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Bookmarks I’ve shared on 2010-10-26:

• Don’t try to negotiate special treatment from cloud providers, warns Google

  Informationage articles cloud-computing dataprotection

• Implications of Technical Debt Uncertainty for Software Licensing Negotiations « The Agile Executive
  Action Item: Before licensing an enterprise application or renewing an existing license, ask the vendor for technical debt data for the application and the plans to reduce the debt
  technicaldebt enterprise_it
• Applying Kanban to IT Processes (Part 5)

  kanban lean ITSM

• Applying Kanban to IT Processes (Part 4)

  kanban lean ITSM

• Applying Kanban to IT Processes (Part 3)

  kanban lean ITSM

• Applying Kanban to IT Processes (Part 2)

  kanban lean ITSM

• Applying Kanban to IT Processes (Part 1)

  kanban lean ITSM

• Modelling Behaviour « on Enterprise Architecture
  Excellent article on how to incorporate Business Capabilities into a model
  modelling architecture EA enterprise_architecture
• SearchHash
  make your own spreadsheet of hashtagged tweets
  searchhash socialmedia twitter_tools
• The Stack: The Fifteen (now Sixteen) Classes of the Social Business Software Suite
  Interesting categorisation by Jeremiah Owyang – may be useful adjunct to help thinking about the architecture of personal and network learning/knowledge management
  socialmedia socialsoftware stack
• Managing Yourself: What’s Your Personal Social Media Strategy? – Harvard Business Review

  HBR socialmedia brandyou

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Bookmarks I’ve shared on 2010-03-13:

• Social Network Analysis

  sna socialnetworking socialsoftware visualization network

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Bookmarks I’ve shared on 2009-12-16:

• Where To Find Picture For Your Web Site

  stockimages clipart

• Clip Art – Free Images, Photos, and Sounds – Microsoft Office Online

  clipart stockimages microsoftonline

• stock.xchng – the leading free stock photography site

  stockimages

• Flickr: Creative Commons

  flickr photos creativecommons stockimages

• 10 New Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know

  facebook privacy HOWTO socialsoftware

• Social Media, Cloud Computing and architecture
  Excellent slideshow by CapGemini's Rick Mans about the opportunities and challenges posed by social everything and the cloud
  socialsoftware via:rickmans cloud-computing enterprise_architecture ea
• iFixit opens up repository of repair manuals
  iFixit publish DIY repair manuals for a lot of Apple stuff. The manuals are now under a Creative Commons licence.
  [Guardian Technology blog]
  ifixit diy apple tech HOWTO
• An Introduction to Feature-Driven Development

  agile FDD

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Bookmarks I’ve shared on 2009-12-02:

• Lifestream for WordPress

  wordpress_plugins

• 35 social media KPIs to help measure engagement
  From @econsultancy via @rickmans
  socialmedia kpi measurement
• Dr. Feynman’s 6 Principles of Trendspotting

  thinking_skills

• Management Models for use in Coaching and Organizational Development
  Great resource from @rapidbi pay-for-download but looks good value
  modelling changemanagement presentations visualisation
• Chat Catcher
  Web service with WP plugin that catches Twitter references to blog pages and posts them as comments on the blog. 
  webservices wordpress_plugins commenting
• Lug-It
  Lug-it works out a chain of people who (might) carry an item for you, based on your Facebook and Twitter networks
  socialsoftware delivery
• SendSocial
  quot;Send anything, anywhere without an addressquot; – SendSocial act as an intermediary for physical addresses, allowing you to send physical otems to people for whom you only have a Twitter ID or emailaddress.
  fulfillment socialsoftware intermediaries courier delivery

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2008-03-14:

• Internet Alchemy

  newblogtoread

• Groundswell (Incorporating Charlene Li’s Blog)

  socialmedia socialsoftware newblogtoread

• The future of social networks: Social networks will be like air
  Charlene Li identifies four components of ubiquitous social networks
  socialmedia

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2008-03-06:

