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Chris Anderson: Charlie Rose interview discussing FREE

I spent some time this morning watching the Charlie Rose interview with Wired's editor, Chris Anderson , discussing FREE . The interview covers the economics and ideas driving the Internet's current (and future) state: the Gift Economy ; the Attention Economy ; and the Reputation Economy . Rose leads...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-03-2008
Sync Google Calendar with Outlook and more with WideLens

Google has just released a very cool utility (.exe download for Windows) providing users with the ability to synchronize their Google Calendar with Outlook. Some nice features in their 0.9.3.0 release: schedule the sync frequency: every x minutes define directional flow: 2-way, and 1-way (either way...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-05-2008
Social Clouds, XML 10 Years Old, and Honourable Mentions

The Social Cloud Kevin Marks is a software engineer at Google, was principal engineer for Technorati and one of the founders of Microformats . In this video Kevin talks about the big picture re: the phenomenon of online social networks in a presentation called The Social Cloud . Great backgrounder to...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-12-2008
Joshua Porter - talking Social Design for the web (podcast)

Last week I had the chance to some spend time with Joshua Porter (of Bokardo.com) to discuss his thoughts on "Social Design" for the web. We recorded the conversation and it's up now up as a podcast . Josh has a new book coming out soon, "Designing Social Applications (Voices That Matter...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-31-2008
LibraryThing again

I ended the day re - visiting my LibraryThing . Glad I did...I had forgotten how damn good it is. Time to update my catalog with about a year's lot of books. Worth doing since I can get my data out and re-use elsewhere . Otherwise, why would I bother?

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-21-2007
The Banality of Social Networking

There is a fine line between extracting the potential goodness of social networking and drowning in its banality. This video by J.W Sass portrays the misery of the latter. via Brian Johnson .

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-05-2007
Closed is Still the Old Closed.

Kim Cameron, Microsoft's Chief Architect and the man behind Windows Cardspace (was infoCard), has shared his perspective the question of whether or not OpenID would make customers' lives better on social networks. There appears to be a general agreement that allowing a Single Sign On (SSO) service across...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-17-2007
Social Web Design

Joshua Porter shared the news yesterday that he has started his own consultancy providing "Interface design and strategy for social web applications". I've been reading his blog for at least two years now (we did a few podcasts together too) and have no hesitation in recommending Joshua's brain for hire...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-17-2007
Announcing Bungee Connect

At last, I can tell you more about what Bungee Labs has been up to... We've just announced details about Bungee Connect, a 100% on-demand web development and deployment environment that will be going into Beta phase in May. Over the next three days at the Web 2.0 Expo 2007 and on bungeeconnect.com...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-16-2007
Thinking with a hyperlinked-content processor

Alex Pang's post Thinking with a word processor led me to ask myself... This question: How does my trawling / tagging / blogging / processing of hyperlinked content affect my thinking? Answer: Immeasurably, I suspect.

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-23-2007

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