Aaron took us through his work, from his student days at UCLA where he worked on projects including the visualization of US flight patterns , to his work at Yahoo! There’s a lot of information on the video, and the video itself, at the Google Code site , including a ‘Making of’ video that explains the process. And in response to a question asked by someone in the audience, Aaron also said that visualizing day-to-day data, Data visualization artist Aaron Koblin gave a talk at BBH London yesterday which, being in the same building, we were lucky enough to be able to attend.  and now

Why the Future of Corporate Computing is ‘Informal’ by Joe McKendrick December 1, 2007 at 6:07 pm · Filed under 2.0 Design Thinking , Barriers , Enterprise 2.0 , Enterprise Software , Facebook , IT Department , Information Management , Messy World , Social Computing , Web 2.0 Nick Carr may be down on IT, but he’s hot on social networking software. The author of IT Doesn’t Matter has sparred frequently with Harvard colleague Andrew McAfee on the value of Enterprise 2.0, but makes the following

Critical Information Studies For a Participatory Culture (Part One) Last thought I would share my remarks for the “critical information studies” panel through the blog since they represent a pretty good summary of some of the things I’ve been thinking about and working on over the past few years. Tim O’Reilly’s original essay encoded the “best practices” of those companies (Amazon, Yahoo, Google, among them) which had survived the dotcom meltdown, offering Henry Jenkins posted this today about participatory culture: APRIL 8,

Yahoo’s Personal Blog Guidelines for staff  [link] defamation, anti competitor, inaccuracies, disclosure, proprietary information, company secrets and IP, wasting time, inappropriate behaviour, rudeness, revealing personal information and so on Tone IS important - is it fun to read, informative and everyday speech? Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on.

See this great presentation from Bryce Glass of Yahoo for more detail. User management The platform provides the opportunity for centralized management of user data and permissions, including authentication, account management, personalization, segmentation, and behavioral targeting. User data can provide the connective link among multiple social networking implementations (personal, business group). Content owned by a user can be shared among these via permissions or syndication. Identity services A unified data repository means an individual user can

Can be subscribed to as an RSS ffed. · UberVU - Track and engage with user sentiment across the likes of, FriendFeed, Digg, Picasa, Twitter and Flickr. · wikiAlarm – Alerts you to when a Wikipedia entry has been changed. · Yahoo! Sideline – A TweetDeck-esque tool from Yahoo. Paid Apps · TruCast - provides in-depth, keyword-based monitoring When my sister was learning to cross the road, family lore has it that she dutifully stood back from the kerb, listened, looked, then walked across with ears cocked, checking left and right just as she should. They thought she had it cracked

We wrote earlier this week that the big social news aggregator model (Digg, Yahoo! While most users will probably always want some presence on big sites, the potential is there to have the majority of communication online occur in a targeted niche community of people interested in and informed about the specific topics that an individual is interested in. Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick | February 28, 2008 5:54 PM RWW SPONSORS Grab this swicki from ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives Wikia Open Sources Social Networking - Focused Networking Now Open to All Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 28, 2008 10:22 AM / 6 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » Wikia , the independent commercial wiki site

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