Archive for October, 2007

I noticed a ?new? feature on facebook today when I added two facebook newbs as friends today. Although I've seen research presented that says it doesn't matter if someone is welcomed as to whether or not they will come back I'd like to think it doesn't hurt.  And who doesn't like to feel welcomed? From [...]

Apparently the iPhone club ran out of cool people to "tag" in their little discussion about what pages they browse to most frequently on their expensive phones.  Well, since my phone has had an SDK for a lot longer than theirs I’m going to extend it to "connected applications" that aren’t SMS or voice.  Windows [...]

But today I realized that taking it offline means that it will only sync recently updated feeds. I was hoping to use my flight from Dallas to Seattle to read some items that have been sitting in there for a while, but it only seems to like syncing recent items.  You’ll notice the cut-off when [...]

  I have a shared items feed from google reader, but I've been struggling with how to share that content more broadly through my main blog feed.  I didn't like mirroring my shared items since it felt like content stealing and I share more than I write, but at the other extreme I don't generally [...]

Kevin Harder is live blogging Telligent’s Community Server Developer Conference. Check it out.

Is your company, web site, or business model ready for the smarter customer spending habits being created by data transparency?  The world of data transparency is one where anyone can access, slice, dice, pivot, and extrapolate on their own about your products is almost here. The cost of doing so, like other commodity driven resources [...]

Here is a little glitch I ran into with Google Reader. I’m hopeful someone on that team picks this up, but maybe I’m giving their bug/idea search too much credit. The problem is that Google reader isn’t always ready to go offline.  Before my most recent flight to Dallas I installed Gears and tested switching [...]

Forums.myspace.com – I thought this was a cool use of the Community Server Forums. It’s great to see such large, vibrant, communities making use of your companies software.  We’re told that since these launched there have been over 300,000 new post by nearly 20,000 unique users.  (This is a different ratio than you see in [...]

Description: What are the most significant trends and opportunities looking forward? Introductory comments: David Forrest / Motley Fool Talk about "what, so what, and now what?" Encourage you to focus on the behaviors you are trying to change.  Super-Nova of Social media Build the platform Allow for reputation to be built Provide sustainable incentive Solve [...]

Description: Every four years the presidential campaigns get way out ahead of everyone else in the use of interactive technologies. What is their experience to date? Introductory comments: Michael Slaby / Obama for America Link: Obama social network http://my.barackobama.com  It helps that the candidate has a lot of youth appeal.  Hundreds of thousands of friends [...]