June 2006
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Moving To The Edge: The Hunter/Gatherer Future
Today’s New York Times includes a piece on female bosses being occasionally more tyrannical that males (see A Tyrant Boss, Even Without the Y Chromosome - New York Times), which precipitated a chain of thought about collaboration, the future of work, and, perhaps, a return to an earlier basis for culture:
[by Benedict Carey]
In an authoritative 2003 analysis of 45 studies in a wide range...
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The Rise Of Web Culture And Its Enemies
Showing a typical lack of depth regarding the trend right before their eyes, the media are mistaking what the newest Comscore numbers about social networks mean:
[from Social Networking Sites Continue to Attract Record Numbers as MySpace.com Surpasses 50 Million U.S. Visitors in May - MarketWatch]
TABLE 1 Selected Social Networking Properties by Unique Visitors May 2006 Total U.S. -...
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The Future Of Social Networks
Fred Stutzman peers into the crystal ball, and (with reference points derived from a close study of five MySpace competitors) lays out a framework for the future of social networks. He looks at these sites:
Cyworld — he characterizes as the “future of social”
Bebo — he thinks it’s “taking on MySpace”, but it seems more of a replacement for Facebook to...
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Rebooting
The Reboot conference in Copenhagen last week was a redefining experience for me. Even at the superficial level, the conference was hypnotically involving: the city is beautiful, the citizens helpful and attractive, and the conference setting was great. At a somewhat deeper level, the conference attendees and presentations were top-notch, as I detailed in that earlier post. But, although in...
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Stowe Boyd and Jason Fried: Where Should Basecamp...
Jason Fried responded to my criticism of Basecamp in a comment to a recent post, Michael McDerment on Software Should Be Social Because No One Works Alone. I had stated that I consider it a basic flaw that Basecamp doesn’t support a federated model of work: that is to say, if I am working with four companies who each have a Basecamp instance, I wind up with four account/login/password...
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Michael McDerment on Software Should Be Social...
I have been working with the folks at FreshBooks, and social architecture principles are a major aspect of that company’s future design plans, as this post by Michael McDerment indicates:
[from Software Should Be Social Because No One Works Alone by Michael McDerment]
FreshBooks is about to introduce a new era for freelance and contract workers. In this new era each independent...
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Flow: A New Consciousness For A Web Of Traffic
A video of my presentation at Reboot courtesy of Nicolas Charbonnier (Charbax): It’s called “Flow: A New Consciousness For A Web Of Traffic.”
I am going to get a transcript made at some point. It’s posted at Slideshare, here.
