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April 2008 Archives
links for 2008-04-29
Dummies guide to LDAP and Confluence (tags: confluence ldap howto) A VC: Is "Social Enterprise Software" An Oxymoron? (tags: enterprise socialsoftware socialcomputing) AV Launches Another Rollup Fund: $50 Million For Corp. Social Networking, With Dachis | paidContent.org (tags: vc... read full post
links for 2008-04-28
My Social Media Consumption Workflow - louisgray.com "I've been thinking a bit about how I consume social media, and specifically, the order of how I do it, to be sure I've caught up on everything quickly." (tags: socialmedia consumption... read full post
"We Think..."
Last week, Keith (my colleague) and I went along to the RSA to listen to Charles Leadbeater talk about his book "We Think", research and thoughts on the web and the web's effect on mass creativity, innovation and collaboration. He... read full post
links for 2008-04-27
Politics and the Web (tags: politics web internet events conferences)... read full post
links for 2008-04-26
Social Media still on rise: Comparative global study (tags: socialmedia international research stats socialnetworks) Phil Gyford: UTF8, MySQL, Perl and PHP (tags: utf8 international encoding blogs) Anatomy Of A Twitter Bot (tags: twitter) Tim O'Reilly: Tackle Big, Hard Problems... read full post
links for 2008-04-25
Wesabe Steps Out | Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing (tags: wesabe finance crowdsourcing) Backlash starts against 'sexy' databases | Reg Developer (tags: rdbms database) Lightweight Structures for Social... read full post
Open Data Alert! ICTY Archive Must be Open to All
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has left behind a digital archive of immense importance to the future of human rights protection and education. Unless we act now, it may remain closed in the future, but if we can open source the data then future generations will be able to remix and re-analyse one of the Twentieth Century's most important historical archives. read full post
links for 2008-04-24
Enlightened tradition (tags: legal, knowledgemanagement) Peace Dividend: Unspoiled Hiking in the Balkans - New York Times (tags: green greenvisions bosnia travel)... read full post
links for 2008-04-23
The Ozzie Memo: Software is Dead, Long Live the Web (tags: microsoft cloud saas) IT's Not about the Technology - Tom Austin - Web 2.0 | Fast Company (tags: business enterprise anthropology people) E 2.0 is the new KM... read full post
Big companies use the cloud to innovate
Photo sharing service SmugMug received much attention when they published their business case for using Amazon's S3 storage service. The 2002 startup describes how the service saves them between half a million to a million USD per year. At Headshift,... read full post
links for 2008-04-22
Laurent Haug's blog » Blog Archive » Elements of Sustainable Companies (tags: business products) OpenID getting more usable, a tiny bit at a time | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone (tags: openid identity) Upcoming.org Founder Creates Fireball... read full post
Six Apart adds ads and services
Six Apart have announced some interesting new areas of business for their blogging platform, with more to come... read full post
links for 2008-04-21
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Twitter explained: Boilerplate (tags: twitter) Why is Ruby on Rails so darn slow? | Reg Developer (tags: ror ruby development) Sources: Microsoft Signs Letter Of Intent To Acquire Xobni (tags: microsoft xobni outlook... read full post
Beyond recent changes: Socialtext 3.0
Socialtext has announced version 3.0 of their wiki platform. Two major new features are personal dashboards and dynamic people profiles. These are examples of how consumer internet technology continues to migrate to the enterprise and both help bring the promise... read full post
Twitter scepticism: justified or not?
Am I right to have a slightly sceptical view of the value of Twitter to most people? Maybe I should give it a try... read full post
links for 2008-04-20
Getting Rid of Facebook for Employees May Carry as Many Risks as Retaining It "...But if companies deny access to Facebook, they may find that themselves unable to recruit younger employees, who view a Facebook ban as a "betrayal... read full post
links for 2008-04-18
The Atlassian Blog - Confluence 2.8 Gets a Facelift! (tags: confluence wiki) Seven wiki adoption techniques for the enterprise - smalls blogger (tags: wiki adoption) SocialText Putting A Little Social Into...Enterprise Wikis (tags: socialtext wiki) prediction markets crowd intelligence... read full post
100 Big Green Challengers announced
Today, NESTA announced the next stage of the Big Green Challenge competition. From the pool of 359 entrants, 100 competitors were selected. The 100 will supply more details about their projects for the judges to peruse. Ten of the projects... read full post
links for 2008-04-17
IBM Launches Pilot Program for Migrating to Macs -- RoughlyDrafted Magazine (tags: ibm enterprise mac desktop) Gadgets at Work: The Blurring Boundary between Consumer and Corporate Technologies - Knowledge@Wharton The common thread: The boundaries between corporate and consumer technologies... read full post
