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Social graph analytics for the *benefit* of users
10 March 09 09:55 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Angus Logan, a Product Manager on the Live Services team, came out with an interesting post recently on address book portability between social sites/services.  The thrust of his argument is that the various address book repositories in the world Read More...

Filed under: social networking, consumer value stream

When information is not scarce, what does it mean to know?
16 November 07 05:10 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Another very interesting video here from the folks at Kansas State University that did the Academia 2.0 post and initial response . (BTW, the first video on the linked page IS the Academia 2.0 video, so be sure scroll down to the second video.) Similar Read More...

Filed under: complexity science, adaptive, change, learning, uncertainty, social networking, computing is a liberal art, knowledge, cyborg

Windows Live: where it's at, where it's going
14 November 07 10:52 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

LiveSide just posted a podcast interview with Angus Logan . You can also get to it from Angus' own blog , which is worth the trip in any case. Angus is the Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Live Platform and the main go-to guy for Windows Live Read More...

Filed under: social networking, Windows Live

» The next big thing: User-contributed metadata ... and More...
04 November 07 02:37 AM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

Kind of a "roundup" post. First, this user-contributed metadata business. More the evolution of loyalty cards than of user-contributed media online, I think. . The next big thing: User-contributed metadata | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com . Will we see Read More...

Filed under: change, social networking, computing is a liberal art, cyborg

Building brand and transcending walled gardens
30 October 07 01:46 AM | john.mullinax | 16 Comments   

Ok - so I've been posting about Popfly a lot lately. Why am I so excited about Popfly? It's simple, actually. Popfly is more than a mashup maker. And it's more than a Mashout tool (for sharing mashups) -- though it is that, too. What makes Popfly so exciting Read More...

Filed under: innovation, User Experience, social networking, silverlight, Popfly, Brand, FaceBook, Windows Live

How to make Facebook app with Popfly
25 October 07 12:44 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Tom Foremski has a post on ZDNet that talks about how easy it is to make a Facebook app with Popfly .  It's a good post in it's own right, but I especially like that he also includes two videos with Dan Fernandez (a Product Manager on the team building Read More...

Filed under: social networking, Popfly

Optimizing the consumer value stream
03 July 07 11:33 PM | john.mullinax | 6 Comments   

Technorati Tags: systems thinking , lean , consumer experience , web 2.0 , next web , loyalty Are you thinking about your consumers' personal value stream?  The businesses I generally work with are familiar with the notion of a value chain or a value Read More...

Filed under: change, lean, UX, User Experience, consumer experience, social networking, mashups

2-D Barcodes: Siren Song or Beach Party?
05 June 07 01:44 AM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

Jon Box posted some about 2D barcodes a couple weeks back. In that post he threw down the gauntlet, challenging me to identify a set of business scenarios -- beyond the great examples he already listed -- that could leverage this technology to create Read More...

Filed under: embedded, grocery business, social networking, phones, rfid, barcodes, mobile, cameras

Want more info on Popfly?
04 June 07 05:46 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

I recently got into the Popfly alpha, and have been playing around with it off and on for the last week or two. Here's a screenshot of a simple, compact News Reader that pulls in RSS feeds from the blogs of the members of the Microsoft's DPE team that Read More...

Filed under: UX, User Experience, Design, consumer experience, social networking, silverlight, Popfly

Popfly - new Silverlight mash-up maker - is now alpha!
21 May 07 03:18 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Popfly is a new tool from Microsoft for people who have great some ideas about how to use technology, but might lack the software development skills to realize them. Basically, it's a fun and easy way to build and share mash-ups, gadgets and Web pages Read More...

Filed under: social networking, mashups, silverlight, Popfly