Jeff Bridgforth :: Webcraftsman

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Social Web

A Match.com for Families?

September 18, 2006

So your fam­ily does not have any close friends? Well now there is a solu­tion for you. A new social net­work­ing web­site called Friends for Fam­i­lies is here. It is sort of a Match .com for fam­i­lies. All you have to do is pay a yearly fee, fill out a profile […]

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Web 2.0 and Group Therapy

April 19, 2006

Kathy Sierra writes about the dif­fer­ences between “an archi­tec­ture of par­tic­i­pa­tion” and “Shar­ing.” The first con­tributes con­tent that we can ben­e­fit from. The sec­ond seems to be shar­ing too much infor­ma­tion about our pri­vate lives. She pleas with those doing Web 2.0 to not let “har­ness­ing the col­lec­tive intel­li­gence” become a place […]

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The Del.icio.us Lesson

February 23, 2006

This comes from Joshua Porter.
The del.icio.us lesson

Per­sonal value pre­cedes net­work value
Peo­ple rarely do things for the “good of the net­work”
Del.icio.us, though pro­vid­ing very cool tag­ging fea­tures, is mostly about a sin­gle per­son remem­ber­ing items for later.

His third point res­onates with me because that is how I use del.icio.us. I think it points to the fact that Web […]

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The Apostle Paul and MySpace.com

February 9, 2006

Over 47 mil­lion peo­ple are hang­ing out on MySpace.com. What would the Apos­tle Paul think of the vir­tual world of MySpace.com? are some thoughts of a web evan­ge­lists that encour­ages us to go to where the cul­ture is just as the Apos­tle Paul did in Athens.

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Web 2.0 Themes

October 20, 2005

Last week, I attended the User Inter­face Con­fer­ence in Boston. It was hosted by UIE. It was a really good con­fer­ence and I would like to go back next year if I can get the fund­ing.
Joshua Porter did a sem­i­nar on Web 2.0 and here is my sum­mary. He talked about it […]

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