Social Mashup

The “Elemental Web” was a connection of machines, then a connection of sites, now it is a complex amalgam awash with traditional links and millions of ‘inter-personal’ connections defined by the Social Graph. But what exactly is the Social Graph, is it open to manipulation and how might this affect experimentation in Social Search? How shall we seek to vanquish the Social Chimera?…

Read the full article on the Atos Origin CIO / CTO Blog…

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What’s important, and where are your spending time?

I’ve written in the past about the dangers of outposts in terms of wasting effort and creating endless repetitive noise. I recently watched this nice little video from Darren Rowse over at Problogger and I want to highlight a very key observation “people sometimes give up on their Home Base and spend all of their time on outposts”. Don’t let that apply to you! ..Continue reading..

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Another cool way to enrich and contribute

Conceptually brilliant, an interesting way to expand and enrich page content on behalf of ‘other users’. I can immediately see parallel enterprise side implementations to enrich corporate Intranet and Knowledge Management tools.

Watch the video, install the necessary and give it a try…You can share entries through Blogger, Facebook, Twitter and Google profiles.

Very smart!

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Many permutations lead to Rome

In the reconstitution of this blog and indeed the exercise of porting out from Drupal to Word Press I gave some thought to the (age old) issue of content duplication and what we have come to know and love as ‘canonical URLs’. To give a really simple explanation, search engines can resolve multiple URLs to the same actual content page e.g. stevenimmons.org, www.stevenimmons.org, stevenimmons.org/index.php (and so on)… ..Continue reading..

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“Who Loves Ya Baby?”

On February 1^st 2008, Google announced the release of the Social Graph API a project aimed at unifying the fragmentation of multiple online identities (for example personal presences on LinkedIn, Plaxo, Facebook, Digg et. al.) and starting to make sense of relationships between people, intelligence implicit in links, networks, subscriptions etc. Interestingly Plaxo, a site that uses “Pulse Stream” to bond personal activities across a multitude of Web2 sites has been very quick to get involved. Plaxo’s model and eagerness provides something of a playground for Google and might explain the relative closeness of the two on this initiative. ..Continue reading..

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