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[[libsyn_player]] This week, I announce details of the edonis study; 3-year longitudinal research into educators' use of the 'social web'. I outline the study and invite listeners to participate. Involvement can take the form of being a subject of the research, through to active involvement in the 'community of practice' which is building up around the edonis ning site. To take part, please email me at edonisproject@yahoo.co.uk . Show #62 will be out on Friday, 10th October.

In this video, I discuss a new social network called Raptr. Raptr is centered around gaming across multiple platforms including PC, Mac, Flash, 360, PS3, and Wii. Much like Xfire and other such clients, it tracks what you are playing at the moment. The cool thing about Raptr is that it ties into Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook. So when you start playing your favorite game, you can let your friends on social networks know what you are doing. Raptr has its own community where you can branch out, learn about new games, make friends, and do all those things that social networks highlight. I've been using Raptr for less than a day now, but I'm glad I got involved since I had been looking for something like this to tie into FriendFeed. There's RSS feeds for your activity, so it'll be a piece of cake to embed something like this on your blog. If you join Raptr, add me. My id is bwana. Enjoy!

This week SmallBizPod #67, the small business podcast, takes a look at the life of a freelancer ahead of a conference on the subject called Going Solo. The podcast includes interviews with speakers at the conference including some of the social web s best known freelancers and consultants on how to survive as a soloist. Right click here to download the podcast for startups, small business and entrepreneurs. Listen now: Download audio file (Sbp67.mp3) If you d like to subscribe free using an RSS feed or better still iTunes, just follow the podcast screencasts to find out how easy it is to make sure you never miss an episode of SmallBizPod. For those who d like to download SmallBizPod or listen to it now, right click on the download link or left click on the grey arrow button above to play now. Show Notes Summary Intro: • 00:00 Introduction to what s coming up in the show. Features: • 01:56 Interview with Stephanie Booth, blogger, consultant and organiser of Going Solo, a very practical conference on freelancing aimed at freelancers all over Europe to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland on 16 May. • 09:12 Interview with Laura Fitton, aka @Pistachio, on her life as a freelancer, how she started out, her vertiginous rise in the social media space, Twitter and advice on real world and virtual face time. • 17:50 Interview with Martin R ll about becoming a freelancer accidentally, why it s so hard and so easy to consult and how to manage technology and time. • 22:21 Interview with Stowe Boyd, one of the most well known voices in the blogosphere and successful social web consultant, on negotiation, fame and social capital. • 31:35 Interview with Suw Charman-Anderson, one of Britain s best known bloggers, on her early life as a freelance consultant, catastrophic financial failure, peer groups and work-life balance. • 42:17 Interview with Dennis Howlett, freelance writer and blogger and former international tax partner on the nitty gritty of managing your freelance finances. • 51.38 Music - Raygun from The Best of Vol. 1 LP Part 2 (Night Drive Music) More On This Album Tags: freelance podcast, goingsolo, consulting, social web

Yahoo s CTO Ari Balogh opened his speech at Web 2.0 Expo speaking about about 3 big bets: being the most important starting point for the web, being a must buy advertising property and being open. He says that Yahoo has been open for a long time. They have lots of open API s. Flickr is the second largest of these. He wants to take open to a whole new place. He wants to open up all the assets to developers. They want to open up the social network that is Yahoo. It sounds like they have been learning from Facebook and OpenSocial. They seem to recognize that they have the ability to be the worlds largest social platform if they can get this right. He announced the opening of the beta for search monkey. He says that Yahoo s open strategy is not just about opening up the search page, but opening up all the aspects of Yahoo. They will have an application platform and a social platform. They are going to unify profiles across Yahoo go make social possible. The third element is to re-wire all the properties of Yahoo so that there is a consistent API across the different experiences. They want to rewire the entire Yahoo experience to be social. They don t view social as a destination. He provides an example of social being used to highlight mail in email system, highlight what s important to friends in My Yahoo or on the sports page. Y! OS (open strategy) Rewiring Yahoo Open Yahoo to developers like never before Making Yahoo more social Making Yahoo portable. Search Monkey now, much more later this year. The overall process will unfold over time. Look for releases over this year and next. UPDATE: Here s the video of the presentation: Technorati Tags: Yahoo, Open Strategy, Web20Expo More: Digital Podcast | Alex Nesbitt | E-Mail | 562-824-5193 Click here to follow me on Twitter

