If you’re wondering what exactly are ‘tags’ and why they matter, see David Weinberger’s brief, excellent introductory essay: Taxonomies and Tags.

Harvard’s Berkman Center has recently launched SocialPhysics, a program with two main goals:

- Create a robust, multi-disciplinary, multi-constituency community for addressing, vetting and conducting experiments in such issues as privacy, authentication, reputation, transparency, trust building and information exchange.
Translation: a community (theoretically open to anyone, but in practice no doubt highly selective) of thoughtful people Read More...

Jon Stewart of the Daily Show has a lot to say about blogging- this is extremely funny, plus it includes some breaking scoops about some of the staff at the Daily Show.
via Danah Boyd

I recently had a conversation with Sam Lewis and Ashton Mayne of the Albourne Village. We are adding this profile of the Albourne Village to our Social Software Site Guide. A similar, but much more exclusive, site that I profiled a while ago is the Value Investors Club.
Albourne Village
February 15, 2005

Website:

village.albourne.com

Summary:

Albourne Village is Read More...

Via Jack Vinson, USA Today writes on how celebrities and business leaders tame their e-mail.

In response to our call for stories for our forthcoming book, Arash Farin shared a beautiful story about the value of building bridges between different cultures.

Yusef Kassim and I met as students at the University of Pennsylvania. I came from a Persian-Jewish background, and Yusef’s parents immigrated to America from Sierra Leone. Yusef Read More...

Via Stowe Boyd, I just read about the launch of Centrality, the “relationship capital journal”, sponsored by Visible Path. Contributors are Stowe, Antony Brydon, Suw Charman, and Stanley Wasserman.
One noteworthy comment from Ray Lane, buried in the body of an interview with him:
We’ve looked at some of the early small companies that are Read More...

Money Magazine reports that a happy marriage is worth $100k /year.
After 2 years of marriage, I can only say this is a ridiculously low estimate of the value of a spouse.
Happy Valentine’s Day!

Bernard Moon writes on Microsoft Research’s Social Computing Group:
“There’s a lot brewing in Microsoft’s Social Computing Group—including a new paradigm for email and a social networking environment that could ‘Wallop’ the competition. “
I’ve been waiting impatiently for Microsoft to make some more significant moves in the social software space. There are plenty of companies Read More...

Oren Rossen of Huminity (an Israeli social networking platform) posted a very helpful graphic showing his view of the evolution of social software. Just like humans think we’re more evolved than chimpanzees (although I periodically see evidence otherwise), he places Huminity as the logical culmination of the technology’s development. Essentially, he is Read More...