It analyzes and reports on daily trends within the blogosphere. BoardTracker – A useful tool for scanning and tracking within forums. Commentful – This service watches comments/follow-ups on Blog posts and similar content such as Flickr or Digg. FriendFeed Search – Scans all FriendFeed activity. Google Alerts –Daily or real-time alerts emailed to you whenever a specific keyword (chosen by you) is mentioned. HowSociable? – A simple way for you to begin measuring your brand’s visibility on the social web. Icerocket – Searches a variety of online

The article in Slate stresses the high cost of maintaining Youtube, which is losing half a billion dollars a year, the unwillingness of advertisers to be seen amongst low quality user-generated content. what we are already paying to our ISP’s, ans means of financing such peer to peer infrastructures which can bypass proprietary platforms for distribution of user content via centralized platforms. With Adam Arvidsson, I have outlined on several occasions the Crisis of Value facing capitalism, because the exponential rise in use value production (value produced by ourselves, outside of a market setting), is outpacing the linear capability of monetizing them.

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Therefore, any attempt to solve these business issues with technological measures – such as the proposed 3-strikes legislation – would, with utter certainty, be very expensive, have serious social and political consequences and yet fail miserably to deliver tangible monetary results for the content industries or indeed the creators; just like Digital Rights Management (DRM) which was pushed very hard by the music industry for over a decade and has now finally been acknowledged as the snake-oil it really always was. In my view, the most pressing objective must be to solve the very real problem

illumio – a Smart Content and Request Filter for Enterprise 2.0 by Bill Ives October 16, 2007 at 3:48 pm · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 I recently spoke with David Gilmour, CEO at Tacit, about their new web 2.0 The illumio client downloads your selected RSS feeds, visits the underlying pages and extracts keyword phrases to determine whether each feed’s content is a good match for current concerns. tool, illumio . I have known about Tacit for some time because of their ActiveNet™ application that works inside the firewall to enable connections

Instead of treating blogs and other small publishers as junior content producers for aggregation by the monetizing big boys, why not make it just as easy to subscribe to a small site's stream of interaction. Portal publishers should love it because it is yet more free content. Tags: Business communitycreation google interaction yaho So, I read with interest Matt McCallister's plaint last week about how long it is taking RSS to reach the mainstream. The weird thing is that by many measures, RSS is mainstream but just not widely recognized as such .

Bing, Yahoo's focus is no longer on the technology that powers search and trying to beat the competition with it - the "megawatt war," as Sam Diez reports at ZDNet . Instead, it wants to ride the back of Microsoft technology and channel it so users will want to come back to Yahoo every time they have a query. To accomplish this they need to offer value added niche content. With the alliance with Microsoft?s s

Yahoo’s Personal Blog Guidelines for staff  [link] LiveWorld Social Media Content Guidelines  [link]    Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews

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See this great presentation from Bryce Glass of Yahoo for more detail. User management The platform provides the opportunity for centralized management of user data and permissions, including authentication, account management, personalization, segmentation, and behavioral targeting. User data can provide the connective link among multiple social networking implementations (personal, business group). Content owned by a user can be shared among these via permissions or syndication. Identity services A unified data repository means an individual user can