plus nine. neo now.

As of today, there's more "us" in del.icio.us:

Today, Del.icio.us beefed up their social networking features. I now have a Network page that shows all of the links from other Del.icio.us users that I have decided to track and I can easily share links as I am posting to people within my network. I can add any user to my network with a single-click. ...
By making it easier to build a network on the site ... Del.icio.us will get more data on who is tracking whom. There's a lot that can be done with this information. Some things that come to mind include: your network's most popular links/tags (kind of your own private Hotlinks), users who should be in your network (based on your network's opinion), and most influential user in a tag space.
O'Reilly Radar del.icio.us' new features.

And here's what the official del.icio.us blog says:

Today the “inbox” feature lets you subscribe to other users’ bookmarks, but most people don’t know about it and it’s not terribly easy to use in your everyday life.

To make sharing easier, we’ve just released a new feature called “your network”. You can add other del.icio.us users to your network either by visiting their del.icio.us pages or from the your network page itself. Once someone is in your network, you can keep track of their latest saved public bookmarks.

[via O'Reilly Radar]

Danke an Unblogbar: 31 Weblogs im direkten Vergleich anhand von 35 Kategorien. Kann b2evolution Trackbacks? Beherrscht WordPress Multiple Tags? Wie sieht es mit Spamschutz bei BLOG:CMS aus?

Wer überlegt, die Weblog-Software zu wechseln, dem sei der Unblogbar Weblogvergleich ans Herz gelegt. Two thumbs up!

[Thanks, Plasma!]

Yochai Benkler wrote an amazing new book: The Wealth of Networks : How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

Just to give you a first impression about the props it receives, check out Lawrence Lessig's short-short review:

This is — by far — the most important and powerful book written in the fields that matter most to me in the last ten years. If there is one book you read this year, it should be this.

Just started skimming the book online, then ordered the hardcover version right away. Seems to be one of those book you just wanna have on your shelf for quick reference.

It's available as a PDF under Creative Commons license, or as a hardcover via Amazon. (If you live in Germany, consider buying it at the American Amazon website - even with the shipping fees it's a lot cheaper than from amazon.de. Weird, but hey.)

(Maybe the ridiculously high book prices in Germany (they're sort of fixed-price all over the country, with dealers only being allowed only very limited special offers by law) are one of the reasons why Creative Commons get such good feedback in Germany. So at least it has some good aspects to it...?)

web 2.0 in China (cio-weblog)
Infos zur ersten chinesischen Web 2.0-Konferenz.

They stole our revolution and now we're stealing it back and selling it to Yahoo
sez Bruce Sterling about the relation between all the quick little Web2.0 guys and the slow, big corps. (The NYT article is about how web2.0 software, due to it's modular structure, changes the nature of web development towards customized mash-ups, and therefore its social impact. Pretty good stuff.)

Google strikes again: Google Calendar is heavily ajax-driven, which makes it super simple to use. It pre-structures all the data you enter quite intelligently, and from a quite first test it seems to get all the basics right: Your appointments are quite accessible and you get a good overview; It's intuitive; You can import and export appointments; You can keep appointments private or share them on a per-person or group basis. And as we love and expect it from Google, gmail integration is strong.

Yup, excellent product.

Nuh uh, we can’t possible claim to be web2.0 without having a tag cloud, can we?
this is actually good fun. Menalized: Building your very own web2.0 layout.

find a pre-created VC friendly Web 2.0 company just for you!

thx, Tom!

Happy Birthday: MoMB's 1000th Beta!

[via hackr.de]

I gotta apologize: There was (at least) one obviously excellent Web2.0 talk at the Cebit. Stephan Baumann (Computational Culture) spoke about mash-ups, remixing culture, social software. the talk is available as an mp3 here (in German), or as a PDF here (in English). Both are great.

Thanks, Andreas. I had missed out on this one. (Glück auf!)

[via hard bloggin' scientist]