I gave a talk at the Common Solutions Group meeting on Social Software, Web2.0 and Folksonomies a couple of weeks ago. What followed was a very interesting discussion about the implications, possibilities and difficulties in dealing with social software in an academic (or enterprise setting).

Presentation on Web2.0, Social Software and Folksonomies for the Common Solution Group in May 2006. Here is the link to the PowerPoint slides
The links that I used for the demo are below.

A graduate student at Stanford – Mike Tung – put together a suite of scripts and tools to generate College rankings based on Google searches. He didn’t want to pay for the USNews’ Annual America’s Best Colleges report. Though his work is quite technical, I imagine that it will be simplified into [...]

Here is the long list of links I use when I give my Folksonomy and Web2.0 talk…
There are three sections:
* Tagging and Multiple Tag browsing
* Folksonomy and Social Discovery
* Cool Apps, REST and RSS

I have been talking about the impact of “Web 2.0″, social software and folksonomies in regards to their possible impact on enterprise knowledge management.
* The Web 2.0 movement is about empowering people to publish their own content quickly and easily with a minimum of knowledge. Flickr, Youtube, del.icio.us, Blogger et al allow people [...]

My Presentation can be downloaded from the Internet2 Fall Member Meeting site as a PDF .
My opening comments are included in my PDF.
George Brett’s opening comments:
1. The recent Wizards Meeting used wiki’s for real-time posting of notes and documents. This was a shift from the usual – mailing list and weekly phone [...]

The other day I was wonder about what it means to be away from my desk these days. Voice mail greetings all over the world say, “I’m away from my desk right now…”. This used to mean that I was unavailable for contact, communication and collaboration. Now it means, “you can’t stop [...]

Clay Shirky was interviewed on “On The Media” on the July 8, 2005 show. Clay discusses the history of the Wikipedia, vandalism of wikis and the ability of the Wikipedia to act as a quick response news source. They discuss the Tsunami and London bomb blast pages as examples.
Favorite quote:
>”Whenever there [...]

What is with “Automated Folksonomy”? Oxymoronic at best.
>TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feed you specify…
I keep running into the term “Automated Folksonomy tool”. To me, this is like “Fresh Frozen” or “Hand Made by a Robot”. The point of a “Folksonomy” is [...]

Joi Ito’s Web: Ten Million Blogs Tracked
> This weekend Technorati tracked its 10 Millionth Blog. It is a chinese blog, on mblogger.cn, and it appears to be a blog talking about glassblowing, with some really cool pictures. Unfortunately I don’t read Chinese so I can’t tell…
Just in case you thought blogging was going away soon, [...]