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• Google to connect friends across the Web

  Also missed this last week in the Washington Post: Google to Connect Friends Across the Web. Excerpt: To socialize these days, hundreds of millions of people every month visit networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. But what if the Web itself operated... Posted May 19 2008, 11:16 PM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech, Social networks, Search engines

• 'What's happening in my neighborhood?'

  Adrian Holovaty, a programmer and friend who brought us Chicagocrime.org, has just launched a new site funded by the Knight Foundation: EveryBlock, a site that tells you what's happening in your own neighborhood. They're starting out in New York... Posted Jan 25 2008, 02:30 AM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech

• The next phase of the Internet revolution

  San Jose Mercury News: Cisco's Chambers sees a new Internet revolution. CEO says we're moving from desktop mode to web-top mode. Excerpt: Chambers: I think you are about to see the second phase of the Internet. We believe that it will be built... Posted Jan 21 2008, 08:21 PM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech

• Geotagging connects photos with locations

  San Jose Mercury News: Where were you when you took that photo? Geotagging links maps with photos. Read More... Posted Jan 19 2008, 10:36 PM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech

• 'Crunchies' awards: The Winners

  TechCrunch: Gosh, how can you not love an awards show with scintillating writing like this?: A great evening was had by all tonight as some of the leading startups gathered for the first annual Crunchies ... Read More... Posted Jan 18 2008, 11:22 PM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech

• Larry Brilliant on Google.org

  PBS's NewsHour tonight featured Larry Brilliant, the head of Google.org and, long ago, co-founder of the WELL (and someone I'd like to meet one day). Google unveiled plans Thursday to expand the company's philanthropic work. Here's an... Posted Jan 18 2008, 12:58 AM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech

• Key takeaways from CES 2008

  Shelly Palmer at Media 3.0: Key Takeaways from CES 2008. Read More... Posted Jan 13 2008, 10:34 PM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech, Consumer

• From 10 hours a week, $10 million a year

  Sunday NY Times: From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year. Scoble wrote about Markus Frind, founder of Plentyoffish.com, some two years ago. Read More... Posted Jan 13 2008, 03:54 PM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech

• Saffo on formulas for success

  Tech pioneer Stewart Brand, founder of the LongNow Foundation, gives this summary of last night's appearance by Paul Saffo in the latest SALT talk (Seminars About Long-term Thinking) in San Francisco: Reflecting on his 25 years as a forecaster, Paul... Posted Jan 12 2008, 07:32 PM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech

• 2008 calendar: media and tech conferences

  Thought it would be useful for some people to have an at-a-glance calendar of some (but not all) of the media and technology conferences on my radar for 2008. (I know there are many others; feel free to add your own in the comments below.) AlwaysOn OnMedia... Posted Jan 09 2008, 11:57 PM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech, Media, technology, newspapers, newspaper conferences, tech conferences, media conferences, conferences

• A smear job on Obama

  I'm well aware of the large number of miscreants, political hacks and small-minded people who intentionally spread lies on the Internet. What I find less easy to understand are the number of otherwise well-intentioned people who pass along this garbage... Posted Jan 09 2008, 10:10 PM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech, Politics, obama, barack obama, presidential campaign, smears, presidential race, urban legends, snopes, hoaxes

• Yahoo's quest to open up

  NY Times Bits blog:Yahoo's quest to open up. Excerpt: For months, Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang has been talking about swinging open the doors to the Yahoo portal. A key goal, he has said again and again, is to turn Yahoo into a set of platforms... Posted Jan 07 2008, 10:23 PM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech

• Cool new TouchGraph gadgets

  Lisa points to some interesting new TouchGraph gadgets: TouchGraph Google (SocialMedia.biz is at the lower right in this graph of the term "social media") TouchGraph Facebook TouchGraph Amazon Plunk a search term into the field and watch the... Posted Jan 02 2008, 12:38 AM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech

• The year's Top 10 in 'social technology'

  Jon Lebkowsky, a friend and colleague, at WorldChanging: Social Technology Top Ten for 2007. Much ado about "social media," a term that rolls more trippingly off the tongue than "blog," and is somewhat more expansive, including not... Posted Jan 02 2008, 12:16 AM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech, Social media, Social-media

• Battelle's tech predictions for 2008

  John Battelle's tech predictions for 2008 (and how he did in 2007). Excerpt: 2008 will also be seen as the year that proves Conversational Marketing [aka social media marketing] as a new form of advertising (this is clearly a biased view), and by... Posted Jan 01 2008, 11:11 PM by Social Media Filed under: Web/Tech