Collaboration Cafetag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-243742004-04-08T11:54:38-06:00TypePadMicrosoft Uses Social Software to Talk to Partnerstag:typepad.com,2003:post-11804462004-04-08T11:54:38-06:002004-04-08T11:54:38-06:00Microsoft has launched Channel 9, a website for third party developers which combines blogs, wikis and discussion forums. Site rules emphasize courtesy, thoughtfulness and refraining from mercantile behavior. "Channel 9 is all about the conversation," according to the posted rules....Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/04/microsoft_has_l.htmlExecutives Blog for Dollarstag:typepad.com,2003:post-11462702004-04-02T11:18:48-07:002004-04-02T11:18:48-07:00The top two executives of the Association of National Advertisers now host weblogs to communicate with members. The association represents 340 companies that spend about $100 billion a year in marketing communications. Says CEO and novice blogger Robert Liodice, "We...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/04/the_top_two_exe.htmlReturn of Coffee House Culturetag:typepad.com,2003:post-11429402004-04-01T17:23:07-07:002004-04-01T17:23:07-07:00Last week in Britain, the ancient Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce celebrated its 250th birthday by launching a nationwide series of coffee-house debates in partnership with Starbucks. Penny Egan, the society's executive director, has assigned...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/04/last_week_the_a.htmlThe Meta-Weblogtag:typepad.com,2003:post-11421152004-04-01T13:40:52-07:002004-04-01T13:40:52-07:00Kinja is a new online service that automatically compiles digests of weblogs covering specific subject areas like politics, baseball or China. Short excerpts from the blogs are included, with links to the complete entries on the individual blog sites. After...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/04/the_meta_weblog.htmlTrading Privacy for Improved Communicationtag:typepad.com,2003:post-11221362004-03-29T16:55:08-07:002004-03-29T16:55:08-07:00In online networked environments, everything we do can be monitored. Absent the cues that establish social context in the manifest world, social software systems ask us to strike a bargain. If individuals agree to work transparently, they (and their employers)...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/the_social_ente.htmlMerging Social Networking and Searchtag:typepad.com,2003:post-10939272004-03-23T17:09:38-07:002004-03-23T17:09:38-07:00Google plans to integrate Orkut, an "invitation only" social networking site, into it's search services. Launched in February, Orkut has already signed up about 150,000 members. Says Google CEO Eric Schmidt, "One of the problems with search is you can't...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/google_plans_to.htmlBuilding Reputational Capitaltag:typepad.com,2003:post-10762022004-03-22T22:42:00-07:002004-03-22T22:42:00-07:00In his new book, Building Reputational Capital, Fordham University professor Kevin Jackson argues that ''integrity and fair play'' have tangible and profitable benefits. In a marketplace increasingly cynical about business after scandals at Enron, WorldCom and the like, Mr. Jackson...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/_march_21_2004_2.htmlThe Truth-telling Machinetag:typepad.com,2003:post-10761212004-03-21T21:51:00-07:002004-03-21T21:51:00-07:00According to research by Cornell professor Jeffrey Hancock, we fib less frequently when we're online than when we're talking in person. Hancock asked a sampling of his undergraduates to record all of their communications -- and all of their lies...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/_march_21_2004_1.htmlTwenty First Century Ad Agencytag:typepad.com,2003:post-10754512004-03-20T16:41:28-07:002004-03-20T16:41:28-07:00Throughout the twentieth century most ad campaigns depended upon the following practices: demographic analyses by marketers, media selection by media planners, ad placement by media buyers, and then analysis of results by agency executives. All told, a campaign and it's...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/in_todays_conve.htmlCorporate Blogging Takes Offtag:typepad.com,2003:post-10736112004-03-20T08:35:36-07:002004-03-20T08:35:36-07:00Corporate America is jumping onto the blogwagon, using weblogs both to market products and for knowledge management. Unlike email and instant messaging, blogs let employees post comments in real-time that can be seen by many and mined for information with...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/blogs_were_once.htmlThe Mobile Dating Gametag:typepad.com,2003:post-10649342004-03-18T15:18:00-07:002004-03-18T15:18:00-07:00Serendipity -- a cell phone service under development at MIT -- is designed to make computerised matchmaking more spontaneous. The service will require each subscriber to create a personal profile, including photographs and information about their ideal partner. Every time...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/the_keepintouch.htmlCost of An Online Mating Personatag:typepad.com,2003:post-10581592004-03-18T14:30:00-07:002004-03-18T14:30:00-07:00E-Cyrano is a new service which sells profile makeovers to users of online dating services who need help trumpeting their strong points. Says founder Evan Katz, "It's parallel to job hunting," Katz said. "Most people don't think about spending $300...