If you are looking to build the next social media empire, here is a simple set of rules from one of the founders of the modern web era back when it was called “Web 2.0″ and not Social Media. Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, provides simple rules to help get you on your way at this years FOWA London event.

If you are frequent visitor to the North Shore Web Geeks events in Newburyport, you may have bumped into Joshua Porter (aka Bokardo) author of Designing for the Social Web. Here is an excellent conceptual presentation on building out a user registration process.