Pierre invests in Socialtext

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Maybe one day Pierre will grok it

Maybe one day Pierre will grok it 04/29/2004 07:40 AM
Lunch With Pierre.

For some time I've been meaning to hook up with Pierre Omidyar, the founder and Chair of eBay. We finally got together at lunch earlier this week in Redwood City, where his foundation is based. I'd heard Pierre is just about the most down-to-earth, "normal" fellow one might want to meet, it in fact it turned out to be true. He kicked out of Valley life in 1999 and moved to the desert outside Las Vegas (he also spends a lot of time in France). He comes back every so often for eBay meetings and to meet with his foundation staff, and it's this foundation that really gets him up in the morning these days. He's made news recently by announcing a new strategy for the organization, one which blends a bent for social change with capitalism - in other words, he's expanding from philanthropy into the investment game, but he plans to focus on businesses that connect people to each other to create the kind of wholesale change that eBay did. Omidyar repeated to me a very repeatable observation: that eBay has been the vehicle for millions of strangers to establish relationships of trust with each other.

Hence his investment in Meetup, for example. It's the first business Omidyar has seen with the same ability to connect folks for social good. Good for Scott!

Pierre and I had a good lunch, talking over many issues for the book. But really, our conversation always came back to community, the core driver of value at eBay. We discussed Tim's concept of the "architecture of participation" and how critical it is in the Web 2.0 world, and how much of the media world has yet to grok it. You can't outsource participation to the ghettos of discussion threads, in other words. The online media world is still looking for its Pong, as Martin, says, but I think we're getting close. Publications are essentially reflections of communities. And I believe the best blogs are publications, in a very classical sense.

In any case, those were the kind of tangents we took during lunch. We did talk search and SFO and such, but I've gotta save that for the book.  [John Battelle's Searchblog]

I sure hope Pierre groks what we're up to.  Maybe one day some money wil start flowing to open source and open standards projects.

Hey!  Maybe John can help set that up?

pierre endorses wesley clark

pierre endorses wesley clark 01/07/2004 05:35 PM
bradley endorsing dean might make news, but getting the second richest person under 40 to endorse clark is more valuable

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Cengent Therapeutics Signs Crystal
Structure Determination Contract with
Pierre Fabre

Cengent Therapeutics Signs Crystal
Structure Determination Contract with
Pierre Fabre 03/14/2005 05:08 PM
Cengent Therapeutics, a structure-guided drug discovery company, has established a collaboration agreement with the Research Institute of Pierre Fabre, the second largest French pharmaceutical company to access to Cengent’s X-ray crystallography services to advance the company’s internal drug discovery efforts. [PRWEB Feb 7, 2005]

SocialText

SocialText 04/27/2004 05:56 AM
SocialText - Enterprise Social Software
http://www.socialtext.com/

Socialtext Workspace adapts wikis and weblogs for enterprise productivity and scale. Communication, collaboration and publishing for: IT and Consulting Project Management, Research and Analysis, Product Management and Events.

Socialtext in WSJ

Socialtext in WSJ 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
Great article on Socialtext is in the Wall Street Journal today by Michael Totty titled Togetherness, Wiki Style....

Socialtext Round A

Socialtext Round A 08/23/2004 02:40 PM
Socialtext, the wiki and social software company, has closed Round A financing with some investors noted for funding companies that make the world better. Cool! And I say this as a fully biased member of their advisory board....

Socialtext in Forbes

Socialtext in Forbes 06/04/2004 02:15 AM
Forbes covers Socialtext from the perspective of an investor in an article by Erika Brown. There are a couple of little errors in the piece, like saying we don't charge for software. It highlights venture interest if they could just...

Jon Udell on Socialtext

Jon Udell on Socialtext 04/09/2004 04:02 PM
John Udell paints the wide landscape of enterprise social software in his InfoWorld column. You may recall that Jon wrote the book on practical internet groupware some time ago and has an in-depth understanding of the promise of lightweight web-native...

Visualizing Socialtext

Visualizing Socialtext 06/17/2004 08:55 PM
Just posted a follow-up to the Ziff Davis Case Study with some social network visualization....

Socialtext in BusinessWeek

Socialtext in BusinessWeek 05/28/2004 03:29 AM
BusinessWeek highlights wikis and Socialtext as something that could transform Corporate America....

Visualising Socialtext

Visualising Socialtext 06/20/2004 05:18 AM

Visualizi ng Socialtext Collaboration

The social network graph below is an illustration of the collaboration patterns of a division of Ziff Davis. For information about the team and how they have used Socialtext to cut project cycles by 1/3 and reduce group email from 100 to zero, see the case study.

Lines drawn between individuals indicate joint work editing documents and pages in the Socialtext workspace, with thicker lines indicating closer collaboration.

