Poking around the intersection of KM and Social Media
BigBlueBall reached another milestone, passing the 30,000 member mark this afternoon. The BigBlueBall community is centered around the subject of instant messaging and chat. The community has been steadily growing since 2001, providing a reliable resource for instant messaging news, information and support. And the growth rate is accelerating, with an increase in new registrations […]
Yahoo! is really on a roll lately. The company seems to be infused with a double-shot of Web 2.0 espresso. They are acquiring the right companies (Flickr, del.icio.us, Upcoming). They’ve avoided a lot of the negative press that Google has attracted lately. And now, they’ve given web developers access to a rich library of AJAX […]
Amazon is a big online retailer, and I’ve spent untold thousands there since 1998. I still shop there regularly, but had not really paid much attention to what the’ve been doing with their website. Until today, when I noticed a user editably “product wiki” section. I did a little more digging and found they’ve added […]
I’m formerly an AT&T Wireless subscriber with five phone lines. Since starting with them, the were acquired by Cingular, but never really integrated. This became painfully obvious when a couple of the phones (dropped by my college-age kids one-too-many times) stopped working and needed to be replaced. After visit to what used to be the […]
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” -Scott Adams
Yes, Web 2.0 is over-hyped. Yes, talk about another “bubble” is silly. Or is it? Aqeel at BigBlueBall pointed out this story on Wired about a guy who has started a company that will sell rooftop advertising, ostensibly for viewing via Google Earth and Google Maps and other sites with satellite imagery. Colin Fitz-Gerald runs […]
I was reading Flock Radio and came across FactoryJoe’s reference to Dodgeball. Not the game or the movie, but the mobile social software. The idea behind it is that you can connect to your friends, and friends of friends, via your cell phone. You get notified when they are near you so you can meet […]