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. Amazon API Amazon and eBay dominate shopping widgets – Amazon lets you embed book widgets on your blog, Episode 3 focusses on monetizing APIs and looking at revenue streams from widgets. Web 3.0

Bruce Sterling reminds us to be wary of proprietary devices: “Kindle users have been grumbling lately about Amazon locking them out of their accounts, reportedly due to an overly high volume of returns on their Kindle books. ChannelWeb draws attention to the plight of one user who admitted to three “high-priced returns,” though he denied abusing Amazon’s return policy. Despite this, Amazon banned him from making more purchases from the online store, which also locked him out of accessing his already-purchased Kindle items. This particular user

About Contact Sharing at Work Subscribe by RSS Subscribe by email Setting up an internal Facebook might just solve your company’s communications and engagement problems By Daniel J. Since I work for a Fortune 100 company there is a lot of weight behind our diversity initiatives. Pritchett on March 20th, 2009 I got pretty excited and tweeted about this throughout the day. Who knew I was looking for diversity? T his morning I had the privilege of participating in

Early Inequality Research Before the Web, researchers documented participation inequality in media such as Usenet newsgroups, CompuServe bulletin boards, Internet mailing lists, and internal discussion boards in big companies. Furthermore, at the time I wrote this, 167,113 of Amazon�s book reviews were contributed by just a few "top-100" reviewers ; the most prolific reviewer had written 12,423 reviews. use it.com Alertbox Oct. 2006 Participation Inequality in Social Design Jakob Nielsen sAlertbox, October 9, 2006: Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to

have just came back from a conference on the Yasuni area of the Amazon, where in the last 30 years, petroleum enclosures have been threatening the common land of the Waorani and some of the last indigenous peoples still living in isolation in the Amazon. Posters like “your resources, we handle them well”, or “the country is yours, you have the power” seem to show that wanting to instil a sense of “common ownership” is clearly important from the state/oil companies propaganda’s side. Excerpt from a longer piece by Massimo de Angelis , on the occasion of a trip in Ecuador, and the opposition of the Yasuni people against oil drilling, in which he also gives details about the spiritual underpinnings of their struggle : “I am in Ecuador at the moment, where I arrived with my family 6 days ago for a three months trip in Latin America.

The book is available to buy on all the major Amazon sites: Canada France Germany Japan United States United Kingdom Even if you don’t buy it, I would be hugely grateful that if you like it, please go and review it on Amazon. This is one I’m buying off Amazon Canada just for you dude. Rev. Home About The Book About The Author About The Editors Spread Buy / Get Reviews Grab the RSS feed Art Of Community Online Posted on September 18th, 2009 Written by Jono Bacon

All Internet shoppers know the famous Amazon list -- "people that bought this item also bought these items...". On the surface this appears to be a simple list, but underneath it reveals much about the Amazon customers making choices. Amazon book data can reveal much about the sociology around book purchases , especially political book purchases . People make choices every day -- for themselves and for their organizations. What to buy? Who to hire?

More companies get into the act and prices drop. The incongruence between vendors meant that companies could not developportable applications - each application had to run on the software from a specific vendor. The direct benefit is that developers can focus on the essence of their offeringinstead of having to deal with infrastructure and portability issues. The fact that the same piece of code can run on many social networks is also likely to encourage more companies to enter the widget marketplace. ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives R/WW Thanksgiving: Thank You Google for Open Social (Or, Why Open Social Really Matters) Written by Alex Iskold / November 22, 2007 8:39 AM / 13 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » When Google and others ganged up on

Its his company (LeadThinking is the parent company he’s set up) and we’ve taken a small stake. He’s already signed up paying customers, and the service has been enriched through the feedback of several of the world’s leading moderation companies - thank you to Tempero, eModeration and Escalate and everyone who participated in the beta. But Socialmod also offers moderation companies a number of benefits. We’ve pushed the first ‘live’ release of Socialmod today. We think it has the potential to become the ‘Basecamp

It’s the informal one that governs the real flow of information and influence in a company, that defines who’s in the loop and who’s not, what’s important and what can safely be ignored. As a result, most of the really useful information that flows through a company never gets captured in corporate databases or broadly shared by employees. I have seen many companies start wikis, and have home | archives & search | rough type store | nicholasgcarr.com « Understanding Google | Main | A star for "The Big Switch" » My(Work)Space November 28, 2007 The new edition of the Financial Times Digital Business podcast is out, and it includes, among other things, a commentary from me on the contrast between formal business software applications and informal social networks like Facebook and MySpace.