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Hi. I'm John Eckman.

John Eckman

I'm a Sr. Director at Optaros, a professional services firm offering strategy, design, development, and consulting services to enterprises interested in leveraging free and open source software.

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  • @jennbarnett I've actually seen travelers arguing with security about wanting to bring their sno-globes. They lose, every time. 19 hrs ago
  • or maybe I'm just following too many of thw wrong people - I have not bee cultivating (or weeding) my twitter garden enough . . . 22 hrs ago
  • feels like it's become just another channel for spam and self-promotion. is it just the arrival of the mainstream? like when aol hit usenet? 22 hrs ago
  • Twitter's shine is officially gone for me. maybe I'm just tired, or its the global economic collapse, bit I'm finding it hard to tweet. 22 hrs ago
  • Thinking of writing a song about conference rooms and how much alike they all are. Sort of like "homeward bound" by S&G but not as good 1 day ago
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June 11, 2008

BrightKite, FireEagle, and Airports

I use BrightKite to update my location via SMS, and it feeds FireEagle, which in turn posts to my lifestream via Movable Type and the Action Streams Plugin. If any of that made sense, keep reading. ;)
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May 5, 2008

Babbledog

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Babbledog

Last week’s Berkman Thursday Blog Group was an update on Babbledog - Jessica, one of the folks who does QA/testing on the site, walked us through the existing features and some stuff that’s still in alpha/beta phase.

It’s an interesting site - a cross between Digg or Reddit (in that you can post new stories/topics which folks can vote up or down) but also a kind of recommendations engine which pulls in lots of back end feeds and suggests stories to you based on your expressed preferences (answers to a quiz about what you are and are not interested in) as well as your implicit preferences (what you post, read, comment on, etc).
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February 15, 2008

Resources for Designing Online Communities or Social Web Applications

A couple of recent publications on designing / building social web applications that you should check out. More to say about each after the jump.

  • Joshua Porter on the Bungee Line Podcast
  • Chris Brogan’s Social Media and Social Networking Starting Points
  • Forrester Report from Jeremiah Owyang on Online Community Best Practices

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