February 27, 2003
All in the Family

It looks like some anthill communities may not be all that good of a role model after all! “This nepotistic...

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February 25, 2003
Swarm Intelligence

O’Reilly’s OpenP2P site has an interesting interview up with Eric Bonabeau, Ph.D., founder of Icosystem Corporation and a thought leader...

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February 24, 2003
"Emergent Democracy"

If you’re interested even the slightest bit in the sorts of things this Weblog addresses, stop what you’re doing and...

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February 23, 2003
Blogspace As Ant Colony

Over on his blog, Don Park puts his finger on a key idea: the way blogspace in general resembles an...

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February 19, 2003
People Finder

One of the most interesting areas of software development today is the idea of mobile presence — the convergence of...

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February 18, 2003
Microsoft Aims at Youth With Threedegrees

Newsweek and CNet are buzzing about an upcoming app from Microsoft named “threedegrees” that is targeted at what MS biz...

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February 12, 2003
Reach Out and... Ahem... Touch Someone

Hey, another online dating story — Match.com and AT&T Wireless are launching a service to let people find compatible matches...

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Watch Out, Guys -- They're Comparing Notes

Anyone out there who’s single (like your humble editor) knows that the dating scene in most places isn’t like anything...

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BerliOS Launches Collaborative Software Documentation Project

A team with the German organization BerliOS has launched OpenFacts, a Wiki dedicated to the collaborative development of high-quality documentation,...

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February 07, 2003
"Superlative Sources"

The Infography is an attempt to tap into a distributed network of knowledge (from scholars around the country) to collectively...

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Microsoft and Communities

Robert Scoble has written some interesting notes on the challenges facing Microsoft as it tries to develop online communities around...

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February 05, 2003
The Network is the Computer

There’s an interesting piece up on Microcontent News (from Corante) talking about Weblogs, ants, and the ways the blog world...

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