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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:08 AM

Amazon and social software

Josh has an excellent post reviewing Amazon's investments in social software. (Thanks also to Brian for all the analysis ). I agree they're good, and we've taken a number of clues from them including a hard-core focus on purpose-driven social software
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:12 AM

Information Design for the New Web

Great post by Infotangle. "Information design for the Web has changed. People are changing the way that they consume online information, as well as their expectations about its delivery. The social nature of the Web brings with it an expectation of interaction
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 1:05 AM

One reason Microsoft cares about the new community services

Here's an article I wrote explaining a few of the reasons customers should care about the new community services we've built. Microsoft should care, and does, for a variety of reasons. Most of them having to do with customers being happier, better connected,
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:48 AM

The tools of flow and the value of community

This article describes the value of the next generation of Microsoft community investments to the customer. Actually it does so three times: short, medium, and large. Short and sweet answer: In the experience of most people, the internet makes available
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Sunday, April 15, 2007 8:19 PM

As the nose on your face...

I just finished a book by Edward Castronova called Synthetic Worlds. Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games by Edward Castronova Read more about this title... It's about online games. It's one of the best books I've seen on the subject.
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Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:40 AM

Facebook notes

So I join Facebook . I'm doing their thing for about five minutes, and I discover an old college/post-college buddy I don't really speak to all that often anymore. You know the story: kids, jobs, other crap. So I ask him to be my friend (at that point
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Monday, April 09, 2007 3:02 AM

Join me in Facebook -- I have no friends.

I admit I'm experimenting. I've joined Facebook. I'm bobreb -- join me if you like and we can check this thing out... In recent months I've been studying social "spaces". Because it's an aspect of my, for what it's worth, "creative" approach -- and I
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Sunday, April 08, 2007 11:41 PM

Firefox Innovation -- Coop looks cool.

This quote from TechCrunch' s post on a new project in Firefox land : " Adding a friend will mean getting access to a broad array of their published web content ." The only drawback is that this is clearly designed for sharing content with "friends".
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Saturday, April 07, 2007 8:06 PM

A Microsoft guy that gets it...

One of the best things about traversing social spaces on the web, is the thrill of discovery. Sean's blog is right on target for me and this post describes the value of tagging, or " tag-drafting " as well as anything I've ever read. Thanks Sean.
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Saturday, April 07, 2007 3:36 PM

The Polish Subsidiary and the Customer Experience

The visit to the Polish subsidiary was a highlight of the trip. I've never been to Warsaw, and in a certain sense was only marginally there this time. I arrived late one night and was up the next morning and back in a taxi for the subsidiary offices.
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 9:28 PM

This should be a good event...

It's hosted by Forum One Communications . The event is called the Online Community Business Forum 2007 . They've been kind enough to allow me to host one of the sessions. I'm really looking forward to it. I've been following their blogs for a while. Bill
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 8:47 PM

In Munich

So my meetings in Europe continue... I was in Munich from around 8:30 AM until 6:30 PM flying in from Paris and out to Warsaw the same day. Minor case of the sniffles showing up. The German team was a lot of fun. Again, I'm just floored at the level of
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 8:30 PM

In Paris...

So I'm on this tour meeting with the community leads in the Microsoft subsidiaries, and some of their partners and community owners and members, in and around Europe. On Tuesday I had the opportunity to speak with the Wunderman 's Microsoft account team.
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