Google I/O Sessions

Here’s a reference site for Google I/O sessions videos and presentations: http://sites.google.com/site/io/ .
Currently there are about 71 sessions with the following categories:

APIs & Tools
AJAX & Javascript
Maps & Geo
Mobile
Social

Among these is a video on Becoming a Google Apps Small Business Solutions Provider.

Granular Privacy Controls

Granular Privacy Controls (GPC) in social networks work like authorization profiles, wherein the users get to decide what data to show to friends in his network. This is becoming to be an essential feature for social apps. Facebook is leading the development on GPC in the web social arena. With Facebook, you have privacy controls [...]

2007 Christmas notes

Merry Christmas to everyone!
Here are some notes:

Guy Kawasaki finds out that the color orange “fosters innovative thinking” in his visit to PARC
Dopplr, a free online application, joins the social service of follow-and-be-followed. This in the travel arena.
OneDomus, a Philippine based company, enters the Ning-like do-your-own-social-network service.
Paul Kedrosky notes that RIM’s Blackberry is gaining on non-business [...]

Twine a semantic web app

Twine is a web application that is part social, part wiki, part database, part “smarts.” One of the finalists for best technology innovation for the Crunchies, Twine is probably the first semantic app of this kind.
Twine is a hosted, free, online service that connects you not only to other people (as featured by social [...]