The Online Community Unconference is scheduled for June 10th in Mountain View, CA. Walmart.com, Linden Lab, Flickr, AARP, Nokia, Autodesk, Cisco, CafePress, Cadence Design Systems, Sony Online Entertainment, O'Reilly Media, Inc., The Online Community Unconference is one of the largest online community events in the area and we expect 300-400 online community and social media professionals to attend with 50-60 collaborative sessions on timely social media and online community topics. Current Current attendees include: Google, NetApp, GreatSchools.org, Autodesk, Smarter Travel,

Update June 6th, 2007 I’m at the community unconference here in Mountain View, and I just added Lithium. March 3, 2008: Mzinga acquires Prospero March, 19, 2008: Small World Labs acquires $1mm in funding March 4, 2008: Demand Media buys Pluck $75MM April 3, 2008: Jive acquires Jotlet, online calendar set June 9, 2008: Awareness partners with Sharepoint June 10, 2008: KickApps and Clearspring Team Up to Monetize Social Widgets Feb 25, 2008: Convio partners with ThePort June 30, 2008: Lithium raises $12MM July 10, 2008: WebJam receives $1.9MM in funding July 15, 2008:

Examples of applications that are significantly improved by the existence of context specific social graphs within them are Digg , Flickr , Del.icio.us and Twitter which all don’t require a user to add themselves to the site’s social graph to utilize it’s services but get more valuable once users do. Tweet Some thoughts on retroactive deletion of shared content on Facebook and other social media sites How Googles layoffs and project cancellations are affecting its culture of innovation MIX 09 Conference Panel on Activity Streams and Opening Up Social Networks Some thoughts

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Image by losmininos via Flickr In case you missed them, find below our top five posts in June. At FreshNetworks we aim to bring you the best posts in social media, online communities and customer engagement online. 1. Gordon Brown’s YouTube trauma

Tapping the incredible content of networks like Flickr and the practice of Creative Commons licenses to use that content. Flickr, Twitter and other social media tools now augment and enhance the blog - often woven into the blog with widgets.  Without Skype, email, Google docs, Flickr, and publishing on demand, this book would not have been born.  This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

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These social objects form the frame of focus for discussion and social interaction, be it a photo in Flickr or a post in a persons blog that is being discussed in the comments or tagged, annotated, or blogged about in another post, much of the social web is built upon social objects or the creation of sociality around objects. In the past I have describe Flickr as a narrow folksonomy , which is a rough synonym for collaborative tagging. Personal InfoCloud « Remote Presentation and Perception Matrix for Social Tools | Main | Selective Sociality and Social Villages » Getting to Know Collective and Collaborative One of the things that has been a little bothersome in the last year or two and has been the lack of understanding between the difference between two terms, collaborative and collective.

Greetings, Thijs Partner at KREM Corporate Social Networking jeremiah_owyang January 23rd, 2008 2:43 pm Thijs, this goes on this list [link] I’ll add it there. Andrew Kelly June 11th, 2008 2:34 pm Jeremiah, I know where you’re going with this. Best, Andrew Kelly Andrew Kelly June 11th, 2008 2:37 pm Hi Jeremiah, I see where you are going with

Later blogs came along, then sites like Flickr (photos) and YouTube (videos) for user-generated rich media. Other sites, like Flickr, incorporate social network features to support the core activity of the site, which in the case of Flickr is photo publishing and sharing. Posted by: Jon Lebkowsky on November 6, 2007 9:25 PM EMAIL THIS ENTRY TO: YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS: MESSAGE (optional): Feb 25, 09 About Stuff Shelter Cities Community Business Politics Planet The Value of Connections Jon Lebkowsky October 30, 2007 1:32 PM Ive been struggling with social networks and social network platforms: I have a lot of thoughts about them, all clamoring for attention in my head, and Im to create neat square boxes for my thoughts, the way consultants do when they create those neat clearly-articulated lists that are supposed to show off their expertise.