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- Supernova: Anti-social networks and the love connection
- I'm sitting next to Mitch Ratcliffe at Supernova 2007 during the morning presentations. First up, Denise Caruso of The Hybrid Vigor Institute her view that today's social networks are anti-social and Clay Shirky of NYU talked about love and the open source community movement. Mitch covers the presentations and...
- Tags: Social networking, Supernova
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Denise Caruso: Anti-social media defeats progress
- Author and New York Times columnist and Hybrid Vigor Institute founder Denise Caruso, whose new book, Intervention, just arrived, launches the Supernova Conference with a call for diversity of ideas, conversation and, ultimately, collaboration. Leaping forward without first talking, discussing the potential benefits and consequences of a new technology creates...
- Tags: Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Second Life: Don't believe the hype
- Clay Shirky is on a mission to debunk the resident numbers of Second Life that are routinely published by the games makers Linden Labs and subsequently banded about by bloggers and journalists alike. And hes doing a pretty good job:Lindens numbers also suggest that the Residents figure includes even failed...
- Tags: Clay Shirky, Linden Labs
- Blog posts 2006-12-26
- Skype, SecondLife and the "TryMe Virus" phenomenon
- I take great pleasure in reading passionate pieces where the writer calls attention to faulty and widespread thinking. (I like to write such pieces myself but I give props to other thought leaders no prob.)Writing on Valleywag, author and frequent conventional wisdom debunker Clay Shirky really has hit the...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Second Life, virus, Clay Shirky, Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- ETech 2006 wrap-up
- As ETech 2006 winds down, I wanted to mention some of the highlights as well as a lowlight. The conference highlights included the keynotes by Ray Ozzie, Jon Udell, Clay Shirky for their simple, practical ideas...
- Tags: strategy, last day, Clay Shirky
- Blog posts 2006-03-09
- Semantic web looking for the killer app
- Tim Berners-Lee continues to preach the gospel of the semantic web. Speaking at the Fourth Annual Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, Berners-Lee discussed how the semantic web could solve problems in the life sciences: Life scientists in particular could...
- Tags: Semantic Web, Clay Shirky, Tim Berners-Lee
- Blog posts 2005-05-20
- Semantic web looking for the killer app
- Tim Berners-Lee continues to preach the gospel of the semantic web. Speaking at the Fourth Annual Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston, Berners-Lee discussed how the semantic web could solve problems in the life sciences: Life scientists in particular could...
- Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Clay Shirky, Semantic Web
- Blog posts 2005-05-20
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- You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open source
- What's the difference between a paid contributor to a FOSS project and a volunteer contributor? According to a paper by Evangelia Berdou, quite a bit. Berdou finds that paid developers take up key positions in projects, while volunteers often work on the periphery. In other words -- much of the...
- Tags: Developer, F/OSS, Contributor, Core Contributor, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Are you suffering from information filter failure?
- Clay Shirky, an author and an instructor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, says personal lives are a thing of the past, privacy is an information management problem and life is quickly becoming a systems design issue. Shirky, speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo in New...
- Tags: Information, RSS, Web 2.0, Strategy, Security, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- IBM reworks storage strategy
- IBM is making a major push to upgrade the computer storage products and services it offers customers struggling to breath under mountainous piles of data. SAN JOSE, California--IBM is making a major push on Monday to upgrade computer storage products and services it offers customers struggling to manage mountainous...
- Tags: Strategy, Data, IBM Corp., Storage, Hardware, Reuters, IBM, EMC, data storage, data centers
- News items 2008-09-08
- The view from the trenches...
- Taking a pragmatic approach on collaboration 2.0 strategy and tactics, here's an example of some realities from a client side perspective. This post is about what it's like inside a large enterprise running a collaboration system. I've been on both sides of the fence during my career:...
- Tags: Software, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Silo, E-mail, Tools & Techniques, Online Communications, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Scribes, professionals and the decline of mass media
- Clay Shirky, in his Here Comes Everybody, devotes a chapter, "Everyone is a media outlet", to a comparison of the decline of scribal production to the decline of "professional" journalism. He sets up this analogy on faulty legs that leave the argument that "what was once a chasm is now...
- Tags: Journalist, Journalism, Stock, Media, Photograph, Image, Music, Investment, Document Management, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Managerial Accounting, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Water technology sure to become more profitable. Great "Dry" Lakes study released. Our food is consuming our water.
- The Great Lakes are a major source of fresh water for much of the industrial and agricultural Midwest as well as southeastern Canada. Now the US Geological Survey has released a report on what happens to the water after people take it out of the lakes. You can...
- Tags: Food, Clean Technology, Water, Livestock, U.S. Geological Survey, Great Lakes, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Are we all just cognitive surplus?
- Clay Shirky, and his truly handsome hairline, is not into the ragehol like I am. That is, he does not anger easily. But he admits to nearly losing it recently, when after describing a Wikipedia skirmish to a TV producer, he got the question ...
- Tags: Surplus, Shirky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Wiki, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Online Communications, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Tennix (exe)
- Tennix is a single- and multiplayer tennis game from the bird's perspective. In single-player mode, the user plays against the computer AI using either the keyboard or the mouse. In multi-player mode, two players share the keyboard or one players uses the mouse and the other one the keyboard. The...
- Tags: Mouse, Tennix, Keyboards, Games, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-04-22
- Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates
- Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...
- Tags: Social Networking, Consultant, Network, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., E-mail, Knowledge Management, Groupware, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Azteca (exe)
- AZTECA - Save the land of the Aztecs! If you are smart, then this brand new game is made for you prove it and combine three or more matching color discs in a row. To get them in the right order you need to rotate them around. You need to...
- Tags: Disc, Fun, Intenium
- Software downloads 2008-03-13
- Movie tech comes home with Healthphone SaaS
- The Lord of the Rings imaging technology we profiled in August is coming to market through a Software As A Service SaaS offering for visiting nurses called Healthphone. The Victorian Order of Nurses in Canada has piloted the system, which includes a tablet PC from Motion Computing, and it's...
- Tags: Patient, Movie, Wound, Worker, Error, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- The iPhone impact on open source
- The iPhone impact on open sourceDo you know why truth about iPhone is not welcomed?Do you know why truth about iPhone is not welcomed?"Apparently, 12 percent or so of iPhone users just can’t get the hang of the device, calling it “tricky”, and soon after returning it."http://www.iphoneworld.ca/news/2008/02/06/one-in-eight-iphone-users-befuddled-by-their-iphone/"And surprisingly Apple has...
- Tags: open source, Apple iPhone, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- Pakistan blocks YouTube over cartoons
- Pakistan blocks YouTube over cartoonsPeople will stop using the internet?Yeah. Sure. That's what'll happen.Probably best if he's right, though - the internet could do with a few less homicidal maniacs.They're not even particularly good cartoons, and neither are they all that clever...Self-control, people! Murdering random innocent people because someone drew...
- Tags: INTERNET, YouTube Inc., cartoon
- Discussion threads 2008-02-24
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