Facebook released the Facebook Open Platform under CPAL, the Common Public Attribution License that Socialtext created. Mike Gunderloy notes:
Today Socialtext launched Socialtext People and Socialtext Dashboard, significant enhancements that make people a first class object in the wiki platform and give them greater control over their internal and external information. We also launched Four Solutio
RecentChangesCamp, the Barcamp for the wiki way, is May 9-11th in Palo Alto:
What I like about the Seesmic's acquisition of Twhirl isn't that I'm using it as my default client for Twitter. Or that I happen to use Seesmic and look forward to some chocolate and peanut butter goodness.
When you visited Yahoo!, perhaps on a blogger pass, often you would find a product manager or executive extolling their mainstream virtues. Every time I'd visit I'd hear that word, mainstream, and wondered if it was some derivative of their mission or boasting of begotten power. Yahoo! arguably was the first company to mainsteam open internet services. A great accomplishment that began with linking elsewhere with something that made the net more usable. Big laurels.
The $45B acquisition of Yahoo! by Microsoft will probably go through and the broader implications aren't just about search and advertising. If Microsoft uses up its war chest on this one big bet, it is on consumer markets to find its next cash cow.
Dan Bricklin has ported the SocialCalc spreadsheet to the OLPC XO as an Open Source project.
Chris Miller: With the entrance into Social Networking with Connections, what will Lotus do as we get to 3.0? MR: Challenges hierarchical systems, business systems could break down private information shared. dangers regulatory meltdowns on sharing regulated
So I'm in Orlando for Lotusphere. Took a crappy delayed red-eye, so I missed the very first part of the session, with Bob Costas talking about how good the Chinese are at controlling their people. Ed Brill is live blogging it. Alan has better notes on Mike Rhodin's openin
There is no such thing as a free link. No matter what the person who is selling you it tells you. And the web will always adapt to make it so. Even if its hard work.
Barry Schwartz posted Get A Free Link From Wired today on an SEO blog, noting that:
