Social Software

It's A Blog World After All

An article from Fast Company. Blogs were once the domain of angst-ridden teens and doomed presidential candidates. But the likes of Verizon, IBM, Microsoft, and Dr. Pepper are all climbing on the blogwagon. Turns out, Web logs are a nifty knowledge-management tool. And companies also see them as a promising medium for advertising (naturally). To me the big breakthrough about ...

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Toothing

A few months ago I mentioned TunA, a Bluetooth enabled MP3 player that allows users in close proximity to trade songs via the Bluetooth radio frequency. I also suggested that this technology could become a hot way to meet people in dense populated areas such as subways and conferences. Both of these bold predictions came true. In Great Brittan people ...

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Google algorithms / funny outcomes / ACS IM

Another TypePad author’s blog references a funny event, and a sad truth about Google. It is clear that the author wrote a piece on IM’s that automatically answer questions, and a young girl thought he was a sort of IM encyclopedia. Interesting concept through … if would arm the ACS National call center with IM capabilities it could open up ...

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IM / SNS/ and Corporate Intranets

A short bit on this website illuminates the fact that Dave Pollard is giving a two week long dialogue on the value of the corporate intranet when there is so much free software to facilitate connectivity. There must be something about the corporate intranet that so advanced above any of the free and common systems to perpetuate it. Can all ...

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