Tom Jessiman, the manager, is at the center -- he collaborates with different teams, and has visibility into all activity. In addition to Tom, other team members serve as bridges between the two main groupings: art/editorial/production and sales/marketing.

You can see how the art, editorial, and and production teams work very closely together, despite the fact that they are on separate floors and team members are often on the road. The strong ties and close spacing between group members indicates how the various groups (art, editorial, and production) are working closely together on a day-to-day basis.

You can also see how sales and marketing people are able to collaborate with each other -- with lower intensity but high value -- with their colleagues editorial and production. Sales/marketing team gains visibility into the upcoming editorial and release schedule, enabling more effective promotions and advertising sales. Some sales and marketing people are closer to the art/editorial/production group. These weak ties allow sales to pull in information from production as needed without being bombarded with the daily detail of production work.

In the image above, generated by Valdis Krebs' InFlow, the group on the left is on the ninth floor and the group on the right is the eighth floor. Metrics reveal a healthy pattern of more people interacting with people outside their geographic location than not. Team members have commented that not only do they do their work across floors within the space, but since they rarely see each other in person, a great deal of socializing occurs there too -- becoming "the virtual water cooler."

Before using Socialtext, the group had over 100 group emails per day in an effort to facilitate collaboration while keeping everyone informed. What the above graphs do not show is patterns of viewing activity when anyone can view work done openly. Now there is less than one group email a week, but by working openly in strong tie relationships, weaker ties can view more perhipheral information to stay informed. Reducing occupational spam from 100 to zero for this group results in a soft cost savings in excess of $1 million per year.

Social Network Analysis illustrates the value of Socialtext Workspace collaboration at Ziff Davis - cutting cycle time and communication costs with rapid creative collaboration, and improving top line value with more effective sales and marketing.

Social networks in the workplace have value at different levels of scale.

* "creative networks" are where core knowledge work gets done -- in Ziff's case, putting text and art together to build a magazine issue, and putting code and content together to build websites. Socialtext helps "creative networks" iterate rapidly, improving core business processes.
* "social networks" are where the business gets its innovative spark. "Weak ties" between sales, marketing, and creative groups help Ziff drive more sales from its creative work. Within social networks, "connectors" span groups, cross-pollinating ideas and driving cross-functional execution
* "political networks" of scales greater than 150 users are not illustrated in this example.

The Socialtext Workspace adds value at these different levels of the network. Socialtext provides Social Network Analysis and Visualization services as an indicator of collaboration patterns and value generated. The analysis uses data based on publicly visible collaboration patterns within the organization, revealing the collaborative patterns in the group:

* how closely are groups working together?
* how actively are groups collaborating?
* are there ties among workgroups?
* which group members are central to group collaboration?

If you find this story valuable, drop us a line.

[Ross Mayfield]

Marc's note: I'm on of those guys on the 9th floor. BTW Today we get to meet with the entire 8th floor - to launch 1UP.com. With over 8 videogame editors - Ziff-Davis represents over 50% market share of videogame magazines.

Our gamer and game DLA is gonna rock their world!

Final note to Ross: "That's OK - you don't have to put my link into your Socialtext blogroll - I don't mind."

:-)

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Minister's Jean-Pierre Raffarin First
Live Chat with Electorate by SMS & WAP

European Premiere: French Prime
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Socialtext Atom Support

Socialtext Atom Support 09/15/2004 03:58 AM
Adina Levin posts on the Socialtext Weblog about our support for Atom. Its less about the Atom syndication format than the API at this point (using a Kwiki plugin), and has really got me writing more in Etco (an offline...

Socialtext in Mercury News

Socialtext in Mercury News 01/25/2004 11:41 AM
Dan Gillmor's Sunday collumn is on Wikis and Wikipedia, with a Socialtext mention. Read the whole thing. One lesson is deceptively simple. When you remove the barriers to changing things, you also remove the barriers to fixing what's broken....

Socialtext Did Not Invent Tagging

Socialtext Did Not Invent Tagging 02/05/2005 08:59 PM
Good article in the Guardian about Tagging.  Except this statement: But, extending an idea developed by SocialText for its wikis, del.icio.us also encourages users to "tag" bookmarks...This implies that Socialtext invented tagging, which is, uh, categorically false. Socialtext Categories share...

Socialtext Closes Series A Financing

Socialtext Closes Series A Financing 08/27/2004 02:14 PM
Enterprise wiki-blogging meets venture capitalists

SocialText and Ross reaps the benefits

SocialText and Ross reaps the benefits 06/03/2004 09:38 PM

Ross Mayfield has written up some results from our usage of Socialtext's Wiki during our 1UP.com development process.

I was the main guy using the thing, so I got to put Socialtext's product and services through the paces.  In fact at this point - I'm working with five SocialText workspaces.

