Some good reminders

Andrew McAfee has posted some interesting articles on the adoption of E2.0 applications. His most recent post, Is Management the Problem?, seems, inadvertently, to be a pretty good summary of these posts.

Is this just because he's been right all along ;-)?

I'm convinced that our success with news feeds (RSS et al) is due, in no small part, to getting senior management to experience it and use it. I can see the same pattern emerging (oops, no pun intended) with some E2.0 apps, although I'm not prepared to say which here.

Nokia that Symbian

Wow, this is interesting.

Nokia Corp. Resources | ZDNet

Nokia is to buy out Symbian and set up a new open-source platform with Motorola, Sony Ericsson and NTT DoCoMo, forming a major rival to Google's Android The mobile open-source world suddenly has a very major new player, after it emerged on Tuesday that the Symbian, Series...

587 days

Got this in my inbox today.

Hello from Weebly!

It looks like it's been 587 days, 21 hours, 57 minutes and 37 seconds since you last logged in...

Of course I'd completely forgotten what Weebly was all about and what my password was. The Weebly folk did something clever that I've not seen before, they included in the email a link to log in if I have forgotten my password. With the barrier to entry so lowered I clicked the link.

I remember this site, which 587.92 days ago was unusable. It's a simple web site editor and was usable enough for me to have a quick play and publish. You can create two types of content - pages and blogs (although you'll probably only have one of the latter). It reminds me a bit of jotspot, which is based on a wiki model.

Unless you fear the evil of Google I'd use Google Sites.

Social Network Fatigue

Not for the first time I received yet another invite to Naymz. I just don't want to get into yet-another-social-networking-tool (just crying out for an acronym - YASNT).

Anyway, all the people who have invited me so far are people I'm connected to with Linked-In. Where's the added value?

So far I've just declined. Nothing personal, you understand.

Youtube Warp

I've only just noticed that when you view a youtube video in full screen you can click on the Warp icon and explore related videos in a way reminiscent of Digg's visualisations. Nice.

Google generation

This interesting report on the British Library web site was pointed out to me recently. It does a good job of debunking some of the myths that I have heard perpetuated about Gen Y.

Dark clouds approaching

Do we have a problem looming? With the popularisation of folksonomies as a means of categorisation will we see tag clouds being built into several applications and how will we (and will we want to) join these clouds?

I fear the worst. Is there a standard XML expression for a tag cloud? I haven't found one.