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“To be useful across different types of social media, profiles and reputation have to be localized and linked to the context of the conversation. In this way, thought leaders emerge within and across communities based on their specific expertise and contributions.” Obviously.

Web 2.0 site which allows you to enter where you’re travelling, share your plans with your friends, and work out when you will serendipitously collide in meatspace. I don’t travel that much, but knowing when my remote friends might be in the New England area would be awesome.

The BugMeNot.com for Web 2.0 - a site to trade invites for invite-only sites. Slightly disappointed they didn’t launch it as an invite-only site for ultimate irony points.

Interesting post from Michael Arrington, up til now a cheerleader for Bubble 2.0.

The highlights of Don Hincliffe’s loony “info” graphics which “explain” Web 2.0. I think my favourite is “The Habits of Highly Effective Web 2.0 Sites”. It’s gorgeously demented.

Digg for sports fans, with some interesting tagging and filtering options to limit it to the geographies/teams/players you care about.

Sign up for an account and, erm, that’s it. Needs OpenID support, if you ask me.

Some friends’ startup. It’s going to evolve into smart “social search”. In the meantime, Bostonfolks: Try training their brain (It’s fun!) and seeing how well it knows you.

I’ve no freaking idea what this website is, but by god, the jingle is catchy.

Look out, kids! AllAdvantage is back. Back! BACK!

Reddit launch a branded sub-site just for Slate articles, essentially becoming the “official” place to comment on and rate Slate articles. An interesting joint venture, showing there’s more to the Web 2.0 businessplan than just “targetted advertising”.

Quality silly Tom Coates post suitable for that popular cross-section of humanity: Dr Who fans who blog bitching about “Web 2.0”.

And we’re live… Tracking the goings-on of the newly-reinvigorated Boston-area tech community. I’m the resident curmudgeon. “Objectivism through extremes”, that is our catchphrase.

Good post from Anil, that is quite appropriate to a little side-project I’m going to be taking on for Beantown web types.

Finally had a chance to play with FeedLounge. It’s a very nice interface, that’s for sure — I’d recommend this over Bloglines to new RSS users. I’m probably going to stick with self-hosted Gregarius for now, though, since it’s free and free.

I ♥ Zeldman.