Classmates.com is fascinating. New people, new problems to solve, and a opportunity so big it -- well, it's big. I've been so caught up in it, I've largely unplugged from every other connection. There's good and bad in that. The good is this: unplug for...

After 105 good years at Microsoft, I'm leaving. That would be 15 ordinary human years. I'll leave the explanation of the multiple to your imagination. Classmates.com was gracious enough to offer me what I consider to be a dream job. However, I don't think...

I don't talk as much about social bookmarking as I used to. Even for me, it's in the shadow of those few lumbering social software giants. In my own defense, it really is hard to tear your attention away from the headlines -- to stop slurping the kool...

TheNextWeb posted a good review of Toluu . Briefly, Toluu is about feed sharing. Looks great. And frankly, I'm far more interested in these sorts of things than I am the "centralization of decentralized me" style services (I believe Solis might have said...

Friendfeed : The good part here is that it's clear they understand we'll all be streaming our behaviors via many different online services. Our online persona's will not be limited to one site . Therefore, for me anyway, I can imagine Friendfeed stealing...

http://redplasticmonkey.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/notes-from-the-online-community-roundtable-312-microsoft/ I have to agree with Bill, there were some smart people there, and the conversation was lively. We'll have to do it again sometime. Some other links...

I've been attracted recently to ideas that bridge the gap between possibility and short-term practicality. The game is managing the evolution of an innovation. It goes like this: first, what is this thing; second, how does it help me do what I already...

I do a lot -- a very lot -- of work with teams whose members are not co-located. That's why I'm aways on the look out for new tools that might improve communications. Because it's usually development projects, the stakes are high -- miscommunication is...

As anyone that knows me heard, I've become a believer that a social computing experience resting upon a semantic web style infrastructure (RDF, OWL, SPARQL, etc.) has the potential to deliver an Internet first: a full featured information worker social...

I've been quiet lately. Partly it's because I've so much work work to do, that it's impacted my free thinking time. On the other hand, I seem to have the opportunity to build some new and interesting things at work, so what's to really complain about...

Both of the services my team supports have made it to the Webware 100 voting stage. Now it's up to the voting public to pick winners. Results will be announced at the Web 2.0 Expo April 22nd through the 25th. Very cool. Caste your vote today.   Vote...

Conceptually, I started down this road years ago. The term myspace, to me, was always something owned by the MySpace organization and was certainly not "my space". Alas, connecting personal internet properties of the blog/site kind such that the user...

http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/2047/

Here are a few diagnostic questions. When you answer “yes” to any of these, remind yourself what your larger goals are to get out of the trenches, and shift from comparing yourself to your direct peers and compare yourself on a larger stage instead. Is...

Interesting. Some adjustments are finally surfacing. My exposure to PR professionals to date has suggested to me that they were taking an evolutionary approach to understanding and reacting to the online social experience. That's understandable, but not...

Interested in next generation CRM? Check out this thread . I should probably point out that Fili and I are on the same team.

I just finished Anne Truitt Zelenka's new book. Connect!: Web Worker Daily's Guide to a New Way of Working by Anne Truitt Zelenka Read more about this title... I enjoyed it. I learned a few new tricks. Not to mention that any author mentioning Smart World...

I was asked recently how I evaluated alternative proposals. The question was asked in the context of social systems designs. And while there are a number of considerations that apply to social systems specifically, that in no way obviates the need for...

I had to check this out. After all, I've been suggesting that at the highest level what we're doing with the internet is creating a virtual version of the physical world. The differences, I suggest (and one of the spaces for innovation), are all about...

http://coworking.pbwiki.com/

Thanks Fili, this was a great find. http://www.dontclick.it/ There are always alternatives worth exploring.

Before the holidays I made the following promise: However, to put all of this in context, I've decided to share the planning process itself -- how we think about planning social computing initiatives. It's my hope that clarifies how we make investment...

http://www.breathingearth.net/

You have to do it. You have to separate yourself from what you're passionate about. Especially if you're passionate about it. The consequences for remaining plugged in and active are significant. Well, they may be significant, it's hard to say given that...

How do you make God laugh? Tell him your plans. Woody Allen.