June 6, 2009 at 8:16 am
· Filed under innovation, social network, twitter, web2.0
Collaboration cross firewall: I started to get involved in a Cloud project and had to travel to Shanghai every week in past one month. While out of my office during trip, or boarding @ airport, or sitting in cab, I’m out of the company firewall! That means I can’t access BlogCentral. My brain must “stop” in front of firewall. If I want to keep it thinking, I’d switch to public Web2.0 places.
Ease of combination: Have you used Ping.fm ? Or you may ask what Ping.fm is? In short, it’s a hub of collaboration and a practice of innovation. Let’s see a scenario: In a cab, I see a scene. I capture a photo by using my Nokia E71 smartphone (iPhone works too). After shooting, a small icon of mail prompts. Click mail icon, I’m in mail mode with the capture picture as an attachment. I pick an email address from contact list. Such email address is like vfr45t@ping.fm that was randomly assigned by Ping.fm . Whatever message sent to such account will automatically be updated into my accounts @ Twitter, Facebook, del.icio.us, LinkedIn, MySpace, Blogger, Identi.ca, WordPress, Flickr, FriendFeed, Mashable, etc, you name it… All these could be finished within one minute. (Security is another topic though. I’d very carefully post the data in this very web2.0 way.)
Performance: WordPress is good. Working on company’s BlogCentral is a challenge. I lean to write @ twitter.com as I’m lazy and don’t have to write much 
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March 11, 2009 at 7:27 pm
· Filed under misc
- The end- user community @ twitter / bluetwit is HUGE. Go to http://twitter.com/mashable (who has more than 210,000+ followers. Imagine the impact from mashable.com on web. Unbelievable! In our community, how many followers do we have? Through email? Wiki?), follow several threads there, you could see how the info/ data flows over Internet smoothly and healthily.
- The interaction/ collaboration @ twitter-like platform is tremendous rapid. The information/ data is tweeted by twitter people in second among Common Interest group, with passion and motivation to distribute and share such info/ data.
- The shared data with tags is stored there always. How often does people search in email? People search in intranet and/ or on web. Tagged information/ data piled to grow to be a great repository available on intranet and/ or web for searching @ any time. Never been deleted. It’s always available there.
What we could start is to register and broadcast like http://twitter.com/developerWorks on Internet and Intranet!
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August 20, 2008 at 10:36 pm
· Filed under innovation, social network, web2.0
Source: http://en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/…/1117
Author: Paul Kedrosky
Web 2.0 technology has enabled revolutionary opportunities in the space of finance. Social networking, user generated content, and collective intelligence are disrupting a traditionally conservative and closed industry. A number of promising Web 2.0-style offerings now enable consumers to share ideas and strategies, learn from others, provide ratings, and filter for relevant content. Will individuals become smarter about spending and saving? Can the collective ratings and analysis of ordinary investors help to uncover market-beating stock picks? Will markets for financial services become more open, and therefore more efficient? Will consumer pricing come down, or even become free?
This panel addresses the current Finance 2.0 wave by presenting leading start-ups, providing innovative services based on new business models that really work.
Sub-themes
- Free business models that work: real revenue streams, not just customer acquisition (e.g., Zecco, Prosper, Mint, UpDown)
- Leveling the playing field for everyday consumers: removing traction from traditionally costly economic transaction processes (e.g., $0 stock trades at Zecco Trading, better interest rates for borrowers and lenders at Prosper)
- Collective intelligence based on real user data: both quantitative and qualitative data on actual user behavior, addressing the long tail not just the top five or ten percent of consumer interest (e.g., ZeccoShare, Cake Financial, PredictWallStreet, Wikinvest)
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My comments and additional information >
Mint.com – Free personal money management. Check their blog
Zecco.com – Free online stock trading. Check their Community which contains Dashboard, Blog and Forums to collaborate
Prosper.com – Loaning at low rate. Check their Forum to hear of voice from developer, lender, borrower…
PredictWallStreet.com – you may enjoy to play game and contest in its community, where you can find an export to follow. And listen to how other members are saying. A latest list on August 21st shows a member – SilveRazor – made 389 predicts correct out of 586 evaluated. Cool!
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June 20, 2008 at 11:33 pm
· Filed under cloud, innovation, photo, social network, travel, web2.0
While I doing Web2.0 presentation in my company, I mention Tagging is heart of Web2.0. People used to ask me what tagging service could impact enterprise business and people’s life. I’d like to point this to Flickr, who introduced Tagging to Web2.0.
This simple URL shows the “tag cloud” in front of us. What do you see? What kind of information do you receive? Simple, eh? The bigger the font of tag is, the more popular such topic is. Go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ then click around. Seems “family” is the most active tag used. Does it tell you what the majority people think or care?
Oh, and “party” one… If we compare “canon” and “nikon”, “canon” looks a little bolder than “nikon”. That indicates the pictures loaded in Flickr.com were mostly captured by Canon camera. Let’s look at “london” and “paris”, “london” is bigger, and even “paris” is a little bit bigger than “newyork”.
Go to Flickr.com and see by yourself. I have my photo gallery too, but without tag.
http://penguinsecurity.net/gallery
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