Archive for May, 2009

Look At What These Great Minds Shared At The Web 2.0 Summit

I’m so excited about attending Web 2.0 Summit 2009, but more on that later.  I want to share some of these amazing conversations from the Web 2.0 Summit 2008 with you.  Have you ever asked yourself what is the web really about?  How does Social Media work and what does it mean to me?  How does Web 2.0 impact the world?  Can we use the web to solve real world issues?  What’s next?

Web 2.0 Summit 2009

I am fortunate enough to work for a company that believes understanding the future of technology is important.  I will be attending the Web 2.0 Summit 2009 thanks to Booz Allen Hamilton.  This event will gather the greatest thought leaders from around  the world for engaging conversations about how to put the power of this platform we call the web to work for positive change.  Understanding this platform’s core philosophies of collective intelligence, openness, & transparency will lead us into new business models and into a new era.  I hope to see you there!

Get more details about and register for the Web 2.0 Summit 2009 here.

Web 2.0 Summit 2008

The theme for the Web 2.0 summit 2008 was “Web Meets World”.  A lot of the conversation was about how the web is reshaping the fabric of society.  Tim O’Reilly through O’Reilly Media has been gracious enough to share many of these conversations in video format.  You can also subscribe to these video through iTunes.  I have many of these video on my iPhone and enjoy watching them as I’m standing in line or just need to get my geek fix on the go.  I have included a few video here, but I encourage you to visit the Web 2.0 Summit 2008 site for videos, images, reviews, &  much more information from these great thinkers.  When using Apple iTunes to subscribe and download these videos to your iPod, iTouch, or iPhone, be sure to check out the one that discusses the difference between user genterated content and collective intelligence (my favorite).

Web 2.0 Summit: Social Media Behaviors by Isaac Mao (Social Brain Foundation)

The Social Media fabric is woven with Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 to form collaborative media.  Listen to this quick talk about “Sharisum” and micro-content.  The explosion of connections, contents, and social filtering are explored as we move through media industry changes.

Web 2.0 Summit: Cloud Computing – The Future Web

Cloud computing, an optimized delivery channel for offering software and infrastructure as a service.  The cloud model creates many very exciting opportunities.

Web 2.0 Summit: The Platform Advantage

See and hear what the leaders from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, MySpace, and Slide have to say about the platform advantage.  Stimulating new economics from the explosive growth of business models around platform services.  The “Open Web” is re-defining “Innovation”.   I believe we should increase our awareness of the internet is a platform as we move forward with our information architecture.

Web 2.0 Summit: Web 3.0 Semantic Web – Intelligent Applications

Leaders from Radar Networks, Powerset, Metaweb discuss how new technologies use relationships to organize information.

Web 2.0 Summit: Internet & Tech Trends by Mary Meeker

Reviewing this information reminded me of a previous post about Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide by Amy Shuen, take a look.

Get more details about and register for the Web 2.0 Summit 2009 here.

  1. Are you attending Web 2.0 Summit 2009?
  2. Have you attended a previous Web 2.0 Summit?
  3. What are your tips for attendees?

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May

DIY Twitter Host Your Own Twitter Clone Micro Blogging Service

   Posted by: Daniel Hudson    in Twitter

Twitter Clone Code & Services For Your Site

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Do you love twitter, yammer, & other microblogging services?  Would you like to expand your communication channels?  I believe we need to communicate with people where they are and twitter is a very good place to build relationships with people.  You and your team may not always have access to public services like twitter or yammer.  You may be thinking about adding a micro-blogging service to your Enterprise 2.0 platform.  There are several twitter clones across the internet.  I believe most of these clones were created because of the huge success of Twitter.  I love twitter and their API has allowed many creative people to create some amazing applications for twitter to use on your desktop, iPhone, & other devices.

Open Source twitter-clone and microblogging platform in ASP.Net

Yonkly Open Source twitter-clone

Yonkly Open Source twitter-clone and microblogging platform developed on the asp.net mvc framework.

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Open Source twitter-clone and microblogging platform

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Laconica (pronounced “luh-KAWN-ih-kuh”) is a Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web. Users can choose which people to “follow” and receive only their friends’ or colleagues’ status messages. It provides a similar service to sites like Twitter, Jaiku, and Plurk.

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Open Source twitter-clone and microblogging platform in Ruby

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The design goals for Chirp-Chirp are very simple. They built a reasonably feature complete Twitter clone in the simplest way possible. The code is minimal and easily understood. The user interface is usable without additional extensive instructions.  You should really take a look at this one for all the very detailed comments about the code and the approach to the architecture is very impressive. Check the link for a huge list of twitter clones.  There is a lot to learn here! Impressive approach!

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Buy twitter-clone and microblogging platform in PHP

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Starting your own site like twitter has never been so simple. Revou is a revolutionary PHP driven social network software that allows you to run your micro blogging site just like Twitter & Jaiku. Revou is fully customizable and feature pack including SMS integration, custom API and more!

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Twitter-like Theme For Wordpress

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P2 is the perfect theme to use when you’re collaborating with remote teams and far-flung friends. It’s also a great tool for school projects, as a class or as a group.

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Bonus: Motion by Movable Type

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From Twitter to FaceBook, you’re already using social media to build relationships with customers online. But those services don’t give you total control over your brand. Now Motion gives you a way to manage your message across all of these social networks, while still empowering your community to be part of the conversation.

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  • I would love to hear your thoughts about Twitter.
  • Add your twitter / micro-blogging clone resources.
  • What do you think about using micro-blogging in your Enterprise 2.0 Solutions?

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1
May

USAF Soars Through The Social Media Skies

   Posted by: Daniel Hudson    in Social Media

The United States Air Force Raises the Social Media Bar

Happy Fav Five Friday!

new-media-and-the-air-forceAll I can say is WOW! I am really glad you are here. I seem to jump all over the place with Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, and Government 2.0. I try to include a little something for our wide audience of web strategist, developers, designers, government followers, and social media folks. In a previous post we covered some points on the difference between Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media. Today I would like to share some amazing things our government agencies and warfighters are doing with Social Media. Read the rest of this entry »

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