Warning: this is a bit of ramble that also takes in the RSA, NCVO, cloud computing and the local government knowledge hub. An associated development is cloud computing , explained at the event by Robin Gear of PAconsulting . One was that organisations may need two divergent strategies, for those connected and unconnected; the other was that we should think about the “human cloud”. A meeting in London with Peggy Duvette , chief executive of WiserEarth, and also with Ed Mitchell, sparked some thoughts about networking - global, local, and organisational. Well,

Hoy he pasado el día en el IE asistiendo a un seminario sobre cloud computing (por aquello de que a) Uno vende consultoría de estrategia tecnológica y hay que contrastar y actualizar ideas en un terreno tan importante, y b) Este es uno de mis temas de interés porque va a ser uno de los puntales de la evolución que estamos viendo hacia la “ vida iphónica “, y eso toca muchas, muchas facetas en la práctica… pero éso es otra historia . Dio una buena descripción teórica de lo que es cloud computing y los distintos “sabores” de servicio que pueden resultar

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Twitter — or, rather, the idea of a pervasive, public short messaging network — could be too important to be left under one entity’s control. The people behind the OpenMicroBlogging (OMB) movement say it’s time for the 140-character, publicly-subscribable format pioneered by Twitter to become an open standard, in part because, as last week’s attack showed, Twitter is as vulnerable as it is vital. After the Twitter outage in Farhad Manjoo (excerpts): “ Dave Winer , the pioneering programmer and blogger who runs Scripting.com, has been arguing for months that Twitter is untenable in its current form.

Conference on business uses of Twitter , How Twitter Changes Everything . There have been many creative business uses of Twitter and a lot have been written about them so I will not repeat that stuff here. In these comments I am going to share my own personal experiences of twitter with business. Yesterday I was on panel at Enterprise 2.0 My panel co-participants include Jessica Lipnack , CEO, NetAge (our moderator) Isaac Garcia, CEO, Central Desktop , Clara Shih, author of The Facebook Era, and my fellow AppGap blogger, Patti Anklam .

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There has been a lot of discussion about Twitter on this blog. This entire week will now be devoted to Twitter stories. Here is one example of how a company is using Twitter for a variety of customer facing activities. recently spoke with Isaac Garcia, their co-founder and CEO, on another matter, how they are using Twitter. I have written about Central Desktop several times (e.g. ,

And even if many of us experience an occasional overload anxiety , the array of tools to filter and manage all this goodness seem to be getting better and simpler (personally I’ve replaced delicious, StumbleUpon, digg and RSS/feed readers with just one thing; Twitter ). In between Twittering on the bus into work, catching up on blogs and news at lunch, as well as playing a range of insanely addictive iPhone games (Drawrace, Flight Control etc), I realised that I had sacrificed something. We all know that the web is the greatest discovery engine (so far) ever conceived.

About | Contributors | Contact us | Subscribe: via RSS , via Twitter UPCOMING WEBINAR: No Time, No Budget, Fewer People? Big Ideas for getting all that work done. Socialcast Brings Twitter Style Functionality into the Enterprise by Bill Ives August 17, 2008 at 10:40 am · Filed under Reviews As we all know, there have been a number of useful tools that have made the transition from the consumer web to the enterprise. 5 While a consumer web tool like Facebook can have some use within

Lots of people were on Twitter, tweeting away. What I really want is a tag cloud of the audience's comments flickering over my head: "interesting" "flawed" "rubbish". What's exciting about tools like Twitter is the immediate, shared feedback you get - which amplifies responses. Tags: e2ef nsw km forum twitte So last week was a week of events. There was the online communities gig* with Mark Pollard , Christy McCarthy, Angela Beesley & a crowd of participants.