The debate about whether FeedBurner’s inclusion of FriendFeed subscribers is a good or bad thing has me thinking how to determine a person’s reputation and influence.
As I keep saying, trust is the key component to New Web. Without trust, it’s difficult to build a community around anything.
Reputation and influence are the next big things in [...]
I saw this post about how to provoke an argument with a geek from Wired on Digg, just as I was formulating this post about the escalating browser wars.
Good timing, since debating which browser is best will undoubtedly start an argument.
Anyway, the release of a developer version of Chrome for the Mac has definitely got [...]
As promised, Rich’s session from Google I/O has been posted, and I’ve embedded here for your viewing pleasure.
It’s a panel so, if you don’t want to invest the full 60 minutes, you can skip to Rich’s demo, which happens between 13:24 and 20:59.
He gives a quick demo of Connect and shares some OpenSocial gadgets that [...]
Some of the sessions from Google I/O have been posted, including the Wave breakout sessions.
I know one of these conflicted with Rich’s panel session, “OpenSocial in the Enterprise”. Rich was both bummed he had to miss it and worried that after the morning’s rousing keynote, no one would show up for his session.
Although he didn’t [...]
Rich dumped his impressions and thoughts on Google Wave yesterday. Now it’s my turn.
In a weird coincidence, I heard Soundgarden’s “My Wave” earlier today and immediately thought of Friend of the ‘Lab Floyd’s penchant for beginning his posts with song lyrics. Not sure why he’s stopped doing that, it’s a great little calling card for [...]
A quick note, Rich will be presenting at Google I/O this Thursday on a panel called “OpenSocial in the Enterprise“.
He’ll be sharing our experiences with OpenSocial and Connect. Although we haven’t yet released our OpenSocial container, Rich and Anthony have been tinkering with it for over a year and have a sandbox environment we’ve been [...]
Remember when Ask Jeeves launched?
The premise was simple. Instead of munging your search into keywords and hoping for the right result set, all you had to do was ask Jeeves a real question. If you remember that, you’ll also remember that it didn’t work very well.
Google just announced they have indexed public data sets on [...]
I like geolocation.
At first, it seemed pretty creepy, but now, there’s a lot of potential for geo-based features that are both and good for you.
I write about geo-services quite a bit, and I’m a fan of services like Fire Eagle and Shizzow and BrightKite and all the others. They all have one problem for me [...]
I always find it noteworthy when a handful of stories about a single company or service pop up within a day or so.
Usually, none of them alone is all that interesting, but as a collection, they sometimes form a story that I find blogworthy.
This time it’s Google’s Web Search.
Totally weird to see that in print. [...]
The title comes from a phrase that stood out for me in this post from RWW.
That post highlights some really sweet data pr0n (TwitterThoughts and World Twitter Map) built by Yvo Schaap that uses the Twitter API for data, Yahoo Pipes for parsing and the Google Visualization API for producing the eye candy. All these [...]
I have a few friends that were avid users of Ma.gnolia, which was a social bookmarking tool, similar to Delicious.
I had an account there, but never really used the service much. I say similar to Delicious and use the past tense because Ma.gnolia’s database crashed on January 30. They recently announced that all user data [...]
So, yesterday I started making the case for social search as an excellent way to find information locked away within an enterprise, and the ability to get good information from social search pays for investments in social networks.
I didn’t cover much detail though. So, that’s the focus of today’s post.
Social search in my mind doesn’t [...]
When you start talking to an enterprise crowd about social networking, inevitably someone asks for real business benefits, a.k.a. ROI. I know, hard to believe.
When we first started the ‘Lab, Paul used to ask how many people have a Facebook/MySpace/LinkedIn account. Usually less than half the room would raise hands, and that number went way [...]
Back in December, we added the Google Friend Connect widgets.
Since then, our little blog social network has grown to over 100 members. It’s still not entirely clear to me what you’d want to do with Google Friend Connect, other than affiliate yourself with a blog or website. I guess it’s also a way to discover [...]
This post from O’Reilly Radar fascinates me.
It’s about network operations data pr0n. If you know someone who works in network operations, you’re probably familiar with the usage and traffic graphs, the alerting and monitoring and the abrupt nature of the job. One minute you’re having a conversation, then the phone goes off, the laptop comes [...]
While we wait for the semantic web to serve up really targeted and useful ads, I, for one, continue to ignore 99% of the ads presented to me.
But sometimes, they slip through, twice today in fact.
Although they work pretty much all the time, Google Ads have turned up many failures in the past. For example, [...]
Hard to believe, but not everyone seems excited about Google Friend Connect or Facebook Connect or MySpaceID for that matter.
Must be the time of year.
Anyway, I remain excited about GFC because if nothing else, it adds social to any web site, which is something I think appeals to the vast majority of users. I’d love [...]
I can remember back in 2004 how geeked I was when I got my invite to Google’s brand-spanking new web mail, GMail.
As promised, it was a) different (email threads), b) fast (AJAX-fu) and c) big (unlimited quota). You’re all familiar with GMail, right? If not, why not?
Anyway, GMail has been my primary personal inbox for [...]
Ever since the WWW came online, the consumer web has pwned the enterprise web.
The consumer web is the ‘tubes at large, with all its content, bells and whistles, networking, gradients, rounded corners and flashing lights. The enterprise web is the intratubes, erm intranet, inside the corporate firewall, hidden from outsiders and often from insiders.
There no [...]
If you haven’t seen this already, it’s worth a look. If you have, it’s worth another look. Thanks to Mashable for the YouTube version of the video.
A group of developers at Facebook have created this fantastic data visualization of Facebook network data overlaid on a globe. They’re calling it Project Palantir, (an LOTR reference), and [...]
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