Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2010 2 Comments »
Project VRM, a Berkman project has been endeavoring to bring forth a set of “tools to make markets work for both vendors and customers in ways that don’t require the former to “lock in” the latter was developed in the The Cluetrain Manifesto.” Doc Searls, has been spearheading the project. In a recent blog post [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 26th, 2010 1 Comment »
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During the recent Enterprise 2.0 Conference that took place in Boston, there was a panel called Microsharing: It is All About the Tools. It is Not About the Tools. It was moderated by Marcia Conner. Stowe Boyd felt that the panel “demonstrated that there is widespread disagreement, confusion and even antipathy about streams in business.” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25th, 2010 4 Comments »
To data almost all Presence serving system push a user’s Presence status to others. It is widely considered to be an efficient mechanism rather than individuals periodically polling the Presence status of all of their friends.But this is based an a oversimplified analysis that does not take into consideration accepted social etiquette and potential security [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2010 No Comments »
Over a series of posts in his blog Confused of Calcutta, JP Rangaswami presents his thoughts on how corporate IT department should get inspiration from Facebook to develop and deploy software infrastructure that emerging workforce will demand. I call the collection of posts “facebook Manifesto” (the case of the letters being used advisedly). The purpose [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2009 No Comments »
Last month Daniel Berninger wrote a guest column expressing the benefits of using high definition codec for voice communication. In that post, Dan argues that widespread use of compatible codecs is critical. When we decided to use a wideband codec in EnThinnai, we also faced the problem of compatibility. More importantly, we decided that our [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Tom Evslin continues to add further details to the (Un)Social Directory that is under development at FWD. In today’s post, he explains the reasons for findability feature and how it may work. The reasons for findability are elemental: after all we are all social creatures and are interested in interacting with others. Permission based communication [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 1st, 2008 No Comments »
After a post by Daniel Berninger on directories and my direct response in how EnThinnai has implemented directory, Tom Evslin has spelled out his views on how to design what he calls an (un)social directory. Since his description of how a directory should work is close to what we have implemented in EnThinnai and his [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Daniel Berninger periodically writes in GigaOm under an evocative banner called “Here Comes Trouble”. These posts follow a familiar pattern: Historically the business model (invariably referring to the traditional telecoms) has been to have a control over the users, usually aided by monopolistic and regulatory environments; given the distributed nature of IP Communications, such control [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 24th, 2008 4 Comments »
In one of today’s post, Michael Arrington takes issue with the big Internet companies for their lack of support for accepting OpenID credentials from others. He argues that
… [they] have made big press announcements about their support for OpenID, but haven’t done enough to actually implement it. … Putting my conspiracy theory hat on, it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2008 3 Comments »
Last week we learnt that UK based newspaper Telegraph will provide OpenID to its users. When Yahoo announced only a few days earlier, there was a general euphoria. But this time around the reaction has been lukewarm. Johannes Ernst’s reaction is noteworthy. Given the general perception that first movers will gain strategic advantage, he feels [...]