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Mass Collaboration – Snow Joke
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Snow seems to be the theme of the week. My house is buried under the heaviest snow fall seen for 18 years. Inches deep. Now that might be a light dusting where you come from, but around here it is enough to bring the country to a standstill. But unlike 18 years ago, this time I knew [...]
FOAF – Building Networks With a Friend of a Friend
(click and rate it) Loading ...FOAF? What’s it all about then? Technology is terrible for having interesting things buried in acronyms or abbreviations. FOAF is one of those gems and I’ve been intending to write about it for a long while. Thank you to Dave Terrar (and weaverluke) for the nudge. These days we are all a bit social on-line. We have always been [...]
Networks and Notworks
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How about a taxonomy of social media platforms? In helping people understand the different social networking tools I’ve found it helpful to build a taxonomy of the components around social software. This is one way of viewing things, there are others that are equally valid, but for my purposes I was after something simple and functional. [...]
Pitching A Business – TechCrunchTalk
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This week’s TechCrunch event was a rare treat: 8 European startups pitching. TechCruncheMike Butcher gave the start ups 90 seconds to pitch their business. The ‘Tech Factor’ panel then responded to the pitch – in very civilised way. Finally the pitcher had 10 seconds to even the score… Erm… I mean clarify their pitch. I [...]
Dunbar’s Number – Groups, Language and Social Media
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The Dunbar number regularly gets bandied around in social media circles, and for good reason. However, it is usually misunderstood. In today’s hyper-connected world, where technology lets us have hundreds (if not thousands) of ‘friends’, people are increasingly interested in understanding what the human limits on maintaining human friendships might be, and why. Real world relationships have [...]
Social Media – Do Conversations Scale?
(click and rate it) Loading ...I should start by explaining how I come at this problem space. By history I am a network guy. I spent most of the 90′s thinking about networks, breaking networks, building networks and alternating between creating the mess and clearing it up as the Internet grew. More recently I’ve buried myself in the human aspects of technology, leading [...]
We Are Amplified
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Guitars, historically, weren’t a loud instrument. To become the loud things we know today they had to be plugged in to amplification. Cunning bits of electronic wizardry that took a tiny signal and made it much much larger. An amplified guitar is definitely heard! These days we (at least those of us reading this) are plugged in. [...]
