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Semantic Technology Solutions For Recovery Gov And Data Gov With Transparency Openness And Collaboration – Presentation from Mills Davis

Web 2.0 is 5 years old. It’s so old that Tim O’Reilly, the one who coined the term Web 2.0 in the first place, has renamed it “Web Squared” for his summit in October.

Here is a great point-counterpoint presentation on the question of whether social media is mature — or just getting started.

This is a must-read presentation for anyone designing websites that require users to register. You get the behavior that you design for!

Here are screenshots from a test I just did on the Blackneon theme. The first screenshot is using IE 8.0 on the Blackneon theme test site, Aiportcodes.me:

The next screen shot is from IE 7.0 on Blackneon theme test site Airportcodes.me:

If you change the width, padding, or margins on the sidebars or the post, you need to make sure that the total width of the elements is the same. If there is not enough space, the page will look strange as the post gets pushed below the sidebar.

Mark Birbeck did a presentation on using RDFa to expose the data on your website. This was at SemTech 2009 on RDFa, and the slides are above. The PowerPoint itself contain speakers notes which will explain quite a lot of what is going on, so if youre interested then its probably worth downloading:

via Slides for SemTech talk on RDFa: The Semantic Webs Missing Link | webBackplane.

Actually, despite the noise, the mundane, and the trivial, Twitter is extraordinarily effective as a viral broadcast channel.

Converging instant messaging, email, forums, chat rooms, photo sharing, social networking, and web collaboration, Google Wave will change the way we communicate. Conversations are all trees on a shared host, so you are never creating new copies of content as you reply to and share messages and other content. You just add people and content to the conversation. Everything is always in sync live because it is a hosted conversation, not content being sent to people’s inboxes. It’s open source and you can create your own Wave client and embed Wave in your own applications.

This should pull up a graph from Compete.com showing the amazing growth in monthly unique users for Twitter.

Anyone using Twitter should watch this video. Now that Twitter has nearly 20 million monthly unique visitors, a lot of marketers and scam artists are working this new channel. Careful who follows you!

Hi Google, just a note that you might want to tweak your ad targeting algorithm.

When someone writes about “viral” and “virality” in the context of blogging, web design, and social media, they usually are talking about how things can grow virally on the web, not biological viruses like H1N1 Swine Flu.

The ads to the left appeared when I first put up the “Viral by Design” post with the Slideshare presentation.

Maybe these keywords will help the ad targeting on this post:

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Please leave a comment to let me know what you see in the Google adsense ads at the right.

Anyone interested in designing websites that engage users and grow virally would enjoy this presentation.

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Anyone wishing to “friend” the U.S. Army now can, thanks to a new Facebook page and blog.

The Facebook page, which launched last Thursday, already has nearly 3,000 fans. Yelps of “Hooah” litter its wall.

“In just a weekend the Facebook site has become a vibrant community,” said Lindy Kyzer, a public affairs specialist in the online and social media division of Army public affairs. “We have soldiers, spouses, retirees, family members, even a grandmother whose granddaughter just signed up.”

Both the Facebook page and new blog, called “Army Live,” are meant to allow people inside and outside the service to speak informally about the Army. The Facebook page asks viewers to comment on such topics as “Why did you join the Army?” Or “Who is your favorite noncommissioned officer?” It also features podcasts, photos, links to other Army-related Web sites and even a way to follow the Army on Twitter.

“It’s a one-stop shop for people to connect to us,” Kyzer said.

via U.S. Army steps into networking world with Facebook profile | Stars and Stripes.

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