by Anthony J. Bradley | January 14, 2009 | 4 Comments
I posted this response to a Mashable article on Nine Inch Nails giving away their music and now video of concert performances: You say that “they’re paving a new way of treating their fans and understanding how the Internet works and how it can be used to your advantage.” How is it that they “get [...]
Category: Web 2.0 Tags: business value, Web 2.0
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 12, 2009 | Comments Off
The social software blogoshpere is teeming with the discussion over facebook banning pictures of breatfeeding mothers. InfoWorld has an amusing article on it. This is another great example of hubris. Just like the Digg user revolt of 2007, eBay with the Tit for Tat controversy, and facebook with their initial launch of Beacon, this is [...]
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Category: social applications Tags: governance, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Yesterday I met with the CEO Alex Blum and CMO Michael Chin of KickApps. KickApps is a cloud based environment for building rich community-based web properties. They focus on the consumer market as a white label extension to an organizations web site. Their customer base is heavy in the entertainment industry which makes sense given [...]
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Category: social software Tags: social software, vendors
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
Yesterday I spoke to yet another large federal governmental organization about building a strategy for social software in anticipation of the new presidential administration. This is now an unmistakable trend. Over the past number of months several of the more leading edge federal departments have called me with the recognition that President Elect Obama’s enormous [...]
Category: social applications Tags: government, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
This very interesting post by Aaron Swartz examines who actually adds the value to Wikipedia. It is very worth the read, as are the comments. He takes issue with the assertion by Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder) that it is a small set of core (less than two thousand) knowledge experts that add the most value [...]
Category: social applications Web 2.0 Tags: social software, wiki
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 5, 2009 | Comments Off
A post in my colleague Tom Austin’s blog caught my attention. It is a quick take on Andrew MacAfee’s E2.0 Bullseye Model of strong and weak ties. In my experience there are a few big flaws in his bullseye model. First, it is an oversimplification (which admittedly fits well in a blog post and easy [...]
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Category: social applications Tags: social applications, strategy
