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# Open Parenthesis

(Because these are the early days of a long revolution . . .

## Posts

- [Notes on Imagined Communities and the Open Web](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2018/08/22/taking-what-back-and-from-whom-notes-on-imagined-communities-and-the-open-web) - Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to speak at WordCamp for Publishers in Chicago. I tried to link together Benedict Anderson's take on nationalism from Imagined Communities to a number of concepts about what might make an "Open Web." 
- [48in48 Boston, New England Give Camp](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2018/05/05/48in48-boston-new-england-give-camp) - I was excited to be invited to give a quick kickoff talk at 48in48 Boston last week. 48in48 is a series of events (Atlanta, New York, London, Boston and others) in which volunteers build 48 sites for 48 non-profits in 48 hours. If you're in the Boston area and missed out on 48in48 but like
- [An Embarrassment of Riches](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/11/13/embarrasment-of-riches) - One of the great things about living and working in the Boston area (other than a few significant sports teams) is the prevalence of some many truly great universities. This is a benefit not only for the steady stream of students (undergrad and graduate) and recent graduates all those colleges and universities pump into the
- [Davenport v. McAfee: Can we get any disagreement?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/18/daventport-mcafee) - [Update Tuesday June 19 - the streaming video and Mp4 download are now available as well - thanks to Frogpond for the links.] I kicked off my Enterprise 2.0 experience this morning by attending the much ballyhood "smackdown" between Harvard Business School professor Andrew McAfee and Babson professor Tom Davenport (see Davenport v. McAfee update
- [Distributed Not Disconnected](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2016/12/12/distributed-not-disconnected) - Last week, I was happy to speak as part of a 2 day, online conference about remote working: Remote Working Conference 2016. My talk was titled "Distributed, not Disconnected: Employee Engagement for Remote Work." I described some of the steps we take at 10up to cultivate ongoing employee engagement as a distributed company. Here's the
- [Stop Writing for the Web](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2016/02/25/stop-writing-for-the-web) - Great video from Creative Mornings San Francisco, with Erika Hall (@mulegirl), co-founder of Mule Design and author of Just Enough Research.
- [WordCamp NYC - WordPress and the Enterprise Disconnect](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2015/10/31/wordcamp-nyc-wordpress-and-the-enterprise-disconnect) - I'll be speaking later today at WordCamp NYC on WordPress and the Enterprise Disconnect. It's a revised version of the talk I gave at Prestige in Las Vegas at the beginning of the year. I'm eternally grateful to WordCamp NYC - it was the first WordCamp at which I spoke, and was the WordCamp where
- [The Dirt on Open Source Licensing](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2015/01/21/the-dirt-on-open-source-licensing) - I'm a big fan of podcasts, and listen to a wide variety of them regularly. So much so that it isn't uncommon for me to have a couple months worth of backlog sitting on my phone and iPad (synced via PocketCasts) waiting to be listened to. So it was only this morning that I listened
- [Wordpress as a gateway drug, and other miscellaneous notes](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/23/ima-misc) - [I'm just going to keep adding to this one throughout the conference] Gather.com's new community, designed to create a national debate in preperation for the upcoming electrion: createdebate.gather.com -- Friday am update - according to the conference wiki (and this post on the conference blog), the sessions from the main hall are being webcast: Live
- [Miro, Kaltura, and the Generative Future of Internet Video](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/12/miro-kaltura-generative-future-of-internet-video) - Jonathan Zittrain's The Future of the Internet (and How to Stop It) is quickly rising to the top of my summer reading list (about which more to come in a later blog post). The distinctions he draws (based on his recent talks, see video here, here, and here) between sterile and generative platforms, and the
- [Post-Vox, Ex-Ning? Consider WordPress, Drupal](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/09/09/post-vox-ex-ning-consider-wordpress-drupal) - SixApart recently announced that they will be closing Vox, their hosted blog service, at the end of September. Earlier this year, Ning announced it would be moving to a "paid users only" model, leaving many communities looking for new homes online. What's a site owner to do when free (as in beer) services disappear? Look
- [Did you miss me?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/08/14/did-you-miss-me) - Turns out my hosting provider had a multi-day DNS problem last week, so OpenParenthesis was closed from Thursday am through late Saturday. What's the average blogger to do? Either you host with one of the blogging services (blogger, wordpress.com, etc), in which case you are more-or-less at their mercy, and you're down when they are,
- [Design & Content - Better Together](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2015/10/01/design-content-better-together) - Back in August, I attended the Design & Content conference in Vancouver BC, which brought together designers, content strategists, and other agency types to talk about how we can better collaborate. Since the conference, a number of the key videos have been published. I'll highlight a few here, but many more are available on the
- [The Fox, the Hedgehog, and Responsive Web Design](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2014/12/29/the-fox-the-hedgehog-and-responsive-web-design) - Just before the holidays, I saw Tamsen Webster (@tamadear) speak at Creative Mornings Boston on the theme of Education. She anchored the discussion on the distinction between the fox and the hedgehog. (That's the fox on the left on the whiteboard, with the hedgehog on the right: Photo by Alyssa Alarcon from Brooklyn Boulders Somerville Facebook page). If you've not
- [Designing from the Content Out - NERD Summit 2015](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2015/09/12/designing-from-the-content-out-nerd-summit-2015) - Just gave a talk this morning at NERD Summit 2015 about Designing from the Content Out. At NERD Summit, like last year, they have the presenter log into a google hangout account they control, and do the talk as a screen-shared presentation, recording audio directly from the local laptop mic. It doesn't give you the
- [Updates to YouTube-Podcaster-Feed-Creator](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2015/09/08/updates-to-youtube-podcaster-feed-creator) - This weekend I rolled out some updates to the YouTube-Podcaster-Feed-Creator. This script, which I use to get a true RSS feed with enclosures for video versions of podcasts who use Google Hangouts or otherwise post their videos to youtube, had been broken by Google's deprecation of their old API as they rolled out v3. In the
- [What the Drupal Community Can Learn From WordPress: Philosophy Driven Development](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2015/06/26/what-the-drupal-community-can-learn-from-wordpress-philosophy-driven-development) - Aaron Jorbin's recent keynote at WordCamp Philly 2015 articulated how the philosophy of the WordPress project guides core decision making.
- [Managing an Agency Business](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2015/06/15/managing-an-agency-business) - Tomorrow night, I'm happy to be a part of the ninth event in the Managing an Agency Business series - this one focused on "managing people, projects and processes to increase day-to-day success as your agency." I've attended most of the events in the series - I think I missed one or two due to travel
- [What can the WordPress community learn from the State of Drupal (2015)?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2015/06/04/what-can-the-wordpress-community-learn-from-the-state-of-drupal-2015) - Last year I wrote a post about what the WordPress community could learn from the State of Drupal, Dries' annual address at DrupalCon (aka the Driesnote, carrying a similar importance as Matt's State of the Word in the WordPress community). It's time for a 2015 update. tl,dr; version What can the WordPress community learn from the state
- [Taking Chances](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2014/11/25/taking-chances) - This week's Creative Mornings Boston was held at Brooklyn Boulders in Somerville. Creative Mornings continues to surprise and delight as an event. I think this is the first time I had to sign a safety waiver just to hear a short talk about business. The morning also starting with the crew from the Blackout Step Team from Tufts,
- [Free Software Foundation turns 30](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2015/01/01/free-software-foundation-turns-30) - One of the challenges of working in open source free software is explaining what free software is and why people should care. Thanks to the folks at Urchin studios for producing this video in celebration of 30 years of the Free Software Foundation: https://www.openparenthesis.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/FSF_30_1080p.webm Join the Free Software Foundation today.