• A Conversation about Project Management and Social Media
  Dennis McDonald and Lee White
  project_management socialmedia socialsoftware
• Google Maps API Demo Gallery

  googlemaps

• BBC Podcasts as OPML

  bbc xml opml

• London is Free – Your online guide to free events in our expensive capital.

  london via:beatnic

• Kaltura – Creating Together
  colalborative creation of video artefacts
  mashup web_2.0 collaboration
• iSoton
  Good example of a mashup page on an institutional website to display the wider webview of the institution.
  mashups web_2.0

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2008-03-05:

• Outlook + Twitter = OutTwit.

  twitter outlook socialsoftware

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2008-03-05:

• Outlook + Twitter = OutTwit.

  twitter outlook socialsoftware

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2008-02-04:

• Standardise your desktop hardware to reduce TCO
  HP whitepaper tutorial on desktop TCO<br>
  tco
• Versioning Databases – Branching and Merging
  Article 5/5 from K. Scott Allen on maintaining your app’s db schema in version control
  versioncontrol dbms
• Views, Stored Procedures, and the Like
  Article 4/5 from K. Scott Allen on maintaining your app’s db schema in version control
  versioncontrol dbms
• Versioning Databases – Change Scripts
  Article 3/5 from K. Scott Allen on maintaining your app’s db schemea in version control
  versioncontrol dbms
• Versioning Databases – The Baseline
  Article 2/5 from K. Scott Allen on maintaining your app’s db schema in version control
  versioncontrol dbms
• Three Rules for Database Work
  Article 1/5 from K. Scott Allen on maintaining your app’s db schema in version control
  versioncontrol dbms
• Finding the Forest In the Trees
  Jeff Patton article on how Agile methods can best decide WHICH software to build in the first place.<br>
  pdf agile userstories
• Don’t know what I want, but I know how to get it
  Why knowing what you want in agile development may be an impediment to getting it – and the difference between incremental and iterative…
  agile
• The mystery of the shrinking story
  The decreasing size of a user story and Agile development’s drift into big-up-front-design
  agile
• The Elements in the Social Software Stack
  Thomas Vander Wal on the elements that need to be present in successful social software
  socialsoftware

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2007-09-19

• Lighthouse:
  Simple hosted Issue tracking, bug tracking, and project management software.
  Keywords: webapps, issuetracking
• The Different CTO Roles:
  Views from Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com
  Keywords: corporateIT, WernerVogels, CTO
• Build Amazon Widgets:
  Keywords: amazonassociates
• Ming is re-thinking blogs:
  Keywords: blogging, socialsoftware
• Google Presentation goes live:
  Keywords: googleapps

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-10-19

• Cogenz: Social bookmarking in the enterprise:
  Private Beta. Enterprise Social Bookmarking using tags aiming to be the Socialtext for social bookmarks..
  Keywords: Social_Software, SocialBookmarks
• Kickin’ It, OPML Style:
  Styling OPML with XSL
  Keywords: Webmaster, OPML,, XSL
• Grazr:
  Easy feed grazing and sharing
  Keywords: Webmaster, Syndication, RSS, Atom, OPML

…browser-based and thick-client.

I’ve been coming back to the use of a wiki in the work environment, again with project teams, for rapid development of specifications and management of action lists.

Two things that struck me, after spending a large chunk of the working day creating and editing stuff in a group of browser tabs. Firstly, that this is a really good way of developing a set of inter-related ideas; secondly, how it made periodic checking of my Bloglines feeds list and various email accounts less disruptive: it’s far easier and faster to Ctrl-PageDown to the next Firefox tab than it is to switch context between browser, email client and word processor. (And as you will note, implicit in that statement there is also my view that tabbed browsing is vastly more efficient than the non-tabbed variety.)

I think there may be a clue here about what needs to be done to increase the use of blogs and wikis in a corporate setting – if you look at the user patterns within browser-based tools and the more traditional thick-client set of email-wordprocesssor-spreadsheet it is much easier to switch and share within each sub-system than between them.

It’s an idea I’ve touched on before; the question remains will we see an end-to-end solution from Microsoft? Or will the independent tool vendors and the Open Source community be able to come up with something first?