Fun Social Recommendation Site Likaholix
Image by Likaholix via CrunchBase I have been playing with Likaholix for the last week, and have ended up really enjoying the web site and the potential that it creates for people to share the things they do like. This is so much better than Yelp, and without all the drama that Yelp represents. Quite [...]
The new PR A List via Traackr
Traackr has come out with a new “A List” of personalities on the internet for public relations. There are a number of people missing from the list as there always is from lists like this. Moreover, lists like this always generate controversy much like the list I did a year ago, and the aftermath of [...]
How to Crash a Party, or Do Not Send a URL and Password Through Twitter
Hey everyone, guess who is having a party at their house! Well everyone in the whole world knows at this point if you have been following people on Twitter. One of the basic rules of social networking is always work to keep yourself safe. If you post a link and a password to a protected [...]
Facebook Hacked for Real This Time
Control your info has taken administrative rights to hundreds of groups on Facebook this morning – which is going to prompt a stampede of fear across the Facebook landscape. Looking at the security of social networking – this is going to be a bad day for many groups on Facebook. The group Control your Info [...]
Causes Leaves MySpace for FaceBook
Causes is a social networking donation platform that uses MySpace so that people can raise money for causes or issues that they believe in. Generally these kinds of activities help provide a community around issues like Breast Cancer, or stop smoking, or other issues that are part of our daily life. Causes is an excellent [...]
Struggling with Facebook Noise to Signal Ratio
In general, social networks can be a good thing; the only problem is when the noise level becomes too high to have any meaning when it comes to sharing information. Over the last few months, Facebook games have exploded as Farmville and Mafia Wars get more and more players. The only problem with this is [...]
Note to Conference Organizers: Keep in Touch With People
Image via Wikipedia Over a number of conferences I have been at lately, one of the hallmarks of all of them was what could I do for them rather than what I would learn from the conference. Once the marketing folks realized that I would not provide them with anything, it is like we no [...]
The Lego Internet
Jessie Stay over at Staynalive brings up the idea of the Lego internet, where large companies are busy making widgets, API’s and other building blocks that designers and developers can leverage in their own applications. Jessie mentions that the Building Block internet might just be a way to visualize Web 3.0 which is not a [...]
Why Is It So Hard to Innovate in Online Education?
With the number of totally cool tools that Schools can use, why are we still waiting for online education to move past blackboard and other systems that are essentially static, unfriendly to social connections, and in general, just unfriendly. The online educational experience can be cold, disjointed and sterile, but it does not have to [...]
100,000 Lucky Google Wave Beta Testers
Google is rolling out Google Wave today, and while it is unlikely that I’ll get an invite, I can still be remarkably interested in what could be a product that will solve some of the problems that I see in how to develop smaller communities of interests around colleges, friends, and others that are a [...]
Another Downside to Twitter – Any Cute Guys Out There?
We recently put one of my established companies on twitter and selected some very good people to follow based on what we were doing and what the vertical for that company is and what we are about. The interesting part to this is that we put this up on Sunday, and here it is some [...]
Pbworks Adds Social Component To Their Project and Legal Editions
In June this year, Pbworks (formerly known as Pbwiki) launched the Project Edition, an integration of project management tools with the traditional wiki. This edition was directed towards freelance consultants, advertising firms, design firms, etc. in such a way that the project management becomes an organic outgrowth of the real work done by these businesses. [...]
FriendFeed Bounces Off Lows, Comes Back Stronger than Ever
Earlier about a month ago I wrote about what happens when a company got bought out by Facebook, namely FriendFeed. People invest a lot of time in social networks and when a social network gets bought out that sets up a level of uncertainty that the company will still be around later on. FriendFeed is [...]
Intranet Collaborative Networks – Adaptive Enterprise 2.0
The bigger a company the slower product cycles become. As a result, companies tend to become less innovative and less adaptive when consumer interests change. Feedback loops for continuance assessment are less frequent due to geographic constraints and locating the right expert at the right time. When things change, you need a collaborative intranet that [...]
Gist: Connection Dashboard for Your Life
This is something I have been looking forward to, and I’ll be down at the Gist offices on Friday the 17th taking a look around and doing a general interview with them. In preparation for the interview, I got a beta account with Gist and have tied it into almost a life stream dashboard of [...]