- [Is there a single WordPress community, or a single Drupal community?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2015/05/26/wordpress-community-drupal-community) - (Photo credit: Schipulcon 2011 Day 2 Photos under CC Attribution Share-Alike license) Two recent posts got me thinking about the Drupal community and the WordPress community. First, Mendel Kurland (whom I've been seeing at every WordCamp lately from London to Maine to Minneapolis) wrote on WP Tavern about "A WordPress Veteran's Take on DrupalCon LA":
- [WordCamp London](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2015/03/15/wordcamp-london-minneapolis) - Excited to head to the UK later this week for WordCamp London. There's a contributor day on Friday March 19th, plus two full days of sessions on the 20th and 21st (and of course an afterparty Saturday night). The whole schedule looks great, but I'm especially looking forward to: Saturday: Building a Scalable WordPress at
- [WP and Legal Stuff Blog](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2015/02/09/wp-and-legal-stuff-blog) - Folks interested in WordPress and Open Source licensing should really start following WP and Legal Stuff, a new blog from Richard Best
- [Jeffrey Zeldman: 20 Years of Web Design and Community](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2015/01/02/jeffrey-zeldman-20-years-of-web-design-and-community) - Just discovered via Twitter this great video Lynda.com published a few months ago, on Jeffrey Zeldman's career (so far) working with "people who make websites." http://vimeo.com/104641191 It's a great video to begin the year with, tracing the evolution of the web design community from the earliest days, though the founding and evolution of Zeldman's many
- [Mixcloud to RSS with Enclosures](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2015/01/05/mixcloud-to-rss-with-enclosures) - Some time ago I created an "Unofficial.fm Feed Parser" so that I could get one of my favorite podcasts, The Waiting Room, as a true podcast (that my podcatcher would know how to download). Since then, they've moved on from Official.fm and can be found (at least for now) over at Mixcloud. Unfortunately, just like Official.fm,
- [Why the heck isn't WordPress a CMS?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/07/15/why-the-heck-isnt-wordpress-a-cms) - Slides from my WordCamp Boston 2012 talk on Why the @#!!@ isn't WordPress a CMS: http://www.slideshare.net/jeckman/why-the-heck-isnt-word-press-a-cms Obviously it'll be more useful once the video is posted, for those of you who weren't there - I'll add that as soon as it's available.
- [2014 year in travel](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2014/12/31/2014-year-in-travel) - Infographic generator by Cemre Gungor takes Tripit profile and generates infographic
- [San Francisco Here I Come](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2014/10/13/san-francisco-here-i-come) - Although it has been a travel-heavy fall this year, I'm super-excited that I'll be giving a talk at WordCamp San Francisco! The camp is taking a different approach this year, mixing sets of lightning talks in between more traditional conference sessions - see the full schedule. My talk will be in the set of lightning
- [Talking to Developers about Content](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2014/10/14/talking-to-developers-about-content) - My talk this year is "Engineering Influence: Talking to Developers about Content." I've long said that Content Strategy folks need to exert more influence on technology and can't just "stay out of the conversation" when it turns technical.
- [WordPress, qTranslate, Custom Menu Item Links](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2014/11/27/wordpress-qtranslate-custom-menu-item-links) - On the Food Empowerment Project site, we use mqTranslate, a successor to qTranslate, to manage content in English and Spanish. In conjunction with qTranslate Slug, we get specific urls for pages in English and Spanish, a language switching button in the header, and menus & widgets reflecting the currently selected language. Menu items which link
- [Learning from the other 78%](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2014/11/03/learning-from-the-other-78) - My lightning talk from WordCamp San Francisco has already been posted to WordPress TV! See the embed below. http://wordpress.tv/2014/10/31/john-eckman-learning-from-the-other-78/ In trying to cram a longer discussion down into a lightning talk, of course I left out much of what I'd hoped to get to. A few positive examples of conferences that bring together multiple platforms:
- [IndieWebCamp, BarCampBoston 9](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2014/10/10/indie-web-camp-barcamp-boston-9) - One of the joys of being "an internet person" in the greater Boston area is that there is always more going on than you could possibly actually participate in. Case in point this very weekend is both IndieWebCamp Cambridge and BarCampBoston 9. IndieWebCamps come out of the IndieWeb movement, a group of people focused on
- [Weekend Coding](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2014/09/07/weekend-coding) - Took advantage of a rare non-travel, non-camp weekend (other than BarCamp Boston 9 planning session) to clean up WPBook and WPBook Lite. Facebook has changed the way the API is versioned, and new apps made in Facebook are no longer able to call the v1 of the API, use FQL, or other things I was
- [August WordCamp Talks](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2014/08/16/august-wordcamp-talks) - Trying out SEO Slides (disclaimer - 10up is an investor in SEO Slides) to embed slide decks here from 10up.com rather than from Slideshare or speakerdeck. First WordCamp New York, a talk on Modernism Post-Modernism, and Responsive Web Design: “These fragments I have shored against my ruins”: Modernism, Post-Modernism, and Responsive Web Design from 10up Then,
- [The Web We Lost](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2013/07/23/the-web-we-lost) - I remember being vaguely aware late last year/early this year about a series of posts Anil Dash had done on the open web, but I didn't honestly pay them much attention at the time. (See The Web We Lost, Rebuilding the Web We Lost, and Captive Atria and Living in Public). Then I saw he
- [Home Office Ikea Hack](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2014/05/31/home-office-ikea-hack) - Now that I'm working from home, it was time to upgrade the home office. (It's also well past time to start writing on my own blogs again, but let's not dwell on that). The space in my home office was a bit challenging. There are baseboards for heat along two of the four walls, and
- [An August of Camps in New England](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2014/06/10/an-august-of-camps-in-new-england) - Looks like August is shaping up to be [*]Camp month for the Northeast: D4D (Design 4 Drupal) Boston 2014 will be August 1st-3rd at MIT WordCamp NYC 2014 will be August 2nd and 3rd at the Marriott Brooklyn Bridge WordCamp Maine 2014 will be August 15th & 16th at the Maine College of Art, with
- [What can the WordPress community learn from the State of Drupal?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2014/06/06/what-can-the-wordpress-community-learn-from-the-state-of-drupal) - This week, the Drupal community gathered in Austin for DrupalCon 2014, including the annual "State of Drupal" address from Dries Buytaert. It's the first North American Drupalcon I've missed since Boston in 2008, though thankfully all the presentations at DrupalCon are recorded and made available online. Embedded below are the video and slides for Dries'
- [GitHub on Licensing](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2013/07/22/github-on-licensing) - Via Simon Phipps comes news that Github has taken some steps to address the "post open source" issue first labelled by James Monk (@monkchips) in this tweet: https://twitter.com/monkchips/status/247584170967175169 The problem, of course, is that if you commit to Github without specifying a license, what this really means is that you get "all rights reserved." People
- [Assembled Web and Social Media](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/08/26/assembled-web-and-social-media) - Thought I'd share a quick embedded presentation here for folks who aren't yet following me on SlideShare. (Although after performing tag-team PowerPoint Karaoke at PodCamp Boston, perhaps I should think twice?). Assembled Web And Social Media View more presentations from John Eckman. The goal of the presentation- a sanitized (client references removed) version of one
- [The Intranet is Dead - Long Live the Intranet!](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/11/20/the-intranet-is-dead-long-live-the-intranet) - What's your corporate intranet look like? Some recent blog posts confirm my impression that the old command-and-control, edited-by-someone-in-HR intranet is being quietly replaced by a combination of wikis, blogs, and social bookmarking type applications. First, Andrew McAfee describes the Avenue A | Razorfish use of MediaWiki: What I found most interesting about the company was
