Category: Personal InfoCloud

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…
Broken Decade Precedes It Works Decade

Apr 28, 2013

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Mobile, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, User Experience

I had long forgotten this Carl Steadman response to Michael Sippy’s “Just One Question – What do you want for Christmas”, but the response from 1997 is fantastic and frames the 1990s as the broken decade. (I’ll wait for you to go read it) I’m not so sure that Carl’s broken decade got better in…
How to Tame the Daily Feeds

Mar 16, 2013

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Thomas Vander Wal

in KM World, Personal InfoCloud, PKM

Link to original column: Personal KM: How to tame the daily feeds Original post date: July 5, 2011 [Editor’s Note: Thomas Vander Wal has spent many years as an infovore, gathering, reading, annotating and reusing the volumes of information he has run across. Over the years, he has searched for the ever-elusive one perfect solution,…
Coming Out of Hiatus

Mar 16, 2013

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Personal InfoCloud, Social Lenses, Social Software

Things have been a bit quiet here, but many changes on this side of the screen are settling and allowing idea and writing focus. One of the things I am pulling together are my columns from KM World on Personal Knowledge Management (it unintentionally went into hiatus at the same time). One of the great…
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…
40 Plus Social Lenses

Apr 19, 2011

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Identity, Knowledge Management, Model of Attraction, Personal InfoCloud, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd

Lately, I've been getting asked what I am working on beyond client work, as there have been things popping up here and there that hint something is brewing. Well, there is and there isn’t something new, but something (one of my things has been drawing my attention). It started in Summer or early Fall 2010…
Social Scaling and Maturity

Mar 5, 2011

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software, sxd

In 2006 I started using this graphic to explain social scaling and functionality around social tagging systems (then the x-axis was “times an object tagged”), as it helped bring to light the reality of what was to come from use. But increasingly I also used it to explain general social software maturation that echoed social…
Closing Delicious? Lessons to be Learned

Dec 30, 2010

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Connectivity, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Refindability, Social Software, Standards, Web/Tech

There was a kerfuffle a couple weeks back around Delicious when the social bookmarking service Delicious was marked for end of life by Yahoo, which caused a rather large number I know to go rather nuts. Yahoo, has made the claim that they are not shutting the service down, which only seems like a stall…
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 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…