/Message « Jay Rosen on Press Migration | Main | Louis Gray on Why Friendfeed Will Fail » January 03, 2009 Nature Or Nurture In Social Networking by Stowe Boyd We suffer from a collective delusion, in Western society, and it comes to the fore this time of year, like clockwork, as we make New Years resolutions. Do not be surprised to find them feeding back your thoughts, turns of phrase, terms, even facial expressions. That delusion is that what we choose to do, how we live our lives, act, eat, and dream --- who we are, essentially -- is in our own control.

/Message « Blogs Go Mainstream: Advertising Toilets | Main | Stowe Boyd » September 05, 2007 The Architecture of Sociality: Building In Openness by Stowe Boyd A lot of discussion boiling recently about openness in social applications (like the Bill Of Rights movement manifesto and supporting comments , and Brad Fitzpatricks Thoughts On The Social Graph . This why we are carrying our Twitter feeds into Jaiku and our Jaiku feeds into Twitter: no one really wants to play together. I offer a thought about deductive openness, by which I mean a path of low resistance for developers of application.

/Message « Om Malik on Social Networks And Scale | Main | Web Culture: Individuality, Belonging, and Scalar Freedom » June 14, 2008 Overload, Schmoverload: The Myth Of Personal Productivity by Stowe Boyd The newest attack on connectedness and whole brain attention is here, spouting conventional wisdom as gospel: [from Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast by Matt Richtel] The onslaught of cellphone calls and e-mail and instant messages is fracturing attention spans and hurting productivity. A typical information

thought I would respond in a separate post since I do not have a feed specific to comments and since his comment misinterprets my position: These points also reflect comments I hear often from enterprise IT groups (architects, infrastructure planners, etc) concerning introduction of new messaging/communication tools. do expect that vendors putting together unified communications and collaboration platforms will be forced to address Dennis raised a credible perspective in a comment to my entry on " Enterprise Twitter ". I

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/Message « Snackr: An RSS News Ticker | Main | I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You » September 07, 2008 Clive Thompson On Streaming by Stowe Boyd Clive Thompson has done a magisterial job in his exploration into the belly of streaming (or flow) applications, focusing on the mouthfeel of Twitter and Facebook, and doing what I would have thought was impossible: getting across the value of this foreign, hivemind experience to a hypothetical Everyman: [from Brave New World of Digital Intimacy by Clive Thompson] [...] One

Users have access to the entire history of available messages either via searching or by paging through the history of activity. For Traction TeamPage's LiveBlog product: security, access controls, archiving/logging, LDAP/AD integration, and policy management (including groups defined by dynamic LDAP/AD queries) are all handled by the TeamPage engine (along with permission aware display of search results, RSS/Atom feeds, IM notification, email digests, and inline comments, and paragraph level tagging). Yammer, despite multiple requests, did not respond to my earlier post on the need for tools in this category to support policy, integration, security and other capabilities expected by enterprise decision-makers.

Vine is a hyperlocal, personalized message and alert system. It also has buttons to send alerts or reports, which can be sent and received on the PC or as text messages on a cellphone. It lets you post alerts (short messages) and reports (longer posts). Twitter and other social network news feeds I really do enjoy seeing this type of innovation coming from Microsoft - the SharePoint team could learn a lot by working more closely with these folks - and consider leveraging their solutions for the next release of SharePoint. Brier Dudley's blog | Microsoft

/Message « Design Police: Wheres The New Button? | Main | Guy Kawaski on The Blogosphere » October 02, 2007 Dave McClure Is Wrong, Continued: Social Graph v Social Network by Stowe Boyd Dave McClure responded to my recent post about the redundant and unhelpful Social Graph meme. Social graphs exist within systems designed to model those social networks, systems whose purpose may be to enhance (or even spawn) real-world social networks. Posted by: Joel Helbling | November 07, 2007 at 08:14 AM