Thursday, April 17, 2003

Social Software Alliance is announced. We are proud to announce the launch of the Social Software Alliance The brainchild of the pioneers at SocialText the alliance is intended to be a place where the developers & users of social software can come together to create open standards, and, contribute industry best practices.  Our initial aims are: aid discovery of developers working on synergistic projects and standards assist in shaping open standards that mesh well with other alliance and Internet standards help promote each standard to gain wider adoption Quoting from the call for discussion: "The fast-paced nature of the social software space now argues for developing light-weight, easy-to-implement standards, following the Internet tradition of rough consensus and running code, but perhaps moving faster than the larger standards bodies. It is expected that those standards promulgated by the alliance which become widely adopted will be proposed to the appropriate general standards body or bodies: W3C, IETF, ISO, etc. " There will be a SocialText sponsored Happening tomorrow (see the site for more details) and we hope that anyone who is interested in the development of social software will come and get involved. [Curiouser and curiouser!]

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the “Great Symphony” paradox. Blogs encourage cross-functional disruptive thinking. <quote> I read a great quote that, like a magnet of meanings, pulled together layers of my thinking into a surprising pattern of possibility. Here it is: "Here is the paradox: You need a great team of people with diverse skills to perform a symphony well, but no team has ever written a great symphony! ... While cross-functional teams are key players in defining and implementing incremental innovation projects, cross-functional disruptive individuals tend to be key players in defining radical innovation projects." </quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

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FTC vs Spammers. binaryDigit writes "The San Jose Mercury News has an article on the FTC getting ready to take action on an (alleged) spammer. 'The Federal Trade Commission ... [Slashdot]

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phpIRC Client 0.0.1 [freshmeat.net]

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OpenSSH LDAP Public key patch 0.2 [freshmeat.net]

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