The skinny on Facebook

Brian gives a great overview of a talk by "Mike Murphy, Chief Revenue Officer of Facebook, gave a great presentation about social media and the opportunities to engage users."
http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com/the_ubiquitous_librarian
/2006/10/a_night_with_fa.html

mySpace, byespace from WSJ

...belongs to a fringe of Internet users now renouncing MySpace and other social-networking sites -- not in spite of their popularity, but because of it. That highlights a dilemma facing News Corp.'s MySpace and Facebook Inc.: While it takes a critical mass of users to make these sites work, having too many users alienates some, especially when they attract an ever-growing cacophony of advertising and in some cases, spam.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116182858175204222.html

aggregators

Great list of aggregators for blogs
http://www.newsonfeeds.com/faq/aggregators

Google's Custom Search Engine

Google is testing a search you build that allows you to "specify the websites that you want to searched-and integrate the search box and results into your own website."
Read more at http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

YouTube:Wikiality

A very good Colbert Report and the reason to use a skeptical eye when using Wikipedia. Used in library instruction sessions.

Reuters to cover business news in Second Life

By Adam Pasick
"LONDON (Reuters) - Philip Rosedale and his team at Linden Lab have almost godlike powers in Second Life, the virtual world they created, powers that Alan Greenspan could only have dreamed of when he chaired the U.S. central bank.
But they have much the same job managing its economy.
Second Life is an online, 3D world with a thriving business sector and a currency that can be exchanged for U.S. dollars, effectively making it a real currency in its own right. Up to 135.5 million Linden dollars, worth about $500,000, changes hands every day among its 900,000 registered users. "

Read more at: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-10-16T121859Z_01_N15264299_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-SECONDLIFE-ECONOMY.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-C2-NextArticle-1

Visit the News Desk: http://secondlife.reuters.com/

Shakespeare goes Virtual & Gaming

"Three-dimensional digital worlds and the world of William Shakespeare--it's hard to imagine two more disparate universes. But bridging the gap between them is exactly what Edward Castronova, an associate professor of telecommunications at Indiana University and the leading expert on the economies of virtual worlds, is doing.

On Thursday, the MacArthur Foundation is expected to announce a $240,000 grant to Castronova and his team to build "Arden: The World of Shakespeare," a massively multiplayer online game, or MMO, built entirely around the plays of the Bard.

"Arden" will be an unusual entry to the growing field of MMOs, which is already dominated by games and virtual worlds like "World of Warcraft," "EverQuest," "Ultima Online." But while those games are published by for-profit corporations, "Arden" is entirely an academic project."
http://news.com.com/Shakespeare
+coming+to+a+virtual+world/2100-1043_3-6127294.html?tag=nefd.lede

300+ Web 2.0 apps

Use a web 2.0 technology (listable) to see a list of web 2.0 technologies......http://www.listible.com/list/
complete-list-of-web-2-0-products-and-services

library 2.0 in job ads

"On the 2.0 Job Description (Part 2): LIS Students in a 2.0 World" by Michael Stephens. ALA TechSource
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/04/on-the-20-job-description-part-2-lis-students-in-a-20-world.html

"On the 2.0 Job Description: Part 1" by Michael Stephens.
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/03/on-the-20-job-description-part-1.html

Small Bytes Podcast

Some of our technology folks have created Small Bytes, "a weekly podcast about technology and St. Cloud State University."

http://web.stcloudstate.edu/mamonn/smallbytes/

Go2web 2.0

See hundreds of examples of web 2.0 technologies....some useful...some not so useful
http://go2web20.net/

books@google from NY Times Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19436

Why Wiki?

Check out this online course from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/courses/wiki/

Welcome

This blog is starting as an experiement (and really don't they all). I want to see what features they have added with the new beta version after the partnership with Google.

Lets just see what develops