- [Everyware](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/09/06/everyware) - I finally got around last month to reading Adam Greenfield's Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing. I was concerned at first when I picked it up, thinking that any book written in 2005 and published in 2006 that claims to cover ubiquitous computing would obviously be horribly out of date, and at best interesting
- [Web Content 2008 Chicago](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/06/18/web-content-2008-chicago) - I'm in Chicago today (and yesterday) for Web Content 2008. It's a nice, smaller conference - about 150 attendees or so, with very strong content (as you might expect) and good opportunities to meet, talk to, and network with the speakers and other attendees. The focus this year is on "Web 2.0 and it's impact
- [Zimbra Desktop?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/26/zimbra-desktop) - I 've blogged thought I had blogged before here about Zimbra and their demos of "desktop" or "disconnected" functionality. Today, TechCrunch announced "Zimbra Desktop to Launch: Full Offline Functionality" - saying the launch will be announced "later this week." The alpha appears to be available already: Zimbra on your Desktop. According to TechCrunch: Zimbra Desktop
- [SXSW Day Four - 12 Values Shaping Technologies Future](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/26/sxsw-day-four-twelve-values) - I've got mixed feelings about the handout which was distributed at the "12 Values Shaping Technology's Future" panel Tuesday morning. (Full audio here). On the one hand, it was great to have a simple, clear handout which people could read through before the session started, and which gave the panelists the ability to extend the
- [Achieving Vendor Lock-In Through Open Source](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/05/03/vendor-lockin-os) - There seems to be a renewed interest from proprietary software vendors in the use open source to create vendor lock in. This week, add Microsoft's Silverlight 1.1 and Dynamic Languages Runtime to the mix alongside Adobe's Flex SDK. Jeff Gould argues that open source has "jumped the shark," and that: the magical words "open source"
- [Multiple Communities, Multiple Platforms?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/04/13/multiple-communities-multiple-platforms) - Found this interesting comment in a blog post by Tony Byrne from CMS Watch on the social software marketplace and the fact that Intel leverages multiple community software vendors: What this should tell you? That large companies at the forefront of enterprise social computing -- like Intel, Dell, and others -- routinely turn to multiple
- [Liveblogging like a pro](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/30/pro-liveblogging) - I've written before about the (controversial in some circles) phenomenon of liveblogging: posting notes in near-real-time from a conference. On Friday, Ethan Zuckerman posted The 5-4-3 double play, or "The Art of Conference Blogging", including an extensive set of tips on how to do blog from conferences more effectively. As one might expect, it's a
- [Lifestreaming: Open Source Platforms and Hosted Options](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/12/24/lifestreaming-open-source-platforms-and-hosted-options) - For a while now I've been testing out a few lifestreaming platform options. My current shortlist includes four open source approaches / platforms and two hosted offerings. I think ultimately I'll want to keep an open source (LAMP) platform because I want to own the data in my lifestream, have backups of it, and be
- [Open Parenthesis Is Now HTML 5 and Responsive](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/05/20/open-parenthesis-is-now-html-5-and-responsive) - Finally took the time this weekend to clean up the theme on this blog and make it HTML 5 and Responsive. This basically means a mashup of: The WordPress Theme I picked a while back (Nameless, though my copy of it is modified a bit) HTML 5 Boilerplate, including modernizr. (I did think about jumping
- [Western Mass DrupalCamp ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2013/01/03/drupalcampma) - With the arrival of the new year, it's time again for DrupalCamp Western MA. This year it will be held January 19th, with (I believe - doesn't say on the site anymore) the 26th as a potential if it gets snowed out. Keynote will be Jason Pamental (@jpamental) which should be by itself worth the
- [Truly Responsive Design](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2013/07/05/truly-responsive-design) - A few weekends ago, I spoke at Design 4 Drupal Boston 2013. It was a great opportunity to update and give a talk I had been scheduled to give at WordCamp Providence (but was unable to deliver), on the topic of "Truly Responsive Design." It's too easy to allow the focus in the responsive design
- [Mythbuster May](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2013/05/09/mythbuster-may) - Quick google hangout with fellow Mythbusters to talk about upcoming events in May
- [Fun with WordPress HTTP API, Redirection and Cookies: WPGPlus 0.8.1](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/06/18/fun-with-wordpress-http-api-redirection-and-cookies-wpgplus-0-8-1) - This weekend I checked in and released a new version (0.8, followed by 0.8.1 this am) of WPGPlus, the WordPress plugin I wrote which cross-posts to Google+ when new blog posts are published in WordPress. Because Google hasn't yet released a read-write API (their API only allows for reading data from Google+ not posting into
- [Introducing WPGPlus: Posting from WordPress to Google+](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/01/17/introducing-wpgplus-posting-from-wordpress-to-google) - Inspired by seeing comments in Google+ about the need for a WordPress cross-post, I whipped up a quick WordPress plugin: WPGPLus. For now, since the Google+ API is read-only, I'm borrowing inspiration from Luka Puši?'s GPlus Bot and Dmitry Sandalov's Twitter 2 Google Plus script. This means emulating the Google+ mobile web experience using Curl.
- [OSCON Live Videos](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2013/07/20/oscon-live-videos) - Next week it's the fifteenth annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, OR. Although I won't be able to make it in person this year, the keynotes from OSCON will be livestreamed next Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (July 24th, 25th, and 26th). Check out the schedule remembering these are pacific time. Hopefully I can
- [CMS Myths in Higher Education](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2013/07/08/cms-myths-in-higher-education) - I'm super excited that I'll be speaking at Confab Higher Ed this coming November in Atlanta. My talk will be on CMS Myths in Higher Education, including but not limited to these myths: The silver-bullet of responsive web design (we don't need a mobile strategy, our site is responsive) The mobile context myth (because this
- [CMS Expo: WordPress and Structured Content, Non-Profits](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2013/05/21/cms-expo-wordpress-and-structured-content-non-profits) - Just a quick post on my talks from CMS Expo last week. The first is on WordPress and structured content - how custom post types, taxonomies, and metadata can be used to make WordPress more amenable to structured content. The second covers what makes WordPress such an excellent CMS for non-profit organizations:
- [WordPress talks at CMS Expo](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2013/04/05/wordpress-talks-at-cms-expo) - CMS Expo 2013 includes a WordPress track - I'm speaking. For $100 off a three-day conference registration use code CMSX54417
- [Politics and Poetics of DeCSS](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/08/04/politics-and-poetics-of-decss) - NYU's Gabriella Coleman's talk from the Open Video conference on the way in which DVD Jon and DeCSS brought together code and speech in relation to freedom: video platform video management video solutions free video player Her slides are also available, as are other videos from the conference.
- [Internet TV - Joost and Miro](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/03/miro-joost) - Steve Borsch at Connect the Dots has a post today titled "Two approaches to internet TV: Joost and Miro." I've left a brief comment there, but wanted to expand on it here. This isn't just a question of two different approaches to delivering Internet TV - it's a fundamental difference of passive consumption versus active
- [YouTube Downloader and Feed Parser](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/12/31/youtube-downloader-and-feed-parser) - So I decided to spend a bit of time over the holidays scratching an itch and writing some PHP code. The result is a new open source project: YouTube Downloader.
