Reduce your Twitter and FriendFeed usage, and engage more at that trampolin place in Santa Clara. - imabonehead
Yup...been there. With my bipolar, I see hardcore burnout about every two years. - Stephen Pierzchala
hmm I think i need to clarify my comment, I mean on the specific project I am working on now, not in my entire life, but seriously everyone needs a night off from time to time. Tonight I'm watching season 2 of Heros and eating some tres leches cake. It's my wind down time. - Josh
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imabonehead. I have, look at my activity and on my blog --I'm barely here compared to previous - Jeremiah Owyang
Been there. Done that. Many times over. You really need to stop and take a break for at least 3 days being totally disconnected. The world will still be around when you return. :-) - Lawrence Liu
I am in the opposite rhythm. I am working my butt off but having a ton of fun with new ideas that - if I can execute - will really have an impact. - Steve Rubel
It depends on what part of what you do, but usually burn out comes when reward doesn't outweigh the work. Maybe you're secretly not happy with something? Or something is too much? Take a day and talk with a good trusted advisor or friend. It'll help. - Patricia
Large CMS vendors are similar to message board vendors (Propsero, Web Crossing) who have run out of customers and find their market vaporizing. They have no CHOICE but to retool and add "social" to their offerings. This is all part of "bringing social to software" the repercussions will reverberate throughout the software world. In the beg of Aug we'll be able to put the Facebook F8 announcements and shipping of dynamic privacy - into this context. I believe our briefing will clarify a worldwide trend which has 'traditional social networking" stagnating - and a whole range of "social features" appearing inside of all legacy code, be it portals, enterprise, productivity, utilities and game software. ALL software will be social. IMHO I'd send this back to Twitter - but guess what? - Marc Canter
Good points Marc, I agree that it software should be socialized. This statement is not true however: "who have run out of customers and find their market vaporizing." - Jeremiah Owyang
Large CMS vendors are actually doing very well. New CMS projects are being driven by companies looking to better use content to improve the customer experience. This includes adding targeting/personalization capabilities, website optimization, RIA, etc. - Tom Wentworth
The only way I am likely to anoint you is...OK - let - Dennis Howlett
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You didn't complete your thought Dennis, eh? In either case, welcome back from your long deserved vacation. I found the best way to come back to work was to ease back into it. - Jeremiah Owyang
Sarbanes Oxley is preventing many companes from going social - paul mooney
you forgot the wealth of open source cms solutions out there, much easier to extend social features within those - as for desire for enterprise to add social to the toolkit offered to employees, desire yes but resisting due to ignorance, fear and risk tolerance - needed though to provide better collaboration - think of something as simple as ff for those you work closely with - mike "glemak" dunn
your welcome jeremiah - good post btw - i think this is a critical need for enterprise it relevance on a go forward basis especially as gen y enters workforce - they work differently, expect toolkits similar to what they get personally - to many it practitioners are blind to this requirement - if you're on ff reading this i assume you're not btw ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
We all know that there are values embedded in software. The values in a traditional CMS are straight out of the industrial era. These are in direct conflict with the embedded values of social software. I see a huge disconnect, and think that attempts to blend such "different" types of solutions is like trying to combine oil and water. - Kevin
Clickability, a CMS SaaS vendor, has a bunch of media and enterprise clients. They offer social media tools: http://www.clickability.com/pr... . Also, their "Print This, Save This, Share This" tool you see on most news media sites may have been the first example of "social media." (disclosure: I work for their PR firm). - Kawika Holbrook
Leo, I think you could really make a strong push for people moving to FF. - Ryan Cates
I've thrown myself on those rocks before. I keep wondering how long before people start wandering away from Twitter. I've gradually phased it out and phased in FF myself. But I still use Twitter to broadcast - I have 6x the followers there. The two are really symbiotes. - Leo Laporte
I like the support for attached images very much! - ※Fu※
symbiotes. i like that. mutually beneficial. totally agree Leo. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I've wandered away from Twitter. They've could have rebuilt it from scratch by now. What gives? - Dan Lovejoy
We need to crowd source the TWiTnation for something on the Mac to bring our Twitter follows over to FF. - Ryan Cates
Nice! Was looking for a summary for what this tool can do, and found this by accident. Looks like it could be a potential alternative to the BDC. - John Ferringer
This is a good demo. Would love to check this out one of these days - Kanwal
Check out the author's comments in the "THE UGLY" section. The perspective is, quite frankly, stunning & comes across as out of touch to me. Are they sure they're discussing MOSS 2007? - John Ferringer
