Reactions to story from Groundswell (Incorporating Charlene Li's Blog):

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  Google and The Data Portability Dance

  http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/data_portability/google...
  72 days ago in Google Watch · Authority: 140

  "Social is going mainstream. It used to be hard and proprietary; it's becoming easy and open." That's the confident proclamation Google Director of Product Engineering David Glazer made Monday to trumpet the arrival of not only Google's Friend
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  Previewing Google Friend Connect: Website owners can make any site social - techmeme.com

  http://arcelay.vox.com/library/post/previewing-google-friend...
  73 days ago in The Arcelay's / iPhone Blog & CES 2008 · Authority: 25

  Previewing Google Friend Connect: Website owners can make any site social    Easily insert social features to make any app, any site, any friends a reality    Tonight at Campfire One at the Googleplex (http://code.google.com/campfire/ ), Google Inc.
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  Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

  http://www.corporateblogging.net/book/groundswell-winning-in...
  59 days ago in CorporateBlogging.net · Authority: 3

  Product Description: Corporate executives are struggling with a new trend: people using online social technologies (blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, podcasts) to discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals. This groundswell is global, it s unstoppable, it affects every industry and it s utterly foreign to the powerful companies running things now. When consumers you ve never met are rating your company s products in public forums with which you have no experience or influence, your company is vulnerable. In Groundswell, Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester, Inc. explain how to turn this threat into an opportunity. Using tools and data straight from Forrester, you ll learn how to: Evaluate new social technologies as they emerge Determine how different groups of consumers are participating in social technology arenas Apply a four-step process for formulating your future strategy Build social technologies into your business including monitoring your brand value, talking with the groundswell through marketing and PR campaigns, and energizing your best customers to recruit their peers Main Links Buy the book @ Amazon: Groundswell Official Site : Groundswell Table of content: Groundswell Download a free excerpt: Groundswell excerpt Official reviews :Groundswell testimonials Author blog : Charlene Li Author rss feed : Charlene Li Google links: Groundswell “Charlene Li” Google news : Groundswell “Charlene Li” Google Blogs search : Groundswell “Charlene Li” Technorati : Groundswell “Charlene Li” YouTube: Groundswell “Charlene Li” Quintura: Groundswell “Charlen Li” Selection of product reviews on blogs : Lindy Dreyer What is the groundswell? A social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions like corporations (or associations like ours.) Some of the association community is already being impacted by the groundswell…it’s only a matter of time before all of us will be impacted. Scott McAtrthur Li and Bernoff present a strong case for organisations to look on Web 2.0 as an opportunity rather than a threat. They do this by presenting what they refer to as their Social Technographics Ladders in which they classify customers depending on their Web 2.0 activities. David Neal, To hammer home their message, the authors pay particular attention to Kevin Rose, the founder of news aggregation site Digg.com. One of the poster boys of a new generation of web services entrepreneurs, Rose was at the sharp end of the Web 2.0 revolution when a sensitive piece of “news” was removed from the Digg site by the site operators. When this happened, Digg users spread the offending article across other sites and blogs. As a result, the story re-appeared on Digg, and once again all traces of it were removed. When Digg got tired of repeating this process it relented, giving editorial control back to its users. “Caught between a lawsuit and its own audience, Digg bowed to the greater force: the audience,” write Li and Bernoff. Lee Odden “Groundswell” is the social trend that happens when people start connecting with each other via social technologies. The result: they start getting what they need from each other, rather than from companies. That’s incredibly disruptive to businesses who adhere to traditional ways of managing and marketing. Nick O’Neil (with interview podcast) Not only does the book provide a thorough overview of the current state of social technologies and their impact but it also discusses how businesses can adapt to them. Charlene emphasizes in the book and in my discussion with her that the focus should not be on the individual technologies that shape the social web (and the groundswell) but instead on the relationships. Social Technographics Explain (slideshare): Social Buzz : Videos
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  Google Friend Connect’s Buzz

  http://dittorahmat.com/google-friend-connects-buzz
  69 days ago in Niche Marketing and Social Media · Authority: 24