- [WordCamp comes to Providence - Truly Responsive Design](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/10/12/wordcamp-comes-to-providence-truly-responsive-design) - Just confirmed I'll be speaking at WordCamp Providence, October 27th 2012. My talk will be titled "Truly Responsive Design": Perhaps the greatest sea-change in the industry since the “Web 2.0? meme, Responsive Design has been the unavoidable theme of the web industry in 2011 and 2012. But too much of the focus in responsive design
- [DrupalCampCT](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/08/02/drupalcampct) - Very excited to announce I'll be giving the keynote talk at DrupalCampCT later this month (August 18th, 2012)! https://twitter.com/drupalcampct/status/230818751652700160 I attended DrupalCampCT last year, but missed the deadline for submitting a talk. It will be held this year again in Luce Hall on the Yale campus in New Haven. Last year's keynote was John Zavocki,
- [DrupalCamp CT and the Legacy of Henry R. Luce](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/08/24/drupalcamp-ct-and-the-legacy-of-henry-r-luce) - Last weekend I went down to New Haven for DrupalCamp CT 2011, at Yale. It was a smaller camp (compared to Design4Drupal Boston, or DrupalCon) but had excellent content and showed there is a strong Drupal community in the heart of the nutmeg state. (We did take a group photo but I haven't seen it
- [WordCamp Boston 2012, Design for Drupal 4 ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/07/09/wordcamp-boston-2012-design-for-drupal-4) - This weekend Boston lives up to its reputation as a strong city for open source CMS activities, with both WordCamp Boston 2012 and Design for Drupal 4 in the same weekend. WordCamp will be at the George Sherman Union at Boston University again this year. I've not been as involved in organizing this year, as
- [THE Facebook Plugin for WordPress?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/06/19/the-facebook-plugin-for-wordpress) - You may have seen last week that Facebook and Automattic jointly released a plugin called either "Facebook" or "Facebook for WordPress" (depending on who's announcement you read). As someone who's put a lot of work into two WordPress Facebook integration plugins (WPBook and WPBook Lite) over the last several years, I have to confess I
- [WordCamp Boston 2012](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/06/04/wordcamp-boston-2012) - WordCamp Boston 2012 is coming up quickly: July 13th-15th, at the Boston University George Sherman Union (same venue as 2011). I'll be speaking again, this time on the topic of "Why the #@*$!% isn't WordPress a CMS?." Why is it that WordPress doesn't get the respect it deserves in discussions of Web Content Management platforms?
- [WPBook & WPBook Lite Updates for Deprecated Offline Access](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/05/19/wpbook-wpbook-lite-updates-for-deprecated-offline-access) - WPBook and WPBook Lite have been updated to reflect Facebook's impending removal of offline_access permissions.
- [Non-Responsive Design](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/05/10/non-responsive-design) - What do we call design which is not responsive? We need to stop describing "responsive" as an approach - it should just be good design. But we'll need a word for what people used to do.
- [Digital Strategy at New England Give Camp](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/05/06/digital-strategy-at-new-england-give-camp) - This weekend I had a chance, thanks to Ian Muir, to present at New England GiveCamp. GiveCamps are an international phenomena, in which developers and designers (and marketing and strategy folk) get together with non-profit organizations over a weekend to build or enhance sites (happily, many on Drupal and WordPress) for those charities. New England
- [Minds for Sale: Crowdsourced Surveillance?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/03/29/minds-for-sale-crowdsourced-surveillance) - While flying down to Denver for DrupalCon, I finally caught up on some of the videos in my queue optimistically labeled "watch later." I put videos (or sometimes podcasts) there when they seem compelling but are too long for the commute or for sitting at the laptop watching. Often these are from the Berkman Video
- [Dries' Keynote and the Assembled Web](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/03/20/dries-keynote-and-the-assembled-web) - At this morning's DrupalCon Denver keynote, Dries mentioned the concept of the Assembled Web a number of times: how Drupal enables web applications to be assembled from component parts (both parts from within Drupal and parts from outside it). Although his usage is a bit different than ours was (and Acquia has been using the
- [Heading to Denver for DrupalCon](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/03/15/heading-to-denver-for-drupalcon) - Next week I'm off to Denver for DrupalCon 2012. Since DrupalCon 2008 (which was in Boston) I've done both SXSW and DrupalCon each year, but that was proving to be a bit of an overload, so this year I've dialed back, skipped SXSW, and chose DrupalCon instead. I've found it consistently more useful. I'll be
- [BarCamp Boston 7 Coming April 7th and 8th](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/02/20/barcamp-boston-7-coming-april-7th-and-8th) - BarCamp Boston 7 coming up April 7th and 8th at the NERD Center in Kendall Square.
- [New Project: UnOfficial.fm iTunes Feed Generator](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/01/30/new-project-unofficial-fm-itunes-feed-generator) - New project - unofficial.fm itunes feed generator. (Creates iTunes compliant feeds for officialfm users). Created a feed for The Waiting Room podcast.
- [Wrapping up WordCamp Boston 2011](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/01/16/wrapping-up-wordcamp-boston-2011) - This last weekend I finally got drafted and posted Closing the Books on WordCamp Boston 2011 over on WCBOS site. Planning WordCamp Boston the last two years has been quite an experience: challenging, at times high-stress-inducing, but well worth the effort. It's only really been possible, of course, because of the first class team of
- [Three Books for WordPress 3.x](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/01/10/three-books-for-wordpress-3-x) - Over the last year I've served as a reviewer for a few books for Packt Publishing, focused on WordPress: WordPress 3 Ultimate Security WordPress 3 Cookbook WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers All three have now been published and are worth checking out. Details of each below. The earliest of the three to be published was
- [Fun with PhotoBlast](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/01/12/fun-with-photoblast) - ISITE Design created a fun iOS app, Photoblast (best on iPhone, but you can run it in pixel-doubled mode on your iPad too) that lets you add bling, facial hair, luchadors, and the like to your photos for extra impact. Forget Instagram, ours has a pimp cup! The app itself is free, and comes with
- [Western Mass Drupal Camp](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/01/16/western-mass-drupal-camp) - I was very happy to find out this weekend that I will be speaking next weekend (1/21/12) at Western Mass Drupal Camp in Amherst. I'll be walking through a case study of the site ISITE Design recently designed and built for the JFK Jr Forum at the Harvard Institute of Politics (The Forum site is
- [Testing Facebook PHP SDK 3.1.1](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/01/04/testing-facebook-php-sdk-3-1-1) - OK, no more testing, no more publishing and unpublishing this page. WPBook 2.3 is released. This uses the same Facebook SDK (3.1.1) as WPBook Lite which I just released last weekend - this will make it easier to manage both. It will also let me start work on adding more features to the plugin- a
- [Facebook Graph API - Post Versus Link](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/01/03/facebook-graph-api-post-versus-link) - Over in the WordPress Support forums for WPBook, WPBook user TheCitizen was asking about the absence of "share" links on Wall Excerpts posted via WPBook. I responded that in my experience posts made via the API (by an App, rather than by the user directly) don't get "share" links inside Facebook. He pointed to Facebook
- [WPBook and WPBook Lite: More Options, More Flexibility](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2012/01/01/wpbook-and-wpbook-lite-more-options-more-flexibility) - Launch of WPBook Lite, which is a version of WPBook that simplifies WPBook to not provide Canvas pages or Page tabs, which means not requiring HTTPS access to the hosting blog.
- [The Future of WPBook](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/10/04/the-future-of-wpbook) - I've been doing a lot of thinking about the future of WPBook, and wanted to give a quick update. There are two key factors making me rethink the whole approach. The first is a change Facebook has made, requiring SSL certificates for "all Canvas and Page tab applications." (They announced this change earlier this summer,
- [Cathy Davidson at Berkman](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/09/27/cathy-davidson-at-berkman) - Cathy Davidson, whose new book Now You See It I wrote about last week, was also a guest speaker at the Berkman Center. (Coincidentally, on the same day!). Here's the video, including Q&A: Wish I'd been able to make it!