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/_print_this_art_1.htmlSocial Network for Discounted Consumer Servicestag:typepad.com,2003:post-10649202004-03-18T14:25:48-07:002004-03-18T14:25:48-07:00Small Planet is a free invitation-only social networking service that plans to profit by letting member-approved marketers sell to its twenty- and thirty-something members. Members can buy products and services from those companies -- such as gym memberships, car insurance,...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/big_discounts_f.htmlThe Future of Worktag:typepad.com,2003:post-10580412004-03-17T10:05:06-07:002004-03-17T10:05:06-07:00In his new book The Future of Work, MIT professor Thomas Malone argues that in the future, high tech and knowledge-based businesses will likely be run as loose hierarchies or self-managed democracies. Skilled workers will organize, disband, and regroup around...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/mit_professor_s.htmliWork Cafestag:typepad.com,2003:post-10553962004-03-16T20:22:21-07:002004-03-16T20:22:21-07:00The days of having a grand corner office with your name stencilled on the door are on their way out, as an increasing number of companies ditch desks to cut costs and give workers a greater say over how they...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/distributed_wor.htmlInternet-Powered Music Cafestag:typepad.com,2003:post-10524442004-03-16T10:43:43-07:002004-03-16T10:43:43-07:00Starbucks is about to launch a chain of a music-centric cafes, called Hear Music Coffeehouses. Customers will be able to create their own music compilations from a digital library of about 150,000 tracks and burn them to CDs. Hewlett-Packard Tablet...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/starbucks_is_ab.htmlInvestment Heats Up for VoIPtag:typepad.com,2003:post-10521832004-03-16T09:44:05-07:002004-03-16T09:44:05-07:00Skype, a free Voice over IP company that is unique in using peer-to-peer technology to connect phone callers, has just raised which has just $18.8 million. To use Skype, callers download software onto their computers and then use their Internet...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/skype_a_free_vo.htmlCommercialization of Blogstag:typepad.com,2003:post-10442732004-03-15T10:34:13-07:002004-03-15T10:34:13-07:00Advertising is on it's way to becoming a standard revenue stream for successful blogs. The timing is ripe, as the internet has been experiencing an uptick in ad revenue of late, with advertisers beginning to open their wallets again for...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/one_of_americas.htmlCollect, Organize and Share -- With One Tooltag:typepad.com,2003:post-10417232004-03-14T19:16:13-07:002004-03-14T19:16:13-07:00Onfolio is new software that offers simple-to-use tools to collect, annotate and republish text and photos to websites. Web pages, photos, Word and Acrobat documents, spreadsheets and other files types can be posted to an Onfolio. Users can "copy and...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/_print_this_art.htmlAnalysis of Workplace Instant Messagingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-10330472004-03-13T13:49:21-07:002004-03-13T13:49:21-07:00A recent study of workplace instant messaging at AT&T logged thousands of workplace IM conversations and evaluated their conversational characteristics and functions. Contrary to previous research, the study found that the primary use of workplace IM was for complex work...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/an_interesting_.htmlConvergence of Wi-Fi, VoIP, & Mobile Telephonytag:typepad.com,2003:post-10302382004-03-12T16:22:29-07:002004-03-12T16:22:29-07:00Wi-Fi networks and existing cellular networks are being stitched together, which will soon allow cell phone calls to automatically switch between the two. The percentage of cell phones that are Wi-Fi enabled will grow from near 0% last year to...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/convergence_of_.htmlUnsung Heroes of the IT Revolutiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-10249842004-03-11T18:06:10-07:002004-03-11T18:06:10-07:00U.S. Manufacturing productivity grew at more than 5% through the 2nd half 2003. From the 1970s into the 1990s, productivity grew by barely 1.4% a year. It takes 50 years for living standards to double if productivity grows at 1.4%...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/unsung_heroes_o.htmlThirty- and Fortysomethings Rule the Webtag:typepad.com,2003:post-10135722004-03-09T21:17:58-07:002004-03-09T21:17:58-07:00If you think the Web belongs to a young cult of song-swapping, virus-writing, instant-messaging, cell phone-using, blog-writing video game players, that idea just got Ctrl+Alt+Deleted by a recently released study. In terms of sweat equity, the Net belongs to the...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/30_and_40_somet.htmlKnowing Who's Where NOWtag:typepad.com,2003:post-10134062004-03-09T20:24:11-07:002004-03-09T20:24:11-07:00Instant messaging brought the buddy list to the desktop, a visual signal on the periphery of your attention that lets you know when your friends, colleagues, teammates are online. The ability to know when a friend anywhere in the world...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/knowing_whos_wh.htmlTaking Tests to Find the Right Datetag:typepad.com,2003:post-10031022004-03-07T21:11:57-07:002004-03-07T21:11:57-07:00Tickle differentiates itself from other online networking services by offering a range of tests on personality, careers and sex. Some are modeled after standard measures like an I.Q. test, the Myers-Briggs test and even a Rorschach-style inkblot test. Others are...