Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. Embeddable media is critical for spreadability and distribution – YouTube is a clear example of content that is watched 30% or more of the time “off site”… through an embed on Facebook, blogs and so on. Episode 3 focusses on monetizing APIs and looking at revenue streams from widgets. Web 3.0

clarifying by reading and writing comments, and trackback/linkback blog posts Amazon recommendations * Google Blog Search (also Technorati , Backtype ) is similar to PageRank - but the point here is that the content is blogs which are a social ecosystem where you have distributed conversations (trackbacks/linkbacks), and leave comments * Social search is resurfacing as a hot topic of late , due to how effective Twitter has become in helping you find information, and how it is close to how we source information in the offline world (via our network). Twitter

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UIE.com | UIE Roadshow | UIE Web App Summit | UIE Virtual Seminars User Interface Engineering Home About Us Services Articles Events Reports Blog Podcasts Blog home Archived posts RSS Feed ( What is rss? ) Why Invest in Social Features for Your Web Site? By Joshua Porter May 1st, 2007 This is the first in a multi-part series on the topic of social design, a follow-up

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There are many great books, articles and blogs out there and we’d love you to share your favourites in the comments below. Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities , Amy Jo Kim ( Amazon ) – a great text explaining the how to grow online communities, and explaining through examples why they grow like this. Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Image by austinevan via Flickr A

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How to Blog for Business This is a hands-on computer based course that takes you step by step through how to create, edit, tweak and promote a Wordpress Blog. We use  Wordpress plugins and themes and create blog posts and pages by both teamwork and individual use of internet enabled PCs. The course is aimed at those who are investigating establishing a blog for business purposes Here’s a workshop for you – mixing strategy with practical hands on experience, 2nd October 2009 in Sydney, 12th October in Brisbane, Singapore 26th October, 9th November in Hong Kong.