- [Podcamp Boston 6](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/09/26/podcamp-boston-6) - Made it in Saturday for the opening of Podcamp Boston 6. (After a few working weekends in a row, I couldn't do two full days so I just came in for Saturday morning). While I was only able to catch three sessions, each would have been worth the trip on it's own. All three were
- [The Vast Wasteland, the Commons, and the Public Interest](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/09/22/the-vast-wasteland-the-commons-and-the-public-interest) - Last week the Berkman Center hosted an event for the 50th anniversay of the "Vast Wasteland" speech, when Newton Minow (then chairman of the FCC) was publicly critical of the assembled National Association of Broadcasters for not doing more to serve the public interest: We all know that people would more often prefer to be
- [Future M on Higher Education](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/09/23/future-m-higher-education) - In support of our higher education practice, ISITE Design sponsored a panel at FutureM titled "Beyond the University Website: The Future of Digital Marketing in Higher Education." Jeff Cram moderated, and participants included (from left to right in the photo): Perry Hewitt, Chief Digital Officer, Harvard (@perryhewitt) Gene Begin, Digital Marketing Director, Babson College (@gbegin)
- [Podcamp Boston This Weekend](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/09/22/podcamp-boston-this-weekend) - Podcamp Boston (6) is this weekend (Sept. 24th and 25th) at the Microsoft NERD center. Here's the schedule (which they haven't yet published except as a google doc): My friend Dave Wieneke will be presenting Saturday am on "The 7 Deadly Sins of Business Innovation" and again Sunday afternoon on "Applying Digital Strategy Across your
- [Do Klout scores reward the noisy?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/09/22/do-klout-scores-reward-the-noisy) - Intrigued by Jon DiPietro's Klout's Konference Kalculation, I took a look at my own Klout score to see what impact all the events of the past two weeks (FutureM, Berkman Center "Vast Wasteland" session, Inbound Marketing Summit, and DrupalCamp Montreal) might have had. That's a big bump in my supposed influence - but doesn't it
- [Videos from DrupalCamp Montreal](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/09/21/videos-from-drupalcamp-montreal) - DrupalCamp Montreal was this past weekend, and the videos are already posted! The event venue was McGill University's McIntyre Science Center, which is equipped with an automated system to capture lectures at specific times. The system captures the video output being projected as well as video of the lectern where the speaker is standing, and
- [Open Source Education for the 21st Century](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/09/20/open-source-education-for-the-21st-century) - Cathy Davidson's Now You See It argues that the educational system in the US is failing to prepare graduates for the work they will be doing in the 21st century. While I found myself vigorously nodding at the general argument of the book, there were also some places I wished Davidson had developed in greater
- [DrupalCamp Montreal](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/09/07/drupalcamp-montreal) - Just found out I will be speaking at DrupalCamp Montreal in a few weeks, on the subject of Open Source Video, using Kaltura with Drupal. We're doing some work with an institute at a local university involving migration of a large video archive and design of a video microsite, so the research for the presentation
- [Don't Be a Tool - Content Management Strategy](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/07/25/dont-be-a-tool-content-management-strategy) - Here are the slides and speakerrate info for the talk I gave yesterday at WordCamp Boston. Although the slides themselves are less entertaining without my voiceover, video from the talk will be made available - and I will link to it here as soon as I have the url. Slides: Don’t Be a Tool -
- [WordCamp Boston 2011](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/07/12/wordcamp-boston-2011) - The other major reason I haven't been very active here in the last few months is WordCamp Boston, coming up in just under two weeks (July 23rd and 24th). This year's camp promises to be even bigger than last years, with content from 30+ speakers spread out over one and half days at the Boston
- [New gig: ISITE Design](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/07/11/new-gig-isite-design) - So 2011 has been a pretty crazy summer for me, as evidenced in part by the fact that it has taken me over 2 months to write about changing jobs. (Or anything else, for that matter - I think that's the biggest gap in posts since I started this blog back in 2006). Back in
- [Facebook Platform Updates, SSL, and WPBook](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/06/12/facebook-platform-updates-ssl-and-wpbook) - Back in January, I got an unexpected flurry of WPBook support requests, and ultimately discovered they were the result of Facebook's decision to allow people to browse Facebook in HTTPS mode. As part of that change, Facebook introduced some new settings: "Secure Canvas URL" and "Secure Tab URL," which would enable https connections throughout your
- [Spammy spam and the spammers who send it](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/04/19/spammy-spam-and-the-spammers-who-send-it) - I'm really happy that the portable contacts specification exists, and that products like Gmail enable an OAuth connection for the "find your friends already in the network" situation. However, this has enabled a particularly bad form of spammy spam that I encountered again this week from Shoppybag.com. It starts with a message like this one:
- [Social Commerce Presentation from Magento Imagine Conference](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/04/05/social-commerce-presentation-from-magento-imagine-conference) - I shared the slides from my social commerce talk at the Magento Imagine conference earlier, but now the video has been posted: I've also taken the audio from that video and converted the SlideShares slides into a screencast, which syncing the audio to the slides: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Revenue? View more webinars
- [WPBook 2.2.1](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/03/27/wpbook-2-2-1) - Spent some quality time this weekend with WPBook. As a result, I just released version 2.2.1. (There was briefly a 2.2 release, but something was corrupted in that version of the SVN repo, so use 2.2.1 instead). Included in 2.2.1: Read More is back. Re-enabled the "Read More" action link. Unfortunately, because of a Facebook
- [WPBook 2.1.4 Released](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/03/21/wpbook-2-1-4-released) - Just released WPBook 2.1.4. Two key bugfixes in this release: Comment Imports. In changing to the Graph API I needed to add an access_token to the FQL calls I'm using to retrieve comments from non-public streams. Facebook Avatars for Pages. Given that you can now comment on wall posts as a page (by using the
- [WPBook 2.1.2 Release](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/03/18/wpbook-2-1-2-release) - Quick update - just tagged and released WPBook 2.1.2 - should show up in the repository shortly. Note that if you've already made the changes described in upgrading from 2.0.x to 2.1 you do not have to redo them, though you will have to regrant permissions (in order to fix #s 1 and 2 below).
- [Change the Timing, Change the Game: TurnTo, Curebit](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/03/18/change-the-timing-change-the-game-turnto-curebit) - Some of the most interesting innovations in eCommerce are based on simple changes to the context of the customer-store interaction. Private Event Retail, for example, turned on its head the idea that your goal is to be as accessible as possible to as many people as possible, and changed "limited inventory" from a weakness into
- [The Problem with Time on Site](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/03/16/the-problem-with-time-on-site) - In a previous post (Metaphors That Mislead Us: User, Audience, Visitor, Shopper?), I discussed the way in which the terms we use to describe the people who interact with our web-based applications can shape our thinking, encouraging some approaches and limiting or making others highly unlikely. Another way in which the language we use to
- [Real Curation Requires Effort, Point of View](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/03/15/real-curation-requires-effort-point-of-view) - Many of today's popular deal-a-day sites claim to be creating "curated" experiences for their audiences. Many social media publishers focus on "curating" the stream of blog posts, tweets, and other content objects on specific topics. But what does that curation really mean? What's the point of view behind the curator's decisions about what to include
- [WPBook 2.1 Released](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/03/14/wpbook-2-1-released) - Just tagged release for 2.1. Upgrading: be sure to read the release notes from 2.1b1, which outline steps you will need to take after upgrading from 2.0.x to 2.1. (If you previously used 2.1b1 or 2.1b2 you should already have done these steps). See: 2.1 beta one release notes 2.1 beta two release notes 2.1
- [Metaphors That Mislead Us: User, Audience, Visitor, Shopper?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/03/14/metaphors-that-mislead-us-user-audience-visitor-shopper) - The metaphors we use to describe digital technology end up misleading us. We attempt to understand new technologies by bringing the context of previous experiences and hoping to find relevant analogies, but those analogies often carry other unintended meanings and can obscure possibilities. For example, we think of the urls our browsers request as: Sites
- [WPBook 2.1 Beta 2 - Post as Notes, Custom Themes](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/03/13/wpbook-2-1-beta-2-post-as-notes-custom-themes) - Just tagged a 2.1 beta 2 release of WPBook, which adds to the earlier release 2.1 beta 1 some new tricks: Post as Note in Facebook. Based on a patch supplied by sebaxtian in the forums, this option changes the posting type in Facebook from a regular story (an entry in your news feed) to
- [WPBook 2.0.13 Released](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/02/21/wpbook-2-0-13-released) - Just checked in and tagged version 2.0.13 of WPBook. Thanks to BandonRandon for her patches! A few quick updates in this release, but fairly minor: Moved and Unhid the infinite_session_key in admin WPBook setting screen. Lots of folks were confused by where that option was located. Fixed attribution line function which prevented %author% from working
- [WPBook 2.1 Beta - Open Graph API, OAuth](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/03/06/wpbook-2-1-beta-open-graph-api-oauth) - I've just tagged earlier today a 2.1b1 (beta 1) release of WPBook. Please download it and test it, and report back what you find here or (preferably) in the forums. Make changes to your Facebook Application settings described below after installing WPBook 2.1 but before trying to visit application pages!. We'll update the official WPBook
- [eTail humor](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/02/24/etail-humor) - I'm a big fan of Criggo, a blog that runs bad headlines, editor's mistakes, and other humorous ephemera from newspapers. Today I found this entry from a few days ago, appropriate since I'm at eTail West: Is it really so simple? No need for community and content, no need for exclusivity or behavioral psychology, no
- [It has come to our attention . . . ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/02/17/it-has-come-to-our-attention) - I download lots of whitepapers, ebooks, and webinars, habitually - just part of trying to keep up to speed with what's going on in eCommerce, social computing, content management, and open source software in general. Often downloading these things requires registration, and some level of profile information: an email address, a phone number, a corporate
- [It's like he's in my head](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/02/16/its-like-hes-in-my-head) - Sometimes I think Randall Munroe is a comedic genius; sometimes I think he's just a figment of my own imagination he's so dead on. Hat tip to BandonRandon for alerting me to this one. I may replace the about page on OpenParenthesis with this.
