I finished yesterday reading the book “The logic of life” from Tim Harford (the author from the Undercover Economist) and while not explicitly touching the topic of social media, he does pose some very interesting points about the dynamics of...
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Weekly digest
Every Sunday I scan, collect and organize all my links I ran into the previous week and I send them out to our community of practice in Capgemini that is about SaaS, social collaboration tools, mash up applications and Rich Internet Applications....
Read moreAre user stories an alternative to (smart) use cases?
About a week ago, someone (from the UK) send me an email with the following question: I like your article on Smart Use Cases. Before I throw my hat in the ring on this, could you tell me your feelings on User Stories as an alternative to Use...
Read moreTwitter: the end of the gossip magazine
One of the biggest lesson that social media is teaching companies is that they should be as open and transparent as possible to the market (their clients). It has no use to cover up screw-ups or denying like Iran tried to do. With YouTube, Twitter...
Read moreFor the sake of being social
Have you ever been commuting or been in a elevator for a few floors? Not a very lively and social environment is it? In the Netherlands there seems to be a rule that while commuting you are not allowed to talk to others that you do not know and the...
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Every Sunday I scan, collect and organize all my links I ran into the previous week and I send them out to our community of practice in Capgemini that is about SaaS, social collaboration tools, mash up applications and Rich Internet Applications....
Read moreTwitter is a competitive sport
Last month I noticed an interesting Tweet by Dave Winer about Jason Calacanis not being #1 on Twitter any more. After giving some thought I decided to respond to Dave that I wasn't aware of the fact that Twitter was a competitive sport. Dave replied...
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Every Sunday I scan, collect and organize all my links I ran into the previous week and I send them out to our community of practice in Capgemini that is about SaaS, social collaboration tools, mash up applications and Rich Internet Applications....
Read moreCopyright, Digital Content, and the Internet
The second World Copyright Summit, which took place last week, at the Ronald Reagan Conference Centre in Washington DC, was a well attended and successful event that drew great interest from all key stakeholders in the 21st Century’s fast-evolving,...
Read moreThe causal effect of being lazy: Innovation
In the last week, I and fellow blogger, Mark Nankman had some discussions around a few topics, where we ended up with a series of statements which started with “The causal effect of…” and immediately we thought it would be a brilliant idea to...
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