Who’s in Your Gang?
I had a weird brain wave crossing with Robert Scoble last week.
Basically, I’ve been trying to find value in FourSquare, the hot new web app on the block, that launched this Spring at SXSW, where any self-respecting hot web app gets its initial hotness.
If you care, FourSquare seems like it might be interesting. It’s a [...]
Oracle on Twitter
Even as we debate the ongoing utility of Twitter and other social tools, there are still ways to get good information from social sites.
One easy way to cut through the noise is to use your personal network for recommendations. Assuming you consider this blog a trusted source, I have a couple recommendations for you.
Tim (@planspark) wrote [...]
An Interesting Trust Experiment Begins
I’ve been yammering on about trust as the key component to encouraging participation in online communities for a couple weeks.
Today, Facebook opened its walls to allow search engines to index anything you publish, meaning the layer of trust can be removed, and all your updates *could* be released into the wild.
The change has been rolled [...]
Implications of the 90-9-1 Rule
Last week’s post on the 90-9-1 rule was pretty popular. It bounced around Twitter and FriendFeed, and thankfully, Disqus’ Reactions feature allowed me to track comments on it.
So, like any good blogger, I’m going where the traffic is.
The 90-9-1 rule interests me for a number of reasons beyond the obvious applications it has to driving [...]
11g Doc Makeover: Part 2
About a month ago, I blogged about the 11g R1 documentation’s Easter Egg feature, comments. At the time, I recall thinking this was a great, easy way to engage people, but wondered if anyone would a) comment or b) reply to comments.
Color me surprised. Today, Steeve Bisson blogged about comments he made to the [...]
Trust No/Every One
A couple recent nuggets reminded me of Paul’s post on trust and underlined the reasons why Web 2.0 can never be Enterprise 2.0. With Connect, we’ve come upon a new (at least to us) dimension of the social network, i.e. the explicit trust created by working together. Paul says:
When we inject trust into the equation. [...]
Why Bans Don’t Work
Effectively immediately, nothing will be banned.
The Summer of Facebook has brought a new list of social network (sorry Mark, social utility) bans, as well as some fuzzy research on the cost of social networking. Some interesting points:
Does anyone really believe that Facebook alone costs the Australian economy $5 billion?
The Sophos study says that 43% of [...]
Why Social Networks Don’t Work for Business
Web 2.0 seems to get all the press these days. I kinda feel sorry for its less popular stepchild known as Enterprise 2.0. It smacks of some suit trying so hard to be cool and hip, but alas, we all know that enterprise software will never be the coolest thing around. [...]
