8apps.com is now closed Thank you all for using the site. It was quite a cool idea, right? Sadly to continue Im not in the mood, Fod I have a new love now - foo

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Many people trying many metrics. one gives too many high scores, another spits out way too many around the median, and still others are easy "to game." IMHO, the best metric so far is Retweet Rank -- it is not perfect, nor complete, but it gets at a key aspect of Twitter -- what is interesting, what are people paying attention to, what is useful and who is sharing all of that. If someone re-tweets what you posted/tweeted then that is a vote of attention/quality -- if many people re-tweet you, or the re-tweet the person that already There are many interesting discussions happening on Twitter in the last few weeks.

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Kennedy and the French Revolution » 16/06/07 | Why people dont use collaboration tools By Shawn . Interestingly only a few people got involved and the discussion hasnt progressed much over the last few weeks. Heres Daves list: Most people are still unfamiliar with the tools in the middle and right columns. Home What we do Keynote Speaking About Us Whitepapers Anecdote Associates Clients Contact us Categories Anecdotes Blogging Books Change management Collaboration Communities of practice Complexity Culture Expertise location Facilitation Fun Intervention design Knowledge Knowledge circulation Most Significant Change Narrative News Newsletter Open space Questions Quotes Sensemaking Social networks Storytelling Strategy « The war for talent | Main | John F.

This piece explores well why people read and trust reviews, and the value of both positive and negative reviews. In fact, negative reviews can help people decide if a product might be for them, especially if they don’t associate themselves with the negative reviewer (”it wasn’t for them, but it might be for me”). What is explored in less depth in the article is why people would write reviews in the first place. In the latest Technology Quarterly in this week’s edition of the Economist , there is an article about reviews online . John McAteer,

Solution Watch 8apps: Social Networking for Productive People Last year I had selected the task management solution Orchestrate as a top pick in 25 To Do Lists to Stay Productive . Now Tokyo based startup Jonkenpon, creator of Orchestrate, has launched a service called 8apps which aims to be a social network for productive people. The idea is to create There are currently three applications available in the 8apps suite with five more to come. The first three applications are Handshake, Orchestrate and Blueprint offering social networking, task management and brainstorming.

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Research released by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) in the UK suggests that people are growing increasingly tired of requests to join brand pages or install brand applications in Facebook and other social networks . With so many people saying they are turned of by invites to join pages, install applications or join groups, brands need to work harder to get a consumer’s attention and to get them to engage with them. The research found that almost two in every three of the 2,000 respondents to the survey were fed up with the constant requests to join groups and try new applications.

The fact is that even though people monitor each others’ content in the networks, it takes them to cross a certain barrier to start commenting, making contact with the authors, becoming really involved in the networks with people, not with artifacts only. Question is why does /scientific/ matchmaking (with papers and artifacts) in networks end so rarely with actual dating (synthesizing something great with real people, becoming to know and work with them)? Tonight i started to think of the nature of networks , but particularly of the transformations that take place while we go from one type of network to another type.