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Techcrunch: Google’s Response to Facebook “Maka-Maka”

chokladbollen — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:59:15 GMT

Google may have lost the bidding war to invest in Facebook, but it is preparing its own major assault on the social networking scene. It goes by the codename “Maka-Maka” inside the Googleplex (or, perhaps, “Makamaka”). Maka-Maka encompasses Google’s grand plan to build a social layer across all of its applications. Some details about Maka-Maka have already leaked out, particularly how Google plans to use the feed engine that powers Google Reader (known internally as Reactor) to create “activity streams” for other applications akin to Facebook’s news and mini feeds. But Maka-Maka goes well beyond that.

Clay Shirky's Internet Writings

chokladbollen — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:42:00 GMT

Along with the book, I am launching a Here Comes Everybody blog, designed to both chronicle and extend the themes of the book. I'm delighted to finally have to book out, and to be able to begin blogging about it. In addition, this site collects many of my older writings, from which many of the themes of the book arose.

American Scientist Online; The Semicolon Wars

chokladbollen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:26:07 GMT

If you want to be a thorough-going world traveler, you need to learn 6,912 ways to say "Where is the toilet, please?" That's the number of languages known to be spoken by the peoples of planet Earth, according to Ethnologue.com. If you want to be the complete polyglot programmer, you also have quite a challenge ahead of you, learning all the ways to say: printf("hello, world\n") ;

Change Management

chokladbollen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:23:02 GMT

In organisations there are often two types of work. There is the normal delivery process where the main business of the organization is done. Then there are the change activities, whereby necessary change is made to the business and the way it is done. As with other subjects, a great deal of this site is relevant to organizational change. However, there are more things to say that are specific and relevant to this situation.

Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet - Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source

chokladbollen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:26:55 GMT

NEC@Shirky.com -- Networks, Economics, and Culture NEC is a mix of essays written for the list, essays written for other outlets, drafts of ideas I’m pursuing, and reader commentary (re-printed only with permission, of course). The list will be very low volume, with an approximately twice-monthly frequency, and the contents will also be archived on shirky.com. <>

CNET News.com: Facebook ignores OpenSocial, embraces Windows Live Contacts API | Outside the Lines

chokladbollen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:35:19 GMT

Now that Yahoo has finally and officially signed on to the OpenSocial API bandwagon (see Techmeme), the company that Microsoft might buy has joined with MySpace.com and Google to create the OpenSocial Foundation. Facebook is still missing in action, considering whether joining the OpenSocial Foundation is in the best interests of its membership--or its own platform. OpenSocial provides a useful piece of functionality, solving a developer problem by allowing applications developed with the APIs to run on different services without modification--write once, play many. A photo-sharing application could tap into the social graphs of Orkut, Bebo, MySpace, Ning, or other services without any code changes.

How to Create a Successful Facebook Widget :Business Lessons From the Widget Masters

chokladbollen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:54:43 GMT

When Facebook opened its platform to third-party developers in late May, mom-and-pop shop widget makers from California to Turkey cropped up everywhere to capitalize on Facebook's fast-growing user base of 52 million people. Now, only six months later, there are 7,000 applications in the Facebook directory, and more than 100 are added each day. More on CIO.com Five Favorite Facebook Widgets for Business Users

How to Virtualize Your Workforce - wikiHow

chokladbollen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:21:27 GMT

Enterprise Mobility: The ability for an enterprise to communicate with suppliers, partners, employees, assets, products, and customers irrespective of location. <>

How to Virtualize Your Workforce - wikiHow

chokladbollen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:27:38 GMT

Enterprise Mobility: The ability for an enterprise to communicate with suppliers, partners, employees, assets, products, and customers irrespective of location. <>

In 1981 Avalon Hill made a board game on the topic titled "The Peter Principle Game."

chokladbollen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:25:33 GMT