Vancouver Kris Krüg photographer / geek / Bryght founder is interviewed by The Aesthetic Poetic.

Here's a simple and useful SlideShare demonstration on how the Web 2.0 experience (that everyone is enjoying on the web) can be translated into the enterprise (via Bryce):

CIO Insight has posted the results of a survey of CIOs about which web apps they use "personally":

Video over the web	54%
Wikis	49
Blogs	48
RSS (Really Simple Syndication)	47
Podcasts	39
Social networking (e.g., tagging, social bookmarks, community sites such as del.icio.us, LinkedIn, Technorati)	33

Isn't that interesting? Statistically speaking, wikis, blogs and RSS work out to be about the same.

We're just putting the finishing touches on a new (but critical!) feature for the the BlogMatrix Platform -- "Networks". A Network is somewhat analogous to the Facebook concept of a Network, that is, it's something that you join to identify yourself as belong to something. The key feature of a Network is that it aggregates all posts from all it's members.

• unlike Facebook, you can join as many networks as you'd like
• the ideal use of a Network in the BlogMatrix Platform is to represent a team, either as an official organizational unit or something ad-hoc created for a particular purpose or project
• networks can be created in three different modes:
• • private; that is, only the creator can add accounts to the network. This is useful if you'd like to follow a number of people across an organization. They do not have to consent to membership
  • join with automatic membership. This is pretty obvious.
  • join, but with approval needed. In this mode, you may request to join a network, but it's up to the owner whether you're added or not.

Gene Smith has an interesting blog post on the "seven elements of social software":

• Identity - a way of uniquely identifying people in the system
• Presence - a way of knowing who is online, available or otherwise nearby
• Relationships - a way of describing how two users in the system are related (e.g. in Flickr, people can be contacts, friends of family)
• Conversations - a way of talking to other people through the system
• Groups - a way of forming communities of interest
• Reputation - a way of knowing the status of other people in the system (who's a good citizen? who can be trusted?)
• Sharing - a way of sharing things that are meaningful to participants (like photos or videos)

Smith then introduces the "social software honeycomb", a neat and useful visualization of this concept:

The dark green hexagon is the focus of the system; the light green hexagons are the supporting elements.

Dead 2.0 has an interesting post on "what is tagging?". Here's Dead's Mom:

O.K. On del.icio.us/tag/tagging it basically talks about the same stuff all over again, i.e. Because everyone else is doing it too, LibraryThing connects you with people who read the same things. I have to say… I don’t have enough time in my life to spend with (mostly) idiots who think that what they have to say has enough relevance and importance that I would want to waste my time in their lives. I find my life rewarding and challenging enough!

It's overlooked that tags don't have meaning outside of their social context: i.e. it's either myself (i.e. my tags) or my community (people doing stuff similar to me) that will produce tags useful to me. This is why I like tags in the context of Enterprise 2.0/Enterprise Datasphere: we're talking about a community of individuals that inherently have a common interest.

Dead's Mom also takes on Tag Clouds:

I just went back to del.icio.us.tag. I get that certain words are highlighted, I get what this means, what I don’t get is the relevance in my world.

I kind of agree with this too, which is why there isn't a generic "everyone" tag cloud on this site: I just don't see the utility besides "me too". What would be interesting (maybe) is a tag cloud about what everyone else is doing filtered by my tags. That might work.