How Social Can Bookmarking Get?

Quietly popular Reddit was just acquired by Conde Nast, parent company to Wired, according to Techcrunch. While everyone has their eyes on digg, it’s now apparent that social bookmarking is an open field and there are other players out there – not just digg. We use popurls quite frequently and it’s always interesting to see [...]

Democracy in Video

While everyone’s attention has been on YouTube, we were introduced to a new player this week called Democracy that’s fairly staggering. This standalone, “better than iTunes” video player brings in long tail channels covering just about every possible topic. YouTube isn’t particularly good at taxonomy, while Democracy seems to have harnessed an interface that truly [...]

New York Times Standard Time

The New York Times tends to digest technology for what seems like eons until it “breaks” a story – take today’s article on Technorati. For those of us in the social media world, it’s hard to remember a time before Technorati, much like it’s hard to imagine a pre-google universe. To the Times, who runs [...]

Social Media and the Global Citizen

Social Media World’s bloglines page is filled with thought leaders’ blogs. Of particular note recently is the “global citizenry” of social media emissaries like longtime blogger Joi Ito, who use social networking tools like Vox and Linked In as virtual workspaces. Joi is just as likely to be in the US, Japan, or any number [...]

Wiki This

Steve Rubel issues a great podcast today on MicroPersuasion that restirs the ongoing debate of the role of the corporate identity on Wikipedia. How far can that platform be pushed as a promotional tool. Imagine the chaos that could ensue if MySpace became WikiSpace. Is it ethical to promote companies on this collectively curated platform? [...]