  Image by niallkennedy via Flickr Earlier this week, Google released it’s newest service called the Google Friend Connect. It’s basically a type of Google service that allows site owners to add social features to their sites. It seems that during the past few days there have been quite a lot of buzz on it. I myself have already applied to Google Friend Connect but have yet to receive any confirmation. For the time being, here’s some other useful reference I found about Google Friend Connect : Google Friend Connect Launched - Google released Friend Connect, a service for webmasters to add such gadgets as comments, reviews, or contact lists to their site. Furthermore, Friend Connect supports any creation from the Google gadget initiative “OpenSocial,” and … Google Friend Connect - Tonight at Campfire One at the Googleplex, Google will announce a preview release of Google Friend Connect, a service that helps Web site owners grow traffic by enabling any site on the web to easily provide social features for its … Google Friend Connect: What’s the Point? - The usual sites are buzzing with the news that Google has announced its new Friend Connect service (link won’t be turned on until tonight). Google is positioning this as “a service that helps website owners grow traffic by enabling any … Google Friend Connect — making open social easy - Google announced that it would be releasing Google Friend Connect this evening (link won’t work until Monday evening.) The idea behind Friend Connect is to give Web masters the tools to easily add social features to their sites. … Google Confirms Friend Connect - With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this evening’s Campfire One), any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without … Google Friend Connect: a social network for every site - On Monday night, Google launched its entry into the growing field of programs that attempt to share your “social graph” — your collection of friends and relationships — across many social networks. The program is called Friend Connect … Related PostsWho is Ditto Rahmat ?My career began in 2005 with Visitek, an emerging IT Consultant company in Jakarta, which focus main...Today in SEO - 12 May 2008A hand picked selection of SEO related blog posts and news around the web SEO will not serve you ...Few tips to make your blog load fasterImage via Wikipedia This morning, Zidni and I were discussing our gadget review blog's monthly stat...Blogging Case Study - Purple Cow BlogsLink Building Campaign - Reciprocal Linking Using Trackback Technorati Tags: Facebook, Friend Connect, Google, Google Friend Connect, Googleplex, OpenSocial, Search Engines, Searching ShareThis Bookmark It Hide Sites
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  Cabling Together: Is That Comcastic?

  http://linktosocialutions.com/?p=29
  70 days ago in socialutions · Authority: 24

  Whenever technology advances to the point of usefulness, it’s usually because someone found a great fit between two or more previously independent offerings. In techspeak, this has been referred to as a Mashup (adapted from the music industry). Well, join me in welcoming the latest Mashup — between Internet delivery, Telecommunications, Television, Videos, and the social web (and much more, I suspect). TechCrunch just confirmed the acquisition of Plaxo, a six year old company, by Comcast, a 45 year old company. Comcast will announce their acquisition of social contact list Plaxo today. Financial terms are not being disclosed, but the rumored purchase price is in the $175 million range. I’m thinking the next Mashup announcement will be that Open Social (Plaxo is in) will be incorporated into next-generation set-top boxes . . . and we’ll be surfing the social web (again — remember WebTV, it looks to be a Microsoft product now) with a remote (and that’s only the beginning). Imagine yourself in the couch potato position with your remote and in the corner of your wide screen you get a transparent pop up message from one of your Plaxo contacts wishing you happy birthday. You respond with a thank you, and he notes that you recently posted your status indicating you were en route to a celebration dinner. He confirms the open invite, and while you are on the way, you get a text message on your mobile that indicates the room you had reserved has been upgraded due to an additional twelve guests (pending your approval). You confirm, and hit the record video button on the dash of your car (probably a Ford, using Microsoft Sync and a Live Mesh application) and record a video greeting that your guests see as they arrive. I honestly didn’t expect The Emergence of The Relationship Economy would be this imminent . . . (you can download the e-book for free here) What do you think!
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  Cabling together the Social Web — that’s Plaxtastic

  http://www.relationship-economy.com/?p=991
  71 days ago in A Relationship Economy....What Say You? · Authority: 54

