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When I started this blog, this is how I began the page on About This Blog: I believe that it is only a matter of time before enterprise software consists of only four types of application: publishing, search, fulfilment and conversation. I believe that weaknesses and corruptions in our own thinking about digital rights and [...]

I’m sure there are better ways to decompose social networks, but in my simple mind, there are only a small number of fundamental components: directories and address books (you need to find the person or group you’re looking for) profiles and CVs and suchlike (there has to be some way of describing the person or [...]

Recently I spent some time considering the differences between traditional office e-mail and facebook e-mail: the lack of bc, cc and forward buttons, the way links and videos and sound files are attached, the absence of spreadsheet and document and presentation attachments, and so on. All that got me thinking. For a while now I’ve [...]

Whenever I get the chance, I talk to people about just how they use Facebook as part of their day-to-day business. Today it was my sister Jayapriya’s turn. She runs a literary agency out of India and China and Singapore and a few other places, and was in town for the book far. She described [...]

Most of you are aware of my consuming interest in how Facebook creates value for the enterprise. Over the past eighteen months or so, I’ve written a large number of posts on the subject, and am currently in the process of converting them into a book. [Before you ask, the book will be a free [...]

We have mail. Maybe I should say: I have mail. For sure I do: Physical or snail-mail arriving at work and at home “Work” e-mail, usually received via BlackBerry “Personal” e-mail, which for me consists of mail received at my .mac mail account “Social network” mail, which for me consists mainly of Facebook messages (and [...]

The diagram above is from an article headlined “The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You” which appeared in Wired about a year ago. Go read the original, the diagram is interactive and instructive. Why instructive? After all, doesn’t everyone in the blogosphere know about ping servers, [...]

I can remember a time when people thought e-mail was a complete waste of time. I can remember a time when spreadsheets and storyboarding software were similarly disdained. In fact, I can even remember a time when no senior executive would be seen dead near a computer. You know something? It wasn’t that long ago, [...]

I’ve been blogging for a while now, and I’ve been delighted with the response. I average around a thousand RSS reader-based subscribers (according to Feedburner), tend to have around 300 unique IP addresses visit me daily (according to ClustrMaps) and get around 7 comments a post. [The IP addresses sometimes understate what is happening, given [...]

It’s been one of those truly lazy days, so I think I’ll start seriously sideways. Twitter. Hmmm. The first time that I can remember coming across the word “twitter” was when I was reading Wordsworth as a boy. [Yes, I know, I have been Confused a looong time]. Here’s the first stanza of the poem [...]

I guess most of you have already seen the debate, as captured here,  here, here, and here. Is enterprise software sexy? Should it be? Can it be? The entire debate is worth a read, the polarisations are fascinating. As and when I finish my Facebook series, I will get around to commenting on the avalanche [...]

My apologies to those who’ve been waiting for Parts 9 and 10 of this series; there have been a number of things on my mind, and I wanted to freewheel along, dwelling on other subjects, while pondering on this. It’s like when you want to remember something and can’t ….. the best way out seems [...]

For the first twenty-three years of my life, I’d never known a home other than Calcutta. I’d visited other cities, sure, but never actually lived anywhere else. And I’d never left the country. So when I came to the UK nearly twenty-seven years ago, I came unprepared for many things; there were many situations and [...]

First catch your hare. So wrote Hannah Glasse, in the recipe for Jugged Hare, to be found in her 1747 book The Art of Cookery. [When I first heard the quotation, I was given the impression, mistakenly, that it was a quotation from Mrs Beeton]. In today’s globalised knowledge-worker-dominated world, most enterprises have figured out [...]

Some time ago, while mulling over my thoughts about Facebook and privacy (soon to be the tenth and last post in the Facebook and the Enterprise series) I’d been re-reading danah boyd‘s writings on the subject nearly a year ago. She starts a section called Exposure by saying: Have you ever been screaming to be [...]

Have you ever heard of TechSoup.org? They describe themselves as: Powered by CompuMentor, one of the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit technology assistance agencies, TechSoup.org offers nonprofits a one-stop resource for technology needs by providing free information, resources, and support. In addition to online information and resources, we offer a product philanthropy service called TechSoup [...]

Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner, That I love London so. Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner That I think of her wherever I go. I get a funny feeling inside of me Just walking up and down. Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner That I love London Town. Hubert Gregg, 1946  I’m consistently bemused [...]

This is a very provisional post; even as I write it, I have this sense of having to tread barefoot very gingerly across a landscape strewn with broken glass. Not sure why. But sometimes that’s what blogging’s for. To expose what you’re thinking to other people so that you can learn from their comments, an [...]