Charlene Li, now the sole employee of Altimeter Group, has produced a new report - free to download - correlating leading brands' level of engagement in social media and their value. The report can be found here and explanatory post from... Read More

Here's the formal release: Metia creates a ‘Rough Guide to the World’ web site for leading travel publisher ·         Interactive site uses Windows Internet Explorer 9, HTML5 and Flickr to allow travellers to... Read More

That headline sounds like the sort of spam I get. In fact I'm referring to this great post - Love Management - by Erik Starck, the Community Manager over at Sony Ericcson's Developer World. Erik sums up the challenge of building community among developers:... Read More

Post here by Patricio Robles of e-Consultancy, examining Intuit's move to use the AppStore partnering model in its own business. Patricio's take is that with more and more competing platforms - and their attached markets or stores - developer's need... Read More

Who let the human in the building? In a slightly mind bending move Linden Labs, who built and run Second Life, acquired the Swedish company behind Avatars United, an online community for avatars, or more precisely, a community for the... Read More

The UK government has woken up to the value of developer communities. Kevin Anderson of the Guardian has written up the story here, and offers links to Harry Metcalfe's post written after getting a preview of the new site. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/oct/02/government-uk-data-mashup-transparenc... Read More

GigaOm reports Skype has closed its developer program: Skype Kills Extras and its Developer Ecosystem. Strange indeed. We haven't needed to look closely at Skype's program but the comments with the story suggest it wasn't a happy place before this news.... Read More

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The Guardian News & Media has recruited Matt McAlister from Yahoo! to run a developer program for it. I couldn't have seen myself writing that sentence two years ago. According to the announcement: McAlister will be taking up the... Read More

Dale at Freeform Dynamics has shared some data on the use of social media based on an online study of 1,456 IT professionals undertaken in September 2007. Six months is probably a long time in social media, so it would be great if Freeform... Read More

Some time round about now in San Francisco and London, Microsoft is formally taking the wrappers off IE9. Which means our NDA and embargoes time out and we can shout about the Rough Guide to the World. I suspect the launch will grab a bunch of coverage,... Read More

While most newspaper groups are getting coverage for layoffs and write downs, the Guardian has announced Open Platform, a set of technical initiatives supporting the free (but with strings) re-use of their content through an open API and Data... Read More

Deloitte's research is picked up here in a piece by Read Write Web's Marshall Kirkpatrick, who refers to an earlier WSJ article. Blanket condemnation is good for headlines but is not 100 per cent true. It would be more accurate to say dumb ideas... Read More

Conversation Manager vs Community Manager by John Bell at Ogilvy. Microsoft: Back in the MIX. Developers, Developers, Developers Reprised by James Governor at Redmonk. B2B Sales Pros Turn to LinkedIn from eMarketeer. The Internet of Things by McKinsey... Read More

                    I was invited along to the Dachis Group's Social Business Summit 2010 held in Austin on the eve of SXSW. Jeff Dachis had gathered a great ensemble of speakers - including... Read More

OK, not a real post just lazy linking, but well worth a look at Jeremiah's post on How to kick start a community.... Read More

Interesting post - and especially comments - on the issues with Apple's AppStore from Dave Weiss. If you are building a developer community - or any kind of community for that matter - from a standing start, be aware that if you do manage to succeed,... Read More