Archive for May, 2006
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Female-named chat users get 25X more malicious comments
Friday, May 19th, 2006
Filed under: collaboration, Identity 2.0, IM
The University of Maryland has released a new study finding that chat room users with female names receive twenty five times more malicious comments than users registered with typically male or gender ambiguous names. Female usernames, on average, received 163 malicious private messages a day in the study! It appears that the definition of malicious was relatively straight forward, too. Further proof that technology doesn't solve all our social problems (did we need further proof?) even if no one on the internet does know you're a dog.
Found via Nancy White, author of the Full Circle Online Interaction Blog and an expert in IM/chat. Several months ago I interviewed Nancy about international chat strategies and related topics.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Filed under: collaboration, Identity 2.0, IM
The University of Maryland has released a new study finding that chat room users with female names receive twenty five times more malicious comments than users registered with typically male or gender ambiguous names. Female usernames, on average, received 163 malicious private messages a day in the study! It appears that the definition of malicious was relatively straight forward, too. Further proof that technology doesn't solve all our social problems (did we need further proof?) even if no one on the internet does know you're a dog.
Found via Nancy White, author of the Full Circle Online Interaction Blog and an expert in IM/chat. Several months ago I interviewed Nancy about international chat strategies and related topics.
Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | CommentsFound via Nancy White, author of the Full Circle Online Interaction Blog and an expert in IM/chat. Several months ago I interviewed Nancy about international chat strategies and related topics.
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PC shipments to Latin America up 29%, laptops up 76%
Friday, May 19th, 2006
Filed under: collaboration
ITFacts cites a Gartner study finding that "PC shipments to Latin America in Q1 2006 grew a robust 29.5% compared with Q1 2005, with notebook PC shipments growing a solid 76.2%." Sounds like very good news to me. For all the talk of ubiquitous connectivity, much of the world has a long way to go. The more our conversations include people who aren't at least white and middle class the better.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Filed under: collaboration
ITFacts cites a Gartner study finding that "PC shipments to Latin America in Q1 2006 grew a robust 29.5% compared with Q1 2005, with notebook PC shipments growing a solid 76.2%." Sounds like very good news to me. For all the talk of ubiquitous connectivity, much of the world has a long way to go. The more our conversations include people who aren't at least white and middle class the better.
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FeedPass makes RSS subscription and monetizing other peoples’ content easy
Friday, May 19th, 2006
Filed under: RSS
People around the web have been talking about the RSS support service FeedPass, which as you can see in action here at a FeedPass page for my personal blog, or this NYTimes feed I've wrapped in AdSense and split the revenue from with FeedPass (they get 2/3 of the revenue). The service provides links to subscribe to a feed with a large number of subscription mechanisms, learn more about RSS feeds, tag the feed itself and more. It also provides a preview of recent items and gives you the option to tag those items in a wide variety of social bookmarking systems.
Major, major badness issue: their demo screen-cast shows the feed from Engadget being plugged in! "Monetize your blogroll or links you have to other popular blogs" by adding your Adsense ID. You get more money if you own the feed yourself but you still get bucks for content you don't own! 2/3 page views go to your AdSense ID if you own it, 1/3 if you don't - that means FeedPass has a greater economic incentive for you to plug in feeds you don't own than those you do! Sheesh! Talk about dressing up a pig. Rounded corners and other nice web 2.0 aesthetics sure make wrapping some one else's feed in your Adsense look legit, huh? I can't believe that. They grab the Edgadget logo and everything. I don't see anyone's name on the site, or any contact info but an email address so maybe Mr. Jim Woolley, the Feedpass.com site registrant, is behind it and knows he's dressing up a pig.
