校内网和开心网都是时下中国国内IT人群里挺爱玩的社区网站（SNS）。它们就像是facebook的中国版，从网站风格到功能都不同程度的模仿了facebook，较为不同的就是他们的用户基本都是中国人。但是facebook中文版的出现，想必对这几个网站带来了一定的冲击。面对这种挑战，校内网率先发布了开放平台，登陆校内网的时候，会发现上面新增了组件功能，其中的组件居然有数百种，“买卖好友”“占车位”还有很多热门小游戏。虽然facebook一早就向用户提供了很多组件功能供娱乐，但是对于中国国内的SNS网站而言，校内网、开心网等站点的这一动作还算是比较紧跟国际潮流的。
现在几家组件比较多的如开心网、校内网都吸引了越来越用户，人们对SNS开始关注起来，以前人们总是把社区网站当成概念炒作，现在更多人参与进去。那么，为什么SNS最近开始火爆呢？

Another event to add to your planner - Social Tech Training is geared towards training social change-minded organizations in using the web to activate, communicate and inspire.

I am very much addicted to the Read/Write Web, that is to say: it's where I like to surf for all the latest and greatest. And this upcoming week is no exception.

You want reviews of 2006 and all that shook down and what it all means as we launch into 2007? Richard MacManus and his 2.0 crack team of writers always seem to hit all the issues, news, conferences, and sum them up well, with honesty and realism in their writing, reporting and critiquing.

SO - I'll be watching and reading and hopefully reporting back and linking on The Standard, as per the usual, but let's be honest, it's 11 days, yes, ELEVEN days, until the stores close and the 12 Days of Christmas (technically are supposed to, in theory) begin. So while I shop, or rather, make my homemade gifts (oh my family love me for it, really they do) and we all feast over and over again, you can always take a spin through the read/write to catch what you've missed.

The Web 2.0 Summit kicked off this week in San Francisco. One of the more popular workshops is a rapid fire launch and demonstration of new technologies, products and business models.

From social networking sites like "the blogophere of bulletin boards", to tools like, "yellow post-it notes", which allows you to share smart data, to a 3D social network that operates inside your browser called 3B.

The Read/Write guys summed up the projects revealed quite nicely in this article here.

Blogging In China - They Have Open Source Conferences Too

I recently found this article in China's Danwei online magazine. It highlights an article written on the recent blogging conference held last week in Hangzhou, China (it was the second annual!), and touches on reasons why the Chinese government should be embracing, not blocking, these future-thinking, web 2.0 savvy citizens and bloggers.

Read this article here, a summary of the conference, the people in attendance and the issues and topics that were covered.