Social Patterns Michael Nguyen on Search Engine Marketing

Charlene Li takes an initial look at Yahoo 360.

The ability to leverage your network to get something done is what gives Y! 360 the real potential to become something even bigger.

Yahoo is upping their mail service to 1 gig too.

Update: Danah Boyd has some reservations about the whole thing. She feels Yahoo should take the time to integrate flickr before launching the service.

Update #2: Jeremy Zawodny feels Flickr got a lot of this stuff right.

After a couple bad starts, a slashdotting, a server failure - Ourmedia is up and running. Ourmedia offers free lifetime hosting for all types of media.

We provide free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches.

One of the main partners of Ourmedia is Bryght, the biggest commercial Drupal endeavour - will be very interesting to see how citizen media develops in the near future.

John Udell recently posted a great power user perspective on del.icio.us. (via Micro Persuasion)

The screencast outlines basic pros/cons of folksonomies and how tagging systems like del.icio.us allow users to tap into shared knowledge.

John walks through his tagging process and how he refines his list.