Jon Udell on Socialtext
Grok Headline matches for Jon Udell on Socialtext
Jon Udell, San Francisco
Jon Udell, San Francisco
11/10/2003 11:18 PMIf you've never seen the video, or haven't watched it in a long time,
do a Google on "knowledge navigator quicktime" to find a copy. ...
SocialText
SocialText
04/27/2004 05:56 AMSocialText - Enterprise Social Softwarehttp://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 AMGreat article on Socialtext is in the Wall Street Journal today by
Michael Totty titled Togetherness, Wiki Style....
Jon Udell: The architecture of
intermediation
Jon Udell: The architecture of
intermediation
03/31/2005 06:59 AMThe architecture of intermediation .. del.irio.us ..
Jon
weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/03/30.html#a1205
track this
site | 4 links
Jon Udell on easy RSS subscribing
Jon Udell on easy RSS subscribing
01/22/2004 02:10 AMJon Udell:
What RSS
users want: consistent one-click subscription.
I agree with Jon, which is why I added feed-scheme support to
NetNewsWire. Other newsreaders already support this method, with more
to come.
But before this becomes truly useful, three things are needed:
1. There isn’t a standard graphic yet. There should be something
that’s as much a standard as the orange XML graphic.
I asked
Bryan Bell to make a graphic that
says FEED, since it’s the feed URL scheme. But then it was
suggested it really should say SUBSCRIBE, so it’s more clear
what you’re doing. But then that would make the button quite a
bit larger, out-of-step with other buttons... and there I set it aside
for a while.
A standard graphic is still needed.
2. More newsreaders need to support this. Though a bunch do, with more
on the way, they’ve not all announced support for this
convention.
Philippe Martin added an important piece of the puzzle (on OS X) by
adding an easy way to set your default newsreader by using his free
IC-Switch
app.
If you’re an OS X developer, and you have questions about how to
support the feed URL scheme, I’ll be happy to answer your
questions.
3. People with websites need to know about the convention. People who
create default templates for weblog publishing systems need to know
about it. This is straightforward evangelism: explain the benefits of
it, give people a cool graphic and an easy howto, and ask them to add
it.
Visualising Socialtext
Visualising Socialtext
06/20/2004 05:18 AMVisualizi
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."
:-)
Visualizing Socialtext
Visualizing Socialtext
06/17/2004 08:55 PMJust posted a follow-up to the Ziff Davis Case Study with some social
network visualization....
Socialtext in Forbes
Socialtext in Forbes
06/04/2004 02:15 AMForbes 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...
Socialtext in BusinessWeek
Socialtext in BusinessWeek
05/28/2004 03:29 AMBusinessWeek highlights wikis and Socialtext as something that could
transform Corporate America....
Socialtext Round A
Socialtext Round A
08/23/2004 02:40 PMSocialtext, 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....
Udell: offer an alternative to CAPCHAS
Udell: offer an alternative to CAPCHAS
12/19/2004 03:30 PM John
Udell: The CAPTCHA game: "Any scheme that relies on perceptual or
cognitive talents, in order to distinguish humans from robots, will
necessarily discriminate against some population of humans. If you're
using such an approach, accessibility dictates that you offer several
alternatives."
Udell comes to the same conclusion that we did with Roller. You have
to offer several alternatives. Roller 1.0 has a pluggable comment
authentication mechanism so that the Roller administrator can decide
how to authenticate comments. I don't think this is quite good enough.
The administrator should not be the one making the choice. The person
who is leaving the comment should be the one who chooses the
authentication mechanism.
Jon Udell on Prime-time Hypermedia
Jon Udell on Prime-time Hypermedia
08/07/2004 10:17 PMThe two-way Web unleashed by the blogging revolution is,
and will remain, largely a textual medium. And yet we're clearly at an
inflection point. It's increasingly feasible to create and share media
content. If you needed special AV skills and instincts in order to do
that, it would be a non-starter. But I've never been an AV guy. What
motivates me to explore the subject now is a profound sense that it's
ready to become part of mainstream communication on the Web. I'm not
sure where this series of columns will lead, but let's take it one
step at a time. [Full story at O'Reilly Network]
The typical subjects weigh in....
Lucas
Gonze
Bullet points:
- Bloggish things will provide the main index for searching
- A/V needs non-hosed URLs; given non-hosed URLs, a/v can take off.
- HTTP is the protocol, not RTSP or other specialized protocols.
- A/V can do a lot of the grunt work that software is currently doing.
- MP3 blogs and related tools are low-tech enough to let the masses
into the temple attended formerly by the movie and recording
industries.
Key points:
When web sites present AV content, the prevailing ethic is to bury the
URLs deep within layers of indirection, script, and server-side
sleight-of-hand. ... URLs are the key to a whole new way of attending
to media. ... In the realm of AV, the engine is starving for URLs.
and:
Streaming protocols are necessary for live broadcast, but otherwise,
plain old HTTP is good enough not only for sequential access, but also
for random access. ... This has extraordinary implications for
multimedia bloggers, few of whom have access to Helix, QuickTime, or
Windows Media servers, but many of whom can post files to web servers
that support HTTP 1.1.
