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New SF report Maggie Shields starts at BBC’s dot.life blog
Jemima Kiss analysis of Telegraph’s online reader stats jump
Web 2.0 conference took place this week. Readwriteweb roundup excellent as always

Future social media stars? From O’Reilly at Web 2.0

How to build an online community, from Newswire via Strange Attractor

And what every company should be monitoring, from Newswire

Stats from Society for New Communications Research on company reputation and social media, from Clickz

China overtook US in terms of internet users this week here’s a link to World Internet Use Stats. Remember the majority (80%) of the world don’t have internet access!

Developments with iGoogle hint at future for social networks, from Readwriteweb

Favourite article of the week is Vic Keegan’s CCTV in our pocket demonstrating real-time video from our phones. Everyone is accountable.

Fascinating art installation from Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar combining online dating postings, touch screen technology and software to give an amazing insight into people’s online relationships. From Danah Boyd’s blog.

Web 2.0 technologies have given us the ability to communicate and collaborate on a global scale, creating new models of content creation and business as a result of largely unbridled innovation.

The problems associated with the lack of central control over User Generated Content (UGC) have also been driven by Web 2.0 technologies – copyright infringement, abuse and cyberbullying, privacy and internet bandwidth capacity – will continue to dominate (figures listed in today’s Twitter postings here) as Web issues.

But a sustained light touch for regulation is needed, so those that have created the greatest internet platforms encouraging the fastest technological, social and cultural developments in the history of the world can solve the problems – and they will.