Loic Le Meur, definitely one of the pioneers in the social computing space shares his social map.
It is a full time job keeping up with all the tools and services in the social space (and broadly in mail, search and other tools which increasingly help us with social activities)
...click on graphic for a larger perspective, and you will notice there is plenty of white space waiting to be filled -)
Next frontier in collaboration?
"People planning travel with their spouses, she says, or students working on research projects with classmates all too often find themselves repeating work others have done or fail to find sites that others have identified. Morris is designing a tool that could begin to help with this problem."
Dave McClure puts emerging, competing social networks on a graph (click to enlarge). I think he misses hundreds of vertical and emerging ones, but gives you an idea of the fight for your and my attention.
Of course, as the New York Times points out new languages are emerging around different networks - like P911 for parent alert when teenagers text each other.
Darn, I never finished learning Romulan, and now come all these new species -)
SocialText has put together a nice set of case studies and analyst reports on Wikis and other collaboration technologies.
"In the corporate and academic worlds, conferences and networking events
are necessary. But while some people trade business cards with aplomb,
others clump with coworkers, rarely venturing beyond the safety of
their pre-existing social circle. New research from MIT's Media Lab has
shown that a sensor-laden conference badge might be able to help people
venture out, form new connections, and gain insight into how they
interact with others at such events."
The latest Fortune calls Spore, from creator Will Wright, the game of the year. Due out this summer, if it has any of the impact his previous Sims series did, it will be around for much longer and in many more user modified formats - via widgets on a Facebook page, animated videoclips passed around on YouTube and 3-D printing.
Here is a demo Will Wright did for NASA recently.
"Recruiting has become quicker, more efficient and more targeted. The use of RSS provides easy distribution of job ads. Companies post job requirements to their blog, and ask other, related blogs, to post on their site as well, allowing for a wider scope. " Monica Hamburg catalogs how companies are using social networks and other web 2.0 innovations
New York Times on interviews with "avatars" in virtual worlds like Second Life "As far as job interviews go, my recent meeting with Sandy Gould was anything but ordinary. Mr. Gould showed up in a Superman costume. Next, he invited me to sit down next to him in a chaise longue that overlooked the crashing surf. As we talked about my strengths and weaknesses, crabs skittered along the sand at our feet. At another point, in the middle of responding to a question about overcoming professional challenges, I stood up and performed a hula dance. Finally, after thanking me for my time, Mr. Gould stood up, shook my hand and flew away."
The Independent warns of personal information on the web being used against candidates " In America, the monitoring of social networking sites for content that may interest employers and officialdom is now so routine that software is being put on the market that will automate the process. Sure enough, software to try to defeat the snoops is also emerging – offering the prospect of a privacy "arms race" in the years ahead. ReputationDefender, for instance, offers the embarrassing personal information equivalent of credit reports, claiming it can help expunge from the online record material you regret revealing. Michael Fertik, the firm's CEO, said demand for their service is now "ridiculous", with hundreds of UK clients already."
The best of social networks, gadgets, widgets, Office 2.0 were honored last night at the Tech Crunchies awards in San Francisco. Candidates in each category are listed here. A video of some of the winners is here
And it was organized by "new media" like TechCrunch, GigaOm, ReadWriteWeb and Venture Beat.
Definite innovators.
It's about a job you may be interested in applying for, but Zoli's post on Atlassian is worth a read to see how enterprise wikis are being rapidly adopted across borders - and the startup itself provides an example of the "micro-multinational" phenomenon.
2007 was the first year, mobile bills exceeded those on land lines
Surprisingly, landline wins with teens as they communicate according to this Pew survey:
Talk to friends on landline phone: 39%
Talk on cellphone: 35%
Spend time with friends in person: 31%
Instant message: 28%
Send text messages: 27%
Send messages on social-network sites: 21%
Send e-mail: 14%
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