Dear K-Loggers, RSS means really simple syndication. It is a simple way for subscribers to "sign-up" for news from a weblog or news source (much, much easier...
John - great ideas. To some extent, it's possible to do this with Feedster - http://www.feedster.com - since it allows you to create a feed in RSS/Atom/etc of...
Sebastian Paquet on other nifty things to do with feeds: http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/2003/09/11.html#a1098 Daypop can also return search results as feeds....
Dear K-Loggers, A new form of software has quickly arrived on the scene that will compliment our efforts with Weblogs. It's called Social Networking software....
Hello klog listers, I'll be leading a presentation on using weblogs as a knowledge sharing tool on January 8, 2004 in Washington DC. The event is sponsored by...
Also, to simplify the consumer side, instead of devoted aggregator software for the desktop, site admins (or ISPs) can fold RSS into the normal Usenet NNTP...
Dear K-Loggers, I have been doing some thinking on the role of small-world phenomena, weblogs, and political campaigns. Many of the lessons being learned in...
... See also http://www.tribe.net - better than both friendster and linkedin IMHO Peace, Josef. -- Josef Davies-Coates Founder, uniteddiversity LLP Tel: 0845...
Hi Josef, ... Can you describe why (or from what viewpoint) you consider Tribe to be better than Friendster and LinkedIn? From the perspective of business...
Dear K-Loggers, My take: There isn't any magic in social networking software. The value this software provides is much more basic than many people think....
[good analysis snipped] ... The FOAF profile ("friend-of-a-friend") fits the bill, and implementations are on the way to providing the above. Several blogging...
Hi All - Props to John for a great review and punch list on social software. Most of the items noted I agree with through experience, have written in other...
... That's a very good question, one which I'll forward to the mailing list, then report back. For now though - Project home : http://www.foaf-project.org/ ...
Something of a lazy web request but I'd love to see a Personal Identity Server (PIS) that was as lightweight as say, Movable Type. I want that data under my...
... J> Something of a lazy web request but I'd love to see a Personal J> Identity Server (PIS) that was as lightweight as say, Movable J> Type. I want that...
I agree with all of Matt's comments on LinkedIn; I find the open access of Ryze and Ecademy led to far too much noise especially from the chronic networkers...
There is a lot of momentum growing around something called Augmented Social Networks (googles real good!) that leads to identity servers and much more. Cheers ...
... That is exactly how it should work i think. We have a format for storing the personal info in FOAF (or maybe even VCF?). The killer app here would be the...
... Absolutely. We have a club called Hack4Ecademy aimed at exactly that. Then my time is split between personal projects and Ecademy and it's hard to know...
From: "Tijs Teulings" <tteulings@...> ... Perhaps I'm showing my age, but wasn't Unix's Finger service the start of such a server. I wonder how to add a...
Dear K-Loggers, Here is an academic paper, written by George Dafermos, about weblogs in corporations. It is a nice comple(i)ment to our work here on K-Logs. ...
Dear K-Loggers, In order to provide a high signal to noise ratio (which means more good thinking and less chat) for the group: please make sure you spend the...
Dear K-Loggers, I don't know if you have had the chance to check out Wikipedia yet. It is an online encyclopedia. If you haven't, it is a a wonderful...
We want to use SocialText (wiki tools) to start creating our own internal Wikipedia as well. I was originally concerned that people might add content on...
I think the key is to emphasize the personal benefits for the author by making contributions to a wiki. Cory Doctorow calls his blog his outboard brain that he...
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