Musing about Flickr and YouTube and mobile phone cameras in the enterprise

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 … Continue reading “Musing about Flickr and YouTube and mobile phone cameras in the enterprise”

Legitimised?

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 … Continue reading “Legitimised?”

Unintended consequences

]I was due to meet my family at Miami airport earlier this evening; we had these wondrous plans that involved me driving from Sundance to Salt Lake City, flying from there to Denver and on to Miami, reaching there just in time to collect my wife and children as they flew in from London. I … Continue reading “Unintended consequences”

School of Everything

I’m not a traditional company investor. Since 1987, the only stakes I’ve held have been in the companies I worked for, and they’ve been acquired while I worked for them. That’s been a Rule for me. Rules, however, are proven by exception. And I’ve made an exception. School of Everything. Regular readers will know that … Continue reading “School of Everything”

A Sunday sideways shufti at mail

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 … Continue reading “A Sunday sideways shufti at mail”