- [Magento Imagine eCommerce Conference](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/02/14/magento-imagine-ecommerce-conference) - Last week I had the opportunity to attend and speak ("With Friends Like These, Who Needs Revenue?") at the inagural Magento Imagine eCommerce conference in LA. It was a great show, with way too much going on for a simple summary, but I'll try my best here to capture some of the highlights and point
- [Stuck in the Middle with You](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/02/11/stuck-in-the-middle-with-you) - The first part of this week I was out in Los Angeles for the inaugural Magento Imagine eCommerce conference (more about that to come). En route, I ended up trying (via standby) to get on an early flight for one leg (ATL to LAX), and just got squeezed onto the flight as the last passenger.
- [WPBook 2.0.11](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/01/09/wpbook-2-0-11) - Just tagged and checked in another maintenance release of WPBook, 2.0.11. This will be the last (hopefully) release in the 2.0 series - next up is 2.1, with OAuth 2.0 for authentication. (Facebook is migrating in this direction, which means eliminating by March 2011 some of the calls I'm relying on now). This release also
- [The Difference Between You and a Media Company](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2011/01/07/the-difference-between-you-and-a-media-company) - Sounds a bit like a lead-in to a joke, doesn't it? Like the difference between you and a media company is that you haven't laid off half your staff, or the difference is that the media company has likeable characters, or . . . Actually it's a great blog post by Joe Pulizzi - The
- [Facebook Commerce 1.0? JC Penney's Usablenet App](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/12/28/facebook-commerce-1-0-jc-penneys-usablenet-app) - Last week I participated in two roundtable discussions at the PluggedIn Ventures Summit on Ecommerce.(There were lots of interesting tweets during the summit - search for the #pisummit hashtag). When the issue of Facebook for commerce (or F-Commerce) came up on the Social Commerce panel, I pointed to JC Penney's new Facebook app store as
- [Gilbane Boston: Content as Strategic Social Object](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/11/15/gilbane-boston-content-as-strategic-social-object) - Although the Gilbane group has a different three Cs that I'm normally talking about (Content, Collaboration, and Customers rather than Content, Community, and Commerce) I'm looking forward to this year's Gilbane Boston. I'll be part of a panel in the "Colleagues and Collaboration" track, about Social Publishing: C5. Social Publishing: Strategic Content as Social Objects
- [No more Chat Catcher](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/11/14/no-more-chat-catcher) - This is all a bit anti-climactic given that if you were an actual Chat Catcher user, you've known that the system was going away since at least October 20th, but the final day has come and gone. I really liked Chat Catcher, which I first discovered as a combination WordPress plugin and service back in
- [Linux, Lunch Counters, and Lost Cell Phones: Gladwell versus Shirky](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/10/06/linux-lunch-counters-and-lost-cell-phones-gladwell-versus-shirky) - Malcolm Gladwell's piece in the New Yorker this week: "Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted" is a really compelling read, and a nice antidote to technological determinism in our understanding of social meda (the idea that the new technologies shape behavior and determine outcomes rather than interacting with behavior and both shaping
- [Drupal communities at AIIM](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/10/11/drupal-communities-at-aiim) - It wasn't so long ago that Drupalcon was in the upstairs rooms at the BCEC while AIIM met downstairs in the cavernous expo hall. The contrast between the suits and huge corporate sponsors at AIIM and the open source designer/developer culture of Drupalcon was pretty palpable that year, and the two felt worlds apart. Now
- [Is a Blog a Community? Hoovers' B2B Buzz](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/10/08/is-a-blog-a-community) - (Via MediaPost) Hoovers and several business cosponsors have launched a new "social community" for small business users called B2B Buzz. The site's focus is primarily content: The voice of the social community will guide the direction for a portal and business consortium that Hoover's and contributors Outsell, Selling Power, and Shore Communications plan to launch
- [App Culture](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/10/07/app-culture) - Interesting research from the PEW Research Center and Nielsen on The Rise of Apps Culture released earlier this month. Key insights: Of the 82% of adults today who are cell phone users, 43% have software applications or “apps” on their phones. When taken as a portion of the entire U.S. adult population, that equates to
- [Social as a Layer: Sears' Social Commerce Experience](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/10/06/sears-social-shopping) - When I got the above email from Sears inviting me into a new social shopping experience, I hoped that they'd found a way to combine MySears and Sears.com together more contextually and pervasively, letting me move easily between the "get advice before you buy" approach of MySears.com (with its action verbs being join, explore, and
- [Is the Internet out of Ideas?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/10/05/internet-out-of-ideas) - Last week Forrester Research published an update to their popular (and useful) Social Technographics report which showed that- depending on which pronouncements you read- seemed to indicate that online social activity had reached a plateau, or was even shrinking. Just a quick sample: PCWorld said: "This year, a smaller percentage of U.S. Internet users are
- [TripAdvisor joins the Private Travel Club Club](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/10/04/tripadvisor-joins-the-private-travel-club-club) - TripAdvisor is joining Jetsetter, Kayak, and TabletHotels (good summary here) to offer a private sales site for hotel accommodations with the interestingly named "snique." (I realize they're going for "sneak," as in "sneak away on a trip" - but I can't help but read it as a contraction of "is unique?" or a "snick" as
- [Going Droid](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/10/01/going-droid) - (via MediaPost) I've been thinking that when my current contract is up this holiday season I would move to an Android-based phone. I've loved some things about my iPhone - it has essentially sold me on the utility of touch-based interfaces - but other things about it drive me batty, and the constant upgrade-jailbreak-restore dance
- [Hip to be Square](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/09/27/hip-to-be-square) - Got an email in late August that Square, the iPhone mobile card reader / payment acceptance application founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, had begun shipping readers again. Mine came this week - 2 of them actually. I'm pretty certain I only ordered one, so I'm not sure where the other one came from -
- [Ajax and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications, 2nd Ed. (Review)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/09/21/ajax-and-php-building-modern-web-applications-2nd-ed-review) - Just found this long overdue review of Ajax and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications - Second Edition sitting in a drafts folder - looks like I never published it. (Full disclosure - Packt sent me a review copy). This is the successor to the wildly popular Ajax and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications, which came
- [October Music Events in Cambridge](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/09/20/october-music-events-in-cambridg) - (Via Charles McEnerny of Well Rounded Radio) Two events coming up in October in Cambridge dealing with music, social media, and hacking: Rockshop 8 and Music Hack Day. First, on Wednesday, October 6th from 7-11 PM, is "Rock Shop Boston #8: A Social Media Experiment." Part of the Future of Marketing set of events throughout
- [Retweeting the Right Way](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/09/18/retweeting-the-right-way) - Just released an update to ReTweeter (1.1), which now uses the Twitter API for Retweeting. This means that instead of the traditional "RT: @username" syntax, the retweeted tweets will now show Twitter's little retweet icon and the link to the original tweet (where it says "about 4 hrs ago") preserved, and the retweeting user's name
- [One Week One Tool - Anthologize for WordPress](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/09/08/one-week-one-tool-anthologize) - I love the concept of this project: get together a small, focused group of smart people to create a useful tool in the course of a week. One Week | One Tool is a project of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Held earlier this summer (July 25th through July
- [jQuery, Thickbox, and WordPress](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/09/10/jquery-thickbox-wordpress) - So in this new theme for Open Parenthesis, I really wanted a lightbox / thickbox type effect on local images. This means that when the user clicks on the smaller images used inside blog posts, the "view larger" version is presented in a nice javascript modal dialogue box, with the rest of the page darkened.
