Category: Personal Info

Donna, Designed for Use, Closes

Feb 1, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Calendar, Design, Information Creation, Interface, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, User Experience

The impending closing of Donna has bumped a couple of thoughts to blog to the front of the queue. First off, Donna is an iOS calendaring app that focusses on one’s agenda for that day and upcoming days with a targetted focus on the transportation timing and how that impacts your day. If your life…
On the Way to the Next Big Thing

Feb 15, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Identity, Model of Attraction, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Refindability, Social Software, sxd, Web

This was written in April 2011 and a publication had interest in publishing it, but it didn't fit their editorial cycle so it sat. I have annotated this with an endnote to bring it current. A funny thing happened on the way to the next big thing, the big thing was little. Many people are…
Facebook Makes it Hard to Like Them

Apr 26, 2010

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Identity, Personal Info, Privacy, Social Software, sxd, User Experience, Web

This past week Facebook made a load of changes to how it works at their F8 conference. Very little of it is new or innovative, other than it is taking the ideas mainstream (and the ideas are poorly executed in usual Facebook style). There are a lot of things that are problematic and troublesome. This…
LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) – 1 of 2

Feb 9, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Identity, Interface, Personal Info, Social Software, User Experience, Web, Web/Tech

Why LinkedIn Needs to Have a Better Grasp of Social A heavy user of LinkedIn, I have been hearing identical complaints to my own as regular business networking event conversation fodder for the last six months or more. Light users of LinkedIn as well as those of us who have over 600 connections have nearly…
Enterprise 2.0 Boston – After Noah: What to do After the Flood (of Information)

May 29, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Conferences, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, Refindability, Social Software

I am looking forward to being at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston from June 10 to June 12, 2008. I am going to be presenting on June 10, 2008 at 1pm on After Noah: Making Sense of the Flood (of Information). This presentation looks at what to expect with social bookmarking tools inside an…
Enterprise Social Tools: Components for Success

May 6, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Identity, Interface, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, Social Software, Technology, User Experience, Web, Weblogs

One of the things I continually run across talking with organizations deploying social tools inside their organization is the difficultly getting all the components to mesh. Nearly everybody is having or had a tough time with getting employees and partners to engage with the services, but everybody is finding out it is much more than…
Selective Sociality and Social Villages

Apr 5, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Community, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Location, Model of Attraction, Personal Info, Privacy, Social Software, Technology

The web provides wonderful serindipity on many fronts, but in this case it brought together two ideas I have been thinking about, working around, and writing about quite a bit lately. The ideas intersect at the junction of the pattern of building social bonds with people and comfort of know interactions that selective sociality brings.…
Challenges as Opportunities for Social Networks and Services

Feb 11, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Personal Info, Social Software, User Experience, Web

Jeremiah Owyang posts "The Many Challenges of Social Network Sites" that lays out many of the complaints that have risen around social networking sites (and other social computing services). He has a good list of complaints, which all sounded incredibly familiar from the glory days of 1990 to 1992 for IT in the enterprise (tongue…
The Elements in the Social Software Stack

Jan 9, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Identity, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Personal Info, PKM, Research, Social Software, Technology, Web

When thinking through social software (also known as social computing, social media, and social web) I have been influenced by many ideas, but at the core there are two things that stick in my head: 1) Good visualization; and 2) Object-centered sociality. Getting the two to mesh, while accounting for most of the important components…
Pffft! Social Graph, We Need the Portable Social Network

Dec 6, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Local InfoCloud, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, Social Software, Technology, Web

In reading Alex Rudloff’s "Privacy as Currancy" post I had two thoughts reoccur: 1) privacy is a currency back by trust; and 2) Pfffft! Social graph? Where is my Portable Social Network? I agree with what Alex stated about wanting to move out of Facebook as my trust in them is gone completely (mostly driven…