So the FeedPass pages only show an excerpt from the first 4 lines of a feed item - I imagine it will be argued that this is fair use. Nonetheless, the words "Copyright 2006 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only." are at the top of the Engadget XML code. And it's just a low thing to do. Unbelievable. I've seen nothing but positive reviews on this so far - how come? I'm not a big copyright freak by any means, but the gall here is amazing. Simple solution really, buddy - just require the claiming proccess.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Filed under: RSS
People around the web have been talking about the RSS support service FeedPass, which as you can see in action here at a FeedPass page for my personal blog, or this NYTimes feed I've wrapped in AdSense and split the revenue from with FeedPass (they get 2/3 of the revenue). The service provides links to subscribe to a feed with a large number of subscription mechanisms, learn more about RSS feeds, tag the feed itself and more. It also provides a preview of recent items and gives you the option to tag those items in a wide variety of social bookmarking systems.
Major, major badness issue: their demo screen-cast shows the feed from Engadget being plugged in! "Monetize your blogroll or links you have to other popular blogs" by adding your Adsense ID. You get more money if you own the feed yourself but you still get bucks for content you don't own! 2/3 page views go to your AdSense ID if you own it, 1/3 if you don't - that means FeedPass has a greater economic incentive for you to plug in feeds you don't own than those you do! Sheesh! Talk about dressing up a pig. Rounded corners and other nice web 2.0 aesthetics sure make wrapping some one else's feed in your Adsense look legit, huh? I can't believe that. They grab the Edgadget logo and everything. I don't see anyone's name on the site, or any contact info but an email address so maybe Mr. Jim Woolley, the Feedpass.com site registrant, is behind it and knows he's dressing up a pig.
So the FeedPass pages only show an excerpt from the first 4 lines of a feed item - I imagine it will be argued that this is fair use. Nonetheless, the words "Copyright 2006 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only." are at the top of the Engadget XML code. And it's just a low thing to do. Unbelievable. I've seen nothing but positive reviews on this so far - how come? I'm not a big copyright freak by any means, but the gall here is amazing. Simple solution really, buddy - just require the claiming proccess.
Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | CommentsMajor, major badness issue: their demo screen-cast shows the feed from Engadget being plugged in! "Monetize your blogroll or links you have to other popular blogs" by adding your Adsense ID. You get more money if you own the feed yourself but you still get bucks for content you don't own! 2/3 page views go to your AdSense ID if you own it, 1/3 if you don't - that means FeedPass has a greater economic incentive for you to plug in feeds you don't own than those you do! Sheesh! Talk about dressing up a pig. Rounded corners and other nice web 2.0 aesthetics sure make wrapping some one else's feed in your Adsense look legit, huh? I can't believe that. They grab the Edgadget logo and everything. I don't see anyone's name on the site, or any contact info but an email address so maybe Mr. Jim Woolley, the Feedpass.com site registrant, is behind it and knows he's dressing up a pig.
So the FeedPass pages only show an excerpt from the first 4 lines of a feed item - I imagine it will be argued that this is fair use. Nonetheless, the words "Copyright 2006 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only." are at the top of the Engadget XML code. And it's just a low thing to do. Unbelievable. I've seen nothing but positive reviews on this so far - how come? I'm not a big copyright freak by any means, but the gall here is amazing. Simple solution really, buddy - just require the claiming proccess.
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They Might Be Giants offer NSA ringtone
Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Filed under: nptech, portable media, wireless media
Old school jokester/art band They Might Be Giants continue to prove themselves one of the hippest bands in the Web 2.0 world (check out this fan wiki) with a new offering of ring tones. Including this humorous one called "Call Connected by the NSA"
I'm not super into the politics of this, but I find it humorous. Found via Ringtonia, a good source of international ring tone news. See also my recent interview with Katrin Verclas of the awesome group MobileActive.
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Filed under: nptech, portable media, wireless media
Old school jokester/art band They Might Be Giants continue to prove themselves one of the hippest bands in the Web 2.0 world (check out this fan wiki) with a new offering of ring tones. Including this humorous one called "Call Connected by the NSA"
Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | CommentsI'm not super into the politics of this, but I find it humorous. Found via Ringtonia, a good source of international ring tone news. See also my recent interview with Katrin Verclas of the awesome group MobileActive.
