Digg needs Transparency not a new Candy Coating
That is great that Digg wants to redesign their web site and do cool stuff like making it more social. The problem with Digg is not that it is a bad system technologically; it is that it is impossible...
View ArticleGoogle Buzz And Their Social Strategy
Last week Google released Google Buzz, a social network integrated with Gmail, tapping into the already existing social graph of the users. As expected the tech blogosphere went through wild emotions...
View ArticleTwitter Acquires Tweetie, What's Next?
First one of Twitter’s investors, Fred Wilson, said this Much of the early work on the Twitter Platform has been filling holes in the Twitter product. It is the kind of work General Computer was doing...
View ArticleWhy I think Facebook Has Gone Rogue
The last few days were filled with blog posts about Facebook going rogue. Many pundits are upset that Facebook treats users’ privacy with complete disdain. There are a few who feel that Facebook has...
View ArticleFacebook May Not Care About Your Privacy But It Definitely Cares About Your...
Facebook may not give you a damn about your privacy and it may have gone rogue. But, it is serious about ensuring the security of your account. Today, they have announced some steps to ensure that...
View ArticleProtect Your Facebook Privacy
I have been critical of Facebook’s privacy policies in this blog. In my opinion, Facebook has really gone rogue. They give a damn to users just like what Microsoft did during the time it had monopoly...
View Article10 Questions to Ask Technical Communicators Delusional Enough to Believe They...
According to a recent Edison Research study 51% of active Twitter users follow companies, brands or products on social networks. That means they are most likely following your brand and your product....
View ArticleApple’s Approach To Social Networking May Not Work
In this era where everyone trying to find a foothold in the social networking space, Apple is trying to take a different approach compared to the likes of Facebook, Twitter and others. Will it work? It...
View ArticleRightNow Enables Seamless Social Interactions With Your Customers
RightNow Technologies (NASDAQ:RNOW), Bozeman based company offering a comprehensive Customer eXperience Suite, yesterday announced the extension of their Suite to support Facebook. With this new...
View ArticleOpen Source Security Revisited – With Enough Eyeballs, All Bugs Are Shallow
It is a common knowledge that, usually, Open Source projects are successful because of the developers scratching their personal itch. It often starts with a group of disgruntled developers frustrated...
View ArticleDownload Your Facebook Data: I Got A Hint One Week Back
Facebook is holding an event today and one of the big news coming out of the event is regarding their move towards data portability. According to Techcrunch, At today’s Facebook event in Palo Alto,...
View ArticleThe Looming Data Wars
Last week, Google asked Facebook to get their hands off the data stored in their service. Google felt that Facebook is taking data in programmatically from other services while not reciprocating in the...
View ArticleTIBCO Nails It With Tibbr
TIBCO, the enterprise infrastructure software company, this week announced their foray into Social Computing when they announced the GA of Tibbr, their attempt to crack the enterprise social...
View ArticleThree Pluses, Three Minuses of Quora as a KM System
Knowledge Management (aka “KM”) is a field that I don’t have personal experience in. It’s supposed to be practices, processes and systems where valuable knowledge of workers is collected and made...
View ArticleIBM Lotusphere 2011 – Social Is In The Air
I am attending IBM Lotusphere 2011 in Orlando and, as it is expected in this conference, Social Business is a big theme this year. You can feel “Social vibes” not just from IBM executives but from...
View ArticleTibbr 3.0: Making The Activity Streams Actionable
Tibco, the enterprise infrastructure software company, today announced an upgrade for their enterprise social networking product Tibbr (previous CloudAve coverage). I was very impressed with Tibbr when...
View ArticleGoogle Says Google+ Is Not Ready For Brands
Ever since Google+ was launched, I am playing around with it both for personal use as well as for professional use. I see Google+ eventually replacing Facebook for me (provided I convince my family and...
View ArticleIs Google+ More Facebook or More Twitter? Yes
Quick, what existing social network is Google+ most likely to displace in terms of people’s time? Another Try by Google to Take On Facebook Claire Cain Miller, New York Times This isn’t a...
View ArticleWhy Pseudonymity Is Such an Important Concept
Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. It’s all told...
View Article1990s Called And Wanted Their AOL Back
Picture Credit: commonspace.wordpress.com On Saturday, Robert Scoble made a blog post declaring the death of open web. In the post Robert argued that the open web as we know now is dying and no one can...
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