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An invitation to an experiment in learning

I'm broadening my horizons and building some web development expertise -- asp.net development specifically. I have two reasons for this interest. First, I used to do some Windows development and I mis...

New job, similar role

I've left the Windows Server Community Team and joined the Microsoft.com Communities Team. Some things change. Some things remain the same. I'm trying to keep TheWorkingNetwork. It seems clear that ...

The SBS team rocks -- and they're fun to work with too.

For the last few days I've been conducting interviews, taking photos, editing video, and loading it all up in anticipation of the re-launch of the SBS Support blog -- soon to be the SBS Team Blog. I ...

Magnolia reviewed for IT Professionals

Ma.gnolia is a brand new social bookmarking service. The service is testimony to the fact that being first is not necessarily best. The Magnolia team seems to have successfully collected many of the b...

Mobile Social Bookmarking

Got a smartphone? Mobilicio.usbeta...

Work is, well, work -- sometimes anyway

It's true. My original content posting has been a little light recently. The reason deals with the fact that posting is only a part of the TWN program. It happens to be my favorite part, but...

Tagging locations: Flagr, brand new and looking like fun.

From the Flagr site: The Story Flagr is a small web startup operating out of San Francisco, California. It was founded in late 2005 by three young entrepreneurs who shared a vision one so strong t...

Publishers that get it. Social Bookmarking takes a steps towards the mainstream.

Just in case you missed this last week... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/washpostblog/2006/02/washingtonpostcom_partners_wit.html From The Blog Herald Washingtonpost.com is now working with Yah...

People are beginning to catch on.

I could not have said it better myself:From a white paper titled: The Next Wave in Productivity Tools - Web Office"They are young. They are smart. And they are better connected than anyone you have e...

Internet Citizen Training Ground

I try to follow Danah Boyd's work. I find it articulate, insightful, and genuine. Thanks to James Farmer and his incorporated subversion blog, I found the text version of a presentation&nbs...

PeerProfile: Sounds Promising

It's invitation only at this point, and I've not received an invitation. But I love the idea. This is from their Learn More page: Learn More At PeerProfile We provide a social platform in whi...

Peer Discovery in the Long Tail

Here's the deal. I'm not sure of this post myself. I'm trying to crystallize an uneasiness I feel about the notion of applying ranking concepts to service feed discovery in the Long Tail of personal p...

Podcast: Larry Cone IT Project Manager - blogger - guy that gets it.

Larry Cone is an veteran IT Project Manager. His resume includes well over 100 projects, some of which you may know about, or have seen on TV.You can find his blog in a couple of places. He started on...

Of Citizens, Pioneers, and Indiginous populations.

What's the hardest thing about TheWorkingNetwork program? That's easy: trying to explain to Internet pioneers, the nature of Internet citizens, and the benefits of citizenship. It's a problem that's p...

Interview with the Mayor of Vladville (he's going to hate that)

Vlad Mazak is an IT professional and a blogger. He owns his own IT business, is the Vlad in the Vladville blog, and is a principle for the SBS Show. Vlad's blogs are both useful and entertaining -- w...

Naked Conversations

I had a chance to read Naked Conversations : How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers (by Shel Israel and our own Robert Scoble) over the weekend. It exceeded my expectations, an...

An academic take on "why social bookmarking"

A social analysis of tagging (or how tagging transforms the solitary browsing experience into a social one)...

Just in case you haven't yet -- check out Eventful

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Brian Dear. Brian is the founder and CEO of EVDB. I know them better as Eventful. Eventful is a tagging solution for events. It's a bit like del.icio.us or ...

Time to come clean.

TWN The Inside StoryWhat Ive shared about the TheWorkingNetwork to date deals mostly with encouraging IT professionals to read blogs, plug into social bookmarking, and to manage it all with some sort...

Connotea -- Reviewed for IT Professionals

Connotea makes it clear from the start what they're all about, and how their service is different from other social bookmarking services. From their welcome page:"This is Connotea, a free online refe...

del.icio.us -- Reviewed for IT Professionals

When you talk social bookmarking you talk del.icio.us.  They defined the category and remain the most popular bookmarking service. I chose to review them first because as you'll see, they're st...

Vista Application Compatibility

Will My Applications Work on Windwos Vista?Josh's blog is the latest entry into my Windows Vista category. ...

I love this blog...

Creating Passionate Users.I guess it's clear from the name of the blog why I might find it appealing. It's not really about technology, so I wasn't going to mention it. However, the post on learning h...

Changes, new faces, the show goes on...

The Buddhists have about a gazillion sayings about change. But if I may, and apologies in advance to any Buddhist philosophers that might take issue with my simplification, they all boil down to the f...

Progress on the Social Bookmarking Service Review -- Criteria

Social Bookmarking Service Review.The following tables represent a first cut at the criteria we'll be using to evaluate social bookmarking services. The current thinking is that we'll score each of th...

Back to work...

