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- What am I reading?
- There's so much information available that I often come across stuff I find terrificly interesting but difficult to find time to cover. Other items are orthogonal to the topics I focus on here but still of interest to me and, potentially, to you too. So I've set up a link...
- Tags: Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-07-28
- Web 2.0: Where "low-fi is the next high-fi"
- My audience [will] live a happier, easier life here on the web!Well, you're gonna be a rock star with this!Simple, entertaining, funny, and informative!... and my personal favoriteYou made it so simple, even my parents could understand it.These are a sampling of comments received by the folk at CommonCraft.CommonCraft has mastered the art...
- Tags: Wiki, Web 2.0, Social media, E-communications, Digital media, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Word of mouth marketing: It's all about love
- I do my food shopping at Stop & Shop a East Coast chain -- mainly because I can flip through the online weekly sales flyer. I click on the items that I want and they are added to my shopping list, which I then print. Now that you know, you may do your...
- Tags: Word of Mouth Marketing (WOMM), Web 2.0, E-communications, Customer Service, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Biography meme
- Chris Brogan has kicked off a biography meme – the DIY Autobiography Kit – following a self-revelatory post he published yesterday. Sounds like fun so here goes...A Quick Sketch Biography of Marc OrchantThe thing most people know me for is... either my passion for gadges or my deep and ongoing...
- Tags: Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Does it make any sense to "hate" Microsoft?
- Marc Wagner at the ZDNet Education IT blog asks a question that has come up here and elsewhere many times. "Why do so many people hate Microsoft?" Marc begins his post exploring some of the antipathy that exists between the pro-Microsoft and pro-*NIX crowds with relative dispassion and points to...
- Tags: Windows, Mac, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Cory Doctorow on taming the trolls
- Great, great post on the InformationWeek blog by Boing Boing founder, author, and deep thinker Cory Doctorow on how to deal with trolls. It turns out that nuclear science is a great metaphor for managing community and the secret lies in "twiddling the rods" in just the right fashion. Just...
- Tags: Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- WordPress client for the Nokia N800
- Just got back from a trip to New York City and catching up on RSS feeds I see that a newWordPress cleint for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet has been released. WordPy is a pretty full-featured client for the Maemo Linux OS and runs on both the Nokia 770 and...
- Tags: Gadgetry, Blogs, Software, Utilities and Add-Ins
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Mashups: The next major new software development model?
- At last weeks Mashup Ecosystem Summit held in San Francisco and sponsored by IBM with an invited assemblage of leading players in this space, I gave an opening talk about the current challenges and opportunities of mashups. And there I posed the title of this post as a statement...
- Tags: Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, Badges, Ajax, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Social Software, Tolerance Continuum, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalyst
- Ive only recently had a chance to catch up and read Tom Davenports post a few weeks ago about his skepticism of Enterprise 2.0s ability to wreak significant cultural and hierarchical change inside organizations. Those of you tracking the Enterprise 2.0 story know the drill, namely that applying Web 2.0...
- Tags: Wikis, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Tagging, Social Software, Social Computing, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Products, Network Effects, Mashups, Governance, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, ATOM, Architecture of Participation
- Blog posts 2007-05-05
- A collection of Mac tidbits
- Yesterday was a good day if youre a Mac user. Here are three nice things I came across while catching up on RSS feeds last night:Flickr has released a new Universal Binary of the Flickr Uploadr tool for the Mac (can I buy a vowel please?). According the the download...
- Tags: Web Apps, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Mac, Hardware, Google, Gadgetry, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Who needs 'dead tree' old media? Virtually everyone
- Whats better than YouTube clip culture entertainment on an almost weekend?A post sponsored by Wired magazine written by an unamed person, or persons, under the unauthorized, assumed identity of Steve Jobs, titled "Radically, transparentally stupid."Topic? As described by Wired magazines NOT Jobs:Hilarious groveling letter from Rubel to "Mr. Louderback" and...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Print, Metrics, Media, Marketing, Culture, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Instant e-mail message form: Contactify
- I just came across Contactify via Digital Inspiration. This is a very nice solution if you want to add a way for people reading your blog to be able to contact you without a lot of heavy lifting. Its also a great way to add a "contact me" link...
- Tags: Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Blogs, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-04-21
- Pssst... Vonage, want to buy some IP?
- On VoIP Watch, my friend Andy Abramson tells an interesting story today that is both topical and illuminating in a higher altitude sort of way about the vagaries of intellectual property, patents, and litigation. According to Andys story, it appears that US Robotics (nee 3Com) holds a patent that is...
- Tags: Mobility, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Wagstaff hits a home run on "death of software"
- This is a post I wish Id written. WSJ columnist Jeremy Wagstaff, writing on his loose wire blog, sums up the sturm und drang about the "death" of Microsoft recently announced by Paul Graham with an elegant and hard to argue observation. What were really talking about has less to...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- More results on use of Web 2.0 in business emerge
- The last few weeks have seen a series of interesting new reports, studies, and papers on the past, present, and future of Web 2.0 concepts and applications as applied to businesses. Most notable for many industry watchers have been fairly rigorous new works by McKinsey & Company as well...
- Tags: Crowdsourcing, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Business Process Management, Architecture of Participation, Blogs, Business Models, Wikis, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Two-Way Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, SOA, RSS, Open APIs, Mashups, Lightweight Service Models, Hype, Governance, Global SOA, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Google, TechCrunch: When April Fool's is no joke
- April Fools Day is observed throughout the Western world by “trying to get people to believe ridiculous things,” so notes Pearson Education.Ridiculous, however, is becoming more and more oxymoronic. For example, if a search engine declares a grandiose mission to organize the world’s information, would “The Moon” not be...
- Tags: Google, Culture, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-03-31
- Is Web 2.0 over? TechCrunch bails on startups
- TechCrunch goes pro: What’s the deal? I asked earlier this month.Michael Arrington, aka TechCrunch, now gives us the answer:Today we are announcing that we have acquired Philip “Pud” Kaplan’s FuckedCompany.com in a stock for assets transaction.Are congratulations in order? Hardly.Arrington “explains” his editorial about face with typical TechCrunch pragmatism:Since FC...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Venture Capital, VC, Self-Promotion, Business Models, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-03-31
- Encouraging Enterprise 2.0: As simple as possible, but no simpler?
- Blogger Euan Semple recently highlighted a key point about Enterprise 2.0 adoption that ZDNets own Dan Farber also found worthy of note over the weekend. And that is that Enterprise 2.0 will happen in your organization entirely by itself, whether you encourage it, discourage it, or even consign it...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Web, Wiki
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Google: Internet bubble 2.0?
- In the immortal words of presidential candidate Ronald Reagan to President Jimmy Carter, “There you go again.” Henry Blodgett and Mary Meeker are “going again” with exuberant cheerleading for an Internet darling. Which is the “lucky” public company getting the Blodgett-Meeker props this Web 2.0 go around? The...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Search, Google, Blogs, Video, YouTube, ROI, Wall Street, Profits
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Are you Twittering?
- Ive been using Twitter for a while now and must admit that it has stuck in a way many social tools have failed to for me. Part of the reason, I suspect, is that its very low effort. But more to the point, many of by online buddies are using...
- Tags: Blogs, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
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