I’ve been doing some research on Creative Commons and found some remarkable things.  Wikipedia is one of the websites that has licensing through creative commons.   Wikipedia is designed to be edited by anyone so it naturally needs a flexible copyright and legal structure. But creative commons has had it’s share of problems too.   legal [...]

Creative Commons is on the edge of the web 2.0 revolution.  As more and more people create original content on the web, their has been confusion on copy rights.  As defined by law, any original work is automically protected and controlled by the creator.  But what happens when the creator wants to share his work [...]

Kiva.org is an innovative non-profit organization that takes entrepreneurs from some of the most poverty-stricken areas of the world and essentially gives them the capital to start their own business.  Kiva uses their website as a marketing tool, a weblog, and a means by which members can monitor how much money they’ve lent and to [...]

Some critics argue that Digg cannot generate a sustainable following but according to Problogger.com this is an untrue assessment of what the site can do. According to Problogger, each digg hit continues to improve your sites overall subscriber count and culture. The diagram below demonstrates how each successful digg post can help increase your overall culture and site [...]

For years internet surfers were forced to use mediums such as forums and blogs to share interesting web content.  That was before Digg. Digg is a community of internet users devoted to finding fun, instructive, goofy, and all manners of sites and videos in order to filter quality web content from the swill. A Digg user begins [...]

Creative Commons offers the tools by which people and companies can legally share their work with others while still abiding by copyright laws.  The point of Creative Commons is to allow people to build on each others’ work while still giving just credit where credit is due. One example of CC usage is ClearBits.  ClearBits was [...]

I can still remember when I first heard about Facebook.  The Myspace trend was finally dying out because of how convoluted and spam-ridden the site had become. Then there was Facebook…  A couple of my friends were talking about how you needed a college email to join.  Within six months they opened it up to high [...]

Digg fancies itself to be the future of social news.  It was one of the first websites to incorporate a voting mechanism that allows viewers to determine content.  The basic premise is that as people read news they see on the web, they are able to vote approving of the news (dig) or vote against [...]

Digg.com is a quintessential Web 2.0 site for online users.  The simple model of the website, users submitting links and stories of interest for review by other users, is a demonstration of the Web 2.0 technique of getting users involved, creating a community, and also helping the truly great content to rise to the top. [...]

Like many people are saying, I had never been on Digg until this week, but apparently it is one of the most visited sites on the internet. After checking it out, I decided it is a cool idea. I played around on the site for a while and had a very easy time finding information. [...]