, done that and taken copious notes — where the “there” is his consulting firm, the “that” Indian outsourcing and the “notes” are contained in this refreshing article on the realities of using outsourced talent.
Velib Is Awesome
Velib is a public bicycle system in Paris. Buy a card, take a bike, leave it at your destination.
Learning from Flickr's Co-founders on Their Way Out of Yahoo - ReadWriteWeb
Flickr co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield have now cashed out and officially left the company. Though Yahoo! doesn't appear to have internalized many of the lessons of Flickr, it's not too late for the rest of us to look at those same key l
11 Search Trends That May Disrupt Google - ReadWriteWeb
It is possible that Google will not be beaten by one big competitor. It is possible that they will be pecked at by thousands of tiny start-ups using a new outsourced infrastructure.
Adding richness to activity streams | FactoryCity
The basic premise is this: lifestreams, alternatively known as “activity streams”, are great for discovering and exploring social media, as well as keeping up to date with friends (witness the main feature of Facebook and the rise of FriendFeed). I su
Location Technologies Primer
Eric Carr, the VP of Location Technologies at Loopt, is the guy we go to when we have questions about new location technologies. Instead of just calling him every day, we asked him to write a primer on the core technologies being used to solve the locatio
That Microsoft will buy Yahoo’s search and then buy Facebook for $15 to $20 billion
That Microsoft will buy Yahoo’s search and then buy Facebook for $15 to $20 billion. Add that to all the news that Microsoft is buying Yahoo’s search and that gets very interesting.
Why Yelp Works - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
What Yelp did differently than these others, as Jeremy Stoppelman, the site’s co-founder and chief executive describes it, was to spend most of its energy attracting a small group of fanatic reviewers.
Micro Persuasion: Friendfeed's Business Model Will Look Like Google's
Now, what if Friendfeed were to wrap Google Adsense contextual ads around keyword searches just as it becomes the de-facto source for searching the social web. Think that's big? I do. And that fact that Friendfeed's founders come from Google probably bode
Peep - an Open Twitter Server - RussellBeattie.com
I called the project Peep. The general goal would be to create a simple to use and expand-upon group messaging server that you could throw up on a server that connected a dozen or a hundred people together, expanding on the Twitter API (so all those funky
What's Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008 - ReadWriteWeb
For each of the 5 big topical trends described below, I've assembled some resources I think will be useful for anyone who wants to keep up with cutting edge developments in these fields in the next year.
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