"Socializing doesn’t scale. Once a group reaches a certain size, each participant starts to feel anonymous again, and the person they’re following — who once seemed proximal, like a friend — now seems larger than life and remote." And that's why we don't want to run a University-wide Tornado server
"What we care about is what makes information inadequate." David Weinberger's keynote about the value of the implicit @ Defrag Con. He's describing the route to web 3.0: http://tinyurl.com/yw4ffj
Microsoft has paid $240m (£117m) for a 1.6% stake in Facebook that values the site at $15bn (£7.3bn). Facebook spurned an offer from Google which was also keen to invest the site.
A few years ago I wrote to Microsoft’s leadership and asked them why they weren’t involved in the new Web 2.0 space. I got an answer back that was about 2,000 words long and included the words “business value” 13 times.
Millions in the UK are already registered with Facebook, or similar social networking tools such as MySpace, Bebo and Friendster, to conduct part of their private lives online, and it's growing at a huge rate.