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Richard Edelman on PR 2.0
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Filed under: citizen media, paradigm shifts
David Wienberger isn't just ClueTrain smart and cool, he's also a really good liveblogger! Check out his text of PR powerman Richard Edelman's conversation at the Syndicate conference. Edelman knows the story on quality communications in a world shaken by blogs and other social media. Edelman's company does PR for Walmart and employs Steve Rubel.
In the above linked talk he provides succinct thoughts on the future of marketing, the pace of corporate adoption of Web 2.0 tools, the Walmart bloggers debacle and more. Worth a read or listen for sure.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Filed under: citizen media, paradigm shifts
David Wienberger isn't just ClueTrain smart and cool, he's also a really good liveblogger! Check out his text of PR powerman Richard Edelman's conversation at the Syndicate conference. Edelman knows the story on quality communications in a world shaken by blogs and other social media. Edelman's company does PR for Walmart and employs Steve Rubel.
In the above linked talk he provides succinct thoughts on the future of marketing, the pace of corporate adoption of Web 2.0 tools, the Walmart bloggers debacle and more. Worth a read or listen for sure.
Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | CommentsIn the above linked talk he provides succinct thoughts on the future of marketing, the pace of corporate adoption of Web 2.0 tools, the Walmart bloggers debacle and more. Worth a read or listen for sure.
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Top 10 social networking sites see 47% growth
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Filed under: blogging, social networking
Nielson/NetRatings has issued a study showing that the top 10 social networking sites saw traffic grow 47% over the last year, with MySpace seeing the biggest growth (367% increase) and MSN Spaces (286%) seeing the biggest growth. Hosted blogging systems were included in the study.
These numbers might even seem low in light of, for example, the recent study from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (and MySpace victims) finding that 61% of 13-to 17-year-olds have a personal profile on sites such as MySpace, Friendster, or Xanga. The study continues with findings that 14% have actually met face-to-face with a person they had known only through the Internet (didn't MeetUp prove this was a difficult business model?) 30% have considered meeting someone they've only communicated with online (consideration being a rational process, not to be encouraged in children) 71% reported receiving messages online from someone they don't know (spam?).
Anecdotally, I'd guess that MySpace fear mongering has risen more than 367% in the last year and if 61% of kids really have MySpace et al. profiles then the spectre of electronic communication has posed a serious threat for well more than the last year.
Links: The Internet Stock Blog (original coverage) via Susan MernitPermalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Filed under: blogging, social networking
Nielson/NetRatings has issued a study showing that the top 10 social networking sites saw traffic grow 47% over the last year, with MySpace seeing the biggest growth (367% increase) and MSN Spaces (286%) seeing the biggest growth. Hosted blogging systems were included in the study.
These numbers might even seem low in light of, for example, the recent study from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (and MySpace victims) finding that 61% of 13-to 17-year-olds have a personal profile on sites such as MySpace, Friendster, or Xanga. The study continues with findings that 14% have actually met face-to-face with a person they had known only through the Internet (didn't MeetUp prove this was a difficult business model?) 30% have considered meeting someone they've only communicated with online (consideration being a rational process, not to be encouraged in children) 71% reported receiving messages online from someone they don't know (spam?).
Anecdotally, I'd guess that MySpace fear mongering has risen more than 367% in the last year and if 61% of kids really have MySpace et al. profiles then the spectre of electronic communication has posed a serious threat for well more than the last year.
Links: The Internet Stock Blog (original coverage) via Susan Mernit
Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | CommentsThese numbers might even seem low in light of, for example, the recent study from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (and MySpace victims) finding that 61% of 13-to 17-year-olds have a personal profile on sites such as MySpace, Friendster, or Xanga. The study continues with findings that 14% have actually met face-to-face with a person they had known only through the Internet (didn't MeetUp prove this was a difficult business model?) 30% have considered meeting someone they've only communicated with online (consideration being a rational process, not to be encouraged in children) 71% reported receiving messages online from someone they don't know (spam?).
