In the context of social software applications like blogs, there are two kinds of tags: categories/in line keywords and collaborative tags. Josh Ledgard seems to be talking about the former, owner-controlled tagging , in his recent post. The latter, reader...

My teammate Betsy, the czarina of blog , will be speaking at TechEd 2005 in Amsterdam about Microsoft's corporate blogging effort, tools, and platform. Betsy has been herding Microsoft BlogCats for least as long as I've been blogging in the wild as a...

Brian Valentine, VP of Microsoft's Windows Division, made a rip roaringly funny video for the Microsoft Company meeting three or four years ago wherein he dances through the halls of Microsoft with BIG BLUE things (representing heavyweight solutions to...

At the Social Computing Symposium last week, I stumbled into a discussion that I had not given much thought to and made a brazen claim based on a gut level reaction of disgust to the proposed value of "back channels" in social software. Doing so was like...

A few observations of the Microsoft Social Computing Symposium, held in Redmond, WA in April 2004....