If the major characteristic of Web 1.0 is to connect people to content, than Web 2.0 allows people to connect with other people. Web 3.0 connects content to people, and Pearltrees is a great way to see how this works.

For those of you that visit this site regularly, the site was down from Saturday until Tuesday.  Not for any reason we were notified about, but because of a fire inspection at the data center where our server is.  Someone mistakenly turned on the fire retardent system, which wiped out quite a few servers. Those that wre not wiped out were locked down.  The failover back-up did not work, and so we were without service.

In earlier posts, we discussed the Fundamental Differences between Collaboration and Social Networks, and Objectives of Players in Collaboration Networks. We offer here a model for leveraging content in collaboration networks, CAST: Create, Aggregate, Segment and Target.

We identify at least four players or stakeholders in collaborations networks: Enterprise, Customer (current and prospective), Employee and Partner. Each player operates in the collaboration network with own objectives, motives and expectations, which are often asymmetric.

Collaboration networks differ from social networks in one fundamental way: collaboration networks focus on creating economic value. We compared collaboration and social networks in an earlier post.

I was at Lotusphere last week and once again found that the innovation lab was the most interesting part of the show for me. I really enjoyed talking with some of the social software scientists, and had some interesting conversations with smart people that think about this stuff all day. One of the more lengthy conversations I had was about how to determine the value for collaboration.