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Search and the News Hole

Previously, we talked a bit about how the best search engines are like the best newspapers: focused on building trust with their audience. This deep trust helps search engines build their audience, and increases the value of their text ads. But the comparison between the newspapers and search industries goes beyond building trust. Both industries […]

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The Enterprise 2.0 Conference Boston 2010: Lots To See And Do

I’ve been attending (and speaking) at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston since before it was called that (years ago, it used to be called the Collaborative Technologies Conference.)  It remains the only must-attend event in the enterprise social software space for a number of reasons.  It’s not that there aren’t plenty of good Enterprise 2.0 conferences

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Exploring Why Social Business Will Drive 21st Century Enterprises

Below is an new core visual — which is itself a work-in-progress — for thinking about social business models.  It’s part an ongoing strategic line of thinking that I’ve been developing lately to do some direction finding on strategic uses of social computing.  It’s also part of a new book contribution that I completed today

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The K-factor Lesson: How Social Ecosystems Grow (Or Not)

Recently for some work that I’m doing I had to revisit the techniques for creating successful online social environments.  This is a surprisingly deep and nuanced topic that we as Web application architects or enterprise social computing practitioners are just now fully beginning to grasp.  The subject matter itself runs the gamut from key conceptual

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A New Approach To Social Computing: Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0

Those who follow my work know that I’ve been attempting to identifying the success factors for enterprise social computing as well as trying to clearly understand the potential issues.  What we’ve learned as a whole over the last year is that social computing, whether that is blogs, wikis, social networks, end-user mashups, social messaging, crowdsourcing, etc, is still

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Exploring Social Collaboration and Enterprise Architecture In Oslo, Norway: A Trip Report

I spent the early part of this week in Oslo, Norway, a guest of Bouvet and the Norwegian Computer Society, there to help them drive forward some discussions on next-generation subjects in IT and business.  Specifically I was asked to present our latest findings on social collaboration and enterprise architecture, two of my favorite topics as many of you know. 

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URL Shorteners: A Tale Of Online Business Models And The Cloud

The announcement this afternoon that URL shortener tr.im would stop service immediately and eventually get rid of all its data sparked widespread discussion in the blogosphere today, as evidenced by all the stories about it clustered on Techmeme.  URL shorteners provide a surprising amount of convenience to the average Internet user including links that don’t break in e-mails, are friendly

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