Knowledge sharing: How can we encourage people to share knowledg. Quite for sometime I've been thinking what motivates people to create, share and use knowledge?
I believe creating and using knowledge are part and parcel of our life. It is like breathing, we just do IT without realizing that we are doing it, and if we stop doing it we'll put ourselves at risk. What will happen if you stop breathing? Well, pretty much the same thing may happen when you enter the 'no knowledge zone' and should that happen you should think: "why in heaven's name am I alive? " I'll use a mundane example to show how we continuously use and create knowledge. Every day when I am drive to and from work, depending what time I've left the house or the office, I use my traffic knowledge to choose the fastest possible way to get to my final destination. Some time ago, I noticed that on Wednesdays and Thursdays evenings the traffic was heavier on the way home. My overarching motivation was: "getting to my final destination in good time". When and why do we share? Who do we share with?
Who Has The Most Photos Of Them All? Hint: It Is Not Facebook. Photo-sharing on the Web keeps getting more popular as people transfer more of their digital photos from their the black holes of their computer hard drives to social networks where their friends and family can actually see them.
Although Facebook Photos has emerged as the largest photo-sharing service in terms of users and is one of the fastest-growing of any size, it is still not the largest by the sheer number of images that it stores. That honor, for the moment, goes to ImageShack, which currently hosts 20 billion images, I’ve confirmed with the company (for more background on ImageShack, read this post).
Facebook holds 15 billion photos, according to a spokesperson there. But it should catch up by the end of the year. Facebook users are adding photos at a rate of 850 million photos a month, compared to 100 million photos a month by ImageShack users. In fact, with the exception of Photobucket, none of these services publicly discloses its latest image count.
Bubbl.us - free web application for brainstorming online. StumbleVideo. Pando Moves Beyond Email File Sharing. New York based Pando has been breaking away from the P2P file sharing pack, which we reviewed in late August.
They claim over 1.5 million downloads of their client software, and move up to 20 TB of data per day between users. Pando is very easy to use. Once the PC or Mac software is installed, you simply drag a file or a folder (up to 1 GB) into the open window. Pando begins uploading that file to its servers immediately, and opens an email form. Simply type in the email address(es) that you would like to receive the file and hit send. Pando is completely free, and also has useful Outlook and Yahoo IM plugins Today at 9 AM California time Pando is breaking out of the email paradigm and releasing a free new product that allows people to share files directly from a website. For podcasters and videocasters who don’t have the bandwidth availability to serve files, this is going to be extremely useful. Pando has raised a total of $11 million over two rounds of financing.