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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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August 28, 2008

Ma.gnolia 2 (M2): Social Bookmarking for the Open Web

Tagged with: , , , , , — John @ 7:39 am

Last week at Gnomedex, the folks at Ma.gnolia announced the launch of their Ma.gnolia 2 (M2) effort, which is an ambitious effort to rethink and rebuild ma.gnolia, with a focus on embracing the open web.

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June 11, 2008

Enterprise 2.0 Conference - Social Bookmarking and Tagging

Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , — John @ 10:24 am

One of the sessions I attended at the Enterprise 2.0 conference yesterday here in Boston was Thomas Vander Wal (the man who coined the term “folksonomy”) talking about how to manage the flood of information that social bookmarking and other forms of tagging can result in.

Here’s his slides via slideshare:
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