What Google is doing with Google Instant is beginning to expose some of the inner workings of its internal processes in real time. Making the fine tuning of this process more “social” and also responsive to realtime user tuning could be next and might be one way that Google Wave based technology finds its way into Search.
All in Google
Using Facebook Should Not Be a Gamble
I’m a consultant. Early on I realized a basic truth: “Where There Is Confusion There Are Consultants.”
Google Wave Asks, Do You Like Your Project Collaboration Hard or Soft?
I had lunch with a fellow consultant recently. We talked about how some complex software-based collaboration systems get used and how some don’t. Sometimes the problem is with the software, and sometimes it’s with how the organization approaches collaboration.
Readers of this blog may have noticed that I have posted a link to a brief (one-minute) questionnaire survey; the survey link appears near the top of the left hand column of this page.
I posted Painful Lessons Learned from Using Google Docs last week when I discovered a spreadsheet, a spreadsheet form questionnaire, and a series of documents missing. That post was a followup to a very positive earlier post, Lessons Learned from Using Google Docs.
In Lessons Learned from Using Google Docs I described my recent use of Google Docs to support collaborative development of a consulting services proposal. The experience I described then was very positive.
I’ve been a fan of remotely hosted web based applications ever since I used a sales tracking system called Salesmetrics. Applications I use regularly include:
A friend, a professional engineer, asked me for tips on establishing a “web presence.” This is what I wrote:
Given my longstanding interest in copyright, I’ve been following the AP anti-fair-use story with some interest (e.g., see this by Jason Kintzler, or this by Julian Baldwin; there’s also an interesting discussion thread ongoing at the Linkedin Bloggers group on Yahoo! Groups).
What Comes After Web Sites and Online Social Networks?
Today we use the web in many ways. Traditional web sites — “places we go” on the web to do things — still exist. But increasingly, web based transactions also depend on the nature of our online relationships with other people.
Are the Privacy Cyberwars Already Here?
In my daily perusal of my Megite news feed, I ran across these two articles: * Ask.com Unveils Search Privacy Tool: Users Control Their Search Data
* Scheme to Destroy Your Competition with RivalMap
Nathan Eagle’s The Mobile Web is NOT helping the Developing World… and what we can do about it provides food for thought for those who believe that web access in developing countries — generally thought to be a good thing — will happen automatically.
What I'm Learning About Applying Social Media to Disaster Response
I’ve been researching applications of social media and social networking in local disaster response. Here are some of the things I’ve found.
Courtesy of Google Maps, here are locations of some bars and restaurants within walking distance of the King Street Metro in Alexandria, Virginia (you may need to zoom in 7 or 8 times with the “+” control to see the details):
The most interesting statement Forrester’s Charlene Li makes in Google OpenSocial will (hopefully) make social apps more relevant is this:
Soon the FCC in the U.S. will authorize the auction of a huge chunk of radio spectrum. At stake is whether
A friend of mine is employed by a major international publisher of abstracting and indexing information and specialized research collections. His company targets the academic and library markets.
This deal between Elsevier and Google may be further evidence of how disruptive the web has become to traditional publishing, research institutions, and professional membership associations. Web access and the proliferation of systems offering collaboration opportunities via social media and social networking are forcing management to make tough decisions about how much to give away for free and how much to restrict to paying customers.