Steve Jobs himself pitched Apple Computer's plan for Apple Campus2 (HQ) to the Cupertino Ca City Council. They had acquired the land before 2006. The single "spaceship" building will hold 13k employees, compared to 9k in their current cluster of buildings. (more)

Google service to run their AdWords on your WebSite so you can make money from Advertising. (more)

US Dept of Homeland Security

Tim Bray and John Perry Barlow discover VoIP via IChatAV. Barlow: The really interesting shift occurred as we drifted back to what we'd been doing before we started chatting, leaving the Audio channel open as we'd did so... (ambient Full Time Network)

Zed Shaw started the Utu projec ("Saving the Internet with Hate") to improve Virtual Community. The Internet needs identity, reputation, and retribution. (Digital Identity, Reputation Management) (more)

In Fat Client universe, typically a GUI-object supported by a library/FrameWork. (more)

People you stay in constant contact with, online and other. (Social Networking) (more)

Jon Udell on Meta Data approaches of apps like FlickR and Del.icio.us. Abandoning Taxonomy is the first ingredient of success. These systems just use bags of KeyWord-s that draw from - and extend - a flat NameSpace. In other words, you tag an item with a list of existing and/or new keywords. Of course, that idea's been around for decades, so what's special about Flickr and del.icio.us? Sometimes a difference in degree becomes a difference in kind. The degree to which these systems bind the assignment of tags to their use - in a tight feedback loop - is that kind of difference. FeedBack is immediate. As soon as you assign a tag to an item, you see the cluster of items carrying the same tag. If that's not what you expected, you're given incentive to change the tag or add another... These systems offer lots of ways to visualize and refine the TagSpace. (WikiWord, Touch Graph) Armed with such powerful tools, people can collectively enrich shared data. But will they? The success of Flickr and del.icio.us won't necessarily translate to the Intranet (Critical Mass). You can import the global-HiveMind, but you can't export the local-HiveMind. That asymmetry defines the challenge we face as enterprise knowledge gardeners. (more)

a Taxonomy created via Emergence from a population of users (more)

JavaScript executed on a page from a server different from the JavaScript's server. (more)

HTML element for including 1 page within another (more)

Steven Johnson's latest book is Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age ISBN:1594488207.

NoSQL Data Store from TenGen (more)

Google Chrome has been crashing a lot on my MacBook Pro recently. (more)

Social commerce[1] is a subset of electronic commerce that involves using Social Media, online media that supports social interaction, and user contributions to assist in the online buying and selling (E Commerce) of products and services... The term social commerce was introduced by Yahoo! in November 2005[2] to describe a set of online collaborative shopping tools such as shared pick lists, user ratings and other user-generated content-sharing of online product information and advice... The concept of social commerce was developed by David Beisel to denote user-generated advertorial content on e-commerce sites,[3] and by Steve Rubel[4] to include collaborative e-commerce tools that enable shoppers "to get advice from trusted individuals, find goods and services and then purchase them". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_commerce

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22samuel%20mockbee%22 (more)

First there were the 3Cs of Content Community Commerce. (Online: Content, Virtual Community, and E Commerce) (more)

Venkatesh Rao thinks we need a Food Truck Index. I am starting to believe that Local Food is becoming the best bellwether of the social and cultural condition of the economy as a whole. Or rather, after an aberrant half century of industrial-scale Mc Donaldization of the global economy, the local food industry is actually reclaiming the bellwether status it has always had in history... Whether you are one of the 1% who always shops at Whole Foods or better, or one of the 99% for whom a bit of indulgence in local food is a rare humanizing break from a mostly Big-Mac lifestyle, your local food choices reveal the health of your local economy. Any region where people have simply given up all hope and subsist entirely on Food Inc. produce at home, and Supersize Me food outside the home, is a region where it is Game Over for the economy... I think the real potential of globalization is finally being realized. Globalization is about homogenization, but it does not have to be of the impoverished variety where everyone eats McDonald’s burgers. As economists like Tyler Cowen have argued, it can be homogeneity via a rich, localized Diversity: anybody, anywhere on the planet, having access to an equally diverse local food scene that has a globalized sensibility. Local food is a part of globalization as practiced by small-scale players who cannot ship social costs off to distant shores governed by friendly dictators... There are several components to the local food economy besides food trucks of course: home-gardening (Kitchen Garden) and cooking, Locavore fine dining, Farmers Market-s, Social Commerce startups, and chains like Whole Foods. So why pick food trucks? It is easiest to see the logic by contrasting food trucks with other pieces of the local food economy... Food trucks have one other significant advantage: they track what Richard Florida calls the Creative Class.

San Francisco-based My Farm calls itself a decentralized Urban Farm that grows vegetables in backyard gardens (Kitchen Garden) throughout the city. (Urban Farming) You pay them to put an Organic garden in your backyard, you pay them monthly to maintain it and harvest it, and you get the output. And you can get produce from other members' gardens too. A different kind of CSA.

Zappos has done an interesting job of using Twitter for its Enterprise Social Networking.