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BLOG Google Wave (continued): will have access to Google Wave, a new tool that integrates the functionality functionality of e-mail, IM, wikis, blogs, Twitter, and other social networking built-in Google Wave semantic spell-checker auto-corrects spelling and homonym continued): The Conversation Becomes the Work-Product B ack in in

BLOG Google Wave: The Wikification meeting of Canadian IT leaders today, I was charged with explaining Google Wave will have access to Google Wave, a new tool that integrates the functionality functionality of e-mail, IM, wikis, blogs, Twitter, and other social networking Wikification of Conversation A t a a

But the day has come, Google Reader has turned into a simple newsmastering service. Over two years ago I was whining ( point 5 in this post ) that Google Reader lacked an OPML file for each tag/folder, which it still does, but it has gone one better anyway, well kind of… Use case is if I import my OPML into a Google CSE , and then add/delete a feed from Google Reader, my Google CSE will not know about it, which is a pity because it means I can’t use Google Reader as It’s sometimes such a drag being an early adopter because you are ready for features years ahead of when regular users will ask for them…you just have to be patient.

This is a joint post together with Christian Kreutz , which we co-created in a google doc . (mine Widgets are, hence, little blocks of information which can be added to a blog, mostly in the sidebar. Almost any kind of information can be widgetized and offered in a blog as an additional feature. mine is a little longer though) 1. What is a widget?

BLOG The Psychology of Twitter Twitter name on your blog, and on your Facebook page, and send it out to just as there are organizational and ghostwritten celebrity blogs, there latest blog posts. Links of the Week blog Twitter OK , let let me start by saying I'm a Twitter user and fan.

clarifying by reading and writing comments, and trackback/linkback blog posts Google’s PageRank is based on a referral model, so technically this is social search - Google Blog Search (also Technorati , Backtype ) is similar to PageRank - but the point here is that the content is Social search is resurfacing as a hot topic of late , due to how effective Twitter has become in helping you find information, and how it is close to how we source information in the offline world (via our network). Twitter is being differentiated by being called a “ Help

You can do this on a wiki (with comments) or Google Docs (with comments), but the more robust tools I came across were Traction , Basecamp , and Activities on Lotus Connections . Finally a task/conversation lives at a URL…but it’s not a blog, wiki, forum, online doc, but instead a task/conversation thread that can be made up of elements from different object types. In A little while ago I talked about not so much groupware, but a middle space, moreso activityware, where you create an object and invite people to add to it. I

Back in 2006 I called it SMS blogging, but now that’s all changed as the major use is the web and desktop applications (incl. Perhaps we can compare it to similar tools like blogs, forums, IM, email, Facebook and RSS Readers, as Ross Mayfield has asked ( Mike Gotta has thoughts on this also). I can post a tweet as a publishing in the open (similar to a blog or newspaper), whereas in IM I only interact if there is someone on the My first post on Twitter was back in October 2006, and since then Twitter has come a long way; evolved from the architecture of participation, and the emergence of the platform .

A while back I blogged about the possibility of networks and blogospheres cutting into the need for communities. Stowe Boyd has more on this “ shift ” that may be a big cognitive reason that when it comes to individual learning on a topic, networked sharing is cutting into the ease of learning over CoPs: “Contrasting group forums with blogging is a good example in which to make the distinction between group- and individual-oriented social tools. I believe this is happening a great deal, as now people may have a more purposeful or ideal way of achieving their