Category: Social Software
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The Social Enterprise
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Thomas Vander WalI 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…
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Stitching Conversation Threads Fractured Across Channels
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Thomas Vander WalCommunicating is simple. Well it is simple at its core of one person talking with another person face-to-face. When we communicate and add technology into the mix (phone, video-chat, text message, etc.) it becomes more difficult. Technology becomes noise in the pure flow of communication. Now With More Complexity But, what we have today is…
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Breaking Down LibraryThing vs. Amazon Tagging Analysis
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Thomas Vander WalI 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…
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Following Friends Across Walled Gardens
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Thomas Vander WalPhil Gyford makes his plea for a single social network sign-on or as it was stated last week by Jeremy Keith on Twitter, "portable social network with XFN" [Jeremy posted his More thoughts on portable social networks on his blog.] The single sign-on is an often heard request these days. Nearly as much as a…
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Local InfoCloud as a Responce
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Thomas Vander WalEd Vielmetti posted about neighborhoods, networks, communities, online+offline and I had the following comment. My comment seems to fit in as a follow-up post to the Local InfoCloud post (linked below). The online and offline is very important, but so is the individual and the individual interests we have. There is a huge need for…
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Dual Folksonomy Triad
Needing to Express Folksonomy Simply I have been presenting tagging and folksonomy quite a few times in the past two years. I kept coming back to needing a simple to understand view of what is happening in folksonomy that separates it from general tagging. I also wanted to show how it is relatively easy to…
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Location? Location? Where am I?
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Thomas Vander WalI have been traveling more than usual this year to places in the United States and Europe. Some I have been to before and others I have not. Many of the trips are to places for only a few days and are set around meetings, conferences, or speaking engagements. I am often making plans at…
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Social Machines
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Thomas Vander WalThose of you that follow this site will also likely enjoy Wade Roush’s continuousblog. Wade is the West Coast editor for the MIT Technology Review magazine. He has the August cover story in the TechReview titled, “Social Machines” and has posted Social Machines on his site as of today. Please be sure to pick up…
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Who Are You
The person is the center of focus in the Personal InfoCloud, but each person has to interact with others and others’ information. It is at this point of interaction where identity becomes important. We use many services around the web. From Epinions to LinkedIn to our personal blogs and beyond we all have many identities…
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Focus of Startups
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Thomas Vander WalDavid Weingberger discusses Meet-up new charge to use plan and wonders about free competition. David, and those commenting on the posting, offer alternatives to Meetup. I am not so concerned with Meetup charging money as I am the changes that have come to Meetup in the past year, some have been very good. I have…