The impending Age Of Abundance was prophecied in the scriptures thousands of years ago.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
The Enterprise Consumer Great Wall Meltdown
Image via CrunchBaseSteve Jobs, that most iconic of tech CEOs, absolutely has refused to take his eyes off the consumer to offer something also to the enterprise, and that has been his Apple story from the beginning. And he is winning. The iPad has been flooding the workplace. What is good for the consumer is also good for enterprise. Mark Zuckerberg absolutely refused to let people have more than one identity when all the talk was that you are one person to your boss, another person to your college friend. He argued it should not be that way. You ought be the same person to everyone.
Could Skype Be Microsoft's YouTube?
Twitter Blocks Me: Sree's Loss
I tweeted so much on behalf the Social Media Weekend at Columbia Journalism School, Twitter went ahead and gave me the over the limit nod. It is an automatic process. No, I don't feel targeted. I have been blocked from tweeting and retweeting.
Check out my tweets. And here's the livestream.
Social Media: Listening Tools Are The Next Frontier
(Article first published as Social Media: Listening Tools are the Next Frontier on Technorati)
Image via CrunchBaseThe terms social media and new media are makeshift. Watching TV with friends can be a perfectly social activity, but we are not thinking TV when we say social media. Radio was new at one point. But we don't think radio as new media. Social media, new media have been birthed by the internet, more specifically Web 2.0. But we don't think of email, the web's central application still, as social media, new media.
Facebook, Twitter and blogs are the most often thought of tools of social media. How are these tools so different from television, radio, books, movies, music, even a website?
No matter how many people are talking to you, you should still be able to listen, and listen well. I believe that is the next frontier of social media. Social media has so far presented itself as the antithesis of broadcast media like television and radio. They spoke to us and we listened. But so far social media has been primarily a miniature version of that same broadcast media. Some listening is possible, sure, and is done. But social media still has been primarily a broadcast mechanism.
Twitter meaningfully spitting out all the tweets it takes in would be a sign we are getting good also at listening.
The frontier after that would be to get closer and closer to realizing everyone on the planet is connected to everyone else. We will use the web to explore our interest graphs in ways that we will find ourselves interacting with people who are out there, but before new technology we just did not have the option to get to know them well. That is partly about getting everyone to come online, that is partly about getting people more bandwidth. But it goes beyond that. In 2000 we did not see Twitter coming. Today it is fair to say we don't exactly see the tools of 2015. There are Twitter size surprises ahead of us.
Image via CrunchBase
New forms of collaboration will become possible. Richer social relationships and interactions will become possible. More meaningful dialogues will become possible. Ambitious social goals will be achieved.
Image via CrunchBaseThe terms social media and new media are makeshift. Watching TV with friends can be a perfectly social activity, but we are not thinking TV when we say social media. Radio was new at one point. But we don't think radio as new media. Social media, new media have been birthed by the internet, more specifically Web 2.0. But we don't think of email, the web's central application still, as social media, new media. Facebook, Twitter and blogs are the most often thought of tools of social media. How are these tools so different from television, radio, books, movies, music, even a website?
No matter how many people are talking to you, you should still be able to listen, and listen well. I believe that is the next frontier of social media. Social media has so far presented itself as the antithesis of broadcast media like television and radio. They spoke to us and we listened. But so far social media has been primarily a miniature version of that same broadcast media. Some listening is possible, sure, and is done. But social media still has been primarily a broadcast mechanism.
Twitter meaningfully spitting out all the tweets it takes in would be a sign we are getting good also at listening.
The frontier after that would be to get closer and closer to realizing everyone on the planet is connected to everyone else. We will use the web to explore our interest graphs in ways that we will find ourselves interacting with people who are out there, but before new technology we just did not have the option to get to know them well. That is partly about getting everyone to come online, that is partly about getting people more bandwidth. But it goes beyond that. In 2000 we did not see Twitter coming. Today it is fair to say we don't exactly see the tools of 2015. There are Twitter size surprises ahead of us.
Image via CrunchBaseNew forms of collaboration will become possible. Richer social relationships and interactions will become possible. More meaningful dialogues will become possible. Ambitious social goals will be achieved.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Just One More Missing Blog Post
Barackface: The Long March Of Democracy
My only missing blog post now from the Blogger outage of the past two days is not at this blog Netizen but at my other blog Barackface. And I am not worried about it because I already have a copy. It got cross published at Technorati. But I am wondering if it will come back too on its own. It was posted on Wednesday. Something that I posted Thursday had disappeared but is now back. Something else from Wednesday itself is back.
Blogger Is Back We’re very sorry that you’ve been unable to publish to Blogger for the past 20.5 hours. We’re nearly back to normal — you can publish again, and in the coming hours posts and comments that were temporarily removed should be restored. Thank you for your patience while we fix this situation. We use Blogger for our own blogs, so we’ve also felt your pain.
Miracle: The Lost Blog Posts Are Back
Lost A Whole Bunch Of Blog Posts
And Blogger Is Back
Image via CrunchBase Miracle: The Lost Blog Posts Are Back
Image via CrunchBaseSomeone From Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Now Following Me On TumblrTwo Deaths: Coincidence
Two Models Better Than Five
The Mad Dash To Ubiquity
Angry Birds Now On Chrome
Chromebook: June 15
Two Terms Please
The blog posts I thought I had lost to Blogger's down time are now mysteriously back, and I am so glad.
Lost A Whole Bunch Of Blog Posts
And Blogger Is Back
I had lost more than I thought I had lost. But they are all back now. All is well that ends well.
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