February 2010 - Blog Watch

My space is more important than your space! That is what Mitch Joel of Six Pixels says people are saying as Facebook moves past Yahoo! as the second most popular website in the U.S.  Joel suggests that as technologies, platforms and channels continue to evolve, the new homepage will shift from the Yahoo! portal model to a more personal river of news from various sources. He may be correct as the classic web loses its dominance, but otherwise give me a good old fashioned web portal any day. Actually...

Here’s the deck from Burbank – enjoy! Intro to Windows Azure View more presentations from lynnlangit . Read More...

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The Splinternet. A new Harvard Business Review post says Micropayments may return us to a closed, vertically integrated ecosystem like how IBM used to do it in their heyday. It mentions an important concept that’s getting more and more play these days: the splinternet. “We are on the brink of accessing digital content through what they call the 'splinternet'. Devices, hardware, software, applications and content, rather than being offered interoperably in a wide-open World Wide Web are increasingly...

Organizations constantly seek innovative ways to improve customer support, while at the same time lowering customer support costs. More and more, departments are asked to drive growth, despite reduced headcounts and budgets. So how can you do more with less, and faster than the competition? Telligent founder and CTO Rob Howard explores the value that user generated content provides support organizations, the advantages of online support communities and how to best monitor performance and ROI, providing...

Llewellyn and I spent last week at (snowy!) Microsoft Copenhagen , preparing to teach Danish DigiGirlz coding (see picture below).  Here’s what happened and what we learned. We were part of a very successful event.  100% of the participants said ‘ I would like to attend another DigiGirlz event’ and also 100% personally told me that they would volunteer to proctor at a future DigiGirlz event. At this event we taught them to code and none of them had any previous coding experience. Over the...

Gummy Bear 1.2 is fully baked. The toothpick comes up clean. Both the complete 1.2 web package and update ZIPs are prepared, their readme.txt files are written. We are ready to ship. Yet I’m going to let it sit on the window sill and cool for another week or so. My availability next week is going to be limited and I want to be there for any unexpected installation or upgrade issues that may arise. The launch date of Gummy Bear 1.2 is officially set for March 2nd.  That’s what the documentation...

Wired’s Tablet Vision. Under the title Is This The Future of Publishing, Mitch Joel of Six Pixels posts a video of the coming tablet version of Wired Magazine. We previously covered the similarly dazzling Sports Illustrated tablet version, which is worth a look if you haven’t seen it. Very game-changing stuff. A better way to sell. A lot to chew on in this Copyblogger post on a better way to make the sell. For instance, rather than promise instant success promise immediate progress with a detailed...

I launched a new blog on Sueetie.com called The Business of Community.   I hope you consider visiting.  The focus of the new blog is on growing, managing and marketing online communities. I’ve been debating how to repurpose Everyman Links content for some time now, and The Business of Community blog was the perfect place to share Everyman information about SEO, marketing, branding and online community development. The Business of Community is more than a repost blog of 255 character snippets...

I attended a couple Ruby sessions at CodeMash this year which really piqued my interest level in Ruby. For many people (especially web developers) when you hear about Ruby they think Ruby on Rails. While Rails is an impressive framework, there are some Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Last week's release of Telligent Community 5.5 and Telligent Enterprise 2.5 contained a vast number of upgrades to our new Web service API. However, one of these improvements stands out from the rest: search. Telligent Community 5.0 and Telligent Enterprise 2.0 shipped with a much improved search back-end, which not only execute search queries better, but also enable you to search for things like blogs, groups and users. Now this improved back-end is fully exposed via a very simple-to-use Web...

There is no time better than today to start your upgrade process to Telligent Enterprise 2.5. Your employees have already benefited from: Increased collaboration, even across time and distance barriers Connected with co-workers in a way that wasn't previously possible with just email or other communication mechanisms Found expertise, not only for work-related issues, but also with personal interests But now, we give you five big reasons to move to Telligent Enterprise 2.5: Significantly improve...