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It’s now only a few days until 2007, and a good time for the yearly prediction posts to start rolling out - including one from Mashable. To add a more interesting spin, we’ll throw in a mini-game of blog tag - a few people “tagged” at the end of t

“Are you my friend? Yes or no?” This question, while fundamentally odd, is a key component of social network sites. Participants must select who on the system they deem to be ‘Friends.’ Their choice is publicly displayed for all to see and becomes

Recent Developments on the Internet: The common characteristic, which all these systems share, is that the approach is "bottom-up" rather than "top-down". This means that in these environments content and structure are not determined by professional, corp

Google Zeitgeist reports on a compilation of searches and queries over time, space, and attention; these snapshots reveal a bit of the human condition. (Zeitgeist: intellectual, moral, cultural climate of an era)

From the start, the World Wide Web has been a vessel of quasi-religious longing...On the Internet, we're all bodiless, symbols speaking to symbols in symbols...but the net turned out to be more about commerce than consciousness...Web 2.0 doesn't care whet

The hacker mind-set is not confined to this software-hacker culture. There are people who apply the hacker attitude to other things, like electronics or music — actually, you can find it at the highest levels of any science or art. Software hackers reco

...to strive for a structureless group is as useful, and as deceptive, as to aim at an "objective" news story, "value-free" social science, or a "free" economy. A "laissez faire" group is about as realistic as a "laissez faire" society; the idea becomes a