Roland Tanglao
Lookng forward to some practical hints and tips on multimedia
blogging!
From O'Reilly Network: Prime-Time Hypermedia:
QUOTE
In a series of columns
beginning with this one, I'll review and elaborate on a variety of
hypermedia techniques I've been experimenting with. I don't know beans
about high-end AV technologies, so don't look for expert guidance or
Hollywood production values. I come at this from the bottom up, as a
web-savvy blogger frustrated by the opaqueness and intractability of
existing hypermedia content. I want to be able to repurpose that stuff
on my blog. I want you to be able to do the same on your blog. And I'd
like to see all of our blogs enriched with original audio and video
content, where appropriate. It's time to take the Web to that next
level, and the means to do so are at
hand.
UNQUOTE
and Eric Rice
The time has come to rock, and rock NOW.
And I'd like
to see all of our blogs enriched with original audio and video
content, where appropriate. It's time to take the Web to that next
level, and the means to do so are at hand.
O'Reilly Network: Prime-Time Hypermedia
This is all very heavy for me. Tears are forming....
What can I say - it's the vision we had in 1984 when we started
MacroMind - which became Macromedia - and then the vision stopped.
Now we're picking up where we left off. Thanks Jon and thank you everyone for being smarter than my former
company.
This is what it's all about.
The fact that Jon calls it hyperme
dia is even heavier for me.
excellent udell column on flickr and
delicious
excellent udell column on flickr and
delicious
08/22/2004 07:25 PMtwo of my favorite web apps that aren't MT and TypePad
Jon Udell: Developing with
next-generation Dynamic HTML
Jon Udell: Developing with
next-generation Dynamic HTML
04/13/2005 11:09 AMInfoWorld Apr 13 2005 2:02PM GMT
Socialtext Did Not Invent Tagging
Socialtext Did Not Invent Tagging
02/05/2005 08:59 PMGood 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 in Mercury News
Socialtext in Mercury News
01/25/2004 11:41 AMDan 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 Atom Support
Socialtext Atom Support
09/15/2004 03:58 AMAdina 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...
Pierre invests in Socialtext
Pierre invests in Socialtext
08/27/2004 01:34 PM
Pierre Omidyar the founder of eBay has a new project called the Omidyar Network. They just invested
in SocialText, a wiki company
that I've invested in and am on the board of. P
ierre blogs about the Omidyar network and the investment in
Socialtext. If you have heard of the Omidyar Network:
We believe every individual
has the power to make a difference.
We exist for one single purpose:
So that more and more people discover their own
power to make good things happen.
We are actively building a network of participants
because we know we can't do this alone.
Other investors in
this Series A funding include Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus and Jun
Makihara.
Full story
on Socialtext page. Congrats and thanks to all involved.
Comment -
TrackBack
Rick Klau Joins Socialtext
Rick Klau Joins Socialtext
03/08/2004 11:07 PMPleased 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...
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.
Socialtext Closes Series A Financing
Socialtext Closes Series A Financing
08/27/2004 02:14 PM Enterprise wiki-blogging meets venture
capitalists
InfoWorld: XML for the rest of us:
December 19, 2003: By Jon Udell:
Standards and Protocols
InfoWorld: XML for the rest of us:
December 19, 2003: By Jon Udell:
Standards and Protocols
12/24/2003 08:46 AMInfoWorld: Longhorn through the open
source lens: July 16, 2004: By Jon Udell
: PLATFORMS
InfoWorld: Longhorn through the open
source lens: July 16, 2004: By Jon Udell
: PLATFORMS
07/20/2004 06:20 AMa chat with some open-source mavens .. Jon Udell ..
interview
infoworld.com/article/04/07/16/29FElonghornreich_1.html
track
this site | 4 links
InfoWorld: The Google PC generation:
June 18, 2004: By Jon Udell :
APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS :
PLATFORMS : SECURITY : WEB_SERVICES
InfoWorld: The Google PC generation:
June 18, 2004: By Jon Udell :
APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS :
PLATFORMS : SECURITY : WEB_SERVICES
06/20/2004 11:32 AMThe Google PC Generation .. Jon Udell
speculates
infoworld.com/article/04/06/18/25OPstrategic_1.html
track
this site | 4 links
Jon Udell: Extreme design versus extreme
programming
Jon Udell: Extreme design versus extreme
programming
06/18/2002 08:16 AMI've just returned from the What's Next conference in Brattleboro,
Vermont, where I gave a pair of talks (one on web services, one on
application servers). The keynote speaker for the day was Alan Cooper,
designer of Visual Basic, author of several books, and founder of a
company that specializes in interaction design.
Cooper's view is that the kinds of disasters that have always plagued
the industry -- most recently, the catastrophic outcomes of many CRM
(customer relationship management) systems -- are a result neither of
poor strategy, nor of poor engineering, but of a failure to properly
coordinate the two. The missing piece in his view is product planning
and design, done according to a methodology that Cooper has devised
and that his company practices. This methodology aligns itself with
Colonel John Boyd's OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) loop,
fashionable in military circles.
"zeldman.jonboy"
Grok Description matches for Jon Udell on Socialtext
GrokA matches for Jon Udell on Socialtext
Jon Udell on Socialtext
