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Beacon saga; facebook apologises

Beacon saga; facebook apologises

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted on the company blog last week apologising for missteps with the roll-out of their much maligned  Beacon advertising system. "We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them. We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it," he wrote. Zuckerberg goes on to apologise specifically for "taking too long" to make the system opt-in rather than opt-out (where the site…

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Social Networking with Sharepoint Server 2007 – a limited solution to a wider business requirement

Social Networking with Sharepoint Server 2007 – a limited solution to a wider business requirement

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The most comprehensive summary I’ve read so far on Microsoft’s foray into social networking via their Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) product. The article is an extract from a forthcoming white paper written by three Microsoft gurus – Eric Charran, Dino Dato-on and Greg Lang. The article seems a bit too preoccupied with the profiles, active directory and people search facilities at the expense of how they’ve implemented tools such as RSS, wikis and blogs. However, it does…

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The Facebook debate – can we take you seriously if you’ve never used it?

The Facebook debate – can we take you seriously if you’ve never used it?

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I’ve recently seen a flurry of blogs about the merits (or not) of Facebook as a social networking environment. I was stirred to action when I read Elsua’s blog this morning, which in turn refers to the question posed by Mitch Joel "Can you claim to be in social media without having a Facebook account". Now, whilst I don’t disagree with many of the points made by Elsua, or for that matter Euan Semple, who writes about Facebook being all…

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Weltanschauung for social computing

Weltanschauung for social computing

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Dave Snowden’s post caught my eye today. (I’m interpreting Weltanschauung as meaning ‘world view’, or ‘accepted opinion’ here). Sensible (and deep) perspective on the social computing ‘revolution’ (my word not Dave’s), as you’d probably expect from this renowned thinker. Difficult to do justice to Dave’s posting in a few words here, though a couple of points I’d like to note: I too dislike the term ‘Enterprise 2.0’ (much in the same way as I dislike Web 2.0 – and I’m…

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Ning – Social media platform

Ning – Social media platform

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I’ve picked up on a couple of blogs recently referring to Ning, a platform for creating individual social networks or communities of practice. It allows you to have your own site to which people can sign up and leave blog posts, have forum discussions, upload photos and videos and publish RSS feeds. The most recent commentary was from Dave Briggs over at LGNewmedia. I sometimes wonder whether it would be preferable to abandon the bespoke work we’re doing with the…

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More on Collabularies

More on Collabularies

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Bruce Mason over at TNN – Tags/Networks/Narrative has some interesting things to say about folksonomies, taxonomies and ‘collabularies’ (I choke each time I mention that word!). I’ve also learnt a new term – ‘feral hypertext’  – now I like that!

Free photo editing at Picnik

Free photo editing at Picnik

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I came across Picnik – a web site providing free photo editing and special effects. The site is still in Beta, and some of the creative tool tabs are annotated with ‘Coming Soon". However, the photo editing tools all work, the interface is quite slick, all photo editing is done within the browser and there is seamless integration with Flickr. There’s also no sign of any advertising (yet). For anyone considering purchasing a photo editing application – don’t! Try this…

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Call for papers – Stewarding technologies for collaboration, community building and knowledge sharing

Call for papers – Stewarding technologies for collaboration, community building and knowledge sharing

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I was drawn to this item on the Phronesis blog by Bev Trayner. The Knowledge Management for Development Journal (KM4D Journal) has issued a call for papers on “Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development”, for their KM4Dev Journal  Vol. 3, Issue 1, June 2007 publication. It appealed to me with respect to the work I’ve been engaged on at the IDeA for development of a Community of Practice strategy, which included a technology component (web…

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Social media and Web 2.0 – revolution not evolution

Social media and Web 2.0 – revolution not evolution

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I was reading an article by Martin Veitch in last week’s IT Week about the release if IBM’s Lotus Connections, a set of tools that brings MySpace-like social networking to big business. IBM has been reported as saying that …"Connections will offer a way to automate knowledge management through the usability of social software combined with security, authentication, directory, storage management and integration with enterprise software such as Lotus Notes". This coming hot on the heals of Microsoft providing wiki-like…

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Socitm and eGov partner in launch of GovXchange

Socitm and eGov partner in launch of GovXchange

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I notice that eGov Monitor has partnered with Socitm for the launch of GovXchange, which, according to the press release is “a knowledge-sharing platform that can support communities of interest around specific topics. GovXchange will not only collect and disseminate published information (like its forerunner, egov exchange), it will also enable users to create and share new knowledge and information by building private or public ‘spaces’ around their professional interests.” Sounds great, but having signed up to several of these…

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