  Cabling together the Social Web — that’s Plaxtastic Author: carterfsmith 05 14th, 2008 Whenever technology advances to the point of usefulness, it’s usually because someone found a great fit between two or more previously independent offerings. In techspeak, this has been referred to as a Mashup (adapted from the music industry). Well, join me in welcoming the latest Mashup — between Internet delivery, Telecommunications, Television, Videos, and the social web (and much more, I suspect). TechCrunch just confirmed the acquisition of Plaxo, a six year old company, by Comcast, a 45 year old company. Comcast will announce their acquisition of social contact list Plaxo today. Financial terms are not being disclosed, but the rumored purchase price is in the $175 million range. I’m thinking the next Mashup announcement will be that Open Social (Plaxo is in) will be incorporated into next-generation set-top boxes . . . and we’ll be surfing the social web (again — remember WebTV, it looks to be a Microsoft product now) with a remote (and that’s only the beginning). Imagine yourself in the couch potato position with your remote and in the corner of your wide screen you get a transparent pop up message from one of your Plaxo contacts wishing you happy birthday. You respond with a thank you, and he notes that you recently posted your status indicating you were en route to a celebration dinner. He confirms the open invite, and while you are on the way, you get a text message on your mobile that indicates the room you had reserved has been upgraded due to an additional twelve guests (pending your approval). You confirm, and hit the record video button on the dash of your car (probably a Ford, using Microsoft Sync and a Live Mesh application) and record a video greeting that your guests see as they arrive. I honestly didn’t expect The Emergence of The Relationship Economy would be this imminent . . . (you can download the e-book for free here) What do you think! [IMG [Slashdot]] [IMG [Digg]] [IMG [Reddit]] [IMG [del.icio.us]] [IMG [Facebook]] [IMG [Technorati]] [IMG [Google]] [IMG [StumbleUpon]]
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  Cabling together the Social Web -- that's Plaxtastic

  http://carterfsmith.blogspot.com/2008/05/cabling-together-so...
  71 days ago in Kicking and SCREAMING · Authority: 39

  Whenever technology advances to the point of usefulness, it's usually because someone found a great fit between two or more previously independent offerings. In techspeak, this has been referred to as a Mashup (adapted from the music industry). Well, join me in welcoming the latest Mashup -- between Internet delivery, Telecommunications, Television, Videos, and the social web (and much more, I suspect). TechCrunch just confirmed the acquisition of Plaxo, a six year old company, by Comcast, a 45 year old company.Comcast will announce their acquisition of social contact list Plaxo today. Financial terms are not being disclosed, but the rumored purchase price is in the $175 million range. I'm thinking the next Mashup announcement will be that Open Social (Plaxo is in) will be incorporated into next-generation set-top boxes . . . and we'll be surfing the social web (again -- remember WebTV, it looks to be a Microsoft product now) with a remote (and that's only the beginning). Imagine yourself in the couch potato position with your remote and in the corner of your wide screen you get a transparent pop up message from one of your Plaxo contacts wishing you happy birthday. You respond with a thank you, and he notes that you recently posted your status indicating you were en route to a celebration dinner. He confirms the open invite, and while you are on the way, you get a text message on your mobile that indicates the room you had reserved has been upgraded due to an additional twelve guests (pending your approval). You confirm, and hit the record video button on the dash of your car (probably a Ford, using Microsoft Sync and a Live Mesh application) and record a video greeting that your guests see as they arrive. I honestly didn't expect The Emergence of The Relationship Economy would be this imminent . . . (you can download the e-book for free here) What do you think! (added - more here from NYT) This blog was produced and directed by Carter F. Smith.
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  Friend Connect via Google

  http://www.dpwilliams.com/friend-connect-via-google/
  71 days ago in dpwilliams.com // The Blog of David Paul Williams · No authority yet

  Friend Connect is a great idea. Technically brilliant and easy to use it is a very exciting development that can bring people together to engage with content in new and exciting ways. When open social was first announced I was sure it would be a really important stage in the development of the Internet, and still am. Should it really be down to Google govern the social web though? It essence it’s brilliant as David Glazer from Google says “Social networking is going mainstream” which is great for connecting different people with different ideas and content across different websites using the same system. This makes it easier than ever for users to become actively engaged participants in the online community. The more users who become actively engaged in the online community the more valuable their interactions become for brands and for users themselves who can have a shared digital experience. The concern I have about Google increasingly moving to govern the social web is picked up in the BBC’s article on Friend Connect. It’s a smart move by Google which is trying to play the role of United Nations secretary general by making sure everyone talks nicely to one another, getting the data to where they want to move it back and forward, and participate in open standards. “Remember Google doesn’t do anything without thinking about, not only how can this benefit the larger community, but how can it benefit Google.” Charlene Li, Principal analyst, Forrester Google are a brilliant, innovative company who are moving things forward for the web as a whole; they are also an aggressive public company keen to acquire competitors and constantly grow through obtaining as much information about people that they possibly can, a bit too much perhaps. As Charlene Li touches on there should be a non-profit based United Nations of the web who run a system like this which can develop the web from a non-partisan perspective. The W3C should perhaps take on more responsibility for governing the development of universal connection systems. Read more for a Friend Connect demo video presented by Google Product Manager Mussie Shore. ShareThis

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