22 Jan 08 Mahalo finally goes RTM and live – but still in beta…
Gotta love Web 2.0 – perhaps this is 2.1 …
Mahalo has finally launched (no need for those exclusive invites) and I’m up there – as majumdar … of course!
Mahalo’s goal is to hand-write and maintain the top 50,000 search terms…. (with members doing most of the work!)
Riv
Tags: Collaboration
13 Jan 08 Clay Shirky gets it with brilliant “Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags” compendium
I’ve been preparing (yeah, on a Sunday) for a series of hands-on training sessions I will be giving to knowledge workers in Ottawa this coming week and have been defragging and optimising the IM issues in my mind. Although I am a tech guy, I have always kept IM and KM issues close to my heart and remember… IT exists primarily to provide IM solutions!
It’s rare that I see such eloquently simplified presentations such as Clay Shirky has done in Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags …
There’s a good reason why that particular piece is PageRank 6! If you have to explain modern ways of managing information, or why the file system is dead (yes, the file system is dead, finito) and how the Internet has changed the way we manage information…
This article is a must to understand modern ontology…. and why it doesn’t always work.
Tags: Collaboration, français, Knowledge Management, Management
13 Jan 08 LibraryThing : bit buggy yet addictive Web 2.0 book cataloguing & social engine
How that for a buzzwordy title? It’s true though, I finally got around to setting up my LibraryThing book collection – I got the lifetime account as a Christmas gift from my mom. It was a very cool and appropriate gift… considering I love to read, I love the social engine that the Web is for the moment, and I love to organise information.
Ironically I thought I was done cataloguing books 10 years ago. The difference, of course, is that now I am cataloguing my own books… it makes it very interesting.
Tags: Collaboration
08 Jan 08 SOS Ticket arrives in Montreal – speeding ticket warnings by SMS
Well, CTV News Montreal is reporting on SOSTicket.ca which, for $20 a month (!) offers a social ticket warning network….
Sounds interesting, but too expensive.
Guys, make it free, integrate it with a Google Maps mashup and…
it sounds interesting.
I think passive speed trap warnings (for example, a radar detector which communicates via EDGE or HSDPA or even WIFI or regular Cellular Data networks to a central server that then updates realtime maps that are pushed down to users via a sat connection à la GPS…. makes more sense. More than a manual voice phone-in service….
Tags: Collaboration
20 Dec 07 Anita Rowland – original blogger… taken from us by cancer at 51
51 years old. She worked at StockCharts.com and of course at Microsoft too… and those of us in the blogosphere who really stay tuned (even silently) know that she was fighting cancer since 2002…
Jack William Bell held her hand as she passed away…. please do a leave a note of condolence for Anita.
Having been in “this” community since 1982 … it’s important to realise how glocal (small yet huge) our planet really is.
God speed.
Tags: Collaboration