So all you knowledge management, workgroup wonks out there (Ray Ozzie eat your heart out) take a read.

Rick Klau Joins Socialtext

Rick Klau Joins Socialtext 03/08/2004 11:07 PM
Pleased to announced that Rick Klau has joined Socialtext as VP of Business Development. Many of you know Rick as an avid blogger, the guy who helped start Dean's blog. Others may know Rick as the former VP of Vertical...

BBC invests in Google

BBC invests in Google 01/27/2004 10:17 AM
Th e BBC is buying up search terms for 'Hutton Inquiry' and 'Hutton Report' through Google's Adwords service. I see this almost as the online journalistic equivalent of a government sexing up dossiers, and a first for any news organisation, according to the Guardian. Regardless of your (or Hutton's) opinion of the BBC's role in the Kelly affair, I don't see how they can possibly justify trying to control where people get their news from, especially as Hutton is almost certain to find the corporation (well, Andrew Gilligan anyway) to be a contributing factor in Kelly's suicide.

Motorola CEO invests

Motorola CEO invests 02/01/2005 09:49 PM
Chicago Tribune Feb 1 2005 12:27PM GMT

Intel invests in E Ink

Intel invests in E Ink 03/23/2005 07:33 AM
Cash to fund next-gen e-paper technology

IP Devel invests in a new headquarters

IP Devel invests in a new headquarters 07/18/2004 02:23 AM
IP Devel, market leader in Romanian software outsourcing, has recently moved to the new building at 1D, Vasile Milea Boulevard, sector 6, Bucharest. This is the company's third headquarters since its establishment in 2000 and the most important real estate investment so far, exceeding USD 500,000. This major step is based on the explosive growth of the company and the wish to offer both clients and employees the optimum environment in which to develop complex projects. [PRWEB Jul 18, 2004]

Sony invests in second LCD plant

Sony invests in second LCD plant 03/31/2005 03:23 PM
Electronics giant teams with Toyota to forge second LCD company for portable devices.

Yahoo Invests in Plaxo

Yahoo Invests in Plaxo 05/24/2004 03:48 PM
"Plaxo integrates Yahoo's search engine directly into the Outlook e-mail program. Under the deal with Yahoo, Plaxo will get paid for channeling people to Yahoo's search engine."

Telefonica invests in broadband

Telefonica invests in broadband 09/13/2004 10:43 AM
ZDNet UK Sep 13 2004 1:53PM GMT

NSW invests in technology, CeBIT

NSW invests in technology, CeBIT 06/05/2005 11:54 PM
ZDNet Australia May 25 2005 11:12AM GMT

Google Invests in Baidu

Google Invests in Baidu 06/09/2004 10:20 AM
"Google is making an investment in one of China's largest search engines, Baidu, which means ``hundred times.'' Google won't comment, but the investment was confirmed by U.S. investor Tim Draper of Menlo Park's Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which invested $10 million in Baidu. "

Motorola Invests in Magic4

Motorola Invests in Magic4 01/08/2004 08:26 PM
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Intel Capital Invests in E Ink

Intel Capital Invests in E Ink 03/24/2005 10:51 PM
Intel Capital invested an undisclosed sum in digital paper display maker E Ink this week.

Ontario invests in e-health

Ontario invests in e-health 08/09/2004 08:25 PM
globetechnology.com Aug 10 2004 0:10AM GMT

DoCoMo Invests in MontaVista

DoCoMo Invests in MontaVista 12/22/2004 01:33 AM
Wireless Watch Japan Dec 22 2004 1:58AM GMT

Motorola Invests in Aligo

Motorola Invests in Aligo 01/22/2004 02:49 AM
Unstrung.com Jan 21 2004 4:33PM GMT

Intel invests in JBoss

Intel invests in JBoss 05/10/2004 01:16 PM
The chipmaker gives an undisclosed sum to the open-source software maker and says it will provide technical resources for Java 2 Enterprise Edition certification.

Microsoft invests in China

Microsoft invests in China 04/15/2004 09:09 PM
Australian IT Apr 16 2004 1:25AM GMT

Philips Invests In E-Paper

Philips Invests In E-Paper 01/27/2004 05:19 AM
On Monday, Royal Philips Electronics said it had formed a technology incubator company, Polymer Vision, to partner with other companies interested in ultrathin, rollable displays that could double as electronic paper.

DoCoMo Invests In China

DoCoMo Invests In China 12/08/2003 11:50 AM
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Intel Invests in Wisair

Intel Invests in Wisair 04/21/2004 04:56 AM
Unstrung.com Apr 21 2004 9:09AM GMT

Intel invests in display start-up E Ink

Intel invests in display start-up E Ink 03/22/2005 09:37 PM
E Ink announced Tuesday that chipmaker Intel has invested an undisclosed amount into the display company.
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