Yes, whilst MOSS would deserve some commentary under 'Ugly', the comment ¨I’ve yet to see an effective implementation of SharePoint as an enterprise intranet platform for a medium to large-size organization. It’s simply not a mature enough or robust solution…yet.¨ is not an issue I would have picked. - Joining Dots
Master page / stylesheets are horrendously complicated looking and scared our web designers so much they wouldn't touch it and we had to do it ourselves. ;-) Definitely some improvements to be made there. And buy Telerik editor and put that in the CMS editor instead of that clunky one that ships out of the box. Would be a killer then. - Pete Gilbert
Simplified admin interface. The Central Admin site has so many things stashed in so many places (search admin is so convoluted!), its next to impossible to keep everything straight. Not to mention the other items that you have to find in the Site Settings for a site collection. - John Ferringer
"single RSS from an entire site" - Angi, NewsGator's Social Sites currently provides that. :-) You can also try a free open source tool at http://www.codeplex.com/SPRSS. - Lawrence Liu
SPRSS: nice - thanks LLiu, you are always a fount of information. - Angi Lundy
ditto on the synchronous collaboration on a doc. I wanna see word/excel/ppt completely interactive. - Jeff DeVerter
Only one? How 'bout a few. Make rolling-up information from multiple sites easier. CQWP was a great start on this, but it needs to be so much more. I know, CorasWorks has great solutions in this area, and relying on partners to provide some "advanced" functions is a solid strategy. But I think this should be more of a core capability. How about make RSS reader work without requiring Kerberos? That was a last minute decision for security but I think it hurt more than it helped. And how about built-in mechanisms for managing large lists? The records center provides automatic folder partitioning, bring that to the rest of the sites. And why can't we set metadata on folders? Someone stop me!! 8^D - Mark Arend
All templates should be changed from a <table>-based to a <div>-based layout with well structured and clean sytesheets (there's a lot more but this is the first that came up to my mind) - Urs Bertschy
Well if you're going for more than 1 feature, a good exercise is ¨if you had $100 to spend...¨ 1$ on 100 features vs $100 on 1. I used this approach in my ol' MS days :-) great way of getting a customer down to 3 things they most want to see in a product and the money split indicates how big a difference there is between each feature that makes the final cut - Joining Dots
BTW, my one thing? Classification, preferably with Auto- in there too. SharePoint had it in the past and lost it due to perf issues. Would be great to see it come back, without needing to begin with F and end in T. - Joining Dots
"Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton formally threw her support behind Senator Barack Obama on Saturday, clearing the way for Mr. Obama to head into the general election with a plan to challenge Senator John McCain in typically Republicans states." - Mario Olckers
I am among the crowd that was excited about the effort when it started. Became very clear quickly that it was not going anywhere. As many have written, lots of smart, cool people were involved (e.g. Tom Breslin) but there was just too much cult of personality and the goals and efforts were far from what I was hoping for. - Deepak
Like I said sometime ago, DP.org is just a cluster-you-know-what .. from what I can tell as an outside observer. What matters is actually implementations of data portability, and many companies have already done that and will continue to do more of that because .. well, their users (not some A-list hypesters) are demanding it. - Lawrence Liu
Speaking of data portability, WHERE THE F*CK is the permalink for each FriendFeed item??? [Update: Ah, found it .. under the "Move" drop-down menu. My bad. :-)] - Lawrence Liu
Lawrence: you can link to the entire comment cluster, not to individual comments. Use the "More" menu to get a permalink. - Robert Scoble
Thanks for posting this kind of things! I am no A-Lister, and what's sad is whatever I do here to promote these kind of things it just doesn't work... Why? Go figure... I posted an invitation on the DP ML to join a room here, I still wonder who joined, who will, and who will not :( [EDIT] If someone sees Chriss Saad, tell him to avoid promoting contextual ads with attention profiling, please do it for me :) - directeur
I was involved with DP back when it was launching but have slacked off a bit once it grew beyond my scope. It's a massive topic and now the big players are waging DP warfare (Google, MySpace, Facebook, etc). DP isn't irrelevant, it's just that it will take lots of time to implement. Interesting, FriendFeed came out of nowhere. - Mike Reynolds
DP is going to make a comeback. I've learned some stuff is happening behind the scenes that's very positive. - Robert Scoble
@Mike Reynolds: Thanks! And yes, you're right! DP is so big to be seen as a monolithic subject, I for one, am (a bit) specilized in APML, I like it :) - directeur
@Robert: Why don't you share the love? :) - directeur
@directeur - APML is a very interesting topic to me too. - Mike Reynolds
I wish for all the criticism of DataPortability, we could instead channel that energy into actually contributing to the cause <sigh> - Elias Bizannes
Well said as always. As I said before, the global conversation won't go away but we will learn what is important and only focus on what we need to. - Colin Walker
Just posted on your blog but will copy/paste here:
Excellent post (as usual, damn you ;) ). Thanks for the mention.