Anecdotally, I'd guess that MySpace fear mongering has risen more than 367% in the last year and if 61% of kids really have MySpace et al. profiles then the spectre of electronic communication has posed a serious threat for well more than the last year.
Links: The Internet Stock Blog (original coverage) via Susan Mernit
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Social Networking for Staff Development
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Filed under: collaboration, wikis
SocialText's Ross Mayfield quotes SAP's Shai Agassi today in a private Q&A where the enterprise vendor's giant Software Developer Network is discussed. Agassi says the online community gets 500,000 visitors per month, represents an "aggregation of knowledge that is second to none," and is like the slashdot of the sprawling SAP world. Agassi says vendors in India are sending scores of new employees to spend their first three months on the site to learn. Average time for a question to be answered is 30 minutes, the company is only creating 20% of the content and there's a reputation system for participants. That's hot.
Mayfield points out that this system is just for software developers and Socialtext is creating an expanded wiki to serve the entire SAP user community. Imagine if other communities of practice and interest could harness this model. The challenge, I imagine, will be to get less technical folks over the learning hump.
I think stories like this can be added to the list of answers to the argument that social networking sites aren't educational and should be blocked from schools. That's not a stretch, is it?Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Filed under: collaboration, wikis
SocialText's Ross Mayfield quotes SAP's Shai Agassi today in a private Q&A where the enterprise vendor's giant Software Developer Network is discussed. Agassi says the online community gets 500,000 visitors per month, represents an "aggregation of knowledge that is second to none," and is like the slashdot of the sprawling SAP world. Agassi says vendors in India are sending scores of new employees to spend their first three months on the site to learn. Average time for a question to be answered is 30 minutes, the company is only creating 20% of the content and there's a reputation system for participants. That's hot.
Mayfield points out that this system is just for software developers and Socialtext is creating an expanded wiki to serve the entire SAP user community. Imagine if other communities of practice and interest could harness this model. The challenge, I imagine, will be to get less technical folks over the learning hump.
I think stories like this can be added to the list of answers to the argument that social networking sites aren't educational and should be blocked from schools. That's not a stretch, is it?
Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | CommentsMayfield points out that this system is just for software developers and Socialtext is creating an expanded wiki to serve the entire SAP user community. Imagine if other communities of practice and interest could harness this model. The challenge, I imagine, will be to get less technical folks over the learning hump.
I think stories like this can be added to the list of answers to the argument that social networking sites aren't educational and should be blocked from schools. That's not a stretch, is it?
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Microsoft Research releases map mashup tool
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Filed under: mapping, mashups, Microsoft
Why should geeks on the fringe have all the fun? Microsoft Research has made a big move into the map-mashup space by releasing their own service called MapCruncher that allows nearly any image to have a Microsoft Virtual Earth map placed over it. Interesting - why stop at integrating an outside dataset represented only in numbers? Yahoo Maps has had its own API for some time as well, but neither of these two company's offerings seem to be getting the traction that Google Maps has gotten. Putting some of your own energy into the mix seems like a great way to kick start take-up, especially if you're a giant. There's a virtual cottage industry of 3rd party services for accessing the Google Maps API - it only makes sense for Microsoft to makes its own equivalent.
Speaking of mashups, I recently interviewed Taylor McKnight, one of the creators of Podbop, the project voted best at MashupCamp.
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Filed under: mapping, mashups, Microsoft
Why should geeks on the fringe have all the fun? Microsoft Research has made a big move into the map-mashup space by releasing their own service called MapCruncher that allows nearly any image to have a Microsoft Virtual Earth map placed over it. Interesting - why stop at integrating an outside dataset represented only in numbers? Yahoo Maps has had its own API for some time as well, but neither of these two company's offerings seem to be getting the traction that Google Maps has gotten. Putting some of your own energy into the mix seems like a great way to kick start take-up, especially if you're a giant. There's a virtual cottage industry of 3rd party services for accessing the Google Maps API - it only makes sense for Microsoft to makes its own equivalent.
Speaking of mashups, I recently interviewed Taylor McKnight, one of the creators of Podbop, the project voted best at MashupCamp.
