trendsetter / Gerd-E. Günther

via lars: Some background on Moveavle Type's and WordPress's efforts to integrate social networking and lifestreaming into their blogging platforms. One question remains: Where is the social network federation?

via jati: Zitat: "New technologies tend to follow different trajectories of hype, hope, and despair as they are discovered by different groups of people and finally adopted (or ignored) by consumers. Gartner actually goes ahead and charts this hype cycle for different technologies. Its latest hype cycle for 2008, shown above, is making the rounds."