If you're going to SXSW, be on the lookout for some NetSquared folks: Billy Bicket, CompuMentor's Director of Strategic Development, Knowledge Services, (pictured left with Marnie Webb), and NetSquared blogger and interviewer extraordinaire, Marshall Kirkpatrick (pictured below). If you'd like to meet up with either of them, just email net2 AT techsoup.org.
Billy and Marshall will also be meeting up with Alexandra Samuel whose company, Social Signal, built the NetSquared web site. She will be speaking Monday at 10am on a panel about Remixing Business for a Convergent World. If folks want to meetup with her, email her at alex AT socialsignal.com READ MORE
During MashupCamp, Yoz Grahame, of MySociety.org and Ning, demos a few projects he's helped build including WriteToThem and PledgeBank. WriteToThem empowers citizens in the UK to hold their elected officials accountable while PledgeBank is a resource for creating and pledging support for any idea, if enough people also support that idea. Yoz explains while giving a demo.
Adam Frey is one of the founders of Wikispaces.com, a popular hosted wiki service. A wiki is a web site that any authorized user can edit, where all previous versions of the site are visible and notification can be receieved whenever a change is made.
Wikispaces hosts wikis for a wide variety of communities and offers free premium hosting for K-12 educators. In the following interview Adam and I discussed his thoughts on optimal use and selection of a wiki. READ MORE
This is my first blog entry... a test really of things to come. I am an attentionally challenged mum of 2 boys living in Australia. Interested in building a sustainable world ( aren't all parents in a manner ... )
Did you know that the fridge can be used as a whiteboard? Ours currently has a list called "What can I do?"
This is a list of possible answers to the ongoing question - that occurs if the TV and computers are off.
I used to spend my time trotting out suggestion after knocked back suggestion - but now I just say "read the fridge "
I now have something hugely exciting to report. My boys have just discovered MP3 players - and are listening to novels. What bliss to plug them into something electronic that is actually good for them! READ MORE
Check out this artlce on Wal-Mart's use of bloggers to try to change public opinion. Obviously nothing new here; but just an example of how corprations are turning to Internet media to accomplish their goals:
EXCERPT: "Under assault as never before, Wal-Mart is increasingly looking beyond the mainstream media and working directly with bloggers, feeding them exclusive nuggets of news, suggesting topics for postings and even inviting them to visit its corporate headquarters." READ MORE
Its basically Tivo for the Internet, collecting and organizing video via RSS and integrating BitTorrent making it a no brainer to distribute and view up to full screen video on the web. Works on Mac and Windows.
FROM THEIR WEBSITE:
Download and watch all the best internet TV shows and videos in one powerful application. New channels arrive daily in the built-in Channel Guide. Stop squinting at tedious web videos-- sit back and watch big, high resolution videos. READ MORE
It occurred to me yesterday that not all the folks reading this blog, might know that the NetSquared blog is a community blog and that readers, like you, can post on it.
All you have to do is be registered and logged in on the NetSquared site. When you are registered and logged in, you'll see a prompt in the right hand corner of the home page that says, "Post to your blog."
If you've been to a NetSquared related event (i.e. Net Tuesday, NTC, SXSW Interactive, Mashup Camp, Brainjams), know about a nonprofit using the social web in cool ways, found a new open source program that could benefit nonprofits, or have an interview with a nonprofit or web innovator you'd like to share, post about it. READ MORE
Michael Grubb is the Senior Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer at LookSmart. He became an expert in scalability of web services after studying philosophy at Duke University and receiving a J.D. from the University of North Carolina.
I recently caught up with Dr. Enoch Choi, a family physician from Palo Alto, California, at MashupCamp. He shares his experiences helping Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans, aided immensely with the use of portable wireless computers.
I know I've posted recently about the Net Tuesdays happening this month in DC, Houston and San Francisco, but I wanted to let you know about the great speakers presenting at each event:
If you're going to SXSW, be on the lookout for some NetSquared folks: Billy Bicket, CompuMentor's Director of Strategic Development, Knowledge Services, (pictured left with Marnie Webb), and NetSquared blogger and interviewer extraordinaire, 
Adam Frey is one of the founders of 
Michael Grubb is the Senior Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer at 