April 29, 2003
Generating Recommendations via P2P

Here’s a neat idea — Echocloud is a service that helps you find new music using a unique approach to...

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Ideas for an "e-Party"

Over on his blog, tech VC Ross Mayfield is discussing ways to drive the recent discussions about emergent democracy and...

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April 18, 2003
AIM, meet SMS

Speaking of instant messaging, it looks like AOL is moving towards the first real innovation in this space in a...

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What Do You Think You're Thinking, Dave?

Thinkbot is an interesting knowledge-sharing application built on top of the Jabber instant-messaging platform. It’s basically a Jabber “bot” that...

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April 17, 2003
Hey Kids, Let's Build Some Social Software!

Looks like a group of smart folks have banded together as the Social Software Alliance, a “trade group of social...

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April 14, 2003
Discovering IM Social Networks

A new project called Buddy Zoo is an interesting attempt to discover patterns of “social networking” by analyzing users’ AIM...

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April 11, 2003
Dan Gillmor on Microjournalism

Celebrated Silicon Valley columnist Dan Gillmor is putting out a call for collaborators to help flesh out ideas for his...

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April 08, 2003
Saved By the Blog

Joey deVilla has an excellent story up on his blog about how blogging saved him from a disastrous turn in...

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Poisoning the Well

Howard Rheingold’s got a good write-up of some research from the University of Minnesota on how malicious users can significantly...

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April 07, 2003
Call for Participation

I’m looking for volunteers to help me road-test some collaboration software, for the purpose of writing up a review. Participation...

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April 04, 2003
SETI@Home Draws a Blank

Alas, it looks like the initial results are in from the SETI@Home project, and no convincing signs of extraterrestrial intelligence...

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A Big Leap Forward for Digital Projection

Looks like Microsoft has cut a deal to provide digital projection to 53 movie theatres using Windows Media technology. I’m...

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