Plugging Into a Community That Clicks
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The days of exchanging neighborhood news solely over the back fence or at the local post office are long gone. And often, by the time community newsletters are written, printed and distributed, the information is stale.
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Also: Google Shared Stuff plays well with others. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Users will be able to receive news alerts and information via IM.
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Darren Barefoot takes Rojo to task ...  "I can kind of see what they're getting at, but I'm not sure it's the right approach. Has the market demonstrated that it wants all-in-one info-sharing, social networking solutions? I don't think so."  Rojo is the first service of its kind to integrate weblog aggregation (info-sharing) and social networking - of course the market hasn't prove itself -  the market is still growing!  The entire social networking, weblog aggregation, and wiki space is going to be opening up wide this year.  We're seeing a lot of new web services being deployed on an almost daily basis.  "Their generalist predecessors--Friendster, Orkut, Tribe--were nifty to play with, but ...
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Craigslist displays undeniable grassroots power.
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"Now, itâs not that I donât want to have this content here. Far from it. Iâll always post everything to somewhere on this site. I just want to treat each individual posting as a single entity and place it in as fertile a set of beds as possible. I want context specific mirroring. I want to be able to choose multiple endpoints for a post, and publish to all of them with a single button click."
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Will a nonprofit-driven browser tackle the behemoth from Redmond?
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By JAKE COYLE  With generators for entering your own info into everything from church signs to Stephen Colbert's "On Notice" board, numerous Web sites are offering you a chance to put your name in lights.
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Boosting the bottom line isn't always about cutting costs or improving distribution channels. One company found success by building a better online community.
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B-to-B advertisers often pay high click costs to reach a very small and very specific group of potential buyers. More than anyone, they need to be sure the right people are clicking on their ads.
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Welcome to the brave new world of interactive Web advertising.
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Here's the new Reddit for Scripting News... http://reddit.com/r/scripting/  Please, if you're a regular reader of this site, bookmark it, and when you want to contribute a link to the community, add it there. Do the normal thing you do with Reddit or Digg, move articles up or down, according to your opinion of how relevant they are to the community defined by this weblog.  Warning: I will moderate, heavily if necessary, to keep it from being abusive or overly immature. Sorry for having to post the caveat, but you know how it goes.
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It's been a real thrill to watch Loic Le Meur roll out his new video community tool called Seesmic. He's got the French touch, a bit self-deprecating, he's good at seduction, keeps his ego in the background and puts the focus on the users, where it should be.  As he's been seeding people one by one, they create videos which then appear on Twitter (heh) so people who don't have Seesmic get an idea what it's like through the eyes of people they know. This immediately creates a feeling of envy, but if you beg Loic he gives you an activation code, and off you go -- ready to become his next evangelist. Feeling priviledged to be his next evangelist. It's like Tom Sawyer and the fence. He reminds me so much of Jean-Louis Gassee in his prime, when he had all the Mac developers wrapped around his finger, and loving it.  I have an idea of where Loic wants to go with this, and it's going to be big. It'll be a fun ride, and fun to watch a master promoter at work. PS: Here's my latest Seesmic video, a demo of FlickrRiver. You may have to turn up the audio to understand what I'm saying, or use headphones. We're going to do something fun with the people at Le Web 3 and FlickrRivr. Thanks to Loic for also having a curious mind.  PPS: Beware the exclusive.
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SURF for a good cause. That's what you can do when you go to http:// Click4TheCause.Live.com from now through March.
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Plug it in! You won't believe what we found when we went looking for more of the craziest USB devices on the market.
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At the public demo on the 17th, I will talk about the idea of the Networked Living Room built on RSS. Low-tech, open, all moving parts replaceable. Not just photos, that's step one.  Sign up on Upcoming. Still some space left.
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Recently I had lots of time on my hands visiting relatives and in-laws. Most of the time I was able to get an Internet connection. Sometimes I had to leech my connection from unsecured wireless access points. Some of my relatives and friends posted videos on youtube.com but they wanted to save other flash videos on their hard drive or USB drive. At first this can be frustrating if you don't understand what is going on. So I decided to download them the hard way. For the faint-of-heart, you can scroll all the way to the bottom of the article for the easy way to download flash video and audio files.    Why do this the hard way?  First I wanted to understand why it was less than straight forward to do. I understand why proprietary software developers are scared right now. Software is slowly moving to Internet applications. As most of you know, the Internet is wide open, even SSH and SSL to some degree.    With youtube.com, Google video and some of the more popular video sites you can download and install software to automatically grab the video or audio flash file. However, I had a lot of time on my hands and there are many sites where a video downloader does not work for the particular site.    If you find doing it yourself interesting then here's one way to download flash video files. Keep in mind this only works with embedded flash video or audio streams.