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Web 3.0 Smartups: the New Web Business Space

<Smartups Series Part 4 of 5> This is the fourth article in my five-part series about Powering Startups to Become Smartups. In part 1, we discussed why Web-2.0 startups were stuck in the box and...

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BuddyPress Privacy Component About to Launch

Here’s a brief update on my efforts to provide a suite of privacy filtering services to BuddyPress’ core components. With the release of BP v1.2.6, the last of the essential ingredients are now in...

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BuddyPress Privacy Offers You the Power of the Force

Okay, that title may not be accurate. But for those advanced BuddyPress administrators and site owners who are performance focused, the BuddyPress Privacy Component will offer the option of creating...

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Release of BuddyPress Privacy Component Pushed Back One Week

Yes, I know. What??? How could you??!! And just on the greatly-anticipated eve of BP Privacy’s release? Is this a warped event caused by a rip in the space-time continuum or possibly even triggered by...

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Flowing Your Identity Through the Social Web

Some social networking platforms are beginning to buy into data portability. Whereas any step toward opening up the closed data-silo islands is a positive step, the real question is what does data...

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I’ve Got a Clot in My Klout: Influence Across a Distributed Social Web.

I’ve been a fan of Klout since its inception. I was a relatively early adopter of its services and believer in its ideal to become the standard for influence measurement. I still use Klout and believe...

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The Web is Not (yet) Social

There is a common misunderstanding about the meaning of the phrase Social Web. I believe that most of the Web’s netizens think that the Web is social. But in fact the Web is not currently social....

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The HyperWeb: it’s All About Connections

I recently came across this interesting graphic entitled Hierarchy of Visual Information. The author clearly states that it is a work in progress, just the genesis of an idea, a not-fully-formed...

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BP Privacy: An Update

This is an update on BP Privacy. I felt that it was important to communicate its current status. I also think that it is necessary to address a few who are claiming that BP Privacy is very late, for...

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BP Privacy: History and Lessons Learned from Developing a Major BuddyPress...

Coding great-quality, open source software, while often rewarding, can also be a thankless, difficult task. As many have been asking for an update on BP Privacy–also known as the BuddyPress Privacy...

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BP Privacy v1.0-RC1 is now available!

Please read Important Notice section below. After more than 1500 hours of work, 7300 code and comment lines, and creation of a 38-page manual, BP Privacy release candidate one is now available for...

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It’s Time for Blogging to Evolve

The concept of blogging needs to evolve. Whereas Twitter and Facebook seem to have stolen some of the wind from blogging, I believe that netizens in general still desire to control their webspace and...

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How Many Streams Can You Kayak At Once?

About a year ago I started to feel the peer pressure of the Stream universe. I wrote about the issue of yet-another-stream phenomenon (YASP), stating that: YASP…is that somewhat exciting but ultimately...

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Who Should Own the Internet?

This image is a tracing of all the Internet traffic circa late 2006. It is licensed under a Creative Commons License (by-nc-sa/1.0) and created by http://opte.org/The genesis for this article came from...

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Subverting the Open Web: Schema.org’s Scheme to Control Structured Data

When the initial news about Schema.org hit the Twitterverse two weeks ago, a few people asked for my opinion. Being the responsive, diligent, social-media maven that I am–who has close to zero free...

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Will Trade Computers for Cash!

The Computers Have Long Been Sold. Comments Are Now Turned Off. We’ve recently upgraded our work computers to the latest, greatest offerings from Apple. With two new iMacs and a MacBook Pro to boot...

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Is Surrogate Blogging via Google Plus a Good Idea?

I recently came across this discussion on Google Plus (G+) about Kevin Rose’s decision to stop using his personal blog in preference to G+. He is now redirecting all visitors to his blog to his G+...

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Cybernetics, the Social Web, and the (Coming?) Singularity

Image Credit: Sekko Da Vinci (see link below)Over the past year or so, I have been doing a lot of thinking, reading, and ruminating about several topics: the outdated thinking of Web-2.0 startups, the...

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How to Get Me Involved in Your Smartup

I receive six to eight requests for help from startups each year—from angel investing, to advising, to consulting, to joining as a founder. To date, I’ve never accepted a single offer. Recently,...

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Building the Social Web: the Layers of the Smartup Stack

<Smartups Series Part 5 of 5> As a Social Web architect and an open source advocate I frequently write, think, and promote the notion and ideals of the Open and Social Web. My work in the areas...

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