Found via John Musser's ProgrammableWeb
Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | CommentsSpeaking of mashups, I recently interviewed Taylor McKnight, one of the creators of Podbop, the project voted best at MashupCamp.
Found via John Musser's ProgrammableWeb
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RSS publishing sees big investments
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
Filed under: RSS
Jupiter Research has released a study finding that 63 percent of large companies plan to syndicate content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) by the end of 2006 and that 29 percent currently do so. The report says that 48 percent of current RSS publishers are spending $250,000 or more to deploy and manage syndicated content.
The study says this outstrips adoption on the part of readers but that those of us who read feeds are good spenders and thus a key demographic. Are companies betting on IE and Outlook support? All the other benefits of syndication? We shall see. Sounds like good news to me.
Found via RSS Specifications, a funky site without permalinks, comments or trackbacks. Hmmmm...Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Filed under: RSS
Jupiter Research has released a study finding that 63 percent of large companies plan to syndicate content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) by the end of 2006 and that 29 percent currently do so. The report says that 48 percent of current RSS publishers are spending $250,000 or more to deploy and manage syndicated content.
The study says this outstrips adoption on the part of readers but that those of us who read feeds are good spenders and thus a key demographic. Are companies betting on IE and Outlook support? All the other benefits of syndication? We shall see. Sounds like good news to me.
Found via RSS Specifications, a funky site without permalinks, comments or trackbacks. Hmmmm...
Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | CommentsThe study says this outstrips adoption on the part of readers but that those of us who read feeds are good spenders and thus a key demographic. Are companies betting on IE and Outlook support? All the other benefits of syndication? We shall see. Sounds like good news to me.
Found via RSS Specifications, a funky site without permalinks, comments or trackbacks. Hmmmm...
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Wired Mag adds Feedburner
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
Feedburner made another big announcement today, they are now providing their RSS management, advertising and FeedFlare services for Wired Magazine. As far as I can tell, they are a great example of providing an awesome free service to consumer-level users (bloggers) as a way to gain visibility and a foothold on the enterprise market. Who wouldn't want to keep track of their number of subscribers? For more details on Feedburner, check my recent interview with biz dev VP Rick Klau.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Feedburner made another big announcement today, they are now providing their RSS management, advertising and FeedFlare services for Wired Magazine. As far as I can tell, they are a great example of providing an awesome free service to consumer-level users (bloggers) as a way to gain visibility and a foothold on the enterprise market. Who wouldn't want to keep track of their number of subscribers? For more details on Feedburner, check my recent interview with biz dev VP Rick Klau.
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IM bot contest at MSN
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
Who knew that invading robots could be so charming? MSN is having a contest for IM bot development, the creation of automated IM buddies you can add to notify you whenever something in particular is available. Like the MakeBot or AIM's handy news bots. My girlfriend often hears my Adium quack and asks "who's IMing you?" We both get a kick out of saying, "it's only a robot."
What are your favorite IM bots? What functionalities would you like to see in a robot buddy? I don't use many right now, but my favorite hands down is Peter Brown's immedi.at. What would I like in a future bot? A bot that knows whether I'm online and sends me an SMS if I'm not, like Rasasa does to people other than US Verizon users like me. And the ability to differentiate between message instructions, as in "for these 3 alerts, text me if I'm off-line, for all my other alerts just send an IM or nothing." I'd also like to have some thresh-hold setting capabilities. As in, notify me once more than 3 people have tagged the Social Software Weblog "brilliant" or "foolish" in del.icio.us. Ok, so not that in particular - but you can imagine.
What about you? What would you like to see an army of invading MSN bots bring?
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Who knew that invading robots could be so charming? MSN is having a contest for IM bot development, the creation of automated IM buddies you can add to notify you whenever something in particular is available. Like the MakeBot or AIM's handy news bots. My girlfriend often hears my Adium quack and asks "who's IMing you?" We both get a kick out of saying, "it's only a robot."
