Here’s a great way to round out 2007 and ponder 2008. The original version was entitled “Shift Happens” (quaint) and was narrated. I think they took a great idea and improved it even more. Thought provoking, contemplative, sobering, poignant…with music captures the essence of the video very gracefully.

The original version of this presentation was created for a Colorado (USA) high school staff of 150 in 2006 to start a conversation about what our students need to be successful in the 21st century. By June 2007, it had started more than 5 million conversations around the world.

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Microclimates, Microclusters, Niche Neighborhoods…High Tech, High Profile, High Life, High Times…only in the Valley.

Silicon Valley is a collection of remarkably local clusters based on industry niches, skills, school ties, traffic patterns, ethnic groups and even weekend sports teams.   read more

Unbelievable…I must have penetrated the Inner Twitter…I actually read about this quasi drama yesterday while adding Twitterites to my list.

The Bubble video, watched over a million times since it was uploaded to YouTube and other video sites in early December, is back. It was down briefly when photographer Lane Harwell complained …read more

The New York Times published this FIVE page story almost 48 hours ago, yet only 10 (ten) people have Dugg the article as of this posting…amazing. Maybe holiday shopping has a ring in everyone’s nose (and I do not mean as in body piercing). Or maybe people aren’t considering this to be an epic confrontation that could significantly impact their lives. Ever see the 2004 fictional mini documentary video “Epic 2014: A Futuristic History of the Media“? It contains some amazing similarities with the status quo thus far…definitely worth your 15 minute diversion. Oddly enough, in the video, the NY Times Inc. is posed as the final opponent of “Google-zon”

The growing confrontation promises to be an epic business battle. read more

P.S. Interesting…found this blog post from MG Spiegler four (4) days prior to the NY Times article above. His slant is that the Facebook vs. Google/Opensocial confrontation is just a microcosm of the larger Microsoft vs. Google war.
The Escalation of the Social Networking Proxy War

Scholars Are Falling Into Line to Maneuver Through New Territory: Online Socializing as Academic Discipline. First to Facebook were the teens. Then came the money, the market researchers and the media. And now come . . . the academics. Should we care? read more

Danah Boyd – Social Networks authority (photo)
Photo Credit: By Adam Tinworth Photo

This is a nice practical recap of the 2007 Web 2.0 developments. Google, of course, hogged much of the spotlight with multiple acquisitions and also launching OpenSocial. But Facebook got it’s fair share too by first letting outside developers into its platform, and then by rubbing noses with Microsoft while selling them a 1.6% equity stake for $240 million.

Web 2.0 applications just keep getting better, gaining the features people expect from traditional desktop applications.  read more

[BREAKING@WebProNews] Michael Brito, Community Marketing Yahoo!, shares his sneak peek of IZEA’s http://www.SocialSpark.com/ as the launchpad for ROI-based social media marketing efforts — including face-based analytics, RealRank and new options for blog monetization.

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