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Sunday, August 17, 2008 5:58 PM

The good and bad of unplugging

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
Posted by bobreb | 2 Comments
Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:08 PM

Time to dance to a different tune

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
Posted by bobreb | 1 Comments
Saturday, May 10, 2008 7:10 PM

Social Bookmarking, I forgot, I just forgot.

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-aide-of-the-day.
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Monday, March 31, 2008 4:08 PM

Toluu, now we're talkin useful, sort-of, maybe

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
Posted by bobreb | 2 Comments
Sunday, March 30, 2008 5:23 PM

Friendfeed or Socialthing or what

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
Posted by bobreb | 1 Comments
Sunday, March 23, 2008 12:52 AM

Online Community Roundtable

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:
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Saturday, March 22, 2008 7:27 PM

Bridging the gap between possibility and practicality

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
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:42 AM

Long distance meeting tools

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
Posted by bobreb | 3 Comments
Sunday, March 09, 2008 4:20 AM

The Twine Drama continues

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
Posted by bobreb | 1 Comments
Saturday, March 08, 2008 8:31 PM

Quotes and explanations

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?
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:21 PM

Webware 100 Productivity Finalist

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
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 8:54 PM

Facebook will someday fade, will you?

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
Posted by bobreb | 3 Comments
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:06 PM

Free tools for students, I'm impressed with DreamSpark

http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/2047/
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 8:08 PM

A little inspiration I happened upon

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
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:48 PM

SMR -- Social Media Release

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
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