I spoke with Nikolai Roth from zweitgeist at the CeBIT in Hannover a couple of weeks ago.  He showed me their product called Weblin, which is software that enables people on the same web page to see and communicate with each other.  While you are surfing, you and others on the same web page are visible to each other as small avatars and you are able to interact and chat with each other.  The idea behind Weblin is to make the Internet come alive and create the largest virtual world of all.  Nikolai filled me in on how Weblin works and what kinds of features are available.  For more info about Weblin, check out their website… http://www.weblin.com German version of video… http://www.on10.net/blogs/lorigros/CeBIT-08-Weblin/

I believe that a lot of money will be wasted on social media initiatives and to make sure we don t waste too much I think we need to build a framework for managing performance on the social web. I hope this podcast can be the start of a conversation about online performance measures and management as it relates to social media. The hype and growth surrounding the space means that everyone is rushing in to connect with the huge audiences that are possible with successful social networks. Budweiser, Coke, Fast Company and many other brands have been deploying big new social networking initiatives. Facebook applications are being built right and left. Open Social means that even more social applications will be built for the other big networks as well. However, while social networks like Flickr and cool Facebook apps are fun and social they may not generate significant commercial returns. Leading media and brand marketers know they need to be embracing social media, but risk falling into the same trap if they don t focus on success and doing it in a way that makes sense for the social web. My conversations with digital media executives lead me to believe that forward thinkers know they need to be managing distributed media across the social web and that they need more than just embeddable video players. They tell me they need guidance about what works beyond the BS they hear from vendors, how to measure performance and how to embed that into development processes so that future projects benefit from what s already been learned. There is lots of good thinking going on about how to measure performance on the web and some are even thinking about measurement in the social web. However, many are still stuck using traditional broadcasting or Web 1.0 models to define success and those measurement models are not going to be adequate for defining success and driving performance on the social web. We need to rethink performance measures and the way we collect data from the social web. I thought it would be useful to provide some opening thoughts about how measures for the social web might be different and appreciate any feedback. To start, we need to identify what s different about the social web. From a long list of things that are different a few stand out to me as really important. User Contributions - On the social web, we have users producing content right and left. In addition, they are providing insight. Insight into themselves and insight into what is popular. This means that content with potential can, with some skill, be filtered and identified much more effectively. Distributed social media - The paradigm has changed from users seeking content to content seeking users. We see this new paradigm everywhere with downloadable media, embeddable videos and widgets that deliver content, services and more to users in a highly distributed way. Expectations that everything is free - The huge surge of low cost content supply means that users are willing to pay less and expect more to be free. Shifting business models - We are seeing the beginning of a major shift in business models from those that are based upon the economics of impressions to ones based upon the economics of community. I believe that these changes shift performance measurement from being rather linear in nature to something that is more recursive in nature. By recursive, I mean that we are measuring a repetitious cycle where a change in one measure drives changes in other measures and is thus much more difficult to pin down. If we are not careful and discrete about measuring this kind of process the Heisenberg uncertainty principle applies as well - the mere act of observing a phenomenon changes its nature. Below is a simple illustration of what I m talking about (note this is just illustrative and not all inclusive). In the impression based business model of broadcast, revenue was driven by linear function of reach multiplied by frequency and by CPM (cost per thousand impressions). That same business model was largely the model that drove Web 1.0 business models which were based upon uniques, page views and CPM models. This same model can be extended to commerce based businesses as well by adding click through rates, conversion rates and price per purchase. In the social web, I think there is a recursive process of users, engagement, user contribution, viral impact, visitors, and conversion spawning more users as the cycle continues over and over again in a recursive manner. In addition, I think that the units of revenue measurement will shift from CPM to RPU (revenue per user) because we are now not just getting paid for advertising, but also for lead generation, potential direct sales and other ways of monetizing users. Some of these measures are new so here s the short argument for each measure: Visitors - Without new visitors there is no growth. Separating visitors into new and returning and identifying where they come from is still important. Conversion - if we are shifting from impression based business models to community based business models then we need people to become users or members. This can be a simple measure and extended to capture how much information the new user provides. Users - Users do more than visitors. They consume and they produce - which is essential for scaling on the social web. Tracking users usage by signup cohort to understand how sticky the user experience is can provide insight into the durability and scalability of the site. You want to know if people will return and increase their usage over time. Engagement - The experience needs to be compelling enough for users to produce good stuff and to return to do it again. Simple measures like time on site, page views and loyalty still matter, but getting deeper into understanding how much of the capability you are providing (both on and offsite) get used and which parts drive engagement becomes important as well. User Contribution - The more users contribute, the more the content scales and that drives the potential for viral impact and if they provide insight into themselves or into attractive content that can be leveraged into RPU. There are lots of interesting measures that could be developed her fro both measuring the content the produce and the insight users provide. Viral Impact - Who can doubt the ability of viral content to drive trial and traffic. Measures for this are probably different depending up on the nature of the business and include bookmarks, email forwards, trackbacks and the spread of embedded widgets RPU - Revenue per User is what matters in a community. We want to look at total revenue whether it comes from impressions, clicks, actions, leads or any other source and the how much we can drive per user will determine how much cost we can absorb to attract and convert visitors into users and realize an attractive ROI. The list could go on to look at cost drivers and how they are different on the social web, but that will be another discussion. I believe that once we embrace these kinds of measures and embed them into our management processes we will see social media marketing shift from being a stream of fun (and maybe expensive) experiments into a community based business model that will result in more deeply committed fans, increased brand strength, better sell through, new revenue sources and higher ROI. If you see good posts about measuring performance, have suggestions or feedback please leave a comment. Technorati Tags: social media, social web, online performance measurement, measures, measurement, online measures, social media measures More: Digital Podcast | Alex Nesbitt | E-Mail | 562-824-5193

