May 2008
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A VC: Is “Social Enterprise Software” An Oxymoron?
Fred Wilson seems to be making the case for workstreamer.
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Tags: workstreamer, fred wilson, social tools
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April 2008
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Change.org - Hiring Bloggers
Change.org is a social network for hundreds of social causes and over 1 million nonprofit organizations. They are looking to hire part-time bloggers.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: blogging, bloggers, social conscience, social media, change.org
blog.plazes.com » Blog Archive » Plazes and the Location Web
Felix Petersen makes the case for Plazes. I think they...
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SocioTwitting - developing metrics for Twitter volume vs. Twitter influence
A compendium of links about the Twitter Stats meme.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: twitter, stats, commetrics
An Insurgence Of Quality
Timoni Grone relates a talk by Alan Cooper on the need for a battle to get quality back in the software developent game.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: alan cooper, ix, quality, timoni grone,...
Twistori
twistori, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
[from Twistori]
This is the first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter. inspired by wefeelfine and drawing data from summize, hand-crafted by amy hoy and thomas fuchs.
Twitpitch: Lefora
Vinnie Lauria:
Lefora.com is forums made easy - it’s like blogger for forums.
about 4h ago via web in reply to stoweboyd
Monday, April 28, 2008 at 03:47 PM
Business cards are essential, but the form factor — and the business practices based on it — are stuck in the 19th century in their form. The take up room, are inherently difficult to organize, and come in all manners of shapes and sizes. At the same time, who has not gone to a meeting, a conference, or even a PTA meeting, and not walked away with a dozen or more cards with names,...
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Bicycle-Sharing Program to Be First of Kind in U.S. - New York Times
“Starting next month, people in Washington will be able to borrow a bicycle any time they need one with the swipe of a membership card.” I want Smartbike in San Francisco, too. Why doesn’t Zipcar add this?
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: smartbike, green, zipcar, zipbike
Twitter Spewage among Dave Winer’s...
/Message: RSS Subscribers
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/Message: RSS Susbscribers, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
A palindrome!
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Assembla Blog | Workstreaming
Andy Singleton thinks he’s invented ‘workstreaming’. Ha! “The goal of Workstreaming is to share what you are working on, so that you can work more effectively with your team members.” Not quite right but he’s mostly on point with workstreaming.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: workstreaming, assembla, andy singleton, pointer: jevon...
Another Voice Calling For The End Of Web 2.0
It’s an old, old refrain. It seems that all over the place people are suggesting that the Web 2.0 term has reached it’s end; that it doesn’t have enough legs.
The newest is Charlie Cooper:
[from Why it’s time to dump the Web 2.0 sobriquet once and for all | Coop’s Corner : A Blog from Charlie Cooper - CNET News.com]
I don’t know where we are in the...
Twitpitch Is Pissing Some People Off
I am somewhat baffled by the response to today’s post about twitpitching (see Twitpitch Is The Future).
My argument in a nutshell: I am getting a bazillion pitches a week, especially heading into conferences like the Web 2.0 Expo. I thought that I might exploit the explicit brevity of twitter, and the open discourse involved, to shift the communication with PR people out of my inbox,...
Brightkite: Twitter Integration Tweaked
I was one of several Brightkite users who asked if changes in location could be posted into our Twitter streams. It appears that they had that implemented once, so they have reintroduced it as an option. Alternatively, users can opt to update the Twitter location field.
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The Twitter Conversational Index And The Twitter...
A few weeks ago I wrote about the The Twitterized Conversational Index. I am updating the formula, based on helpful observations from many that the number should increase as there is more conversation, so here it is, inverted:
Boyd’s Twitter Conversational Index = (number of tweets / number of replies made by followers)
Louis Gray suggests that a Twitter Noise Ratio is interesting:
...
The Master Of Disaster
stowe boyd in the blogger lounge, originally uploaded by jacob_morgan08.
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Information overload in the web era « The Equity Kicker
“To borrow a concept from Stowe Boyd the best way to think about all the feeds and news and status updates is as a river of news. You look at it when you can and sample what is going past at that moment. You don’t worry about missing stuff - if it is important people will write about it again and you will pick up on it the...
Getting Sociality Wrong: We
So I am strongly in agreement with the goals of We: solving global warming. And I would like to see them harness the energies of the edglings: we, the denizens of the web. But I think they are doing it all wrong, or mostly wrong.
They have a website where you can register, sign a petition, and so on. I guess I did that some time ago. But that’s about it. Oh, I guess you could donate...
This Message Will Self Destruct in 5 Seconds (But...
I just can’t wrap my head around a product like this:
BigString IM users can send instant messages (IMs) that self-destruct after being sent. Additionally, IMs sent via BigString’s service cannot be copied, logged or screen-printed.
BigString IM is a free advertising supported service available at http://www.bigstring.com. It is available as a web version or as a free...