I totally agree that following people for the sake of it is an exercise in futility. Brand Scobleizer will, no doubt, thunder along regardless of what you or I say, however. - Scott O'Raw
agreed, but the problem is that there are too many good people to follow - Dobromir Hadzhiev
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@Sprague, Google fits in just like any other filtering system. It'll help you to find answers to straight forward questions like "Who is Barack Obama". But it will be much more difficult to get to a place where politically engaged people are discussing their personal views regarding the vision of Obama. Filtering or search won't help there as the amount of hits increase dramatically. - Alexander van Elsas
Scott thanks (I think ;-) ) Actually, the point isn't that we must follow less people, that is a personal choice. Robert Scoble wouldn't do that and that is fine. But in general I'm inclined to think that as millions start to participate the concpe tof having many people to follow in order to get enough signal (or noise, whichever you want) will be a strategy we can't keep up. Add the mobile aspect to the equation and we get smaller more immersed communities. Am I right?Heck I can't look into the future ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
@Dobromir that sounds like a luxury, not like a problem to me. If the people are good, the quality is good, then you would probably not experience an overflow of useless stuff right ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
whats a "social media conversation"? is it different than a "conversation"? - Jeremy Toeman
Alexander: you define yourself by who you follow. If you only follow your family, that defines you. If you follow a crowd, like I do, that defines you too. One is not necessarily better than the other, you just gotta decide for yourself what kind of inputs you want. - Robert Scoble
Robert, very true. But I'm not really talking about who to follow, that is a personal choice indeed. I just think there will be less following, but more targeted. If 1 Bln people are engaging, then there will be just too much great stuff around. Everyone, even you Robert, then will have to scale down a bit and try to reach that critical point where you can still engage meaningfully, and at the same time get the good stuff to you asap. - Alexander van Elsas
Robert, I do like your view that you define yourself by who you follow. I am guessing when the conversation becomes as big as predicted, people are bound to stat making choices and limit to some point both their own input and the "noise (love that word)" of others. Maybe our own profiling will be much more targeted, because we are then forced to make choices ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
Jeremy The biggest potential difference is the scale they can reach. Social media overcomes time and space boundaries we normally have in the Physical world. Try having this conversation with 1000 people at your home ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
I already do exactly that. I don't follow everyone. Just early adopters who are interested in Tech. That is why 12000 follow me here but I am only following 2700. - Robert Scoble
Aha, someone was already asking if there were limits to the information you can handle Robert. I said I'd ask ;-) But the interesting question is, what if about 10.000 early adopters join in from China, 20.000 from India, another 10.000 from Russia, etc,etc. What would you do then? Can you elaborate on that? - Alexander van Elsas
@Alexander - will they be posting in a language Robert can read? - Hutch Carpenter
@hutch Sure, and if they don't, Google will have figured out automatic translations by then. There will be more, no matter what language - Alexander van Elsas
Pretty obvious stuff -- people at the "head" of social media (those who subscribe to hundreds of feeds and/or just the "talk show hosts" like Scoble and Pirillo) get a lot of noise while the people at the "tail" (those who subscribe just to their core circle of friends and/or trusted colleagues) get much less noise and relatively higher percentage of insight. - Lawrence Liu
Lawrence, you may be right. But that equation might not hold when millions join in. The numbers would be amazing. We all need to watch out where to join in by then. But it's certainly a much bigger problem for the early adopters. - Alexander van Elsas
It's difficult for me to contemplate FF or some other service with a billion users. But let's say it can happen. The first thing I'd think about would be the filters: they'd have to let me cut the universe of users and content pretty finely. I think you're right that we'd have to scale back. At the same time, though, I like finding unanticipated useful information in my stream. A fancy, robust filtering tool might provide both. - Tom Landini
I'm interested in seeing how this useful this tool is. Joel's certainly right, the current admin reporting story for SharePoint leaves a lot to be desired. - John Ferringer
of recovery. There will be no huge disaster. - Soulhuntre
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@Soulhuntre: ARM-Reset doesn't look bright. Lull in late 2008, then nasty in 09-10. - AJ Kohn
There will be issues and problerms, no doubt whiel things adjust - but the nightmare scenario of a large scale recalibration doesn't seem int he cards. - Soulhuntre
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@Soulhuntre: I'd agree that a large scale recalibration likely won't occur (a good deal of that has already happened.) But a 2-4 year slightly negative to neutral home value trend is a good possibility. - AJ Kohn
this will be a very-regional phenomenon. the next wave 09-11 will be nasty as it will be more investment properties and second homes bought by people with good credit using Alt-A loans like option arms and interest only loans. people just let go of these properties when these loans adjust. at least with subprime the homes are mostly owner occupied which give people a reason to fight to hold on to them. - Morgan
So so SO glad we moved outta there (2005) before the crashed started! - Lawrence Liu
Agreed - things will get sticky for a while. I can't help but feelt hat many seemed to want a full on collapse so they could scream "I told you so!" :) - Soulhuntre
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I wish when you re-share on Google Reader it would show that you liked it on FriendFeed - Jesse Stay
Cool! Proof that Mars has a 7-Eleven and the Slurpee machine is leaking.... - Chris Reed
That's where the extra-terrestrial life has been lurking, in the Slurpee machines! I had a suspicion. - Shellee
Is it just me or do Gawker sites seem to cross the line a bit when reposting news? They pretty much list all the details with a little re-wording and some direct (long) quotes instead of linking to the source at the beginning. They only do it at the bottom with a small link. LifeHacker does this a lot on tips they post about. I know a lot of times its nice to just get the facts without having to follow link after link but I think they over do it a bit. - Delete Me
