“You don’t need to apologize for calling it Web 3.0″

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_web_11_things_to_know.php

The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
“I’ve just posted a video of a cut down version of my stump speech on my new book The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism, explaining why it’s often better to compete with pirates in the market place rather than fight them in the courts, and why we as a society need to reevaluate the ways we think about sharing information.”

“In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the Internet revolution has produced a counterrevolution of devastating power and effect. The explosion of innovation we have seen in the environment of the Internet was not conjured from some new, previously unimagined technological magic; instead, it came from an ideal as old as the nation. Creativity flourished there because the Internet protected an innovation commons. The Internet’s very design built a neutral platform upon which the widest range of creators could experiment. The legal architecture surrounding it protected this free space so that culture and information–the ideas of our era–could flow freely and inspire an unprecedented breadth of expression. But this structural design is changing–both legally and technically.”

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“Eye-tracking studies are hot in the web design world, but it can be hard to figure out how to translate the results of these studies into real design implementations. These are a few tips from eye-tracking studies that you can use to improve the design of your webpage.”

http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2007/scientific-web-design-23-actionable-lessons-from-eye-tracking-studies/

Although downloads aren’t available for MACs (yet) the BBC iPlayer website looks rather nice…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/

Widgets Catch Fire With Advertisers
Forget static banners. Online ads are evolving into mini-applications with video, games, and dynamic content that people like enough to embed in their…Read more
http://innovation.ogilvy.com/broadband/articles/full/14275

Design and create applications in one go…
http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/december2007/video/index.html

“Stay on top of the latest and greatest trends in digital marketing with news, information and opinions on everything, from advergaming and online communities to mobile and interactive TV.”
http://innovation.ogilvy.com/

“Faced with a lack of resources in the areas of dashboard design and best practices, The Dashboard Spy set out a few years ago to collect examples of the budding new business intelligence technology known as the Digital Dashboard. After asking his many fellow UI designers, information architects, project managers, IT experts and business users for example screenshots, he decided to post the examples on the web. Well, that started a site that has since grown to be the largest collection of BI interfaces available.”

http://dashboardspy.com/

This is the very best blog for digital marketing I have found so far. It has something for everyone - design, innovation, strategy - the works. From how ‘Greening Your Brand in a Web 2.0 World’ and ‘Who clicks on ads? And what might this mean?’ through to bleeding edge reports from top industry types on every topic of our industry - it is a great way to stay on to of what is going on.
Check out FutureLab here.

Google is making waves in the social networking pond this morning with an as-yet-unofficial announcement about a new site-independent API, OpenSocial, that aims to make it easier to connect your profile and friends across social networks.

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/10/google-cracks-o.html

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/21/google-to-out-open-facebook-on-november-5/

http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKN3043165520071031

An interesting direction for the dub-dub-dub:

“The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a format that can be read and used by software agents, thus permitting them to find, share and integrate information more easily.”

Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.semanticweb.org/