- [Boston 140 Characters Conference succeeds despite coffee, wifi, power fail](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/09/15/boston-140-characters-conference-succeeds-despite-coffee-wifi-power-fail) - The 140 Characters Conference in Boston yesterday started off with three strikes against it, in my mind: No coffee. I've greatly cut back on my own caffeine addiction, but who starts a conference at 9am on a Tuesday and doesn't serve coffee? No wifi. Well, there was Wifi, but I couldn't ever get on any
- [WordPress Editorial Calendar](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/09/13/wordpress-editorial-calendar) - (Via Chris Brogan) Editorial Calendar is an excellent new plugin for WordPress which shows your blog posts (already published as well as scheduled for future publishing) in a calendar view and lets you drag posts around to different days. Simple, clean, and just works (at least on the two 3.0.1 WordPress blogs I've tried it
- [Surviving the OAuthpocalypse with Retweeter](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/09/06/surviving-the-oauthpocalypse-with-retweeter) - A while back I hacked together a script for automatically reposting all tweets matching a given hashtag, called Retweeter. It's useful for conferences and other events where you want to see a stream of info regarding a given topic, but don't want to catch the attention of spammers. (To use retweeter, you set up a
- [WordPress Quickie: Remove Feed Links](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/09/06/wordpress-quickie-remove-feed-links) - Sometimes you just want to use WordPress as a simple content management system, and the site owners don't plan to blog or have any content for which feeds really make sense. Its easy to not add subscription options to sidebars or footers, but don't forget the autodiscovery links in the header, which look like this:
- [Open Source Business Social Software](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/09/02/open-source-business-social-software) - Two projects I've been looking at this summer show just how far the Open Source world has come with respect to social business software. Eureka Streams, which is a new open source project sponsored by Lockheed Martin, and based on the Open Social standard, and Drupal Commons, a project sponsored by Acquia and based on
- [Spring Cleaning (in the Fall)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/09/01/spring-cleaning-in-the-fall) - If you normally get Open Parenthesis posts via RSS reader, or syndicated on another site, you may not have noticed, but I've decided to switch things up here and install a new theme. I started this blog at the first WordCamp Boston back in May of 2006, right when I started working for Optaros, and
- [Leanback with Apple Remote](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/07/12/leanback-with-apple-remote) - Last week, Google unveiled YouTube's Leanback experience. Like YouTubeXL before it, Leanback is aimed at users leaning back, away from their keyboards - perhaps with their laptops or desktops hooked up to their TV.
- [WPBook 2.0.2: Tabs, Stream Publishing, Comment Imports](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/08/15/wpbook-2-0-2-tabs-stream-publishing-comment-imports) - Lots of changes in WPBook 2.0.2, which I've just finished tagging for release, but the most important are: Import of comments posted on Facebook Wall. (If you're following non-stable, beta releases, you've had this since 2.0.0 - but it is improved and stable enough now for all to use) Ability to suppress posting excerpts to
- [WPBook 2.0.1, beta testers still needed](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/07/11/wpbook-2-0-1-beta-testers-still-needed) - Once again, I've tagged a new version of WPBook for release. See the "other versions" section of the download page. I've revamped the way permissions are requested, so as to store the session key Facebook provides when the user grants "offline access" permission. This enables WPBook to import comments from either the user's Facebook Wall or the Wall of a Facebook Fan Page. I've also added the ability to change the attribution line (the little blurb WPBook attaches to each message when you post it). Given the complexity of all the different ways one might configure the application, though, I feel a need to get some folks testing it before making it the 'default' new release.
- [Dear Dopplr](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/06/10/dear-dopplr) - Dear Dopplr While I'm very happy with your ability to share my trips with my friends, and I appreciate the semi-annual personal report, I need to share something with you. I'm never going on a trip to Delta, Canada. I'm also never going to visit Virgin, UT. Nothing against Utah (I've been there and many
- [WPBook - Posting to more page types, new site](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/08/31/wpbook-posting-to-more-page-types-new-site) - Thanks to troubleshooting help from mommyknows and other users, I've been able to track down and fix an issue with posting to different kinds of pages. Thanks to Brooke Dukes, we also now have a site for the plugin itself: wpbook.net - with instructions, blog posts about the plugin, and the like. Grab 2.0.8.1 from
- [Park Mobile comes to the MBCR](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/08/26/park-mobile-comes-to-the-mbcr) - When I'm not traveling to client sites or working from home, I take the commuter rail in to Optaros' Boston office, because I'm not fond of driving, and the traffic in Boston is legendary for both its volume and the craziness of the individual drivers in it. Generally this means being dropped off and picked
- [Facebook Changes, WPBook](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/08/19/facebook-changes-wpbook) - Interesting post today on the Facebook developer blog regarding the roadmap. The post noted that, among other things: We are also moving toward IFrames instead of FBML for both canvas applications and Page tabs. As a part of this process, we will be standardizing on a small set of core FBML tags that will work
- [Sunday Coding - ReTweeter, WPBook](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/03/28/sunday-coding-retweeter-wpbook) - Two quick Sunday updates. First, ReTweeter has been updated to 0.9.4. The fix here was primarily to deal with tweets which, when retweeted with the username prepended, were longer than 140 characters. Second, WPBook has been updated to 1.5.3. This includes a new option to enable publishing to the wall of a Fan Page independent
- [Once more with Feeling: WPBook 2.0.3](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/08/16/once-more-with-feeling-wpbook-2-0-3) - That's what I get for trying to make too many changes in one release. Sheesh. WPBook 2.0.2, released last night, is already superseded by 2.0.3, which I just tagged for release. Bugs fixed: Extra whitespace in wpbook.php after the closing ?> tag Cleaned up includes to break on functions rather than midstream I think that
- [Warning: Don't Run Lifestream and WPBook at the same time](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/07/07/warning-dont-run-lifestream-and-wpbook-at-the-same-time) - Quick warning: don't run WPBook with the latest version of the Lifestream plugin. Here's why it's important to test plugin updates. After my last post about beta testers for WPBook, I decided to go update my other plugins which had updates available, including Lifestream, which had an update to 0.99.9.8-BETA from 0.99.6 available. So I jumped in without really doing any investigating of what changes there were - bad idea. Here's what I got for my mistakes:
- [Beta Testers Needed for WPBook](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/07/07/beta-testers-needed-for-wpbook) - I've just tagged version 2.0.0 of WPBook for release, but haven't yet changed the "stable" tag in the readme. What that means is that if you're using WPBook, you won't seen any automated notification of a newer version being available. You'll have to go to the WPBook download page and find 2.0.0 at the top of the "other versions" list. Please do so, especially if you are willing to help test the new features.
