- What do we do with 'social media'? (Tom Coates: "The age of social media then is probably about a fusing of these two ways of thinking - the communicative and the publishing/creative parts of the internet - into something new and powerful.")

- Harnessing the content flow (Dan Farber: "Traditional media corporations won't roll over and die. The smart ones will apply themselves to facilitating, filtering and compensating the mass of content producers.")

- Big Shifts In Internet Usage (Om Malik digs into the latest comscore data, showing that "MySpace is the fastest growing property on the Internet, perhaps in Internet history and traffic now exceeds all but Yahoo.")

- The State of Web 2.0 (it's interesting for me to see the 'Live Web' competing quite well with the term 'Web 2.0' these days... nevertheless, whatever you call it, Dion's piece is a good overview and I especially liked this prediction: "People will focus much more on using the ideas and ignoring the Web 2.0 hypesters more often.")

- Dan Farber thinks the Google Web Office is over-hyped (he points out that business apps need "more reliable bandwidth and grids, software infrastructure that meets corporate and regulatory requirements and major mindset changes" -- very true, it's why I forsee Web Office as a long-term proposition, not short term)

- Microsoft aims to take the desktop 'Live' ("Microsoft started testing Windows Live Mail Desktop this week." -- it will let people manage their webmail offline without accessing a Web-based server.)

- Ray Ozzie on Live Clipboard (Microsoft CTO updates progress on his blog re his "wiring the Web" initiatives - encouraging words about microformats too)

- A Structured (Blogging) Approach to Knowledge Management (interesting thoughts: "Knowledge artifacts correspond to microcontent definitions.")

- 37Signals PDF book selling well (after 30 days they've sold roughly 5750 copies of Getting Real, reeling in $120k of revenue. Excellent work by 37Signals - now I'm waiting for them to provide an ebook software system for the rest of us!)

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