links for 2008-04-16
Engineers without Fears: collaboration tools: stags I've been thinking about different collaboration tools for various groups recently and I was pondering on some of the different factors you need to consider and I came up with this (tags: collaboration... read full post
links for 2008-04-15
Wiki pinpoints Brazilian crime An interesting use of wikis in Brazil, collaboratively recording where crimes take place. (tags: wiki crime brazil collaboration community) Fear Sells 2.0 (tags: fear fud enterprise security) Oh Wow! Persistent Storage for Amazon EC2 Announced... read full post
Simple, commodity tools for public consultation
Good example of a simple, cheap consultation web site from Ofcom read full post
links for 2008-04-14
TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » With Highfield gone, the BBC must now open up (tags: bbc media video) Costs of the BBC Action Action Network « Socialreporter (tags: bbc community eseach stats) IBM Lotus Connections, in plain English... read full post
links for 2008-04-13
A Banana (tags: wiki deployment adoption enterprise) MTOS Project Updates (tags: mt 6a blogging software oss) Reuters Open Calais Update: Apps Progress, Interview (tags: reuters semweb api) Accumulators come to MT (tags: 6a mt feeds activityfeeds rss) E L... read full post
links for 2008-04-12
TED | Speakers | Johnny Lee (tags: hci video wii 3d) Retrospective on KM and the Impact of Web 2.0 (tags: km knowledge socialtools) 3 Half-Truths about SaaS (tags: saas enterprise software) Managing the Zoo (tags: headshift zoo enterprise... read full post
links for 2008-04-11
Windows "Collapsing" - 2011 Tipping Point For Web Apps In The Enterprise (tags: windows microsoft gartner research) Coffee Warming Warning at Chaos'n'Coffee 4′33″ (tags: headshift coffee) enterprisesocialgraph - Google Code (tags: enterprise socialsearch google) 5 Reasons to Say Yes... read full post
links for 2008-04-10
Author Nicholson Baker on his advanced Wikipedia dependency | Technology | The Guardian (tags: wikipedia wiki culture) A Guide to Business Development 2.0 - ReadWriteWeb (tags: bizdev web2.0) Green Thing in a box! (tags: greenthing csr enterprise)... read full post
links for 2008-04-09
Portals and KM: How Barack Obama is Using Web and Enterprise 2.0 in the US Primary Campaign Through Central Desktop There has been a lot written on the organizational strength of the Barrack Obama campaign. Part of this comes... read full post
links for 2008-04-08
Harvest On Twitter - A Future Twitter Business Model? (tags: harvest data twitter) The Baffling Thing About HuddleChat (tags: google 37signals) Morgan Stanley - Institutional Services (tags: morganstanley research presentations internet) We Can Solve It (just not particularly creatively)... read full post
Morgan Stanley - Internet Trends
useful research summary from Morgan Stanley read full post
links for 2008-04-07
What Newspapers and Journalism Need Now: Experimentation, Not Nostalgia -Britannica Blog (tags: media journalism future) NYT on the Iranian Blogosphere (tags: iran blogs politics)... read full post
links for 2008-04-06
NY Times covers bloggorrhea sufferers (tags: blogging economics attention) Selective Sociality and Social Villages :: Personal InfoCloud (tags: socialnetworks community) Web.Start, Zagreb, Croatia | May 8-9, 2008 (tags: events conferences croatia) Eric Von Hippel: Horizontal Innovation Networks (tags: innovation... read full post
links for 2008-04-05
Chaos, Complexity, and Inference (36-462): Lecture Notes (tags: complexity chaos references) Clay Shirky on Colbert - Boing Boing (tags: shirky video) Bubble 2.0: The bubble to end all bubbles? (tags: vc bubble) webcameron: David's Diary (tags: oss nesta politics)... read full post
links for 2008-04-04
The Ideal Government Project Picked up by the IdealGov concealed microphones at a recent CIO meeting, spoken (it would seem) by the senior responsible officer for spending £25m a year of taxpayers' money on NHS Choices "You should see... read full post
links for 2008-04-03
SpringerLink - Journal Article - Communication Spaces (tags: communication spaces conversation) Social Media Influence: Social Media Influence Conference - June 4, 2008 (tags: events conferences london socialmedia) Corporate Wikis Go Viral (tags: nokia drkw casestudies) A Widget That Tracks... read full post
Social Media Influence Conference - June 4, 2008
Social media Influence looks like being one of the better London-based events this year read full post
links for 2008-04-02
Me hate? Maybe..... « Samaha (tags: bosnia) Loic Le Meur Blog: If the news is important it will find me: my social map (Seesmic du jour 115) (tags: socialnetworks aggregation lifestreaming information feeds) Blasting the Myth of the Fold... read full post
links for 2008-04-01
Legal Technology - Green Law Firms Are Where It's At (tags: green law legal) Enter the socialprise | Software as Services | ZDNet.com (tags: socialcomputing enterprise) BBC trails their version of networked journalism « Socialreporter (tags: bbc engagement networks... read full post
links for 2008-03-31
Why is taking photographs not allowed in Spitalfields Market? (tags: photos london ip legal) Public Libraries Toolkit (tags: law legal library) Civic revolutionaries (tags: civic city)... read full post
