CSWE Roundup – 12 Feb 10

by SuwFebruary 12, 2010

Oops, forgot to do my Computer Weekly: The Social Enterprise round-up last week, so here are two week’s worth of links for you.
Asymmetry: The problem with social networks
Shoot the alpha males
Does your personality influence how you use the web?
Listening – Connecting – Publishing
IntraTeam 2010
How important is Twitter to your blog’s traffic stats?
Report: Pew’s Social [...]

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Google Buzz: Not fit for purpose

by SuwFebruary 11, 2010

Please see update at bottom of post!
There has been, ahem, quite a bit of buzz about Google Buzz since they started rolling it out across the Gmail network a few days ago. I first saw an invitation to it when I logged into my inbox yesterday evening. Being curious, I accepted Google’s invitation to try [...]

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Time to sign up to Ada Lovelace Day 2010

by SuwFebruary 8, 2010

Last year, over 3500 people pledged to support Ada Lovelace Day, the international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. Over 1200 people added their link to our map mash-up and we got lots of coverage in the national press and even appeared on the BBC News Channel. Women’s [...]

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Lessons in statistics

by SuwFebruary 7, 2010

This week brought two really fascinating insights into the world of statistics. The first was from a most unusual source: The Daily Mail (not my usual read – the link was posted to the Bad Science forum). They had run with the story Cracked it! Woman finds six double yolk eggs in one box beating [...]

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Newspapers and Microsoft: Dysfunctional corporate cultures and the fall of empires

by KevinFebruary 4, 2010

Steve Yelvington flagged up a comment piece on the New York Times from Dick Brass, a vice president at Microsoft from 1997 until 2004. Brass worked on Microsoft’s tablet PC efforts, something I remember covering at Comdex in 2002. Despite a huge push by Microsoft, they never became mainstream outside of a few niche applications, [...]

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The Impenetrable Layer of Suck

by SuwFebruary 4, 2010

Kevin spotted a great Tweet yesterday from Peter Corbett:

And I’m afraid I just couldn’t contain the geologist within (click to see full size):

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CSWE Roudup – 29 Jan 10

by SuwJanuary 29, 2010

Herewith your weekly dose of links!
What can a dating site teach enterprise?
In praise of messiness and noise
Embrace your daydreams
The iPad – a social computer?
Are you T-shaped?
Dante’s Internet

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The iPad is a content strategy

by KevinJanuary 28, 2010

As a geek and a journalist who often covers technology, I pay attention to the gigabytes and gigahertz that most people don’t. To be honest, in the era of giga-computing, the average user can’t really tell the different between a dual-core computer running at 2.3Ghz or 3.2Ghz. It does whatever they need it to.
The tech [...]

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CWSE Roundup – 22 Jan 10

by SuwJanuary 22, 2010

For your reading pleasure this week, from The Social Enterprise:
Social media and productivity
Privacy is not dead
Melcrum survey reveals widespread use of social media behind the firewall
Making the case for internal community managers
Customer outreach doesn’t trump genuine change
Enjoy!

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Christian Crumlish on Social Design Patterns

by SuwJanuary 20, 2010

Last night I went to a great talk by Christian Crumlish about the Yahoo! Pattern Library and social design patterns. Christian has a book, co-authored by Erin Malone, out at the moment on O’Reilly, Designing Social Interfaces, from which part of this talk was drawn.
Brief history of patterns
Design patterns – concept of a pattern language [...]

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