Musings on Relationship Symmetry in the Enterprise
The title sounds pretty highbrow academic. It’s funny to me.
Anyway, I just read that according to ComScore, Twitter grew 131% in March.
Insanity.
That number doesn’t include international or client-based usage. While I read through my feeds today, I got five new follows, all from people I don’t know. Oh, and there’s the whole Aston Kutcher vs. [...]
All Your Comments Are Belong to Us
H/t to Joel Garry for the AYB reference.
As I mentioned when I enabled the new Disqus Social Media Reactions feature earlier this month, comment aggregation is all the rage with bloggers. Commentary and discussion that used to be centered squarely in the comments on a blog can now happen in a bunch of other places [...]
Google Does Geolocation
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 [...]
Disqus Adds Comment Aggregation
I suppose I blog a lot about Disqus because we’ve been using it here for a while. I’ve gone back and forth about whether we should keep it, especially after WordPress introduced threaded comments.
Although I’m not in love with the idea of a) not owning the comments and b) taking a performance hit on every [...]
OpenWorld Call for Papers
Did you catch the announcement yesterday that the OpenWorld 2009 Call for Papers is on like Donkey Kong?
The call lasts until April 19, and it sounds like the Suggest a Session program on Mix will be renewed in June. The OpenWorld blog offers some tips on proposal submission:
Give your paper a clear and concise title.
Create [...]
Feeling Lucky?
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. [...]
Had Enough Twitter Yet?
Twitter is exploding. You’ve probably seen the numbers.
1,382% comparing February 2009 with February 2008. More than 50% from January 2009 to February 2009.
By all measures, that’s an insane growth rate. Mainstream media has taken note, and celebrities (and impostors) are flocking to Twitter in droves. Pun intended. Do you have a favorite celebrity you follow? [...]
I Want VLI
Back in 2006 while on a trip to HQ, I sat in a meeting with some folks from the User Experience (UX) team. I don’t remember exactly what the purpose of the meeting was, but we wandered off topic and were just bouncing ideas off each other.
I threw out the idea of a zero interface, [...]
TweetDeck Adds Facebook, What’s Next?
As is usual during the weeks before and during South by Southwest, there are a lot of product announcements.
I’m not quite sure how/when it happened, but SXSW Interactive has become a nexus of startup activity and geekery, e.g. Twitter’s first bump came when the service won the SXSW Web Awards in 2007.
So, it’s become a [...]
Trying Pivotal Tracker
Last week, Rich proposed that we try Pivotal Tracker for Connect.
Our work on Connect can be loosely described as agile. We generally meet, either in person or on the phone, to hash out major feature releases, and then Rich and Anthony build and deploy. And I test. Every six months or so, we rinse and [...]
Freely Available Utilities
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 [...]
Another Facebook User Revolt is Coming
Today, Facebook previewed changes it plans to make to their site next week. There are quite a few:
A redesigned home page with live updates, filters and a universal publishing model (very much like FriendFeed’s).
One minor change that’s part of the universal publishing box is changing the verbiage “What are you doing right now?” to “What’s [...]
Twitter Break: Unexpected Use Cases, Search
I read a couple Twitter news items today that interested me.
First was an interesting TED talk from Twitter co-founder and CEO, Evan Williams. It’s embedded below, if you’re reading on theappslab. If you’re not, click through and have a look. It’s only eight minutes, so not a major time spend.
The title caught my attention right [...]
What is Blogging to You?
This post on Mashable today about another WordPress plugin that can integrate and surface your FriendFeed and Twitter activity on your blog got me thinking about what a blog means anymore.
Blogging used to be the ultimate form of self-expression (or navel-gazing, depending on your perspective) on the ‘tubes, but now, Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook scratch [...]
More on Social Search
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 [...]
Social Search Wins
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 [...]
Data Visualization Shows Patterns IRL
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 [...]
Now We’re on FriendFeed
Disqus announced an integration with FriendFeed today.
We’ve used Disqus for a while here and were early FriendFeed adopters. I like both services but have struggled to keep up with comments on FriendFeed that apply to posts made here. The FriendFeed plugin was great, but that stopped working a few months ago.
So, the news that Disqus [...]
Posting to Twitter, Take 2
Last week, I started posting tweets to theappslab Twitter account. That didn’t last very long.
The plugin I used stopped working shortly thereafter; initially, I thought it might be a conflict with TweetSuite, which I’ve found to be disappointing so far (and have turned off, for now anyway).
But even with TweetSuite out of the picture, I [...]
Welcome to White House 2.0
The shelf-life of this post is rapidly fading. I would have blogged it sooner, but Paul wanted real work out of me this week.
So, hey we have a new president here in the US of A. I loathe politics. So for the most part, I’ve tried to stay clear of all that ruckus since, I [...]
