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Online, Video-based Technical Support Networks (on YouTube)

Chris Pirillo has a very interesting experiment going on YouTube. In a series of videos called Help! ( here's the latest ), he's recording answers technical / PC troubleshooting on his webcam and then uploading those recordings on to YouTube. In the videos he is recording (no music, nothing fancy...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-21-2007
The Lightnet Revisited

At the end of 2005 I wrote a post messing around with some ideas on the future of the net. One of the ideas was the counter concept to the Darknet, using the term 'Lightnet'. I didn't define 'Lightnet', Lucas Gonze did that (and soon after Lucas was good enough to acknowledge me with...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-13-2007
Tagging behind the *firewall* - a case study

I've written about 'Enterprise Tagging' or 'tagging behind the firewall' before, but haven't come across any case study material in this area, until yesterday that is. In his latest post, Andrew McAfee has written up a short report on the intranet used at interactive agency Avenue...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-19-2006
Getting StumbledUpon

Just peeked at my referrers for my 2007 predictions post and amazed to see the amount of traffic the StumbleUpon service is driving in. In the last couple of hours I've clocked around 300 page views directly via SU. I've been StumbledUpon before, but I've not seen this kind of traffic come...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-16-2006
Enterprise 2.0 and Culture Change

Andrew McAfee, an associate professor at the Harvard Business School has identified a user segment within organizations that he describes as the 'Empty Quarter' . The context is within the types of users who become the early adopters of Enterprise 2.0' applications (or social media behind...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-10-2006
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence sounds like a great project, established to conduct research on the following question: How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before? Other...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-26-2006
Social media analysis

A few months ago I bumped into Mitch Ratcliffe at Scoble's book launching party - I recognized him instantly as our blog swords had crossed a couple of times ( hubris?? pahh! ...). So I was interested to read what Mitch had to say in this interview over at R/RW this week regarding a startup he mentioned...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-11-2006
Visualizing blog-mediated relationships

Lilia Efimova has documented the development of her relationship with another blogger, Andrea , in the form of this visualization . It marks the types of communications between each other (blog posts, comments, del.icio.us bookmarks, Skype chats, etc), their timing and direction. I love this diagram...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-04-2006
Virtual social software

I've heard a lot about Second Life , but I admit to being one of the uncool as I've not emersed myself in the virtual world to date. The latest post by Jeff Barr has piqued my interest though: "A bunch of people in the Second Life community have been interested in having what they call “HTML...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by admin on 09-24-2006
A social Microsoft.com

There is a team at Microsoft that over the years has delivered some amazing things for the community of Microsoft customers: blogs on MSDN and TechNet , MSDN Wikis , Codeplex , the Microsoft.com RSS Directory , ASP.NET , and GotDotNet to name a few. More recently people like Dave Morehouse , Korby Parnell...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by admin on 09-21-2006

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