You can do this on a wiki (with comments) or Google Docs (with comments), but the more robust tools I came across were Traction , Basecamp , and Activities on Lotus Connections . I’m finding tools like IBM’s Activites and Google Wave as the new email/IM/attachments space…where conversations take place using a multitude of tools, are threaded in an open place, and don’t have to take place in an existing group space, but instead can be created on-the-fly when the activity arises. A little while ago I talked about not so much groupware, but a middle space, moreso activityware, where you create an object and invite people to add to it.

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Then I’m asked if they can contact me using the email address which I don’t actually use anyway (I’m totally unable to change it with Facebook for some reason). Which is exactly why their own sign-on link is below Google and Facebook in the hierarchy I mentioned earlier. Tags: Social Web design Facebook Google signup socia Signup forms are always a pain in the arse. For For a long time, the volume of email addresses captured (as if they could get away) has been a pointless little metric.

Facebook is about connections, friends and contacts. That’s why I’ve always preferred to compare Twitter with Google. On Google I search for information and get a set of results based on which sites score most highly in their algorithm. Google produces mathematical search results. Image by manfrys via Flickr People are often comparing Twitter with Facebook.

Take ten minutes now to read the Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out . Facebook will evolve to compete both with Google and with other social networking sites. also like the ease with which I can contact my Facebook friends with a private message or a comment on their wall. The rapid growth of Facebook and Twitter has created lots of excitement. Alexa ranks the world’s most popular websites.

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We use google coop . In the help and about pages you can find information on how you can contact us to contribute to make FOCUSS more worthy for the development studie Michel Wesseling of the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague gave a presentation during our meeting on January 12th. He talked about their efforts to create a search engine for development called FOCUSS .

We all know the famous saying attributed to Jimmy Wales: “If it isn’t on Google, it doesn’t exist”. The relationship between Google and Wikipedia is central to the online encyclopedia’s success. Why did Google start returning Wikipedia articles in the top 5 results for searches? It originates in a New Yorker article on Wikipedia. What is less known is that the Wikipedia founder was apparently was not in fact advocating that online sources are the only ones that matter, but, rather, something else, such as that online references “probably”

Within a couple of months his post had been read by over 10,000 different people and, perhaps more worryingly, was appearing above Thomson’s own sites for searches on Google for terms relating to Thomson and Tunisia. Give your name and some means of contacting you Tags: Blogging Matt Rhodes Social Media Word of Mouth andy sharman Blog Brand Business Image by Micah Dowty via Flickr Thomson is a well-known package tour and holiday brand in the UK and part of the global travel group TUI .

There were high hopes last week that Google Wave would provide an invigorating dip in the collaborative ocean - but by all accounts, an encounter with Wave is as likely to leave you winded on the beach , with your swimmies round your ankles. According to a new Ofcom survey, one in three British schoolchildren thinks search engines like Google rank sites by ‘ how true they are’. Welcome to our round-up of all that's new, controversial or just plain weird on the social media scene in the last few days. THE HEADLINES… The blogosphere was abuzz this week after the US Federal Trade Commission ordered Celebs and Bloggers to ‘fess up if they’ve been paid to plug - or face a whopping $11,000 fine.