I took this video of Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, at a GarageGeeks meetup. The image is bad but the sound is good. Enjoy.

Jimmy Wales speaks at GarageGeeks – October 2009 from Eyal Sela on Vimeo.

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Video – Jimmy Wales speaks at GarageGeeks – October 2009

Facebook has just announced it has acuired Frindfeed.  Frindfedd says in thir blog that:

FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. We’re still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team. As usual, we will communicate openly about our plans as they develop — keep an eye on the FriendFeed News group for updates.

Facebook’s offical press realse:

PALO ALTO, Calif. — August 10, 2009 — Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams.

“Facebook and FriendFeed share a common vision of giving people tools to share and connect with their friends,” said Bret Taylor, a FriendFeed co-founder and, previously, the group product manager who launched Google Maps. “We can’t wait to join the team and bring many of the innovations we’ve developed at FriendFeed to Facebook’s 250 million users around the world.”

“As we spent time with Mark and his leadership team, we were impressed by the open, creative culture they’ve built and their desire to have us contribute to it,” said Paul Buchheit, another FriendFeed co-founders. Buchheit, the Google engineer behind Gmail and the originator of Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto, added, “It was immediately obvious to us how passionate Facebook’s engineers are about creating simple, ground-breaking ways for people to share, and we are extremely excited to join such a like-minded group.”

Taylor and Buchheit founded FriendFeed along with Jim Norris and Sanjeev Singh in October 2007 after all four played key roles at Google for products like Gmail and Google Maps. At FriendFeed, they’ve brought together a world-class team of engineers and designers.

“Since I first tried FriendFeed, I’ve admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. “As this shows, our culture continues to make Facebook a place where the best engineers come to build things quickly that lots of people will use.”

FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, Calif. and has 12 employees. FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being as the teams determine the longer term plans for the product.

Financial terms of the acquisition were not released.

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• Facebook to acquire FriendFeed, a threaded message service
• Facebook Acquires FriendFeed (Updated)
• BREAKING: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

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Facebook Acquired Friendfeed

The following map, by iA, display the 333 most influential web domains and 111 most influential Internet people.  

How to read it

Height: A station’s height represents its domain’s success by traffic, revenue and trend.

Width: A station’s width represents the stability of the company behind its domain.

Position: A station’s location on a train line indicates the group it belongs to. Also, if a station is positioned inside the main line, it is a classic site; if it is on the main line on the main line, it is a main site; and if it is outside the main line, it is a marginal site.

Web Trend Map 4 [Via The next web]

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Web Trend Map – A Visualization of the Most Influential Internet People and Domains ‎

If you’re lost into the clutter of web 2.0 buzz words and definitions, CCH’s recently published survey report might come in handy. The objective of the report is “to gauge the effects that Web 2.0 and user-generated content are having on the way professionals access, absorb, and disseminate information”. It offers short and clear definitions for “Web 2.0″, “Blog”, “Wiki”, “RSS”, “Social Bookmarking”, and “Social Network”. What’s more, it presents paragraph-long scenarios for using each of them in professional settings (starting page 9), which can be useful if you’re looking to make a case for these kind of tools in your organization.

They conclude that:

“While results show there is some reluctance for many organisations to adopt
Web 2.0 before value can be established, a high percentage of ad-hoc use (at least 25.8%) is occurring due to the accessibility and functionality of the tools. This suggests Web 2.0 applications have gained a signifi cant share of time spent online. We are increasingly using these tools to search, communicate and contribute to the web in both a personal and professional context (…)”

“the research has indicated that whilst Web 2.0 may be revolutionizing the web with user-based content, professionals are careful in their use of these types of tools for professional research.”

Read the full report – Professionals and Web 2.0 [Via KM Space]

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Report: What is Web 2.0 and how do Professionals Use it?

This 31 slides presentation explains about social media and its effects on enterprises. It covers (briefly) the following subjects:

• Social media
• Blogs
• Collective intelligence
• Collaboration
• Knowledge exchange
• Innovation in Corporate 2.0
• RSS

[slideshare id=827016&doc=enterprise-20-and-innovation-1228682237450093-8&w=425]

Original post – Enterprise 2.0 and innovation [via The Content Economy]

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‘Social Media and the Enterprise’ Explained (Presentation)