Web 2.0: Reuters will launch financial Social Network

Reuters is planning to launch this year a financial network for fund managers, traders and analysts similar to MySpace. The web site will be exclusive to Reuters’ subscriber base of about 70,000. “…People don’t want to have 100 friend requests from teenage girls in Florida if they are trading the…

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Duvet-Dayz: Our Best of Lists

Over the last months we have created a serie of Best of list that turned out to be very popular with our readers. Below you find an overview and links to all the lists…

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DIGG: Wisdom of the Crowds or Famous for 15 minutes

Social Networking site “Digg.com” puts quite some efforts up to show its users that they are just submitting a duplicate news story. While the duplicate search often comes up with some unrelated stuff it almost always finds duplicates. And when we see that somebody before us has already spread the news we just digg that story and cancel our submission. Not so for many other Digg users as it seems…We just had a look around in their Apple sections and the image below shows the results…

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Second Life: Best quote on what it is

We documented some background information on Second Life a few weeks ago. Now Robert Scoble has provided us with the best definition from an interview he has done last week at LIFT show in Geneva:
He was interviewing Sister Judith Zoebelein, who manages the Vatican’s Web site and asked her:
“… do you think we’ll soon go [...]

CityPixel: Social Network 3D pixel world

For those of you who could never get enough of playing SimCity there is a new social Network site that with its pixel graphics look much like the popular game. CityPixel is a pixel based 3D city (New York) where you can move around, enter buildings, buy apartments, chat, blog, share videos etc, play games, and socialize…

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Enterprise 2.0 meets Spying 2.0

While Digg is loosing some of its most active users it was reported that some government agencies are now jumping in and planning to use social network technology…

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The BEST Interactive Image Interfaces on the Web

To create this list we have been looking at dozens of data visualization, image mapping and picture mosaic solutions plus piles of descriptions. To make the list most useful we came up with the following criteria for the tools:

Should be online and actively maintained by the site owner
Should be interactive
Should use photos / images [...]

Update: Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?

In our previous post Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts? we have shown evidence how Digg is currently spammed and asked users to read articles before voting for them. (our article was removed in minutes while being heavily digged by users)
Since then a few things have happened:
1. Digg support more or [...]

Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?

After quite some discussions the last days on Digg power users dominating the front page stories at Digg we today stumbled over something rather strange. How can people rate a story when they can’t even access it? And how does a story that nobody can access make it to the front page with high numbers?

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Enron: Dive through 200,000 executive emails

If you haven’t heard enough about Enron, after strings of news in the press over years, Enron the movie, Enron the trial - now there is Enron (the email) Explorer.
The online tool let you explore email relations between former Enron executives and has a database of about 200,000 emails. Each email is also accessible in [...]