
Corporate Disobedience – Operation Chokehold
Well this is interesting from a civil/corporate disobedience viewpoint, and an interesting way of looking at flash mobbing a place/product/service to see what the upward limits are. Fake Steve Jobs has proposed that IPhone users try to bring the AT&T 3G network to its knees and is asking everyone who has an IPhone to launch […]

Crowd Source Your Next Job – Looking for Your Stories
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr Looking for input from readers on how they conduct a job search using social media tools. While I have road tested just about every job tool out there from Monster in 1999 through Dice, Career Builder, Linkedin and other job sourcing tools – the bottom line is that all […]

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 […]

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 […]

Spammers start trying out jokes to sell stuff
Most of us at least look at our spam queues on our systems on a semi-regular basis, what is always interesting is to see the variances in tactics that spammers are using to try to get their stuff into your system. This time it is all about jokes, ones my kids would like. There is […]

Twitter Facebook Fantasy Football and other productivity losses
Just a quick note this morning on the idea of random numbers and productivity losses around the use of social networking, but other sacred cows like Fantasy Football we shrug at. Companies do not generally tend to block access to Fantasy Football sites, but the productivity loss playing the Fantasy Football game can amount to […]

Industry Expert Panel Discussion on Data Privacy
We all have a vested interest in how data and data privacy is enacted by companies, regardless of the environment, cloud, mobile (laptop, cell phones), private Data Center, or anything else that is a combination of the above. Companies have a vested interest in keeping their customers data private and clear of distortion or error. […]

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 […]

I love you Google Wave
My love hate relationship with Google just switched over to love today as I just got my Google Wave account invite today, and am going to spend the rest of the day playing around with this puppy to see if it will work for the school I work at. As we take a look at […]

Crowdsourcing Ideas: Apparently Marijuana Is All California Needs
California has several big issues that need to be tackled. Our state budget seems to perpetually be in deficit mode, with drawn-out battles for resolving the red ink. The education system, once a shining jewel in the world, now produced some of the low test scores in the country. The state infrastructure must be upgraded […]