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Just dumping some news I consider relevant.

These are glued together by “Information Overload”:

• Google Maps Now Editable by Anyone
  Too much data, too little context to allow for a sensible control over the editing process.
• Five Methodologies to Deal with Email Overload
  The article describes ways to deal with information overload. Nice, but drives attention away from the real problem: the limitations of email.
• The Conversation Has Left the Blogosphere
  Indeed, indeed. The world is moving online and the available technology isn’t coping well with it. Lifestreaming services are a good step forward but still… we might want to look back into what people are putting online (as well as why and where) before “mending” the problem by aggregating information (doing so strips information from its original context and assumes the public and universal sharing of information between people - profiling heaven ahead)
• AllPeers Closes - What Happened to the Glorious Future of P2P?
  Every day we see a new startup popping up, another feature or site update. All craving our attention, our presence in their space.
  The article mentions marketing problems and I reckon that its all about reaching people, about giving them the experience that makes them include your product into their daily life. If you cross that threshold “you’re in” and then you have access to the “social threshold” - the sense that something is so cool that “I have to share it with someone else”.
  Most startups start working on this later barrier before even considering the former. Until now, social recommendations were an important part of human’s information gathering toolkit. But with the comercial exploitation of the social graph how long is it until our minds start to kick back and worn off the high preference attributed to data collected from our peers? What might the alternatives be? Food for the mind…

These are “Semantic”:

• Zemanta Brings a Semantic Layer to Your Blog
  One of SeedCamp’s startups
• Semantify - Automate Your Semantic Web SEO in Five Minutes
  Gotta love the guys from dapper!
• And Nerds Became Kings: Yahoo! to Announce Semantic Web Support
  And Yahoo!

Others:

• WordPress Social Networks - I’ll Take a Distributed One, Please
  Chris Messina’s interview with… himself is worth seeing. He’s on the right path with DiSo, I’m considering dropping in the mailing list.
• Google Releases AJAX Language API
  This is way cool!
• Google Releases Contacts API
  But this is cooler!
• Shindig - an Apache incubator project for OpenSocial and gadgets
  And this is even cooler!
• SXSW: Lessons Learned at 37 Signals
  An interesting read.
• Goodbye, P2P! P4P is Coming
  Curious mode: on.
• UN Data: the Ultimate Research Tool
  Trust in information source mode: on.
• LiveJournal Says Goodbye to Unique Account Structure, Against Wishes of Advisors
  Ridiculous mode: on.

Sleep mode: on.