#social (271 links)
- thesixtyone - a music adventure thesixtyone.com
Musicians upload music and listeners decide which songs go on the homepage.
- How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook -- Facebook -- InformationWeek informationweek.com
Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you're looking to avoid.
"Campaign microsites may be a staple of the "old model," but they are by most accounts not facing extinction—although their role will probably be diminished from star to player in a cast of channels that also includes MySpace, YouTube and widgets."
- Is snack TV the future? | Review | The Observer observer.guardian.co.uk
On KateModern: "The whole thing is filmed in one take, in five minutes flat at 6pm, in the middle of rush-hour traffic. The film is then posted on the social networking site Bebo, where you can log on daily to catch up on the storylines and post comments.
- plusplusbot plusplusbot.com
Did someone go out of their way to help you? Is a web site being particularly slow and flaky? Make your feelings known with plusplusbot.
His fans do not want merely to buy his music. They want to be his friend. And that means they want to interact with him all day long online.
- The Point - People Solving Problems thepoint.com
Do something with a group, but only when you have the numbers to make it worthwhile.
- KitchenBug kitchenbug.com
KitchenBug could be described best as a social recipe application. It allows you to create, bookmark and share recipes in a very seamless way.
- blog.pmarca.com: Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web blog.pmarca.com
"Ning, is participating in this week's launch of a new open web API called Open Social, which is being spearheaded by Google and joined by a wide range of partners including Google's own Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster, Salesforce.com, Oracle, iLike, Fli
Interface with the Visualizer through Flickr and LastFM tags, using any tag to create a Magnet. Once a Tag Magnet is created, members of the network will gravitate towards it if they have photos or music with that same Tag.
Some background on last.fm, including information on Power Plays.
- LiveMocha(tm) : Pages livemocha.com
...blends self-paced lessons, a vibrant community, and interactive tools to help you talk to the world.
- Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social websites - SocialMarker.com socialmarker.com
"It can help you spread a link on 32 of the best social bookmarking sites in under 15 minutes!" Pure evil.
- Myrl || Connecting Worlds myrl.com
Myrl, a social network for the Metaverse. Here your avatar can connect to multiple online worlds and to the web.
- TrustedPlaces trustedplaces.com
- headlessness - The PARP Manifesto headlessness.com
Lest it disappear from the web completely, the PARP manifesto, as written for the PARP group in the Game Neverending.
- VentureBeat » Facebook debunked venturebeat.com
Useful (if sometimes obvious) insights.
the online space for d.construct 07 delegates
- LastGraph: Welcome lastgraph.aeracode.org
LastGraph is a wavegraph generator for Last.fm. Give us a username and some dates, and our highly-trained rendering servers will crunch away and produce a lovely graph of your listening habits.
The Mainstream-O-Meter calculates your mainstreamness by comparing the listener count of your favorite bands to the average listener count of the five bands who have the most listeners among Last.fm-users.
- Causes On Facebook Launches techcrunch.com
With Agape, users can create causes, take donations, and recruit members. Whenever someone creates a cause or joins one, it shows up in their news feed for their friends to see.
There is also a crucial viral component - when a friend adds an application, it is noted in their news stream on their profile. Clicking on the item brings you to the app, where you can add and/or interact with it yourself.
- Facebook Developers developers.facebook.com
Everything you need to get started building a Facebook Application.
- Social Wallpapering socwall.com
...a community effort to classify, rank, and distribute high-resolution images for use as computer wallpaper.
Exists to help promote social networking, knowledge generation and sharing, co-creation and the harnessing of collective intelligence within organisations and communities.
Doesn't seem to be giving particularly useful results right now. Oh, and it emails the person you're looking for as well, without warning you.
- Twitter (kottke.org) kottke.org
Maybe that's when you know how you've got a winner: when people use it like mad but can't fully explain the appeal of it to others. See also: weblogs, Flickr.
- Jyte: Spread the Cred jyte.com
Make claims and share cred
- Soocial | Contact Management made easy soocial.com
Synchronizes your contacts between your mobile, pda, home pc, work pc, and third party applications.
- Neighbourhood Fix-It neighbourhoodfixit.com
"Report, view, or discuss local problems like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting." Nicely done.
- Change.org change.org
A social network for hundreds of social causes and over 1 million nonprofit organizations.
- Ziki.com : Be visible ziki.com
- dotherightthing.com » Popular Stories dotherightthing.com
"Get unfiltered information about the impacts of companies on people and the world and make it worth their while to "do the right thing."
- How to Change the World: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn blog.guykawasaki.com
A top-ten list of ways to increase the value of LinkedIn.
"I suspect Second Life is largely a "Try Me" virus, where reports of a strange and wonderful new thing draw the masses to log in and try it, but whose ability to retain anything but a fraction of those users is limited."
- Creating Passionate Users: The Asymptotic Twitter Curve headrush.typepad.com
"If my Cingular cell phone sends me a MySpace alert and I'm not there to get it, do I exist? But email, IMs, social networking, and blogs are nothing compared to the thing that may finally cause time as we know it to cease. I'm talking, of course, about T
- Flickr Terminates Fake User, Red Passion readwriteweb.com
A Flickr forum thread states that the Red Passion user (the one referenced in our post, representing a marketing campaign for a beverages company) has now been terminated.
"Buttons to help your visitors collect and promote your content" Useful tool or annoying fluff?
- XFN - XHTML Friends Network gmpg.org
A simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks
- BarCamp / minibar barcamp.org
A chance to snaffle some free beer while discussing p2p, Creative Commons, web applications, social networking and general Web 2.0 mayhem & fandango.