Category: Applications

Getting to Know Collective and Collaborative

Mar 29, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Personal InfoCloud, Refindability, Social Software

One of the things that has been a little bothersome in the last year or two and has been the lack of understanding between the difference between two terms, collaborative and collective. The two terms are rather similar in definition (in some dictionaries they are nearly identical), but the differences between the two terms have…
The State of Enterprise Social Software

Oct 17, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Local InfoCloud, Personal InfoCloud, Privacy, Social Software, User Experience

Last Friday the Read/Write Web post on "Big Vendors Scrap for Enterprise 2.0 Supremacy" post really was bothersome for me. The list of big players and their products in the post seemed to show the sorry state of offerings by the big companies more than it shows they understand the vast improvements that have been…
Stikkit Is a Nice Example of a Personal InfoCloud Tool

Nov 8, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Calendar, Folksonomy, Mobile, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Tools, Web

I have been using the newly launched Stikkit for the last day and rather enjoying it. Stikkit, is a web-based postit with super powers of a notepad with bookmark, calendar, lite address book for people, tagging, to do, and reminders to SMS (in the U.S.) and/or e-mail. Stikkit is the product of values of n…
Exposing the Local InfoCloud

May 27, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Community, Connectivity, Local InfoCloud, Model of Attraction, Personal InfoCloud, Technology

I have spent a lot of time and effort focussing on the Personal InfoCloud, but the past year or two I have been seeing that the interaction between the person and their information resources that are closest to them (the Local InfoCloud) is extremely important. I have gone around the Local InfoCloud looking at ways…
SXSW Calendar the Personal Way

Mar 26, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Information Creation, Personal Info, Portability

I really enjoyed my short time at SXSW Interactive Festival this year. One of the things that helped me was their step to help people interested in SXSW to build their “own” calendar. Yes, they understood the people attending have a lot of offerings to consider and nobody wants to miss anything they really would…
PC Forum Eventspace – Users Make Content Their Own

Mar 28, 2004

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Content Mangement, Information Creation, Marketplace, Personal Info

PC Forum Eventspace – Users Make Content Their Own seems to have only part of the equation correct.
Tools to Manage Information On Your Personal Hard Drive

Mar 5, 2004

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Content Mangement, Information Creation, Reference, Ubiquitous Computing

I have been battling the management of information on my personal hard drive on my TiBook. This is one element in my Personal Info Cloud (a self-organized information system that is managed by me and is there to assist me when I need information). I have been finding that my organizational structure is lacking on…
Keeping Found Things Found

Jan 23, 2004

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Devices, Personal Info, Research, Web

This weeks New York Times Circuits article: Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites, which covers the Keep Found Things Found research project at University of Washington. The program is summarized: The classic problem of information retrieval, simply put, is to help people find the relatively small number of things they are…
IBM Redesigns E-Mail

Dec 13, 2003

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Personal Info, Privacy, Research, User Experience

There is another e-mail redesign in the work, IBM’s Remail is a research project that seems to be on the right track. There is serious need for outlook replacements so that we can have a mail, calendar, and other communication tool that actually works as one needs it to.