I've been experimenting with Facebook -- like some 18.5 million others. My four main conclusions (and an observation) follow: It has personal social value -- that is, I enjoy keeping up with my friends, and almost friends. At the moment, it's not much...

Audio Interview with Nova Spivack about Twine "Google's mission is to organize the worlds information. Our mission is to organize your information." That makes too much sense. I can't wait to see Twine. Nova has some interesting things to say and the...

My social network popped this one to the top recently. It's from Craig's Rantings... . It's about a customer's revelation, and a video metaphor: http://craig.cmehil.com/2007/10/understanding.html .

I can't see much of Twine . It's in private beta. So clearly, it's too soon to say for sure, but from the spin they sound like they've started in the right place and have a good idea where they want to go. I've signed up for the beta. I wonder if they...

I forget the exact quote, and I'm too lazy to look it up, but it goes something like this: yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities. That's one of the things I was thinking of when I read this post from Online Spin called "Are you suffering from Socialnetworkitis...

I've been giving more thought lately to successful innovation in a large organization. Having been successful, not-so-successful, and having failed, on a variety of teams in a number of different areas, I'm feeling good about this hypothesis. I'm a little...

Tier Three Design, or if you like you could call it a social layer, is going mainstream. I even blogged about it recently -- something I don't do until I'm confident the idea is well on its way and there's no competitive advantage to holding onto it....

I've been waiting for someone to integrate attention stream data with a more general social networking service. I'm really curious how it will work out. Check out Slifeshare . Tracking browser behavior is a curious thing. A while back, during my days...

As you may know, I count myself (someone must) among those focused on the realization of the social web. It's an exploration and a service -- the two things I'm most passionate about. Anyway, a necessary part of that effort will be the redesign of the...

I've moved to the Office Live team and I couldn't be happier about it. For years now I've been focused on social computing solutions in one way or another. Most recently, I've lead a team of product managers defining next generation social computing tools...