It’s Just About the Connections!
Ever feel like, as an industry (or industry analyst), that we make everything seem as complex as possible? I guess it makes sense, the more "technical" or more complex, the more you need us or IT or tech vendors or…
Making Enterprise Applications Social: Looking at the Intranet and OpenSocial
Just in case you’ve been spending time on a deserted island, you might not know that the Web these days has been moving rapidly towards a profoundly more social and interconnected version of itself. It was just over a year…
The 8 Flavors of Social
1. Social built on email and message board traffic. Perhaps Notes started this frolic, or was it IRC? Both still soldier on quietly in their corners while forums won the day. Xobni and others want to go back to the future. 2. Social built on documents. Wikis, in other words. Blogs also get a run […]
Organic Business Networks
I was having a conversation the other day with a colleague about trends that are impacting and driving change in businesses and as often happens lately we ended up on the subject of business networks. When discussing new concepts we have no choice but to apply words that have existing, accepted meanings, even if those […]
What is With Twitter? Google, this is Where You Should Step Up
The ink is hardly dry on yesterday’s post about Twitter’s inability to roll out their new UI faster when I wake up to the news that Twitter has been totally hacked. Not just hacked a little bit. Not just hacked if you do some certain thing. Hacked as in, “Don’t even bring up the site […]
Is Twitter Not Multitenant or What?
So here I am, 5 days after the big announcement, and still no new Twitter UI. We just finished a weekend, which would seem to me like a logical time to roll it out to the remainder of the audience. No joy. WTF, over? Is Twitter not multitenant, or what? I sure they look with […]
Google Instant makes SEO Irrelevant? Who cares?
Steve Rubel makes an the argument that Google Instant will kill SEO because: Here’s what this [Google Instant] means: no two people will see the same web. Once a single search would do the trick – and everyone saw the…
iPad to Get Camera?
Wow. An iPad with a camera would make a sweet augmented reality device. Hold that bad boy up and pan it around so you can really see the AR display on a big screen. Apparently Jobs slipped today and may have inadvertently preannounced this feature. Lately, I’ve been looking at various jobs and asking myself, […]
Monday’s Musings: Why Next Gen Apps Must Improve Existing Activity Streams
Upcoming Data Deluge Threatens The Effectiveness Of Activity Streams Activity streams, best popularized by consumer apps such as Facebook and Twitter, have emerged as the Web 2.0 visualization paradigm that addresses the massive flows of information users face (see Figure 1). As a key element of the dynamic user experiences discussed in the 10 elements […]
Your Own (Almost) Ad-Hoc HotSpot
If you’re a frequent traveler, you’re likely better off buying a MiFi or using your late-model cell-phone’s HotSpot capability than paying those outrageous hotel surcharges. If you’re a frequent conference-goer, you’ve already learned they all fail to provide reliable connection(Web 2.0, LeWeb, Gnomedex, Microsoft PDC, Google I/O, just to name a few recent examples), so […]
