"We’ve rounded up some of the most impressive works of social icon art circulating the web lately. The sets below all feature high-quality, high-detail icons that are easy to download and manipulate, thanks to their high resolutions and transparencies. Best of all, they’re free."

Introducing the Tweet Button! Learn how to use Twitter's Tweet Button and add it to your website. The new buttons let readers quickly share stories and follow relevant users, such as the website or author that posted it.

Google Set to Make Gmail Social With Status Update Features! Gmail is set to become Google’s next major push into social media. According to The Wall Street Journal, the popular webmail service will soon launch a new feature for sharing content and status updates with friends.

Four (of the more active) Friendfeed members from diverse backgrounds sit and discuss how it is that they've come to know each other so well before ever meeting in person. They discuss Friendfeed's success and has it has come to mean a great deal to those users savvy enough to fully understand its utility for developing and sustaining robust discussions and deeper conversations. Those conversations always reach beyond 140 characters and embrace a network outside one's immediate sphere of influence.

This is the talk I gave at Mindtrek in Tampere, Finland.

Slides are available here:

factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/10/01/identity-is-the-platform/ Cast: Chris Messina, Brynn Evans

"Bring all your activity on the web into Drupal. Activity Stream builds a lifestream for you by aggregating your social activities all in one place. Whether it's bookmarks on Del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia, pictures on Flickr, music on Last.fm, or posts on your blog, anything you create can be gathered into one easy to read stream. The module comes with support for a half dozen popular sites and support for any site that publishes an RSS or Atom feed. Developers can create integrations with any other site using a simple API."

"Includes: 15 Icons Blogger /Blogspot , Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Design float, Linkedin, Mixx, Myspace, RSS, Technorati, Twitter, Wordpress, Yahoo!"

"The service shows a Digg user's friends' link submissions in an attractive slideshow of live pages inside a frame."