Author: Chris
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My feeble attempt to map out my social media footprint…
…has clearly been outclassed. I need to go back to the drawing board and take a look at this and try again: The Mindjet Blog » Visualizing Social Media Networks in MindManager The Bounty download One other thought: is there was ever a diagram that showed the power of RSS and the need for OpenID,…
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Ready to throw in the towl on democracy?
Nick seems to be in his recent post on some of the issues that Ebay is facing (and that other ‘social production’ sites have faced before – citing digg anf a few others): Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Crowd control at eBay While the changes at ebay seem like a “death of self-rule on the…
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Cha-cha-cha-changes
This is supposed to be the last day the old UGS sign is hanging on the office outside my window. Any minute now I am supposed to be kicked out of my office so they can install a shiny new Siemens sign. Ah, to think how many signs have hung off this building…SDRC, EDS, UGS…
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The Volunteer Economy – not just an IT concept
.!. Doc Searls does a short write-up on the volunteer economy and how it related to parsing out what an eventual Yahoo-Microsoft combination would be worth (less than Microsoft would hope) if Microsoft sticks to past behavior patterns: The Volunteer Economy | Linux Journal While the number of real examples of the volunteer economy (or…
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Microsoft, the cloud and the innovator’s dilemma
Good post (as always) from Nick Carr this morning is response another good post by Henry Blodget: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Does Microsoft need consumers? Yes. It seems that Mr. Carr is a big fan (at least subconsciously) of Clayton Christensen and his innovators dilemma. I imagine you have clicked through and read the…
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Epiphany of the day: Why I am so interested in blogging
In full disclosure I actually had this epiphany yesterday, but work got in the way of posting about it, so here goes. I was in some what of a reflective mood yesterday and was remembering some of my earliest days in the working world. I like to think that I have stayed true to some…
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DRM… for your car
This isn’t exacts what I would expect after paying $80k for a new sports car. But then again as more and more software makes it in to other products I bet bet we’ll see more and more of this. Nissan GT-R can’t take aftermarket wheels, unapproved race tracks are out – Autoblog download 2010 sex…
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Google routes around IT again
This in today from the NEW YORK TIMES: Google Introduces New Edition of Its Hosted Applications Suite – New York Times I have been using Google docs personally for almost a year now. It does everything I need for my own work, and I can get to things wherever I am. May have to kick…