I’m hosting tonight’s Planetwork Forum from 7-10pm at Pheedo’s offices in Emeryville. I’ll start by giving an interactive presentation on patterns of high-performance collaboration. (JU2) I’ll then be moderating a panel on the Katrina People Finder project with Kieran Lal and Ka-Ping Yee. I’m thrilled to have Kieran and Ping on my panel, and [...]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had an unusually large number of discussions about the essence of Wikis — why they are so beautiful and important as Collaborative Tools. I realized I’ve never posted my thoughts on the topic, so I’m correcting that here. (JTE) Wikis have this brilliant feature, a feature that’s so [...]
There will be a Katrina Benefit tonight at The Canvas in San Francisco, 7pm to midnight. My sister’s friend, Jen Walsh, will be performing, among many others. Cost is a suggest $5 (or more) at the door, and all proceeds go to the Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity. (JT6)
Ross Mayfield makes a really good point about eBay’s acquisition of Skype: (JSU) Pierre Omidyar once explained to me that one of the smartest things he did when starting eBay was to not constrain communication around his market — by publishing email addresses. He was suggesting to me that we open the Socialtext Customer [...]
Andy Dale and the good folks at ooTao have been quietly driving the development of data sharing technologies based on XDI. This is one of the candidate Identity Commons technologies for permission-based sharing and synchronization of identity-related information. (JSF) What does this mean? Most of us have personal information stored all over the Internet, [...]
This “Extreme” business is getting a bit out of control, but Jay Cross has written a great piece for CLO (April 2005) entitled, “Extreme Learning: Decision Games.” Jay describes to Knowledge Management companies based in Singapore — Straits Knowledge and Pebble Road — who were commissioned to help companies learn how to do business in [...]
Thoughts on BAR Camp. Yeah, yeah, a little late, I know. Less late than the rest of my Wikimania notes, though. (JQX) Many Hats (JQY) The most bizarre experience for me at BAR Camp was the number of people I knew from different worlds. My brain was constantly context-switching. It made me painfully [...]
The Chinese character for “crisis” represents both “danger” and “opportunity.” (From David Batstone‘s WAG newsletter and confirmed by Peter Yim.) (JQD) And from Greg Aharonian‘s September 7 Internet Patent News Service: (JQE) Weird statistic (Fortune, 5 Sept., page 42 article): The weight of a mattress will double every ten years because of dead [...]
Come to WikiSym 2005 on October 16-18 in San Diego, California. Held in conjunction with OOPSLA, it’s shaping up to be an excellent conference. Along with usual suspects (Ward Cunningham, Jimmy Wales), Robert Haas, the former U.S. poet laureate, is keynoting. I’ll be moderating a panel on “Wikis in the Consumer Enterprise,” with Joe Kraus, [...]
Socialtext is sponsoring Wiki Wednesday throughout the world tomorrow (September 7, 2005) at 7pm. I’ll be at the Palo Alto gathering. (JQ2)