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast I talk with Eyal Oren, who has just completed his Ph.D at the Galway (Ireland) site of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI). We talk about activity at DERI, touching upon their Sindice semantic web index, their work on SIOC, and the potential of data linked across the open web. We conclude by taking an early look at Eyal's new job at VU Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Listen Now Download MP3 [49 mins, 23Mb] During the conversation, we refer to the following resources; Ian Davis, blogging about the Shadow Web DBpedia DERI Galway FOAF GeoNames Tom Gruber, talking about the Grid Linking Open Data LiveJournal Eyal Oren OWL pingthesemanticweb.com Revyu.com Semantic MediaWiki SIOC Sindice Tabulator TheyWorkForYou Twine TU Delft Giovanni Tummarello VU Amsterdam Wikipedia This conversation was conducted using Skype on Wednesday 5 December, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband. For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here. Technorati Tags: DERI, Eyal Oren, open data, podcast, sioc, Semantic Web, sindice, Social Graph, Social Web, Talis, Talking with Talis, Web 3.0

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In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Daniel Lewis. We discuss some of his ideas about the 'Social Web', and the relationship between this and the ideas and technologies of the Semantic Web. Since recording our conversation, Daniel has left Curverider and is seeking new work. Listen Now Download MP3 [32 mins, 15Mb] During the conversation, we refer to the following resources; APML FOAF Knowledge Media Institute Linking Open Data Microformats OAuth Open Social Open Socket in Facebook Oxford Brookes University Oxford Geek Nights Oxfordshire Semantic Web Interest Group Revyu.com Six Apart's Livejournal SKOS Wordpress XFN This conversation was conducted using Skype on Tuesday 20 November, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband. For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here. Technorati Tags: Daniel Lewis, podcast, Podcasting, Social Web, Semantic Web, Talis, Talking with Talis, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Tom Foremski and Lee Cummings capture the business and technology of Facebook during their recent Graphing Social Patterns conference. Opening up the social web, user content, viral applications, user etiquette, privacy and profiles are discussed as Tantek Celik moderates David Recordon (SixApart), Chamath Palihapitiya (Facebook), Joseph Smarr (Plaxo) and Ted Grubb (Satisfaction Unlimited). Will controlling data compliment open standards? Are privacy and trust standards capable of keeping pace with the influx of application designs? Without secure information, is the social graph a reliable? Tags: Graphing Social Patterns, social web, user content, viral applications, user etiquette, Tantek Celik, David Recordon, SixApart, Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook, Joseph Smarr, Plaxo, Ted Grubb, Satisfaction Unlimited

In this week's show, I discuss: my new HP iPAQ PDA and some ways that Pocket PCs could be used with my class; the new social web phenomema, Twitter, and it's potential use within a 'community of practice'; a bank of German revision podcasts; and a few useful tools and news items. Show notes are here.

Kinjunction is a private place which member families can use to EXPLORE their horizons, keep in closer CONTACT with each other, and collectively write their history for the present and future. It allows families to map their genealogical relationships across several cool dimensions and share updates with their relatives. Giovanni talks with Chris & Sam after their presentation to the NYTech meetup in September, 2006.