social systems

  • Newsvine invites available

    I have twenty invites to give away to check out Newsvine, the new community-organized news site which just opened up to public beta. If you’d like one, just let me know via email at jgc-at-jasonclarke.org. I’ve been using the site for a few weeks. I’ll post some thoughts here when I get a chance. My…

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  • Just one of the personal uses of del.icio.us

    I’m adding a new personal tag to my del.icio.us habit/space: “toread”. It’s, obviously, stuff I want to read later on. So then I’ll use the automagically generated del.iciou.us feed of that tag to dump back into my RSS reader (making sure to set the feed *not* to expire after I open it) so that I…

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  • Tales from The Long Tail: an interview with the co-founder of Peerflix

    Today’s Tales from The Long Tail link is an interview with Peerflix co-founder Billy McNair by my closest-in-geography-blogger, F-Stop Blues‘ Tim Coyle. In the interview, Peerflix is explained (if you don’t know what it is, read the interview!), and its founder talks about the service’s bright future: Currently people mail DVD’s to one another. Do…

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