A great video with a unique perspective on the C-Train.

Subway Speed 5 (silent) on Vimeo

• Design View / Andy Rutledge - Anti-Social Media
  (tags: article blog community socialnetwork)
• R/WW Trend Watch: User-generated Sites Define This Era of the Web
  (tags: web2.0 socialnetwork article blog)
• iVillage Girl’s Night Out
  Even iVillage is getting into the SecondLife space.
  (tags: community socialnetwork secondlife)
• Micro Persuasion: 30 Amazing Things You Can Do With Widgets
  (tags: widgets web2.0)
• Aquafina’s MySpace Marketing
  A look at the successes of aquafina and marketing on MySpace
  (tags: web2.0 marketing myspace socialnetwork)
• 2006 Web Technology Trends
  A look at some of the 2006 web trends
  (tags: development blog marketing web2.0)

• Vitamin Features » Communicating web 2.0 through design
  Some thoughts on structures and strategies around web 2.0 and design
  (tags: design web2.0 best_practice)

Customer service, and basic math, I guess, still is a mystery.

The Getty Museum

Originally uploaded by zarzecks.

Quick shot from a trip out to The Getty Museum while I was out in California.

Two recent NYT articles have proved interesting in the role of the user as the content creator (2006, Brought to You by You) and how the effort of moderation comes into play (YouTube Adds a Layer of Filtering to Be a Little Nicer).

The new sites that are smart will understand that their benefit is not to create the content, but to enable the best possible place for users to contribute and consume. Can CBS and YouTube control the voice of the users, that is still to be seen. The challenge lies in how to enable the community to gain their own sense of content ownership, whether through providing an authentic conversation in comments or enabling the user as the moderator, not the brand or site owner.

• Hitwise Intelligence
  (tags: analytics blog trends)
• Google Analytics Blog
  (tags: analytics google tool blog)
• Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
  (tags: analytics blog)
• Church of the Customer Blog
  Great post on the power of community influence
  (tags: marketing blog a)
• Amberjack: Site Tour Creator - Simple. Free. Open Source.
  Tool for making easy site tours.
  (tags: tool design development)
• ex animo: Vertical Centering with a Floated Shim
  (tags: css trick)
• Planypus - Make plans with your friends.
  Site for groups organizing around offline events
  (tags: socialnetwork beta groups)
• confab.yahoo!
  (tags: conference collaboration yahoo web2.0 development)
• MuseStorm - Home Page
  (tags: socialnetwork widgets platform)
• Gothamist: New York’s Music Folk Stuff Your Stockings
  (tags: trends music download)
• A List Apart: Articles: User-Proofing Ajax
  (tags: ajax article tips development)
• A List Apart: Articles: Avoid Edge Cases by Designing Up Front
  (tags: design best_practice)
• Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites. Many-to-Many:
  (tags: article socialnetwork community)
• Nidahas » Forms markup and CSS - Revisited
  Creating CSS and standards-based forms
  (tags: css design forms development)
• A VC: Social Search
  (tags: socialnetwork search article)
• The Best Explanations and Definitions of Web 2.0 for 2006 — Qwerky Archive
  (tags: web2.0 definitions article)
• Exclusive: MySpace Testing their Own Widget Platform - Mashable!
  (tags: widgets api myspace)
• Vitamin Features » The rules of engagement
  (tags: community marketing web2.0 socialnetwork)
• all kinds of stuff: Color Theory- Art Lozzi explains some technique
  (tags: color tutorial design)

• Fimoculous.com - misc - Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading
  A great list of some must-not-miss blogs
  (tags: blog resource read)
• The 10 most popular newspaper typefaces - (37signals)
  (tags: font design)

• kuler
  Great tool from adobe for color palette and theme creation
  (tags: design color tools)
• Adactio: Journal - More thoughts on portable social networks
  Discussion of the use of microformats and aggregating social communities
  (tags: microformats socialnetworks community)
• Screencast: Ross Harmes’s YUI Bundle for Textmate » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
  Screencast showing how to setup the YUI library with TextMate
  (tags: development coding css osx)