What are your favorite IM bots? What functionalities would you like to see in a robot buddy? I don't use many right now, but my favorite hands down is Peter Brown's immedi.at. What would I like in a future bot? A bot that knows whether I'm online and sends me an SMS if I'm not, like Rasasa does to people other than US Verizon users like me. And the ability to differentiate between message instructions, as in "for these 3 alerts, text me if I'm off-line, for all my other alerts just send an IM or nothing." I'd also like to have some thresh-hold setting capabilities. As in, notify me once more than 3 people have tagged the Social Software Weblog "brilliant" or "foolish" in del.icio.us. Ok, so not that in particular - but you can imagine.
What about you? What would you like to see an army of invading MSN bots bring?
Contesty goodness found via Programmable Web.
Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | CommentsWhat are your favorite IM bots? What functionalities would you like to see in a robot buddy? I don't use many right now, but my favorite hands down is Peter Brown's immedi.at. What would I like in a future bot? A bot that knows whether I'm online and sends me an SMS if I'm not, like Rasasa does to people other than US Verizon users like me. And the ability to differentiate between message instructions, as in "for these 3 alerts, text me if I'm off-line, for all my other alerts just send an IM or nothing." I'd also like to have some thresh-hold setting capabilities. As in, notify me once more than 3 people have tagged the Social Software Weblog "brilliant" or "foolish" in del.icio.us. Ok, so not that in particular - but you can imagine.
What about you? What would you like to see an army of invading MSN bots bring?
Contesty goodness found via Programmable Web.
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Examining the roots and growth of Web 2.0
Monday, May 15th, 2006
Heather Green and Steven Baker's excellent blog at Business Week has two interesting posts available this morning both related to the nature and extent of Web 2.0 tools.
The most recent is an intro to a new Business Week online segment called Web Smart. The series of stories will highlight in text and a podcast a different company "that's using the Web to improve productivity, reach out to the public, rev up marketing, or streamline internal operations." The first Web Smart profile is on Boeing, who apparently uses blogs both internally and externally. Sounds like a great series. Examples of corporate use of new web tools, amongst companies large and small, are very useful for those of us who try to get others turned on to the possibilities. Perhaps Biz Week's series will shed some light on the debate over Steve Gilmor's statement that corporate executives are using RSS to bring them the information they need on their field - other discussion members said he was crazy and that corporate adoption of feed reading is in its infancy. (Discussion in some random recent episode of the otherwise great show Gilmor Gang, where some people say that "strong bloggers don't link" - so what's the point. Grr....)
Speaking of RSS adoption, Heather Green's post on Saturday pointed to a Google Trends graph showing that the term RSS gets searched for on Google more than the word blogs and far more than podcasts. Besides the fact that RSS is also the acronym for one of the largest membership organizations in the world, I was unsurprised when I saw results like this as well. Here's what I left in the comments section of Green's post. Would readers here agree with this assessment?
RSS is the foundation of all other particular Web 2.0 tools: it's what makes podcasts subscribable, enables us to read more than a handful of blogs, search with persistence and get the social out of social bookmarking when we subscribe to the feed for a tag. It's what tells us when there's been a change made to a wiki page of interest. All of those and more are made possible because of RSS, and most instances of each particular tool will make mention of RSS in the description of its use. All the social media are exciting, and the read-write web is a major change from the past, but it's that combined with access to a quantity information increased by orders of magnitude - with almost zero effort required after an initial subscription over broadband - that represents the huge shift that is web 2.0 if you ask me.
Thoughts? To be honest, I do think that RSS is as important as I said above, but in terms of use frequency it's also got the semantic advantage of only having one tense. People will write about and search for blogs, blog and blogging for example - but RSS is a one-term wonder.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Heather Green and Steven Baker's excellent blog at Business Week has two interesting posts available this morning both related to the nature and extent of Web 2.0 tools.
The most recent is an intro to a new Business Week online segment called Web Smart. The series of stories will highlight in text and a podcast a different company "that's using the Web to improve productivity, reach out to the public, rev up marketing, or streamline internal operations."
