DISQUS

Should have been clearer in the first place, Matthew. Apologies.

Matthew - IE Base sure, but the additions aren't just eye-candy. Ad-blocking comes as an option on standard Maxthon and might give pause for thought. Probably people like you and I haven't seen banners for a couple of years thank to the Firefox extension, but that being standard for a mainstream audience is a big difference.

If you're talking about catering to the largest online community in the world, and that they're using a different browser, surely that will be of enormous importance to the owners of any mass-media site?.

Excellent work from Andy, above.

Moderation (on social sites) and Subbing (for all the rest of us) remain in desperate need.

Only a moron would attempt a post like this without including the demise(s) of rawsugar, audioblogger, pubsub, kiko and fold.com.

Shame. RawSugar actually did something different and useful. The only thing I could see wrong with it is that it looked a bit ugly to me.

But del.icio.us is ugly and succeeds ( I think), yet has far less functionality, so what gives.

Del.icio.us was early to the game and so got the user mass that is necessary for any of these sites to work.

Is it true that it doesn't matter about the looks or added functions? Only the core idea of social bookmarking really counts? If so, look out wink, magnolia, etc. etc.

You might look at ecademy.com for a 'MySpace for Grown-Ups'. I believe it's similar to Ryze, in that it's got 'proper' social networking. Tends to attract home workers and agencies. I've found it quite useful if I need to contact someone in a particular sector, as a journalist.

Hopefully be able to catch up with you at the conference on Weds. Friday also sounds tempting, especially the 'pissed as newts' part.

Hurray. The future of the internet is safe. ;)

I actually like the idea of such a code, though I dearly wish it hadn't come from payperpost. It's really an issue the W3C or another such body should take up. Someone who might actually act on infringements.

(I thought we'd seen the last of autoplay music on websites some time ago, Mathew. What's next, animated gifs?)

Well said, Mathew. The article was lazy at best.

Hmm. Thanks for the link. I thought my post was a lot more sympathetic to Edelman than most others, though.

I too was a fan and agree with Rob's post. I very much hope it's bandwidth.

Note that the dead20 'about' page always said it was a multiauthored blog, which only deepens the mystery, of course...

Very nice round-up on disruption.

Question for you: how will all this help my record shop/ florist / carpet cleaner/ nanny do better? That and similar is 95% of the businesses out there.

Cyberbullying is a pretty serious issue - but at the moment it's mainly about SMS. "Your mum is..." type stuff. It's spreading onto IM, but that's easier to block.

In Networks, it's really easy to block too.

I feel that everyone wants an internet bullying story, but in reality, what we really need to address, 99% of the time, is what is going on behind the bike shed.

(that's my ex-teacher talking, sorry)

Good question, Mathew.

Liability remains an interesting question throughout this space that needs to be settled:

Networks & stalking
YouTube (and the rest) & copyright
Blogging & libel
Doocing

As usual, the internet dynamic is towards free speech and so forth.. but where does the buck stop with that?

Meh... but I have already spent my book advance ;)

That's fantastic, Mathew. Dammit. I want to write about robots instead now!

Absolutely extraordinary. I've seen talk recently about MySpacers getting pissed off that 'every second profile is fake' because they're created by buzz agents. Can that happen in SecondLife too?

When I read your headline, Pete, I thought I you meant *that* video! But I expect that's on YouTube too.

Thanks for the comments, Mathew. I think you've given a fair summary here of both sides of the coin.

It's not that I don't want the media interview process to ever develop or to have some fun experimentation and innovation. It's just that the "traditional" live interview has considerable strengths for both hard and soft news pieces. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Providing a mechanism for del.icio.us users to actually communicate within the system would be considerably more effective in raising their appeal, IMHO. The badge thing is only appealing to the 0.1 percenters, I think.

Don't care about not having pictures or a pretty site, but the first site than can actually do easy bookmarks and send-to-a-friend with a message... oh that's diigo (except their community functions and subscription functions are broken).

The del.icio.us lesson you noted in an earlier post:
Personal value >> Network effects >> Personal value
is still true, btw, and well-spotted.

Wholeheartedly agree with STML about the downsides of this.

Also, it can't - or can't see how it could - match up a MySpace account with a predator, so how can it protect anyone? The site suggests it can do photo matching, but don't these people pretend to be teenagers?

To me it seems to be just selling adverts by preying on parents' fears and doing even more to stir up the moral panic over social networking.

Strange. I talked to someone about Diigo a couple of months ago, who was really enthusiastic. But the cross between Alexa and delicious struck me cold when I tried it out. These services depend on volume to experience any success at all, being collective intelligence models. So why not stick with the main players, who are at least at version 2?

Sorry to come along with another negative post, Pete. I love your stuff. But... c'mon... Enterprises paying top dollar for some software someone downloaded from sourceforge? Which enterprises would do something like that? Are there *any* precedents for this?

(Yes, some enterprises pay good money for linux frameworks and even freeware apps, but not to the authors of such apps)