Social Web
A Match.com for Families?
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 [...]
Web 2.0 and Group Therapy
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 [...]
The Del.icio.us Lesson
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 [...]
The Apostle Paul and MySpace.com
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.
Web 2.0 Themes
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 [...]