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/like_other_memb.htmlVOIP Now a Retail Commoditytag:typepad.com,2003:post-10016632004-03-07T13:03:39-07:002004-03-07T13:03:39-07:00Circuit City, the consumer electronics chain, is the first national U.S. retailer to sell Internet phone service (Voice over IP) -- at all 600 of its stores and online. Vonage will provide the hardware and telephone service. Vonage, which already...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/circuit_city_th.htmlHunting Bin Laden with Network Analysistag:typepad.com,2003:post-10014072004-03-07T11:42:52-07:002004-03-07T11:42:52-07:00Using Analyst's Notebook, software which helps to piece together data on criminal and terror networks, U.S. military and intelligence officials are confident they are narrowing bin Laden's whereabouts. Key to the search is accumulated humint, or human intelligence. Officials say...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/the_hunt_heats_.htmlTaking Cell Phone Calls in Flighttag:typepad.com,2003:post-9999092004-03-06T21:46:06-07:002004-03-06T21:46:06-07:00While on board with a number of US airlines, Verizon Wireless subscribers can now have calls to their cell phones instantly rerouted to the nearest in-flight phone. To make the connection, subscribers simply log on with their wireless numbers, a...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/verizon_wireles.htmlReading Web Tea Leavestag:typepad.com,2003:post-9998332004-03-06T21:19:41-07:002004-03-06T21:19:41-07:00IBM recently launched WebFountain, an ambitious commercial service that mines valuable information from about half of the web's content, including informal communication from weblogs, newsgroups, and chat rooms. IBM's supercomputer can process about 14,000 web pages per second. The system...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/ibm_recently_la.htmlExtra! Extra! HP Labs Has a Eureka Momenttag:typepad.com,2003:post-9934862004-03-05T17:05:00-07:002004-03-05T17:05:00-07:00After indepth analysis and untold sums of shareholder cash, researchers at HP have determined that the most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most original ideas. According to Wired, researchers at HP, using "newly developed techniques for graphing the...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/welcome_to_wire.htmlGet Instant Messages by Phonetag:typepad.com,2003:post-9950812004-03-05T16:46:08-07:002004-03-05T16:46:08-07:00Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/get_instant_mes.htmlApplying Social Network Analysis to Emailtag:typepad.com,2003:post-9911232004-03-04T22:51:13-07:002004-03-04T22:51:13-07:00Most people are more dependent upon a handwritten shortlist of the key people they work with and talk to than they are to their electronic address books, according to Lili Cheng, group manager of the social-computing group within Microsoft Research....Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/contacts_dont_m.htmlBuilding Social Networks with Instant Messagingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-9910902004-03-04T22:35:56-07:002004-03-04T22:35:56-07:00AOL has launched ICQ Universe, a social networking service enabled by ICQ -- AOL's instant messaging solution. ICQ is already used daily by more than 8 million members, and has 175 million registered users worldwide. ICQ Universe allows members to...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/building_social.htmlUsing Social Networks for Retail Marketingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-9910492004-03-04T22:20:34-07:002004-03-04T22:20:34-07:00Consumer membership services company MemberWorks has purchased online dating site Lavalife for $115 million. Lavalife charged users pennies per minute to help singles communicate and search for a date on the Internet. MemberWorks, which works with retailers to offer discounts...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/using_social_ne.htmlConvergence of Text, Audio & Videotag:typepad.com,2003:post-9865092004-03-03T21:07:58-07:002004-03-03T21:07:58-07:00Companies embracing instant messaging (IM) technology are quickly forcing the convergence of text, audio, and video -- and that's opening up new business opportunities. Instant messaging, email, voice over IP (VoIP), and videoconferencing are blurring together -- and in many...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/_previous_page_.htmlBuilding New Boy Networkstag:typepad.com,2003:post-9864922004-03-03T21:03:08-07:002004-03-03T21:03:08-07:00Rather than creating simple electronic Rolodexes, business-networking tools like Spoke and Visible Path go deeper. They aim to help companies make faster sales by identifying and mining electronic "new-boy networks" of personal contacts. They help professionals get introductions to people...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/building_new_bo.htmlNetworking with Intelligent ID Badgestag:typepad.com,2003:post-9776092004-03-02T16:55:00-07:002004-03-02T16:55:00-07:00Rather than using the Internet to expand your relationships, nTAG uses interactive name badges to facilitate introductions and conversations at business conferences and conventions. An nTAG badge is a PDA-like device, equipped with a black-and-white LCD display and an infrared...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/_the_social_net.htmlOpen Source Networkingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-9798772004-03-02T15:47:07-07:002004-03-02T15:47:07-07:00The economy of the commons can be so efficient and creative that it sometimes outperforms the market. The Linux operating system, now in use on one-third of the nation's servers, is perhaps the best proof of this fact, along with...