Quot;cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": more th. More thoughts on social objects Anyone who has heard me speak publicly lately will know that I'm currently very focused on the "Social Object" idea, which I was turned onto by Jaiku's Jyri Engestrom. Here's some more thoughts on the subject, in no particular order. 1. The term, "Social Object" can be a bit heady for some people. So often I'll use the term, "Sharing Device" instead. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. [Written in the departure lounge of Dulles International Airport] Posted by hugh macleod at October 24, 2007 5:17 PM | TrackBack "The most important word on the internet is "Share". There may be reason to hope you will yet understand Open Source Software. :-) Fun Geek History Fact: The very first real operating system--for an IBM mainframe, as it turned out-- was not written by IBM. It was first developed by in 1956 by Bob Patrick of General Motors and Owen Mock of North American Aviation to imrove the usability of the IBM 704s their respective companies owned.
212 The Extra Degree Movie. » Mashups: The next major new software development model? | Ente. At last week's Mashup Ecosystem Summit held in San Francisco and sponsored by IBM with an invited assemblage of leading players in this space, I gave an opening talk about the current challenges and opportunities of mashups. And there I posed the title of this post as a statement instead of a question. The reason that it's a question here is entirely driven by the context of who is currently creating the majority of mashups these days. Because even a cursory examination of what people are doing every day on the Web right now tells us that mashups -- also known as ad hoc Web sites created on the fly out of other Web sites -- are indeed happening in a large way, albeit in simple forms, by the tens of thousands online every day.
The consumerization of the enterprise as younger workers bring their Web 2.0 skills and habits to work has already begun.But inside our organizations, both in the IT department and in business units, mashups are a much rarer phenomenon. Mashup Challenges. Widgetsphere: New Playground For Marketers. By Graeme Thickins If you're in the online marketing game and are not yet hip to widgets, listen up. Two emerging Web 2.0 technology firms focused in this space have a message for you. Those companies are Widgetbox and ClearSpring, both of which presented in a session on Tuesday afternoon at Web 2.0 Expo that was billed as "Using Widget Syndication for Online Marketing and Measurement". What is a widget? According to Ed Anuff, CEO and cofounder of Widgetbox, it's a "small piece of dynamic content" on your web site, blog, or social network page. Why do you need a widget strategy? Why would you want to have a widget strategy, asked Anuff?
"Some remarkable CPMs are being driven now by widgets," said Anuff, on the subject of advertising impact. How do you launch a widget? Also Widgetbox does some unique things with SEO - it claims to have more than 10,000 widget pages in Google. The birth of the widgetsphere Hooman Radfar How to get started A standard size for a widget is 150 by 300 pixels.