The first Web Smart profile is on Boeing, who apparently uses blogs both internally and externally. Sounds like a great series. Examples of corporate use of new web tools, amongst companies large and small, are very useful for those of us who try to get others turned on to the possibilities. Perhaps Biz Week's series will shed some light on the debate over Steve Gilmor's statement that corporate executives are using RSS to bring them the information they need on their field - other discussion members said he was crazy and that corporate adoption of feed reading is in its infancy. (Discussion in some random recent episode of the otherwise great show Gilmor Gang, where some people say that "strong bloggers don't link" - so what's the point. Grr....)The most recent is an intro to a new Business Week online segment called Web Smart. The series of stories will highlight in text and a podcast a different company "that's using the Web to improve productivity, reach out to the public, rev up marketing, or streamline internal operations."
Speaking of RSS adoption, Heather Green's post on Saturday pointed to a Google Trends graph showing that the term RSS gets searched for on Google more than the word blogs and far more than podcasts. Besides the fact that RSS is also the acronym for one of the largest membership organizations in the world, I was unsurprised when I saw results like this as well. Here's what I left in the comments section of Green's post. Would readers here agree with this assessment?
RSS is the foundation of all other particular Web 2.0 tools: it's what makes podcasts subscribable, enables us to read more than a handful of blogs, search with persistence and get the social out of social bookmarking when we subscribe to the feed for a tag. It's what tells us when there's been a change made to a wiki page of interest. All of those and more are made possible because of RSS, and most instances of each particular tool will make mention of RSS in the description of its use. All the social media are exciting, and the read-write web is a major change from the past, but it's that combined with access to a quantity information increased by orders of magnitude - with almost zero effort required after an initial subscription over broadband - that represents the huge shift that is web 2.0 if you ask me.
Thoughts? To be honest, I do think that RSS is as important as I said above, but in terms of use frequency it's also got the semantic advantage of only having one tense. People will write about and search for blogs, blog and blogging for example - but RSS is a one-term wonder.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 52
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Incentivizing knowledge sharing
Friday, May 12th, 2006
Filed under: collaboration
Randy Morin over at The RSS Blog has a post today about his 10 favorite blogging tools. The most interesting thought there to me is that he rewards whoevever tags the best link for:randymorin in del.icio.us each month with a free book of their choice (up to $20) from Amazon.com! I think that's pretty interesting.
Link love is often the incentive for knowledge sharing online, but this makes me wonder if anyone else does things similar. The engadget mobile giveaways are apparently wildly successful. The nonprofit organization I work for, Net Squared, recently gave away an iPod nano to one respondent in their survey of nonprofit organizations about Web 2.0 adoption.
What other methods of providing incentive for people to share have people come across? I think I'm going to do something like Morin is doing myself. Such a good idea, but are there better ones out there?Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Filed under: collaboration
Randy Morin over at The RSS Blog has a post today about his 10 favorite blogging tools. The most interesting thought there to me is that he rewards whoevever tags the best link for:randymorin in del.icio.us each month with a free book of their choice (up to $20) from Amazon.com! I think that's pretty interesting.
Link love is often the incentive for knowledge sharing online, but this makes me wonder if anyone else does things similar. The engadget mobile giveaways are apparently wildly successful. The nonprofit organization I work for, Net Squared, recently gave away an iPod nano to one respondent in their survey of nonprofit organizations about Web 2.0 adoption.
What other methods of providing incentive for people to share have people come across? I think I'm going to do something like Morin is doing myself. Such a good idea, but are there better ones out there?
Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | CommentsLink love is often the incentive for knowledge sharing online, but this makes me wonder if anyone else does things similar. The engadget mobile giveaways are apparently wildly successful. The nonprofit organization I work for, Net Squared, recently gave away an iPod nano to one respondent in their survey of nonprofit organizations about Web 2.0 adoption.
What other methods of providing incentive for people to share have people come across? I think I'm going to do something like Morin is doing myself. Such a good idea, but are there better ones out there?
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