Couldn’t resist this. Tweitgeist. A word cloud formed from scraping the words off the last 250 Twitter “tweets”. Again, something I can see as having real value in the enterprise, especially if I can have multiple clouds, each showing a different population of tweets. Thanks to Pistachio for the tip-off.
One of my friends twittered : Gort, Klaatu Barada Nikto :Â a little while ago, and it showed up in his Facebook stream. That took me back a while. I had seen that phrase in so many contexts over the years that I began to wonder whether someone had bothered to write a Wikipedia entry … Continue reading “Meandering around as a result of strange Facebook status messages”
Kyle Mathews, while commenting on a recent post of mine, reminded me of an old Joel Spolsky post on building communities with software. I remember being very taken with the post when it came out all those years ago, particularly what Joel called “the primary axiom of online communities”: Small software implementation details result in … Continue reading “Just freewheeling on social software and communities”
When I started writing Confused of Calcutta, I included the following text in 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 … Continue reading “Facebook and the Enterprise: Part 4: Four Pillars”
My thanks to Chris “Rageboy” Locke for making sure I saw this “map” of online communities: Interesting map. You can find the original here. I looked at it with Saturday morning eyes, and was struck by the following: One, it represents many generations, but the generations are often isolated. Neither Orla, my 21 year old … Continue reading “Where generations meet”