Social Change

Business Week Online has a few stories on Web 2.0: "Silicon Valley loves its buzzwords, and there’s none more popular today than Web 2.0. Unless you’re a diehard techie, though, good luck figuring out what it means. Web 2.0 technologies bear strange names like wikis, blogs, RSS, AJAX, and mashups. And the startups hawking them – Renkoo, Gahbunga, Ning, Squidoo ...

The most persistent impression I take away from the Net2 Conference that concluded yesterday is the rather hopeful realization that there is a good group of technically competent, motivated, passionate people out there in nonprofits working to apply new tools to their mission. What’s more, an open source attitude exists among NPO-types that facilitates possibilities that is inhibited in the ...

According to news coverage, a "California appellate court has sided with Web publishers against Apple Computer. In the case, O’Grady v. Apple Computer, Apple had attempted to subpoena emails and other information in an attempt to discover the identity of sources who allegedly leaked information to bloggers. Read more on Online Media Daily. Late last week, a three-judge appellate panel ...

MySpace? That’s so yesterday! MIT Review is touting imeme, a newcomer to the social networking world. The 21-employee company, backed by venture capital firm Morgenthaler Ventures, makes a downloadable application that complements existing IM systems, letting users build buddy lists, see rich profiles of each buddy, track who’s online, and share photos, video files, and streaming audio instantly. The idea ...