080528 Daily Links
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May 28, 2008
- The fbOpen Initiative: Facebook Confirms Plans to Open-Source Its Platform “The immediate effect will be to allow any social network to become Facebook Platform compatible - meaning application developers can easily take their Facebook applications and have them run on those social networks, too.” In other words, expect more annoying distractions everywhere you look. Somewhere between open source heaven and lock down hell is a space for visionary development.
- The Social Revolution: Why The New Web Matters “Apologies. It was blogging that did this to me. No neat conclusions. A barrage of conjecture, wisecracks, and one-liners, disguised as a presentation.” Stowe Boyd is one of those names you ought to remember. It’s less about what he does than it is the things that happen around him.
- Clay Shirky “Here Comes Everybody” Here’s a wonderful presentation that will save you the time of reading his book. Shirky talks about this being the time of the “largest increase in human expressive capacity” and how that evolves.
- Definition of Insanity: ATS and Sales “Less than 50% stated that they were satisfied with current selection systems. At least two-thirds expressed dissatisfaction with the efficiency of hiring systems, even with access to automation technology to help organize and track applicant information.”
- Five Secrets to Email List Growth:Here are five factors to consider when growing your list.
1. Make your sign-up form easy to find
2. Provide a convincing incentive for subscribers to sign up
3. Don’t ask for too much information
4. Use a thank-you page that does its job
5. Understand why subscribers are leaving
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[...] is this 40 minute video of Shirky talking about it at the Web 2.0 Expo earlier this year. (Hat tip, John Sumser) The book puts forward many ideas about how the new media environment created by the Internet is [...]