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Microblogging, Losing the Conversation and Watching it Explode! | Jacob Morgan’s Marketing Ideas and Rants
Jacob Morgan got the idea at the Short Attention Span Theater where we debuted Front Channel
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: front channel, shirt attention span theater, twitter, micropresentation
Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing
Jeremiah says “While...
SharaKarasic Twitter Stream For Short Attention...
SharaKarasic live twittered the Short Attention Span Theater yesterday, where I was one of a group — Jeremiah Owyang, Brian Solis, Greg Narain, and me — that was addressing the growth and future of micromedia, and she @replied various comments I made:
@stoweboyd: microblogging is fracturing the blogosphere. discussion moving off blogs, to twitter, friendfeed, etc. #web20expo...
Do Political leaders need communityevangelists?
It must seem like a small thing to the folks at John Edwards now-mothballed campaign for the Democratic nomination, but it pains me that the staff, and John Edwards, simply dropped out of the Twitterverse without even a parting goodbye.
‘His’ last post from five months ago (I put ‘his’ in quotes, since he probably was a proxy, sock puppet, phoney-baloney, old...
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Amateur Hour Over At Twitter?
Blaine Cook is out as Chief Architect at Twitter, and a bunch of scaling experts have joined the company. I wish they’d done it a few months ago.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: blaine cook, twitter, ruby on rails, scaling
Web 2.Oh…really?
Craig Stoltz wonders — with me — about candidates’ long term commitment to social media.
Rating: ★...
From TwitPitches toTwitQuiries
My Twitpitch idea has caught some attention, especially Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb:
[from Twitpitch: The Elevator Pitch Hits Twitter]
Twitpitch. We love it. It’s brilliant. It’s social media put to work. We hope it catches on.
And just to show why it’s a good idea, on a personal level, here’s just one of the email pitches I got today, one of like 30:
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Enterprise 2.0: Launch Pad
I have been working with the folks at the Enterprise 2.0 conference on this summer’s E2 Launchpad. We are going with an ‘American Idol’ style approach this year, and opening up the launchpad to anyone with an idea, a mockup, or a product ready to go to market. We are relying on the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ to help us pick the most interesting and innovative product...
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Technotheory.com - Avoiding the online popularity contest to seek a deeper connection
Jared Goralnick offers some insights about deep connection: is it an illusion to be deeply connected online. I don’t buy all of this, but good questions.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: jared goralnick, online involvement, social media, continuous partial friendships
Twitpitch: The Elevator Pitch Hits Twitter...
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Labour movement | Economist.com
“James Ware, a co-founder of the Work Design Collaborative, a small think-tank, says that nomadic work styles are fast becoming the norm for “knowledge workers”. His research shows that in America such people spend less than a third of their working time in traditional corporate offices, about a third in their home offices and the remaining third ...
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The Future OS: The Web of Flow
Recent grumping about the archaic quality of Windows (see From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user’s conversion to Mac OS X: Page 1, and Gartner: Windows is “Collapsing” | Advice and Opinion) relative to Macintosh. I chimed in the other day (see /Message: Gartner Disses Windows, But Where’s The Breakthrough OS?), making a weak case for a new approach to the idea of OS.
The Web...
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Join The Web Content Conservation Movement - Publishing 2.0
Scott Karp suggests that we need to pare down on the amount of stuff we create online, as a means of making filtering easier for others. It’s like conservation: less pollution to begin with is better than cleaning it all up. Except it’s a failed metaphor, and no one will buy in.
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Tags: scott karp,...
Clear Card
I received my Clear card in the mail a week or so ago. This is the expedited security check service at US airports, based on submitting to a background check and being biometrically profiled: turns out my eyes are too shifty to be retina-scanned (or the machine was on the fritz), but fingerprints worked alright.
The other day, I showed up at Dulles with my Clear smartcard. The line is on the...
Location, Location, Location: Brightkite and...
I have always been interested in location-based applications, or geoloco, as I call them. There’s some new things brewing in that front.
Brightkite
Brightkite is the newest, and perhaps most handsome, entrant in the geoloco space where Dodgeball and Meetro have been playing for some time. Britekite allows me to indicate where I am, geographically, and to publish that information to my...
Twitpitch: ThoughtFarmer
Chris McGrath: ThoughtFarmer is a wikified intranet for intranet haters.
about 2d ago via web in reply to stoweboyd
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No 10 goes digital with a spot of Twittery-pokery The Guardian
The UK PM is twittering (or his staff): “Interesting, too, was what other Twitterers were twittering in about: “Does Gordon Brown know what Twitter is? Just wondering)” asked one sceptic. “Yes he does. He knows exactly what’s going on …!” came the rapid response from ...
Yahoo Messenger For Mac: At Long Last... And Time...
Yahoo has finally released a Mac version of it’s Messenger client that support voice. I reported in Yahoo Messenger Mac 3.0 Beta: Still No Voice!? back in September of 2007:
Emoticons, schemoticons! Voice is the thing that everyone is waiting for and expecting (see Yahoo! Messenger 3.0 beta 2 for Mac finally hits the streets).
