What is the history of the ARPANET? A 1972 documentary tells the story of the...
“The Heralds of Resource Shaping” on Google Video tells the story of the origins of the Internet. At thirty minutes, this documentary is a bit longer than the average online video (or attention span)...
View ArticleWhat is a social spreadsheet? Dan Bricklin and SocialText combine wikis with...
Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, a maker of enterprise wiki software, announced the launch of a new social spreadsheet at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. In his presentation to a packed hall of...
View ArticleVideo: What is Intellipedia? Burke and Dennehy explain how wikis are being...
Download Title Sometimes celebrity is all about context. Stars of film, sport and stage may be instantly recognized and celebrated on the street. Other notables may fly under the radar — often...
View ArticleWhat are the characteristics of enterprise 2.0 technologies?
At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this past week in Boston, Dion Hinchliffe offered a three-hour workshop focused on understanding both the progress of social software in enterprises and then drilling...
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What is Unity? Lockheed-Martin’s implementation of a social computing...
One of the unexpected hits of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this past week was a presentation by Lockheed-Martin on Unity, its social computing platform. One of the world’s largest defense contractors...
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What is Twitter? Is this distributed microblogging platform ready for the...
Given that I’ve become an avid user of Twitter, I’m frequently asked what, exactly, Twitter is and what in the world it’s useful for. Isn’t it just it a presence messaging on steroids? What about a...
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What is the single most downloaded software application in a single day?
If Mozilla’s social media and other online marketing campaigns pan out, the answer to that question will be Firefox 3. Starting at 1 PM EST on June 17, 2008 (today!) the newest version of the popular...
View ArticlePodcast: Live from Enterprise 2.0, discussing how to use social media
Last week at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, I was pulled into a podcast with Chris Brogan, Aaron Strout and Sam Lawrence. We talked about what was going on at the conference, what we’d...
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Bit.ly: A better URL shortener for developers, data geeks and microbloggers
The old adage about not reinventing the wheel doesn’t quite extend to Web applications. URL shorteners may have been around for years but there is plenty of room for improvement. This list of 68 URL...
View ArticleVideo: Jimmy Wales on Google’s Knol
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, talked to WNYC’s Brian Lehrer about Google Knol, a new competitor to the world’s largest online encyclopedia. [kml_flashembed...
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