In an article on TechWeb, Smugmug Inc. says it is showing where a photo is taken by adding Google Inc.’s satellite imagery-based mapping to its photo-sharing service. The company says that "subscribers can enter the address for any photo or click a spot on a map to link their pictures to any latitude and longitude on Earth. When people visit ...

I happened on a Proceedings of the National Academy of Science story on geography and population density in online social networks. The article on the PNAS Web site states, "In online communities and other social networks, [scientists] report that any two members can usually find a connection with only a few degrees of separation, partly because individuals tend to optimize ...

Reuters news covered the new IBM plan to use podcasting to introduce a series on its investor relations site as part of a broader effort to communicate directly to its investors and the wider public about hot topics. Find the whole story at Yahoo. The IBM spokesman says that the podcasts will be used to share conversations with customers on ...

Here is an interesting item from the Business 2.0 blog in an article titled "Culture of Participation (the Podcast Interview)." The blurb from the web site says, "Publish and be damned, a Website that helps authors self-publish, just interviewed me about the culture of participation, my name for the idea that the Web is turning consumers into creators in all ...