Category: Marketplace

Pieces of Time, Place, Things, and Personal Connections Loosly Joined

Oct 26, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction Receptor, Community, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Location, Marketplace, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software, Ubiquitous Computing

There are a lot of people wondering what to do with all the data that is being generated by social tools/sites around the web and the social tools/services inside organization. Well, the answer is to watch the flows, but the pay off value is not in the flow it is in contextualizing the data into…
Enterprise 2.0 Wrap-up

Jul 7, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Conferences, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Marketplace, Social Software, Technology, User Experience, Web/Tech

Each year the Enterprise 2.0 Conference has been different for me, this was my third year in a row attending. Two years ago there were a organizations trying these tools (other than on a server under somebody’s desk), tool makers were trying to catch-up to potential customer desires, and most consultants were trying to apply…
The Social Enterprise

Jun 22, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Creation, Marketplace, Social Software

I am just back from Enterprise 2.0 Conference held in Boston, where I presented Bottom-up All The Way Down: How Tags Help Businesses Organize (thanks to Stowe Boyd for the tantalizing session title), which was liveblog captured by Sandy Kemsley as "Enterprise 2.0: Thomas Vander Wal". I did not catch all of the conference due…
Breaking Down LibraryThing vs. Amazon Tagging Analysis

Feb 27, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Community, Folksonomy, Local InfoCloud, Marketplace, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software

I have been rather heads down on a project the last week or two since the Thingolology: When tags work and when they don’t: Amazon and LibraryThing blog post was created. Tim from LibraryThing, who wrote the post, was kind enough to give me an early heads-up and I responded a few days later. I…
The Future is Now for Information Access

May 23, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Coding, Content Mangement, Devices, Information Creation, Local InfoCloud, Marketplace, Mobile, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Portability, Standards, Syndication, Ubiquitous Computing, User Experience

An interview with Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer in the in the San Francisco Chronicle regarding Steve’s thoughts about the future of technology, information, and Microsoft (including their competition) sparked a few things regarding the Personal InfoCloud and Local InfoCloud. It could be the people I hang out with and the stay-at-home parents I run across during…
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.

Category: Marketplace

Pieces of Time, Place, Things, and Personal Connections Loosly Joined

Enterprise 2.0 Wrap-up

The Social Enterprise

Breaking Down LibraryThing vs. Amazon Tagging Analysis

The Future is Now for Information Access

PC Forum Eventspace – Users Make Content Their Own