Post(s) tagged with "ºº"

Insync: A Google Docs-Loving Dropbox Rival ⇢

Builds a Dropbox-like syncing folder on your desktop connected to your Google Docs account.

I bet Google buys them this year.

4 August 2012 11 Permalink
googlegoogle+docsinsyncdropboxfiles+sharingºº
In Defense of Friction « Social Media Collective ⇢

The Trust Paradox: Assurance structures designed to make interpersonal trust possible in uncertain environments undermine the need for trust in the first place.

Coye Cheshire from Online Trust, Trustworthiness, or Assurance? http://bit.ly/Pu3SAg

4 August 2012 2 Permalink
privacypublicyfacebookcoye+cheshireºº
The Best CityReads of 2011 - Neighborhoods - The Atlantic Cities ⇢

A selection of 10 non-Atlantic long pieces on cities, all great reads.

4 August 2012 1 Permalink
citiesurbanismººº
A hack for searching for tweets by date, with help from Google Spreadsheets @ NixonMcInnes: Social media goodness. Translated. Created. Delivered. ⇢

Very clever hack by Steven Winton of NixonMcInnes to get around dropped search functionality in Twitter search, using Google Spreadsheets.

4 August 2012 2 Permalink
ººtwitterhackgoogle+docssearch
Internet Providers Testing Metered Plans for Broadband - NYTimes.com ⇢

Cable providers starting to act like cell phone networks: metering bandwidth and usage. What will the Justice department do?

26 June 2012 10 Permalink
tvbroadbandmeteringºº
Insync: A Google Docs-Loving Dropbox Rival ⇢

Builds a Dropbox-like syncing folder on your desktop connected to your Google Docs account.

I bet Google buys them this year.

1 January 2012 10 Permalink
googlegoogle+docsinsyncdropboxfiles+sharingºº
The Best CityReads of 2011 - Neighborhoods - The Atlantic Cities ⇢

A selection of 10 non-Atlantic long pieces on cities, all great reads.

26 December 2011 1 Permalink
citiesurbanismººº
A hack for searching for tweets by date, with help from Google Spreadsheets @ NixonMcInnes: Social media goodness. Translated. Created. Delivered. ⇢

Very clever hack by Steven Winton of NixonMcInnes to get around dropped search functionality in Twitter search, using Google Spreadsheets.

1 December 2011 51 Permalink
ººtwitterhackgoogle+docssearch

About

Web anthropologist, futurist, author. My focus is the future, and the tectonic forces pushing business, media, and society into an unclear and accelerating future. (More.)

Working on longer format projects, Sign up for the newsletter.

GigaOM Research analyst and curator.



Also writing beaconstreets.com.

Contact me. or ask me a question.



My Vizify profile.

Socialogy

  • Brian Solis | Brian and I debunk big data, and Brian makes the case for empathy.

  • Deb Lavoy | Deb is dubious about management's inclinations, and says, 'Just because you are networked doesn’t mean it necessarily helps you understand, or realize your needs more effectively.'

  • John Hagel | John offers up some great insights, like the fact that passion is lower the larger that businesses get.

  • Euan Semple | A chat with my old pal, and the author of Organizations Don't Tweet, People Do

  • Will McInnes | The author of Culture Shock and managing director of Nixon/McInnes

  • Jennifer Magnolfi | An interview with the woman who said, 'Work is not a place you go, it's a thing you do'.

    • Hot Now

  • What Drives Us? | A draft chapter of my book, discussing motivations, Maslow's hierarchy, and fluidarity.

  • Socialogy: Interview With John Hagel | I Speak with Joh Hagel about the innovation at the edge.

  • Complex organisation arises from webs of interaction among causal factors | So, it turns out that DNA is, in fact, a great metaphor for business culture, but only after you realize that DNA is not a few hundred off-on switches, but instead a universe of unknowable complexities, that we can interact with, and understand at some abstract cartoonish level, but not control, and never fully comprehend.

  • Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last Safe Haven | Paul Ford

  • Innovators Get Better With Age | Companies make a mistake by relying too much on the innoations of the young, because Nobel laureats don't come into their prime until their 50s.

    • Oldie

  • Infodemics | 2009 | Passing incomplete or inaccurate information about some risk event can make people take actions that increase the damage of the event itself.

    • Lynx theme created by Andrew Stichbury for Tumblr.