social computing

As I mentioned in my previous post, you can also find these shows by Lee Lefever at his Commoncraft site or on blip.tv.
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Ordinarily I wouldn’t reach back to January for such an extensive post, but I seem somehow to have missed Dion Hinchcliffe’s important set of ideas for SOA architects in the enterprise. I think I missed the post because linking to the post itself — the last one he made in this blog, which he no […]

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Just announced by Radar Networks:
Twine is: “A revolutionary new way to share, organize, and find information. Use Twine to better leverage and contribute to the collective intelligence of your friends, colleagues, groups and teams. Twine ties it all together.”
I’ve requested a beta account and will report more when I know more. Here’s the “home” […]

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How do you see this image?

Is the dancer moving clockwise or counter-clockwise? From the Herald Sun:
Right Brain v Left Brain | Herald Sun
“THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. […]

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I missed these sessions, unfortunately, but they are well-covered by ZDnet’s Dan Ferber:
Supernova 2007: Connected Innovators and Zapmeals by ZDNet’s Dan Farber — It’s rare to see company pitches on stage that actually keep you fully awake. At the Supernova 2007 Conference, in conjunction with Mike Arrington of TechCrunch, 13 companies delivered five-minute pitches […]

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I’m starting to think that we need a new way of thinking about the ‘return’ on new technologies like those comprised by Enterprise 2.0. The traditional metric of “Return on Investment” is really not useful when discussing disruptive steps forward.
The most important ‘returns’ from these new technologies can’t be known in advance, and certainly they […]

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Blogging Andy McAfee’s keynote from the Enterprise 2.0 conference, Joseph Thornley notes that McAfee pushes back on the question of the ROI of Enterprise 2.0:
McAfee cautions against attempting to justify the adoption of the tools solely in terms of ROI. Early estimates are likely to be contentious. He instead suggests that the focus should be […]

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I’m in SF for SuperNova later this week, but I wish I could also be in Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference going on now. Fortunately, the Corante crowd is covering it blogeliciously, with Suw Charman giving us some notes on Andrew McAfee’s talk this a.m.
And, here is Suw reporting on David Weinberger’s keynote from […]

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Interesting article in this morning’s Wall Street Journal — “Social Studies” offers an overview of how companies are incorporating the use, especially, of blogs, wikis and rss, and goes on to hint at coming adoption of social networking and content tagging.
For readers of this blog, there’s not much news here, but coverage like this is […]

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In my last post, I reported on JP Rangaswami’s open email system. By opening his email to his staff, he has essentially created a ‘cost-free’ collaboration forum with no learning curve.
I can easily imagine the value of an email server add-on that would allow anyone to turn any email to which she had access into […]

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