Blogging Roller

Every time I find something that I want to share with others online, I have to think about how I want to share and whom I want to share it with. Perhaps I've created too much complexity for myself. This diagram below illustrates the situation. It's my social data flow diagram. [Read More]

• More on MySpace’s Open Development Platform - GigaOM
  "made up of three APIs — primarily Open Social and extensions we’ve added"
• ZDNet.com: Progress report on the OpenSocial Web
  Summary of latest OpenSocial news and hackathons from Dan Farber
• Facebook to Punish Stupid Applications, Reward Good Ones - ReadWriteWeb
  "Metered messaging based on user engagement could save the Facebook Platform from a growing sense of app fatigue"
• Roumen's Weblog: Android plug-in for NetBeans
  "the screenshots look promising"
• Rob Williams' Blog: finally ditched LifeRay
  "we have finally ditched Liferay in favor of JBoss Portal. So far so good. It is much more stable. The code base is not a rat's nest of untested Struts goop."
• Indoor WiFi Signal Booster by Meraki
  "Meraki Mini is a small, easy-to-use wireless mesh repeater."

Some reading on Facebook and enterprise social software from my del.icio.us bookmarks collection:

• Tim Bray: The Intimate Internet
  Bray on Facebook: "Twitter hits that 80/20 point, bringing me that news without all the Facebook bullshit and lame groups and dorky apps and stupid ads and data lock-in. "
  
• Fred Stutzman: The Directionality of Social Network Platforms
  Stutzman on Facebook: "the ecosystem needs more than fluff, especially if we're going to start talking about the "social operating system."
• Phil Windley: What's wrong with Facebook
  Windley on Facebook: "social Webs will require similar attention to the structure that emerges from social activity, not nagging people about it";
• Doc Searls: Too much face(book) time
  Searls on Facebook: "If you're waiting for me to respond to a poke or an invitation, or a burp or any of that other stuff, don't hold your breath."
• Read/Write Web: Big Vendors Scrap for Enterprise 2.0 Supremacy
  "The [products] remain complex and broad in scope - which in many respects goes against the grain of simple and easy-to-use web 2.0 products."
• Personal InfoCloud: The State of Enterprise Social Software
  "Nearly all of the enterprise software product companies are claiming understanding of Web 2.0, but none execute well on it"