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We live in the conversation age and not the thinking age

Internet 1.0 was about the information age, now with Internet 2.0, we live in the conversation age. Conversation overload is our new malady, in the same way information overload tortured us ten years ago. Now we have both. Our communications technologies and numerous platforms...

Tags: Conversation, Portland, Site, Serendipity, Entrepreneurship, Internet, E-mail, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-01-24

Google's Serendipity

Google's SerendipityGoogle's visionI thought Google CEO Eric Schmidt's comments were inspiring and not at all unclear, and your reviewer's take on them uncharacteristically thick-headed.

Tags: Google Inc., Serendipity

Discussion threads 2006-05-11

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iPhone is about to get a whole lot more social

As expected, during the company's WWDC keynote Steve Jobs and co. demoed some of the early fruits of Apple's official iPhone SDK and unsurprisingly we saw a number of social applications on display. Social networking While we didn't see the rumored MySpace client, we...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Blogging, Internet, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-06-10

BU astronomer sings about black holes, does cutting edge research

REALITY ABUSE (Words & Music by A. Marscher ©2003) 1. We search for a description of reality that fits our macroscopic mentality Strip the world down to its finest scales, but that where normal logic fails Electrons with no individuality, photons with wave-particle duality ...

Tags: Particle, Hole, Music, Team Management, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-21

Instrumenting social responsibility

Instrumenting social responsibilityGratitude & HopeDennis, I'm so grateful; you can pimp me anytime :) Interestingly, my first post on the Epic Change blog was entitled Serendipity. I revel in its many blessings, and hope that other kind folks like you find it serendipitous to donate, volunteer & lend their...

Tags: Blogging, Instrumenting, Tanzania

Discussion threads 2008-05-02

Instrumenting social responsibility

As I'm sitting in an Orlando hotel idly flicking through RSS, I come across this guest post by Stacey Monk on Go Big Always. To cut a long story short: After all, I'm the perhaps crazy person who, after a trip to Africa last year, left a really successful...

Tags: SAP AG, Stacey Monk, EpicChange, Web 2.0, Corporate Social Responsibility, Internet, Leadership, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-02

Are IT malpractice suits around the corner?

Are IT malpractice suits around the corner?Merchantability is implied in any...product. It can not be written out in a contract or license. It is time for IT vendors, software or hardware or any combination, to be held financially accountable for their actions. Everyone else in the world is held...

Tags: Outsourcing, Malpractice, MERCHANTABILITY, malpractice, Andersen Consulting, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-03

One year later: Where are the killer Vista apps?

One year later: Where are the killer Vista apps?They're not difficult to write...No Mary, it's because there will be no killer application."Next killer app" is a hackneyed holdover from the late 80's after the Macintosh took some of the world by storm on account of Pagemaker, i.e. desktop publishing. Since...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

Amazon's Kindle: Much needed revolution or book industry power play?

Amazon's Kindle: Much needed revolution or book industry power play?Good article. Kindle is a good idea, but too restrictiveI really like the Kindle idea. I do lots of reading on my large screen but want to take this with me. The Kindle, I thought, was the way to go.However, your...

Tags: E-books, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc., e-book, Much needed revolution, Much Needed, book industry, Books

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

Defragging Enterprise 2.0

Day two of the Defrag conference started with Harvard Business School Associate Professor Andrew McAfee's giving his latest twist on Enterprise 2.0, a term he is credited with inventing. For reference, he defines Enterprise 2.0 as "the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Blog, Enterprise 2.0, Technology, Tie, Wiki, Blogging, Online Communications, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-06

Why the GOS will fail

Why the GOS will failOligopolies rule, like it or not"It was a policy choice to allow these duopolies to return. New policy choices can restore competition and free the bits."The truth is that it is SO expensive to set up the entire infrastructure that we CAN'T have "loads of competition"....

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, Cable, broadband

Discussion threads 2007-11-05

OpenSocial: Developers speak out

With Google's OpenSocial plans out of the bag, I checked out how some of the chosen few--Slide, NewsGator, Ning and salesforce.com--think about the new APIs and how they plan to apply them. Slide is the leading Facebook developer, claiming 63 million applications (SuperPoke, Top Friends, Slideshows, Guestbooks,...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, Application, Network, API, User, Google OpenSocial, User Benefit, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-31

Mass hysteria? It's not like Skype's died. It's just a really bad hangover

Of the million or so I told you so's that have already been written regarding eBay's confession that it might not get the return on its investment in Skype that it originally thought it would, I like Nicholas Carr's the best. Carr reflected on the words of eBay Meg...

Tags: Meg Whitman, Acquisition, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Nicholas Carr, Hindsight, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Networking, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-02

Sinularity Summit 2007: Will you still love me tomorrow?

 Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...

Tags: Professor, Robot, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Im in ur Facebook app, slurpin' up ur feeds

There's much to love about Facebook, but the thing I'm most hooked on at the moment is seeing what you're reading.I know what you're reading, that is, if you're sharing items using Google Reader, you've added the Google Reader Shared Items Facebook application (and pointed it at your...

Tags: Syndication, Social networking, Collaboration, Blogging, Attention

Blog posts 2007-07-20

Idiot frustrations

Idiot frustrationsPretty hardto record the sound of a broadband modem downloading packets :) It's called artistic licenceThat's not a common way people searchI find very very few people who would search using [u]Gerard “canyon shake” metal roof OR roofing cost[/u].Most people I have ever seen would use at...

Tags: INTERNET, Freight, canyon, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-13

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

Under the Radar: From Web 2.0 to Work 2.0

Im at the Under the Radar "Why Office 2.0 Matters" conference, which features presentations by more than 30 startup companies hoping to make a dent in the software universe occupied primarily by Microsoft. Ironically, or presciently, the event is taking place at Microsofts Mountain View campus. More on that...

Tags: radar, mashup, Mashery, Microsoft Office, Web, Work 2.0, Teqlo, Office 2.0, developer, Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-03-23

WordPress is the clear leader in blog platforms

At least according to this poll being conducted at the ecto web site. The results below are based on 9000+ votes recorded. I can in no way attest to the amount of ballot stuffing going on here - the poll does put a cookie in your browser after you vote...

Tags: Blogging, leader, blog, Wordpress

Blog posts 2007-03-09

SOA for the masses: Widgets, pipes and teqlets

For many years SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture--building composite applications by assembling components from multiple sources within and beyond an enterprise) and its antecedents have been the province of the developer priesthood. Mere mortals, lacking programming skills, have not been privy to arcane, powerful secrets of SOA codes. Now the power of...

Tags: Apple, Blogging, General, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Personal Technology, SaaS, Salesforce.com, SAP, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Yahoo

Blog posts 2007-02-15