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“And would somebody like to guess what the first English word of every kid in that picture is? Yes. Exactly. It’s Google. That’s their first English word. ”
At the end of 2007, the worldwide production of [normal] laptops, worldwide, every company that makes something that even approximates a laptop, was 47 million. [For the Laptop […]
Brad Neuberg just announced:
HyperScope is a high-performance thought processor that enables you to navigate, view, and link to documents in sophisticated ways. It’s the brainchild of Doug Engelbart, the inventor of hypertext and the mouse, and is the first step towards his larger vision for an Open HyperdocumentSystem.
Hyperscope mocks up the vision of Paper Airplane […]
(than the real one)
Bringing online what other’s have observed in the past (in addition to what’s available in the here-and-now), and extending one’s reasoning into the knowledge of others (in addition to what one knows themselves) is a key value-add of participating in an online community. Clues from eBay reputation scores or from http://www.ratemds.com (where […]
Innovators & Influencers: From Web 2.0 To Enterprise 2.0 (Digg) http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196602773
Lots of CIOs pay lip service to Enterprise 2.0, the sometimes esoteric movement toward using consumer technologies like blogs and wikis to create a more collaborative business environment. JP Rangaswami not only is driving those Web processes internally as CIO of BT Global Services, but […]
I’m off to IBM at Yonge & Steels tomorrow from 2pm till 6pm to give feedback on an IBM Middleware product. I am under contractual obligation to not reveal product details, which at present is not a problem as I don’t know any! I suspect it’ll be beta testing for a newer version of IBM […]
In Tech Boom 2.0: Boom but no bubble?, I highlighted the collaboration centricity of new investments:
A new emphasis on social networking and connecting people, rather than e-commerce, which consumers did not trust in 2000.
Given the dismal failure of so many KM implementations - which were often poorly thought-out and brittle databases - a shift to […]
The Toronto Star carried “Tech bubble 2.0: vive la différence” from DAN FOST of the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE today:
“I absolutely think we’re in a bubble, but the bubble we’re in is very different,” said Joe Kraus, Chief Executive Officer of JotSpot, a Web 2.0 [Wiki] company that provides software that businesspeople use for collaboration.
“A huge […]
Dave Pollard remarked in his weekly roundup:
See How Patients Rate Doctors: It’s brand new, but this site allowing North American patients to rate their physicians has great promise. It will be interesting to see if the AMA/CMA try to shut it down. Thanks to my work colleague Carolyn Lonsdale for this link and the one […]
Just to amplify Ajaxian’s report:
Spokeo: Meta Social Networking
Category: Showcase, Rails
Spokeo combines your friends from MySpace, LiveJournal, Flickr, Youtube, … and 20 other social networks into one destination. It’s like Trillian for social networks.
The site was developed in Ruby-on-Rails by some Stamford students, and is their first ever web application.
Technorati : Social […]
Ian Delany in http://twopointouch.com/2006/12/07/blogging-asia/ offers this insight into the huge variation between adoption of blogging in Asia vs. the Western World:
Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report shows that blogging is already a significant force in Asia. [I] haven’t been able to find the original report online, but I’ve been able to piece together the following […]
