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Re: Enterprise 2.0 Needs a FriendFeed

tacanderson — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:54:36 -0000

I've kicked the tires on a lot of E2.0 tools but not SocialCast. It sounds interesting, the only question I have is how well it integrates into existing work tools. That's been the bane of any enterprise tool; getting people to input the right content. Until tools can capture information as I work (like FriendFeed does) they won't ever reach their potential.

Re: Enterprise 2.0 Needs a FriendFeed

meryn — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:55:19 -0000

Tac, have you heard of Socialcast? It has likes, comments, and a live activity stream. (at least it claims to, I haven't seen it working) http://www.socialcast.com/

Re: Twitter Sign In Comes to Disqus: Try It Now on Mashable!

meryn — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:37:38 -0000

I think it's much more natural to use Twitter as ID in social media then Facebook. Great new feature for Disqus.

Re: Designing to Sell

meryn — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:52:45 -0000

Nice visual overview!

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

meryn — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:59:41 -0000

To automate blog submission to Toluu, one could write a Greasemonkey script that triggers the Toluu bookmarklet code (really simple) in the background. Again, only thing that wouldn't work is "scrobbling" the same blog twice. But I think Caleb could easily change that in his schema.

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

meryn — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:42:33 -0000

This is what Toluu does in its most basic use case.

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

diegomsana — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:39:05 -0000

I don`t think toluu.com is exactly what Fred wants.

I believe i understand what you`re thinking Fred, such thing could be easily built as a browser extension. Actually i've never developed a browser extension, but i have some friends that did. I`ll ask them for some help and then i might be able to come up with something soon.

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

meryn — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:38:32 -0000

You know what's funny? Because of you I see a whole new use-case for Toluu. I always wanted it to be an exact replica of what I had in Google Reader (and it fails in that, because it lacks syncing options). But just as a way for "scrobbling" feeds, it works perfectly. If you don't want the Twitter integration, you can add your "toluu feeds" rss feed to Friendfeed. It works much like last.fm "loved tracks" then I think. With the exception that you can't add a feed to your Toluu account twice I think... You'd have to remove it from your Toluu list first.

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

meryn — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:27:13 -0000

Toluu can also generate a Tweet when you add a feed. Like this you can share your favorite blogs with your twitter following.

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

meryn — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:23:35 -0000

Fred, you don't even have to use a reader. For reach feed (say http://www.toluu.com/feeds/175542563 ) you can just click "Add Feed", and it will be added to your Toluu list. The feed reader integration is optional. If you select a feed reader, the "add feed" page will redirect you to your feed reader, but if you don't select a feed reader, Toluu will only act as a database.

Maybe you should talk to Caleb: http://friendfeed.com/calebelston (Caleb is the founder and lead developer of Toluu)

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

fredwilson — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:15:14 -0000

That's a step in the right direction but I want something that doesn't
require using a reader

Re: The Blogroll I Want For AVC

meryn — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:52:53 -0000

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Toluu: Toluu was designed for exactly this. Sadly, it's not getting the attention it deserves. http://www.toluu.com/ . The design is a little awkward but the "seed" is there. A last.fm for blogs. With a special bookmarklet provided by Toluu, everything you subscribe to gets added to your Toluu before it's added to your favorite feed reader.

Re: louisgray.com: Are We Missing Something By Reading An RSS Feed?

meryn — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:02:11 -0000

I think a good blogger will try to learn from all conversation his post has sparked, and include this in future posts. A blogger could demonstrate the "consensus opinion" of him and people who engage in conversation with him. Even better - but not suitable for all blogs I think - might be to also include "dissenting voices". E.g. : "Last week, I wrote that all swans are white, but Nicholas (Taleb :P) didn't think so, as expressed in his comment on my post."

Re: Three Reasons To Use Disqus

Spiken — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:33:59 -0000

I wouldn't like that either. The video comment feature is cool though - but I don't think I'll enable it on my site.

Re: Toluu launches Tagging!

meryn — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:16:38 -0000

Great feature. I think it'd be nice if the "top tags" view for a user also would incorporate the tags used by other persons for the feeds the user is subscribed to. This way, people get an automatic "tag-profile", whether they tag themselves or not.

I think it'd be interesting to see at a glance what kind of feeds *other people* think I'm reading. That what these tags would tell me.

Re: We need to change the system

mndoci — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:55:54 -0000

I rarely use the delicious website (pretty much just the firefox extension). One of the better uses of delicious (and it's indirect) is via lijit, where my delicious network becomes part of a search engine.

Delicious has a large tagspace. Yahoo could have easily used that tagspace to provide users with additional interesting material, especially since using multiple tags provides appropriates contextual information. In other words there were a lot of possibilities to make delicious a better discovery engine. I still love it, but it shows a serious lack of vision on their part

Re: We need to change the system

meryn — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:41:51 -0000

I'm curious. What do you think Yahoo should have done differently? Do you still have improvements in mind over the new version?

Re: We need to change the system

mndoci — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:15:19 -0000

Tools like that are inevitable, e.g. Spotfire could come up with a SaaS service (they might already have one). NextBio also falls into that category. Hopefully more over time

Re: We need to change the system

mndoci — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:13:57 -0000

I hadn't. As a long term delicious user (and also a believer in how Yahoo have not maximized potential) it's an interesting read

Re: We need to change the system

meryn — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:00:09 -0000

I just saw an earlier post of you which confirms that you've already been thinking about how to bootstrap scientific communities. Ever read The Del.icio.us Lesson?

Re: We need to change the system

meryn — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:26:27 -0000

Swivel shows a bit of what's possible, though it's only for simple charts.
I'm imagiining a really bad-ass tool. It would take a lot of effort to produce it. But I think it'd be worth it.

Re: We need to change the system

meryn — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:21:33 -0000

I may have been thinking a little ahead of you here. I was thinking how we could empower scientists who already have the "open" mindset. I think a kind of generic tool would be best, but I'm personally not fond of wikis. The advantage of "personal" tools like blogs and Delicous is that each bit of data is always linked to the creator, which gives each user the ability to view purely their own data, and do completely their own thing, but it still enables them to share the content.

I personally don't have a clue about how typical science workflows look like, but let's say some social scientists does statistical analysis. At first, you'd want the dataset in the cloud. It doesn't have to be public, but at least online. Then there could be an web-based alternative to SPSS, which enables you to share each "test" you do on the data, but doesn't force you so. Having a web-based tool would make sharing the procedure you took very easy. It would be directly shared together with the results.

The reason why I named Delicous is that I think it's the perfect model for online cooperation. It doesn't take too much effort. You could use it in complete isolation if you wish, while still contributing to the "collective intelligence".

Too have privacy options in such tool would be natural. Even Delicous has a "private" bookmark option. A online tool which forces you to share every piece of data you produce wouldn't gain much traction in the scientific community I guess.

Re: We need to change the system

mndoci — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:35:28 -0000

Meryn, not quite sure I understand the question. Could you elaborate?

Re: We need to change the system

mndoci — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:34:01 -0000

The first place is to understand what the source of the data was. Is it basic data (e.g. a genome). That must remain in the public domain. Derived data (analysis results) belongs to the researcher and how it is made available is where I think we should be spending most of our efforts. IMO making analysis data/datasets available, e.g. as part of a publication is critical, because it leads to better, more reproducible, science

Re: We need to change the system

meryn — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:07:52 -0000

Maybe such a tool should default to keeping things private, while allowing to share things either public or with your network (semi-public) in a granular fashion. In any case, I think research findings should be stored granular, so they can be shared and retrieved in small bits.