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Biggest Battle Yet For Social Networks: You, Your Identity And Your Data On The Open Web
Facebook continues to make major and mostly proprietary moves as the battle for Web identity heats up. Most companies are following open standards but Facebook Connect is a creation of its own making. However, Google is actually making more interesting moves in this space in many cases and most folks aren't even paying attention.
OpenStreetMap
A good example of the emerging open data movement, this one around location. Lots of challenges and opportunities as we create more and more of the data...
zembly
A "Wikipedia for social apps?a wiki for live, editable code beyond trivial widgets" it looks like a pretty compelling way to build SNS apps. It's apparently Sun's foray into this space. WIll be giving it a spin as soon as possible.
The hidden cost of Google Apps - Nov. 19, 2008
A decent overview of what the pros and cons are of moving to office productivity apps in the cloud. We use Google Apps for most of what we do now unless it needs exotic formatting. Article cites biggest downsides as identity (account) confusion and user learning curve. The latter is overblown as far as I can tell.