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Archives for April, 2009


My Participation at the Portals, Content, and Collaboration Conference

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  April 29, 2009  |  2 Comments

Recently I have been asked frequently whether I am attending the Gartner PCC Conference June 8-10 in Orlando FL and, if so, what will I be doing. Here is a link to my sessions. I’m psyched about unveiling my new framework for building an enterprise strategy for social software solutions. I have been working on [...]

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Don’t be Fooled. Web 3.0 Doesn’t Exist

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  April 28, 2009  |  3 Comments

Unfortunately, the Web 3.0 propaganda machine is well underway (upcoming Web 3.0 conference). We knew it was inevitable. The powerful uptake of the Web 2.0 moniker made the lure of 3.0 irresistible. Watch as they try to make Web 3.0 appear out of thin air. It is critical to remember that Web 2.0 was not [...]

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Susan Boyle and The Power of the Long Tail

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  April 20, 2009  |  1 Comment

The Susan Boyle phenomenon is a great example of Long Tail economics as applied to social software and mass collaboration. Susan Boyle is a very unlikely candidate as a music idol and would be and has been overlooked by the traditional “all head, no tail” music industry. However, the combination of the “Britain Has Talent” [...]

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Ning Now Has an Unimpressive 1 Million Social Networks

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  April 17, 2009  |  Comments Off

A cnet article “Ning hits 1 million social networks” caught my attention. One million social networks is a lot of social networks even considering that anyone can go in there and start one up for free. Wow, what a success for Ning. Well, not really. The article goes further to state that about 20% are [...]

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Nothing Much Going On at Recovery.gov

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  April 16, 2009  |  2 Comments

It doesn’t take more than even a quick look at recovery.gov to see that there really isn’t much activity on the site. They may have missed their opportunity to garner a productive community. They are missing the social aspect and it looks like a very basic run-of-the-mill information distribution Web 1.0 site. Despite their Q&A [...]

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Will Ulitzer and SocialYell Dominate News Content on The Web (Eventually)?

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  April 15, 2009  |  14 Comments

Hype around Ulitzer.com (the social-journalism news magazine site) is climbing. At one point they were offering authors 200% of their Google AdSense revenue. In the US, journalism has log been a watch dog on government and business activities. This is one of the reasons that as a nation we prize the free press. But unbiased [...]

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There is No Such Thing as a Data Mashup

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  April 13, 2009  |  12 Comments

I feel compelled to step in voice my concern over the drifting of the term mashup. I’m not sure why I felt that mashups would not undergo the typical hype expansion other terms experience when the bandwagon begins to roll. I think much of my initial belief stemmed from the fact that mashups came from [...]

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A Fundamental Law of Innovation

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  April 6, 2009  |  4 Comments

I just spent about a week traveling around meeting with numerous organizations from many different industries discussing a number of the emerging and growing IT movements such as social software, SOA, mashups, and cloud computing. Some of these conversations reminded me of a mind set that I want to highlight here.  Although for many years [...]

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