November 4, 2007
Ok, I've been a big user of del.icio.us for the last few months and found a great add-on service called Diigo that allows you to extend the detail stored in social bookmarking but has backwards compatibility with del.icio.us with new features such as note taking etc. It allows you to not only bookmark the site but also for it to remember any sticky notes you add to the page etc. which is awe
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November 4, 2007
I'm a big believer in 'eating your own dog food' and I'm a heavy user of RSS feeds, forums and social networking sites to keep up with my areas of interest. I've just been reading a forum thread on 'Do Enterprises WANT social networking?', there are plenty of experts in the field putting their views across which is excellent. The thread is part of the 'Social Networking in the Enterprise' Facebo
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November 4, 2007
Based on discussions I've been reading in my social networking feeds I've decided to get on the OpenID bandwagon, mainly because I don't want someone else to steal my user name that I always use of 'jthake' ;-) It's my branding! There are heaps of sites already supporting OpenID which can be seen at the OpenID Directory. WikiTravel On my travels I found wikitravel.org and decided to check out my
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November 4, 2007
The SIOC project is evolving very quickly and has submitted to w3c in February 2007.
One great use is notitio.us which allows you to view del.icio.us links in a tree form. This tool is awesome for breaking down tag clouds from social bookmarks. What it did show is the typos in my tags and the need for me to go through and clean them up and amalgamate them as I've got better at tagging since st
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October 11, 2007
I've just started reading Bill Ives blog which focuses on Portals and Knowledge Management. One article covers what IBM are doing in this space. I've been preparing for another presentation on Enterprise Social Networking and have been approaching it in a way of describing the consumer space and then how the Enterprise could leverage this. Bill mentions David Millen's demonstrations on Enterprise
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September 17, 2007
Was just reading a post on Ben McCormack's blog which mentioned the announcement that Microsoft have released a new Facebook toolkit. This did come as somewhat of a shock, I mean it's unlike any of the big vendors to play nicely with a competitor. I don't think they ever released a partnership with MySpace and that is based on a Microsoft Platform. They clearly don't see MSNSpaces as a competitor
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September 3, 2007
I've been using GoogleReader since it first came out in beta and use it daily to keep up to date with various topics such as Sharepoint, .Net development, Enterprise 2.0 and the Latest Technology in general.
As I discover new feeds I add them and tag them to a category. I usually find these by reading referenced posts on blogs I read and then adding the new feed.
Share your OPML web site allo
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August 30, 2007
I am currently preparing for a presentation I will be running in October titled "Using Sharepoint 2007 to Facilitate Enterprise Level Social Networking”.
There is obviously quite a lot of content at the moment being posted in various sources on Web 2.0 for the Enterprise and the whole Enterprise Social Networking space.
From the various client meetings I've had recently around our Sh
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August 29, 2007
I was just reading Kit Kai's blog post on "Can social networking technologies help?". A few interesting points were:
- the emphasis on blogs and all roles getting involved e.g. Project Managers with particular issues which introduced scope creep and how they managed it. The idea being that people can search for these things and if they are blogged about generically enough they'll com
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August 22, 2006
Graeme Heath pointed me to a great web site done by Triple J (an Australian Radio station) that promotes up and coming bands. You can rate, listen to and download (mp3) what you like. There's plenty of information on each band...gonna be hitting it up for some more music to listent to on the way to work! Only 3 (Fools of April, Razorlily) bands from Perth in the top 100...come on Perth!
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March 29, 2006
I've been using Digg [TechCrunch][Sourcelabs] for a while now, it's a great way to find out what's new and interesting out there and is an alternative to having lots of RSSs agregated in Google Reader or the like.I like the fact when you register it has the "recommend a friend" option where you can virally promote the service to your IT buddies. I will definately add this feature on my
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March 29, 2006
I can't believe how moving this flash map could be on the fatalities of the armies across the world in Iraq. This must have taken a fair bit of time to put together, but it's effect is so astounding. Every day something appears to flash on the map!Reading through the comments is also quite shocking, with the death toll for US presidents showing that both the Bush's are up there, but Regan's reign
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March 28, 2006
Found a great site on this blog, it's got a really nice design but more importantly lists the best web2.0 sites out there. Hadn't even heard of some of the ones that had won such as NewsVine. The blog is very good on the site aswell.
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March 20, 2006
As mentioned yesterday, MIX06 has started and Bill's web cast is very interesting talking about where the Internet is going with multi devices and methods of accessing it.Bill was pushing Atlas, IE7.0, Office 2007 (RSS), XBox 360, Origami, Pocket PC and Vista and has some big showcase speakers (list) there too.The Q&A with Tim O'Reilly was very good to watch, whether it was rehearsed or not.N
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March 19, 2006
I thought this link was worth a mention because it pretty much lists everything out there at the minute that is web 2.0. The list could take a seriously long time to pan through but the main aspect is the breakdown of sub categories that he's used.There's so many out there and they're all after a buck! Be interesting to see the winners and the losers...they either need VC or to be acquired by th
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March 12, 2006
Found and interesting article on TechCrunch where the blogger Nik Cubrilovic praises 30Boxes and then the comments come in and slam it down. But with very good points about lack of drag and drop facility, syncing in and out with Outlook/PDAs, the iCal representation of the calendar etc.It'll be interesting to see how it goes and how much it gets used. I think the interface may look a bit to progr
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March 12, 2006
I've been having a play with the GoogleMaps API and found the .Net GoogleMaps control which makes it even simpler to add Maps to pages. The boys over at codeproject also had a nice tutorial using it.There was also a very helpful portal site which I found various links to Geocode sites etc.I'm hoping to get this in place for my project site for events utility very soon. The main steer here is the
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March 8, 2006
Well as predicted, Calendars would be a big thing, in a previous post Google are just about to realease a calendar application called CL2 according to TechCrunch. The interface is similar to GMail so it'll get huge uptake as people are used to it. I guess the main question I have is can you get to it using a Web Service or API because you could use this calendar system to add, edit, insert and
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March 8, 2006
Okay, now Google Earth made everyone go..."OMG!". Well, this will too! Windows Local Live is basically a computer game on steriods linked into Microsofts own mapping technology. It is quite scary how they manage to get photos for all views along all streets. The implications for this are unbelievable. These pictures include people, cars in the roads etc. Would be interesting to see the
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March 2, 2006
I saw the Under the Radar event mentioned here at TechCrunch regarding Fox Interactive announcing 'acquiring' 5 of the 32 companies that were at the event. Pretty impressive for these web 2.0 start ups.They actually mentioned they weren't acquiring Tagged, I had a quick look at this and it looks very similar to something a lot of my university friends use called Bebo and hi5. All very high use yo
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