Posted in social networks, Theory on Jul 8th, 2011 No Comments »
One of the interesting aspects of Google+ is the concept of Circles. The idea is that in real life you have different circles of friends to whom you communicate differently. There is no single you but there are several you’s that are a bit different depending on the context. Most people act a different towards [...]
Posted in eHealth, social networks on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
We all know that in our western societies we have an age problem. We have more and more elderly and less and less young people. In many ways this is an achievement of our societies (who does not want to become old) but it poses us for new questions. When we get old, who will [...]
Posted in social networks on Dec 11th, 2007 No Comments »
This morning I wrote about social networking and all the good things it may bring us. Stay in contact, meet old friends and things like that. After that I received this email from plaxo. One of my freinds, John will have his birthday on December 14th. Nice to get a reminder (I am terrible at [...]
Posted in social networks on Dec 11th, 2007 No Comments »
It is amazing how fast social networking is growing. Every time I am giving a presentation I always ask my audience how many people use one or more social networking sites like Facebook, MySPace, Hyves, LindedIn or another. Since a year this percentage is growing from 20% to more than 70% nowadays. I think especially [...]
Posted in social networks on Oct 9th, 2007 No Comments »
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Posted in social networks on Oct 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Sometimes you do things that energize you. Sometimes you meet people that, through their drive and energy, lift you up and give you energy. Even wish you could do more. As Telematica Instituut we are working together with the people from Alp D’huZes to improve the life of people with cancer. About two years ago [...]
Posted in social networks on Sep 27th, 2007 No Comments »
I think we all know the sorry feeling that we lost track of people we knew and worked with in the past but lost sight of. In the past it a was always very hard to find them again. Since some time now there is a new social network called LinkedIn. The idea is that [...]
Posted in crowdsourcing, diversity, Politics, social networks on Sep 16th, 2007 No Comments »
First have a look at the video: The way I see it the idea behind this video is that until now images have been used for a lot of bad reasons. Their message on their website is: So ask yourself this. If you had the entire world’s attention for just a few minutes, what story [...]
Posted in long tail, paticipation, social networks on Sep 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Some books are very helpful in making you understand developments. This summer I have read a book called “The Cluetrain manifesto”. Central theme of the book (which by the way is written in 2000 but started as as website in 1999) is the statement that markets (and a lot of other things) are conversations. The [...]
Posted in long tail, social networks on Jun 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Delegation of work and responsibility should be done to the people with the greatest stake in the result and who are best equipped to handle the task. This is true in organisation theory as well in the cooperation between companies and their customers. In interesting development in this area is TomTom Map Share. Here it is possible to add [...]
Posted in social networks on Jun 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Open Source, Wikipedia and others attract lots of people who spent lots of time in adding information and improvements. All for zilch, noppes, nada. At least financial terms… Some think this is the way of the future. All new paradigms first attract the idealistic people. In the first days of the Internet commerce was simply not done. Flame [...]
Posted in social networks, Social Software, workspace on May 29th, 2007 No Comments »
The last 10 year we have created much more technology than we are using today. We have invested enormous amounts of money in mobile broadband structures and what is the most important mobile application today: texting (or txtspk), the mobile application that is the most basic in mobile technology. We are investing heavily into fiber [...]
Posted in long tail, social networks, workspace on May 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Maybe, given other choices, you could have been another Steven Spielberg. Maybe even better. Steven Spielberg became Steven Spielberg because he made the choices early on that were fitting with his talent. And since in a short tailed world success breeds success he became one of the most successful directors since producers are inclined to [...]
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