Posts with keyword: social

5 entries

Has Social Networking Reached the End of its Cycle?

Sat Apr 21 11:09:00 2012

Most of the hot trends on computing seem like more of the same and people start to wonder how all this personal data they're sharing can help improve their lives. Personal clouds and life management platforms offer a revolutionary answer to what's next.
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What Personal Event Networks Do

Tue Oct 18 11:09:00 2011

Personal event networks create a world beyond mobile and social where products are part of your social network.
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Dion Hinchcliffe: The Future of Social Analytics

Wed Nov 17 14:13:00 2010

Dion Hinxchcliffe is speaking on the future of social analytics. Social analytics is the creation of typed signals by listening to social ecosystems, resulting in the ability to tap into collective intelligence as well as aggregate, mine, and predict outcomes. Observable works - transparency for people's work. Getting value from what's observable. Reminds me of Jon Udell's comments from early blogging days about narrating your work. Social is how we communicate today. As of last July, 850M using social systems vs 800M using email. Most companies are not here yet. I was speaking to Yammer folks at lunch. Kynetx
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Stowe Boyd: Social Cognition

Wed Nov 17 10:48:00 2010

Stowe Boyd is talking about social cognition. I always enjoy Stowe's take on things. Adding people with high IQ to a small group doesn't add to the groups effectiveness. What does make a small group more effecive is adding someone with good social sensibilities. Not correlated with IQ. Correlated with being a woman. Groups with good social interaction have less monologues and more interaction. Twittering led to students learning more--not just in one class, but across the board. Having friendly, personal conversations within a group leads to better performance. Feeling good about the context people are working with is
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Social Playground or Media Sandbox?

Wed Apr 12 13:01:00 2006

Thomas Barnett, who I interviewed on my Technometria podcast a while back, has an interesting perspective on how technology influences geopolitics. In a recent post, he claims that online trends will ensure that ten years from now, the Web "will be more the New Core social playland than the Old Core media sandbox (not that Disney-ABC aren't trying)."
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