Managing the crud via RSS, more like this, search filters, and social networks

I'm often asked "How in the world we are supposed to keep up with the various sources of information out on the net?" Part of the problem and what makes it extremely interesting is that more and more people are starting to blog. This means much more content but according to Sturgeon's Law it means 90% more crud. The key managing this big influx of data from varied sources is to have update notifications (RSS), with search filters (like google alerts), allow others to do the foot work for you (rank, trusted sources that you respect, blogroll, friends, or particular journalists), and finally a system that learns your preferences (ala amazon's more like this). I haven't seen a system that really helps you manage your data like this in one place. I use a combination of Google Alerts, my Google Reader, ims from friends, email links, del.icio.us for this but it is lacking the coherence of one system and it's missing the more like this and trusted network ranking. It looks like a few products are in beta to provide a service that might meet my criteria. Streamy looks very interesting

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http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9743458-2.html

Office 2.0 Conference videos

In my Web 2.0 and Beyond Talk I talked about how Web 2.0 was influencing the enterprise. The Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week was dedicated to this topic. They chose to use one of my favorite collaboration suites to run the conference. Clearspace X was used by the speakers and attendees to post documents, general meeting discussions and for displaying videos. Check out the site and especially some of the videos here

Office 2.0 Live Broadcast

If you have a small business and are thinking about expanding your internal office suites you should check out some of the products.