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/open_source_net.htmlUbiquitous Internet Voicetag:typepad.com,2003:post-9746692004-03-01T21:29:35-07:002004-03-01T21:29:35-07:00Broadband is now in 50 million U.S. households and is spreading at a 50% annual clip, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. On the job, 75% of U.S. workers have a broadband connection. At the same time, VoIP technology has improved enough to...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/ubiquitous_inte.htmlEnterprise Pattern Recognitiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-9745652004-03-01T20:56:55-07:002004-03-01T20:56:55-07:00Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Idea for 2004: Managers manage what they can see, but until now they've never been able to "see" into the informal social networks that have always driven business. Better data and new research are finally giving...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/03/pattern_recogni.htmlHalf of Internet Users are Writerstag:typepad.com,2003:post-9699662004-02-29T21:27:41-07:002004-02-29T21:27:41-07:00Nearly 44% of U.S. Internet users have built Web pages, posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of material available online, according to a report published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Posting photos...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/02/nearly_44_of_us.htmlMassive Distributed Workspacetag:typepad.com,2003:post-9695562004-02-29T18:42:13-07:002004-02-29T18:42:13-07:00The Department of Homeland Security has launced The Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN), a massive online network powered by Groove Workspace. The Service allows government agencies to exchange photos, maps and video feeds to respond to crises or threats. Eventually,...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/02/massive_distrib.htmlInteractive Corp Buys Zero Degreestag:typepad.com,2003:post-9694892004-02-29T18:07:52-07:002004-02-29T18:07:52-07:00InterActiveCorp (IAC) -- owner of Expedia, Hotels.com, Ticketmaster, LendingTree, and Match.com -- has purchased Zero Degrees, a social networking service that helps business people network to recruit staff, arrange financing and get sales leads. Dan Marriott, senior VP with IAC,...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/02/interactive_cor.htmlCRM Workspacestag:typepad.com,2003:post-9686712004-02-29T13:25:06-07:002004-02-29T13:25:06-07:00Knowledge Agent Centers are CRM virtual workspaces which enable customer service agents to convene in real-time with the most appropriate person in a company for addressing a customer inquiry. Seimen's new ProCenter Agile is perhaps the first integrated Knowledge Agent...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/02/crm_workspaces.htmlOnline Social Network for Muslimstag:typepad.com,2003:post-9662632004-02-28T16:38:26-07:002004-02-28T16:38:26-07:00Naseeb is like a Muslim version of Friendster, allowing people to network with friends of friends. Users create online profiles that includes links to their friends' profiles, and so on, for up to four degrees of separation. In Naseeb young...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/02/naseeb_is_like_.htmlSocial Networking for Work Groupstag:typepad.com,2003:post-9658292004-02-28T12:48:28-07:002004-02-28T12:48:28-07:00The most successful social networking services, predicts Yankee Group analyst Sheryl Kingstone, "will be those that are integrated into a CRM application and not necessarily controlled at the user base." The next wave of social-networking applications will have to incorporate...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/02/social_networki_2.htmlMulti-cultural Communities Suffer From Lack of Trusttag:typepad.com,2003:post-9617812004-02-27T11:20:40-07:002004-02-27T11:20:40-07:00A recent ongoing survey of American communities conducted by Harvard professor Robert Putnam (author of Bowling Alone) shows that levels of trust and co-operation are highest in the most homogenous neighbourhoods. People living in diverse areas are not just more...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/02/multicultural_c.htmlSocial Networking Service for Lawyerstag:typepad.com,2003:post-9612562004-02-27T09:18:27-07:002004-02-27T09:18:27-07:00Washington-based law firm Miller & Chevalier has been working with Interface, a social networking software vendor, to aggregate in one place information siloed in 120 lawyers' Microsoft Outlook contact folders. Now all members of the firm can view identical information...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/02/social_networki_1.htmlSocial Networks and Multiplayer Gamingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-9597662004-02-26T23:07:16-07:002004-02-26T23:07:16-07:00Multiplayer gaming IS social software. A fascinating development in this genre is the emergence of location-based cellphone games like BotFighters and Undercover. In these games, cellphone-toting urban warriors take to the streets of their city to search for clues, complete...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/02/social_networks.htmlWeblogging Tool for Project Managementtag:typepad.com,2003:post-9569132004-02-26T10:32:38-07:002004-02-26T10:32:38-07:00Basecamp is a new hosted project management tool aimed at designers, consultants and freelancers. Using a blog-like format for the entry and presentation of content, it consolidates disparate communications like emails, chats, presentations, links, and feedback -- and supports the...Alex Gaulthttp://networkedge.typepad.com/cocafe/2004/02/weblogging_tool.html