I hope your holidays were great. Mine worked just like they're supposed to -- I'm jazzed, pumped, ready to roll, and so on and so forth. Taking a break every so often ought to be a law - or at least a...

And still waiting for the Long Tail main course...

Sorry for the wait sir. May I take your order Yes please, I'll start with a top-o-the-power-curve appetizer, and have the Long Tail for my main course. Not familiar with the "Long Tail" I read about...

Partnerships to fill out the networks -- Culminis Podcast

I've been spending some time recently with the Culminis organization. If you're thinking of starting a user group, you should check them out -- it's amazing what you can get just by asking. In any ev...

Search vs. Discovery

Internet search is cool. But to the extent its success has become integral to our most common use cases, a matter of habit in both thought and deed, it has limited us. [] Search was the paradig...

Taking time to listen and respond.

I've received a number of comments that claim Ive been a little too wordy okay, maybe a lot too wordy in my explanations. Im sorry to report its not the first time Ive been accused of verbosity. I a...

Professionals that get it...

It's changing -- slowly, but it is changing. Social bookmarking is making it's way from the fringe towards center stage. Here's a blog entry offered by a science reporter. Declan's comments include ...

New Communications Channels and Business Processes

Something to consider... I am hoping that in time a small group of people will surface that want to pursue the creative application of social software services in business management contexts. It wou...

The Public vs. Private Tag Debate

The debate involving the ability to make a tag private (as opposed to visible to anyone looking) may have a significant impact on the reviews Im undertaking. If you recall I published an outline of th...

Blogs on Microsoft Directory Services

Ulf has posted an update to his efforts to document the creation of a trusted network on the subject of Microsoft Directory Services. The feeds he lists in the xml file referenced in his blog will f...

Vista Trusted Network -- Trusted at Last

In case youre new to the Vista Network Seeding Category, this is an experiment in trusted network creation. Using the OPML-o-mater (OPML is an xml-based file format used by most feed aggregators to, ...

Finally -- Flash explanations of key concepts

We've just completed a few Flash demonstrations we hope make the ideas we're promoting a little easier to understand. If they look suspiciously like Powerpoint -- that's because they are. However, we ...

Post Categories -- What to with them.

This is a weird sort of blog and we know it.  On the one hand, its about getting new people blogging, reading blogs, tagging, and using aggregators to organize and manage it all. On the other h...

Design for Possibility

Its often said that when a man talks about religion you end up learning more about the man than you do about religion. From the following you will learn that I dont mind adding my voice to the chorus ...

So what's up with the in-line comments

This is how it goes. I've been traveling this week. I attended the Corante Symposium on Social Architecture on Tuesday. On Wednesday I had the opportunity to meet with the OMG busy people at the Culmi...

Seattle Mind Camp -- an OPML-o-mater concern

I had the opportunity to attend the Seattle Mind Camp event last weekend. Around 120 people all interested in innovation, new technology, and  ideas, along with several rooms, a large hall, some ...

Getting down to business with Social Bookmarking

Compared to using the favorites feature (or the bookmark feature if youre favorably inclined towards the road-less-traveled browsers) social bookmarking is a no-brainer. Not to put too fine a point on...

My new Windows Vista network not trusted quite yet.

But its getting there. The current version of the OPML file is here. You can also get it using the OPML-o-mater. Five of the original feeds are gone no recent action. Thats one of the things about a ...

Today we are one man stronger -- feel the surge in the force...

We do indeed have a volunteer to take on the task of demonstrating a Windows Directory Services trust network. Ulf B. SimonWeidner Ulfs Profile @ MS.com Languages and Competencies ...

Humble beginnings

Rough day. I started out on my quest to plug into the Windows Vista network. Of course, plugging in assumes the network already exists in some form. I suppose that would have been too easy. I don't ...

Laundry List of Activities Planned

We've described who we are, shared our goals, talked about strategy, and showed off the OPML-o-mater (and I promise to get to user documentation very soon, for anyone that might care). What's next Lot...

We use the term social software -- so what does that mean

Fair question if ever I heard one. And related to that is, how does that relate to Web 2.0 Perhaps that's even more fair. And I do wish I had the definitive answers. Lots of folks are debating this ri...

Starting Out -- Overview and Defining Terms

The Hypothesis: RSS_readers + Blogs + Social_Bookmarking  = finishing_work_on_time = professional_happiness Stated otherwise, get yourself an RSS Reader, find the right blogs, plug into social...

Why blogging and tagging/social bookmarking works

creative enough to sit you down hard. Same story, more detail: Microsoft itself publishes a mountain of data, and Microsoft data is only a fraction of the total amount of informatio...

Three steps to plugged in -- three more to fully integrated

First, get yourself an RSS feedreader. Here are the links to several: RSSReaderSharpReaderFeedReaderAmphetaDeskNewsGatorRSS BanditPluck Second, visit the OPML-o-mater and generate an OPML file that...

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