December
An article originally posted on Read/WriteWeb
“It’s pretty crazy to think that this service has become as high profile (if not popular) as it has without the ability to search for users by their names. Now that it’s here there are other search functions we still find more useful, though.”
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It’s Christmas! Now you can search Twitter users by their real names. How great!
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November
An article originally posted on emitgraphics.com
“Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Slashdot, and so on. They are all great social news and media websites, but how do they rank in terms of how easy they are on the eyes? Here I will rank all the top social news and media websites based solely on their layout.”
Read the full article at emitgraphics.com
The amount of social websites is increasing rapidly and the concurrency is hard on the internet between all those websites which are providing almost the same services. That is why they need to distinguish themselves from the others.
There are several ways to get out of the mass and try to be “the chosen one” for the final user. A very important aspect, even if it could seem insignificant to some developers, is the design and the layout of their application. Indeed, the first thing the final user see is the look and feel of the website, and for this reason they will stay or they will leave.
This article is just discussing about that point and is trying to compare some famous social news websites on the level of their look and design. It’s interesting to see how a final user is considering the sites he visited and to understand why he made that ranking.
A good design is indeed one of the major factors in user-adoption, besides usability and the functionalities offered, which are all determining the ‘lifetime’ of these social tools.
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October
An article originally posted on www.readwriteweb.com
“The New New Thing Is Social SaaS
If SaaS was simply doing traditional enterprise IT but with a Net Native design at a fraction of the cost it would be big. But that is only the start. What really differentiates the SaaS winners is that they have a social media/networking twist at the core of their value proposition.”
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SaaS can prove to be useful and meaningful in various scenarios. The most evident one is interaction with clients where you can provide them with an exchange platform for projects and knowledge sharing.
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September
An article originally posted on Web Strategist
“With the popularity to Twitter and other Microblogging tools, we should expect to see a flurry of simliar tools for project and program management for the enterprises (..).
Stemming from commodity technology, I’m sure I’ll have a hard time keeping this list up to date over a few months –expect IM vendors, blogging vendors, community platforms, enterprise 2.0 vendors, and a flurry of startups to offer similiar features, first read up on the pros and cons as well as some potential use cases.
It’s interesting to see the need to justify enterprise needs of such tools that are already being adopted by consumers, typical of enterprise settings (I’m a former enterprise intranet manager). With that said, let’s start the definitive list.”
Read the full article at www.web-strategist.com
A good starting point if you are looking at deploying microblogging inside your company. A few backlinks also give you an idea of pros and cons, as well as potential use cases.
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May
An article originally posted on Phil Bradley's weblog
“The WebTools4u2use website is a wiki designed for school library media specialists to learn about cool new web tools, and how they can be used in schools. It includes information on photo sharing, video tools, wikis, blogs, writing tools, presentations and so on. It’s a bright site, very informative, with sections describing the subject area, ‘5 to test drive’ and other examples.”
Read the full article at philbradley.typepad.com
This very informative website contains all you need to know about web 2.0 tools in the education arena. The fact the coming generation is already getting used to these tools will definitely help make collaborative applications the next big thing in companies.
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May
An article originally posted on Phil Bradley's weblog
“Now, this is very useful. For pages that don’t have an RSS Page2RSS will basically create one for you. Simply type in the URL of the page that you’re interested in, grab the feed, add it into your favourite reader and you’re done.”
Read the full article at philbradley.typepad.com
It is a great way to monitor static pages.
Though there are many other monitoring tools available on the Web, this one doesn’t require any login, it works well, and it is just as simple as a click.
I found one limitation though: it doesn’t watch the page as regularly as it should. It only checks for updates every 4 hours (well, not so bad I assume). I thought that refreshing my feed would automatically generate an update from Page2RSS, but it is not the case…
So my recommendation: use it for pages where content is not changing too frequently.
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April
An article originally posted on TechCrunch
“Palo Alto based Wiki startup SocialText, founded way back in 2002, is announcing version 3.0 of its software this morning. The upgrades are designed to put a little “social” into the enterprise.”
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SocialText follows the widget trend by allowing users behind the enterprise firewall to mix and match widgets taking data both from the outside world and the inside world.
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April
An article originally posted on Read/WriteWeb
“Sometimes, news on the web is noticeably slow - especially in the weekends. It’s ironic in a way, considering that millions of articles get written everyday and many go unnoticed. To address this need, here are six social media sites to help you find more great content.”
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
Great tips for introducing a few Web 2.0 applications that help you get information another way rather than by simply googling.
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