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AttentionTrust and GestureBank

In the moment at SDForum SearchSIG the other night when Seth Goldstein announced the funding grant of the AttentionTrust by the Omidyar Network, a spontaneous burst of applause erupted. Months of discussions and diligence by Omidyar had resulted in a profoundly important ratification of the Trust's mission and its principles,...

Tags: Omidyar Network, Trust, recorder, Attention Recorder

Blog posts 2006-03-20

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Socialtext gets new CEO and $9.5 million in funding

Socialtext co-founder Ross Mayfield has stepped down as CEO of the enterprise wiki company and is handing the reins to Eugene Lee, a well-seasoned tech executive who has spent time at Adobe, Cisco, Banyan Systems and was a co-founder of Beyond Inc. acquired by Banyan. Mayfield will maintain chairman and...

Tags: Software, Socialtext, CEO, Wiki, Online Communications, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-04

The Semantic Web - is everyone confused?

The Economist. Tim O'Reilly. Nova Spivack. Danny Ayers. Read/Write Web's Alex Iskold. Kingsley Idehen. Brad Feld. Over the last few days all of them have been amongst those writing to clarify their understanding of the Semantic Web and where it's going. Each piece is thoughtful, each piece...

Tags: Web, Technology, Language, Danny Ayers, Read/Write Web, Tim, SWEO, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, RDF, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-01

Wikipedia: Why does Essjay need to "protect himself"?

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Wikia, has issued a free pass to a Wikipedia editor who lied about his background. In an incredible contradiction, Wales said of Wikipedia editor and Wikia employee Ryan Jordan (nee "Essjay"): "“I accepted his apology, because he is now, and has always been, an...

Tags: Business &, Technology

Blog posts 2007-03-05

Web 2.0 meets the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

As I reported last week from my interview with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Jon Dudas, the patent process is about to taste Web 2.0. The Washington Post reports that a pilot social software project that allows for third-party comments and voting, adding a community, peer review dimension to...

Tags: Government, Legal, General

Blog posts 2007-03-05

Hyperlocal content: Local news or community gossip?

If “all politics is local,” is all news local?” Such is the theory behind citizen media site Backfence, touting “Do-It-Yourself-Local-News”:Find out whats going on in the world closest and most important to you: Your neighborhood.What is the most important "news" in people’s “worlds”? Backfence suggests:Who won the T-ball championship? Have...

Tags: Web 2.0, Local, Media, Culture, User-Generated Content, Amateur Content, Social Media, Metrics, Backfence

Blog posts 2007-01-06

Digg digs up $8.5 million

I asked Digg founder Kevin Rose in September “How long can your $2.8 million in venture funding last to finance your preferred path to profitability?”: "We are fully funded. We have decided to keep a small team. We will be able to turn a profit, we won’t need to go...

Tags: Venture Capital, VC, Digg

Blog posts 2006-12-28

Digg paths to profitability and social networking

Speaking at the Building Blocks conference in San Jose today, Digg founder and chief architect Kevin Rose described his site as a "crazy madhouse of news flying around, 100 percent user powered." The Digg madhouse isn't yet a crazy quilt of ads aimed at increasing revenue, he noted when asked...

Tags: Digg, Kevin Rose

Blog posts 2006-08-15

A Cure for the Summertime Blues

First Dave Winer highlights the one sentence in this blog that actually seemed to sound positive. You know, the angry old man, etc. Then a spate of crap from the trolls highlighted by one Paul Montgomery, a Down Under journalist his word who slimes all US journalists on his way...

Tags: Attention, Doc

Blog posts 2006-05-27