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Friday, October 20th, 2006

Update on the Union of Users idea:

Greg blogs about it too (reminding us of Web 2.0 Colonialism), and more importantly…
He introduces his Union of Users project. (The chart on the front page explains the concept perfectly.)
Fabian creates a union group within Germany’s largest social network and is already to nearly 100 members.
I take the more meager step of a creating a MySpace Union group.

UPDATE The posts are coming fast! Fabian’s latest post gives a philosophical/historical perspective on user’s unions.

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