This is the development group that stated at a briefing over...
Barcelona Calling!
I spent a week in Barcelona a few weeks ago, at the World Mobile Congress, a time when the city was awash in foreigners (like me), so I didn’t really get a chance to learn much about the tech scene there.
The good news is Barcelona’s tech scene, or part of it, is coming to viisit us, here in San Francisco:
[from Barcelona Tech Bridge To Silicon Valley]
When: 4/28, 7 p.m. Where:...
Andrew Baron Backs Off From Twitter Pharming Stunt
I have been following Andrew Baron’s Twitter auction stunt closely (see Can You Sell A Twitter Account?), partly because I know and sort of like Andrew, and partly because the selling of a Twitter account seems so bogus. At it’s best, it’s a stunt, and at it’s worst its social pharming: where someone is being paid for accumulating contacts in Twitter, like points in...
Twitpitch: Elastra
kwatson49 @stoweboyd Elastra enables companies to launch clustered database applications on-demand (i.e. Amazon Web Services).
about 1d ago in reply to stoweboyd
Twitpitch: Suggestionbox.com
BJ @stoweboyd SuggestionBox.com - feedback management platform meets community collaboration with a business model ;)
about 2d ago in reply to stoweboyd
Twitpitch: Profy
Svetlana Gladkova Profy @stoweboyd Profy is a new blogging platform focused on social aspects of blogging and providing a blogger with all the tools in one place
about 2d ago in reply to stoweboyd
Twitpitch: OpenACircle
jkatt @stoweboyd See OpenACircle at W2X 10:30am Tue: Facebook + WebEx + Skype + free + killer video = Collabotool for the rest of us. Coming?
10:30 AM April 16, 2008 from web in reply to stoweboyd
Twitpitch: Zude
MKraft @stoweboyd #twitpitch: #zude is a social computing platform. Users drag&drop, build media-rich websites. Mashup whole web. Big News @ Expo
Matthew Kraft about 2d ago in reply to stoweboyd
Twitpitch: Evernote
LeonoraMS @stoweboyd Evernote is your external brain: http://13423.moorl.com/
10:37 AM April 15, 2008 from web in reply to stoweboyd
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Introducing Zoho ‘Affordable’ CRM - Enterprise Edition
“The key enhancement is the introduction of the Role-based Security Administration which makes it easier for managing the access permissions of users in an organization with multiple levels of hierarchy.”
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: zoho, crm, enterprise 2.0
Pirelli calendar - Los Angeles Times
Cool photo gallery, and not a...
Demien Entrekin
Networks don’t have people. People have networks.
[pointer Christopher Carfi]
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Twitter: Friends for Sale
Heather Green mainstreams the fooforaw that Andrew Baron stirred up. Like the stunt itself, there is no real conclusion. I’m sad that my ‘social pharming’ term didn’t get picked up. Grrr.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: heather green, businessweek, andrew baron, twitter, social pharming
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Web 2.0 Twitpitch Schedule - Updated 15 Apr 5pm ET
The Twitpitch experiment is going well. Since this morning, when I posted Web 2.0 Expo Meeting Scheduling: Twitpitch Me! I have received a barrage of twitpitches, and I have set up a few meetings already, with Zude, Profy, Evernote, and SuggestionBox.com:
iCal, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
I have also lost a slot to a conflict with another non-Web 2.0 Expo telcon.
Kudos to Katie Watson...
ReadBurner
Readburner has debuted, and it appears to be a competitor to services like Friendfeed.
The tabs at the upper right allow the user to toggle between the user’s account at Google Reader, and a stream of the shared materials from that, integrated with a comments capability derived from Disqus, the blog commenting solution.
I haven’t determined yet if the Disqus integration means...
Amanda Mooney on The New Resume
[from Twitter/AmandaMooney]
The new resume is 140 characters or less
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Web 2.0 Expo Meeting Scheduling: Twitpitch Me!
[update: 15 Apr 5pm — see Web 2.0 Twitpitch Schedule - Updated 15 Apr 5pm ET for updated schedule and available slots.]
I can’t believe what a pain in the ass it still is to do something as basic as trying to schedule meetings with startups at a conference. The solution is probably to hire a PR firm to do it, since they seem so incredibly avid in their relentless pursuit in...
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Gmail Redesigned (by Globex Designs) | userstyles.org
I like the idea of a new UI for Gmail, but I can’t switch to this yet because it doesn’t support the Remember The Milk extensions I am slavishly addicted to.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: remember the milk, gmail redesigned, gmail
The Digital Funes the Memorious - Bokardo
Joshua demonstrates his classical education by comparing...
Friedrich Nietzsche
Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.
Leisa Reichelt on Ambient Exposure
Link: disambiguity - � Ambient Exposure.
All of these changes in the past year have gotten me to thinking about something that I’m going to call Ambient Exposure. Exposure in terms of disclosing information of course, but also exposure in the way that a trader might think of it - a vulnerability, a risk associated with taking a position that could, potentially, result in loss or harm.
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