The Collective Intelligence Foo Camp (CIFoo) just concluded. Lots of interesting pieces:

It’s run on an open WIKI server, demonstrating real trust in the community.
It’s got a relatively active social network attached, with good comments and lots of shared knowledge.
Slides are posted. I strongly recommend two based on key metrics for social network development [...]

Although Boulder has an impressive stable of businesses in the green / sustainable / eco milieu, Fort Collins, a perennial David to Boulder’s Goliath, is gaining a strong base with the addition of CEO Casey Verbeck to the GenGreen team (who’s got so much going on that he doesn’t have time to update [...]

Interesting to see Microsoft’s open channel to the development community, Channel9. This isn’t your Ballmer’s MSDN (reference too obscure?). I like their manifesto.

Visa, one of the most interesting organizations in the world, is going public.
The Brits, both at the Financial Times and Economist (subscription, and well worth it) allude to the possible motivation as a hefty financial bail-out for stock-owning banks, who could collectively receive up to half of the estimated $18bn offering. All papers note [...]

Thanks to Guy Kawasaki’s excellent blog, we read a good post on Fluid Design that counters the age-old web maxim that you had to get everything (especially ads) above the fold.
visitors just completely overlooked the ads because they were coming to the site to read the content and didn’t give a doodle about what sat [...]

Nice to see people drinking the web 2.0 collaboration kool-aid in a good way.
The editors of Complexity and Social Networkers, a blog from the Institute for Quantiative Social Science and the Program on Netwoked Governance at Harvard, had begun a comprehensive search for social network analysis tools and libraries. Not having found a single [...]

Ah, AWhere. If you read this regularly (and who isn’t?), you are going to hear a lot about AWhere. But those posts will be talking at some level about what AWhere does, or some cool new application. Let this serve as the ‘what’ post, which I’ll reference time and again.
AWhere is a [...]

“As with management, sometimes the best marketing may be no marketing at all…”
FROM Metacool

Understanding the strategy of Google.org, one of the leaders in the emerging financing of social entrepreneurship, has been challenging, largely because it was still in development throughout 2007.
Kevin Jones at Xigi recently pointed out Google.org’s visionary leader Larry Brilliant’s piece in Slate.com that outlines their strategy, providing some much-needed signal to those interested in [...]

In 2005, Howard Rheingold gave a talk at the inimitable TED. Over the first 20 minutes, he reviewed the cycle of the evolution of the interrelation of biology and humanity — no mean feat, but largely review if you’ve been paying attention. Along the way, the interwoven thread of markets, communication and human [...]