Jumping into a product strateg…
February 13th, 2009
Jumping into a product strategy session
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@sprynmr pst, new version of …
February 12th, 2009
@sprynmr pst, new version of tweetdeck is out, just as bad as the old one
@thompsa6 pushing sugar helps…
February 12th, 2009
@thompsa6 pushing sugar helps keep the engineers happy!
The Bamboo Borg
February 12th, 2009
I love this picture, quite the juxtaposition of organic and inorganic designs and material.
The photo was taken in Hong Kong. The scaffolding is made out of bamboo which is tied together to build the superstructure used outside of the building under construction.
In some ways this makes me think of the interactions that online and social community software companies try to capture.
Some companies like Jive, Mzinga, and of course HiveLive (where I work), take the organic predisposition of humans to interconnect and bind. In turn, the software provides the structure and meta-framework that allows for the maximization of discovery and interactions, both human and information centric.
Of course I’m greatly biased as to which company does it the best, cough, HiveLive.
Facebook, Archipelagos, and Clouds
February 11th, 2009
Last Thursday OpenID announced that Facebook would join its board. This is a big announcement because many view OpenID and Facebook Connect (Facebook’s API) as competitors. However, if you look at the comments in some blogs, many support the move and anticipate the benefits and wider adoption not only for users, but for companies supporting OpenID as well.
For social and online community software providers like HiveLive, there are benefits to accepting OpenID, Facebook Connect, and Open Social. The inherent openness of the widely accepted APIs allows for streamlined interactions among users and their profile data across the web; my profile information (and in some cases the content I create) may move easily follow me across the web from site to site. I do not need to recreate content and contacts at, say, Facebook or Adobe Users Groups; my information would freely flow between both sites. By allowing this information to easily flow in and out of a community, social and online community software providers help further propagate traditionally single site-bound information. A community member’s information and UGC follows them across the web. Archipelagos of people, interactions, and content give way to interactive and people-content woven continents.
Even more forward-looking, I see this as one more step to the growing acceptance of SaaS. As more websites allow profile information, user interactions, and sometimes content to follow users from site to site, the flow of information will continue to evolve towards the cloud and way from hard drives. Barriers to content and information sharing deteriorate. Not only will users’ lives be “lived” more online, the attributes and interactions that define identify will be more easily available.
Update: RRW has posted a write up of yesterday’s OpenID UX (User Experience) Summit. While the 92% seems a bit, um, inflated, perhaps in the words of Marshall Kirkpatrick “OpenID’s usability problems appear closer than ever to being solved for good.”
@jstorerj Curious to hear you…
February 10th, 2009
@jstorerj Curious to hear your experience with Tweetie, i share your twitterific sentiment
Delayed Gratification
February 9th, 2009
While enjoying the first cup of coffee, I read an HBS article I saw Rachel Happe Tweeted (correct verb?) about 2 weeks ago. The article is a good quick read, non sequitur – has HBS been bitten by new age?
I digress. The article focuses on the importance of letting go and concentrating on what you love while looking for a job. Not what I would call net-new advice. But look at the comments, here is where the article really comes alive. Real people jumping in and offering personal insights bring real color to the otherwise somewhat sterile article (vague references to individuals vs. personal stories with more details). I love how those short comments on the article show a diversity in the article’s readership (assuming of course the commenter’s are representative of the larger reading population).
And this leads to my habit. Often I’ll wait a couple of days to read a recommend article or blog posting. The delay allows other readers to contribute and comment. You find this to be true especially among content that is thought provoking, controversial, or runs against common accepted knowledge. More than once I’ve found more insight in the comments than I did in the actual article. Downside? Sometimes the proverbial horse has left the barn if you want to be part of the conversation as people move on to the next thing after a few days.
Top of vail, snow like new Ham…
February 8th, 2009
Top of vail, snow like new Hampshire not Colorado, hard packed. Storm rolling in now. Pray for snow
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