- [WPBook 1.5.2 released](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/03/15/wpbook-1-5-2-released) - I've just tagged and released version 1.5.2 of WPBook, which should be available for download by the time you read this. In this version: Plugin now checks for PHP 5 at activation, will not allow activation under PHP4 Checks for zero pages of which user is admin (avoid edge case exception) Added link to installation
- [WPBook 1.5 Released - Let the Streaming begin!](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/03/07/wpbook-1-5-released-let-the-streaming-begin) - So for a while I've been working on and beta testing the next version of WPBook. Tonight I've just tagged it for release, so it will be available for download shortly. (I've already been running it here for a while and testing it on a few other test blogs). The main improvement in WPBook 1.5
- [CMS Debate from North Shore Web Geeks](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/03/06/cms-debate-from-north-shore-web-geeks) - A few weeks back I was part of a panel at North Shore Web Geeks which they titled The Great CMS Debate. Unfortunately Jake Goldman was ill and couldn't make it, so Christine Greene agreed to step in and moderate in my place, while I represented WordPress in Jake's. (See also Trev's iPhone sketches of
- [Content and Commerce: Celebrity Style](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/02/23/content-and-commerce-celebrity-style) - Interesting article in yesterday's New York Times about blogs which combine "shop the look" with celebrity photos. Specifically included are INFDaily, CelebStyle.com, and JustJared - though obviously there are many other picking up this trend, which has its origins in the celebrity stalking watching print magazine world. The technology, from vendors like gumgum and Pixazza
- [This Week: The Great CMS Debate](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/02/22/this-week-the-great-cms-debate) - Happy to announce (a bit late, I suppose, in that the event is sold out - though folks coming who don't get to see the debate can still join us for networking and beer) that I'll be moderating the Great CMS Debate this Thursday, Feb 25th, 7:00pm, upstairs at The Grog in lovely downtown Newburyport.
- [Beta Testing WPBook 1.5](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/01/18/beta-testing-wpbook-1-5) - Working through beta testing on WPBook 1.5. Let's see if this gets into my stream. I'm testing publishing to the author's stream, as well as to pages which have granted stream.publish permission. The biggest challenge so far is keeping track of who those users are, since WPBook doesn't currently store any info about who is
- [WPBook 1.4 Released](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2010/01/04/wpbook-1-4-released) - (Update 1/14 - now 1.4.2. Fixes detailed in readme - Admin side javascript issue, issue with submitting comments for folks who install wordpress files in a subdirectory different than their root URL) (Updated 1/5 - it's actually 1.4.1 now, as there was a typo in the theme/index.php file - get_exteral_url should be get_external_url). Last night
- [Try Rollip (With Free Credits) ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/12/31/try-rollip-with-free-credits) - I was recently invited to try a service called Rollip, a web application which processes photos and applies effect to them. As a bonus, the first 15 people to visit the service using this link will each get 30 free credits: Rollip Online Photo Processing The effects are similar to those you'd get by applying
- [Rating Speakers, Control, and Context](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/12/29/rating-speakers-control-context) - I recently read Scott Berkun's Confessions of a Public Speaker, and it got me thinking about speaker feedback. It was a timely read, as I'm (with a number of co-organizers) in the middle of preparations for WordCamp Boston this January. How can we be sure the speakers we've accepted will deliver? How can we ensure
- [Comcast XFinity: TV (Almost) Everywhere](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/12/28/comcast-xfinity-tv-almost-everywhere) - There's been lots of industry buzzz about Time Warner and Comcast's TV Everywhere plan, which would allow subscribers to fixed-wire cable offerings access to premium content over internet connections, freeing content from the cable box (or cable card). Although it isn't exactly setting content free on the web, it does seem a positive step in
- [WordCamp NYC, WPBook, WordCamp Boston](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/11/14/wordcamp-nyc-wpbook-wordcamp-boston) - Here's the slides from my presentation this morning at WordCamp NYC. It was in the "beginning developer" track so I tried to focus on the overall structure of how the plugin does what it does and the hooks/actions/filters used. Hard to fit the talk into 30 minutes with time for questions and roadmap - there's
- [WordCamp NYC, WordCamp Boston](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/10/27/wordcamp-nyc-wordcamp-boston) - I'm very happy to note I will be attending, volunteering at, and speaking at WordCamp NYC, coming up in November 14th and 15th. My talk is one of the Saturday Sessions in the Beginning Developer track. (Hopefully not a rating of my development skills as evidenced by the plugin's code, but reflecting the intended audience).
- [The Knight Foundation News Challenge, Open Source, and the Future of Hyperlocal](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/08/18/the-knight-foundation-news-challenge-open-source-and-the-future-of-hyperlocal) - (Quick Update 10/11/09 - see Zachary Seeward's post about how the Knight Foundation is considering changing the terms of grants in the future, as well as Patrick Thornton's piece on how the Foundation is assembling a team to continue working on the code base produced by the Everyblock team). The John S. and James L.
- [Future of Media, Video WTF](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/10/09/future-of-media-video-wtf) - Two quick notes on media: 1. Paul Gillin: "The Future of Media is: Small, Aggregated, Inclusive, Community-driven, Conversational, Fast, Flexible, Experimental." 2. New from the PCF: Video WTF? First, a great presentation given by Paul Gillin at the Inbound Marketing Summit yesterday. Covered very quickly with dense references the shifts in mainstream media: Gillin World
- [Inbound Marketing, Outbound Marketing, and Spam: #IMS09 day one](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/10/08/inbound-marketing-outbound-marketing-and-spam-ims09-day-one) - Yesterday was day one for the Inbound Marketing Summit (see #ims09 for tweetstream) at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough. If you'll allow me an early morning extended metaphor, it reminded me an aspect of Boston public transit: the distinction between inbound and outbound, and how they can get confused. For those not from around here, in
- [It's Not [Just] About Your Site: Managing Your Digital Footprint](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/10/06/its-not-just-about-your-site-managing-your-digital-footprint) - One of the core aspects of the assembled web is the concept that brands and all companies need to think more broadly about their presence. It isn't just their web site, or even their network of 10, 20, or 200 sites for various products, services, and brands. It's about your digital footprint: the sum total
- [Free as in What, Exactly?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/10/02/free-as-in-what-exactly) - Free Software advocates have for a long time worked to draw a distinction between free of cost ("Free as in Beer") and free of restrictions ("Free as in Speech" or as I prefer "Free as in Freedom"). The challenge stems from the fact that we use, in idiomatic English, the same word "Free" to refer
- [Brand Control Revisited: Google Sidewiki](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/09/28/brand-control-revisited-google-sidewiki) - In previous post on the illusory but often sought "brand control on the internet" I talked about Squidoo's Brands in Public and GetSatisfaction. Google's new offering, SideWiki, makes Brands in Public look very web 1.0. Why make consumers come to a third party site just to see all the comments about a brand, when you
- [Cross post Twitter to StatusNet with StatusNet Tools](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/09/27/cross-post-twitter-to-statusnet-with-statusnet-tools) - A few weeks back I created a little plugin that works with Alex King's Twitter Tools, using an API it provides to also post your notices to a StatusNet instance (Identi.ca, Twit.tv, etc). You can find that plugin here: Twitter Tools StatusNet (and should be able to find it soon on wordpress.org). What I hadn't
- [Brand Control on the Assembled Web](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/09/25/brand-control-on-the-assembled-web) - Who controls the meaning of your brand on the internet? One of the principles of the assembled web says: Your brand is not what you say it is, but what your prospects, customers, partners, and employees say it is. In short, your brand is what the Internet says it is. You influence this not through
- [If Facebook were a country](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/09/23/if-facebook-were-a-country) - Surely you've seen one version or another of this meme. If Facebook were a country, it'd be the Nth largest, where N varies from 9th up to 3rd, depending on how recent your data is. (Just try it on the google or on the Bing). I tweeted the other day what I think is a
- [OMMA Global Day Two: Content Has To Be Everywhere](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/09/23/omma-global-day-two-content-has-to-be-everywhere) - Yesterday was day two of OMMA Global, and I think the theme(s) of the day were Innovation and Distribution. On the distribution front, one of my favorite track sessions was "Joining the Party: Publishers Can Play and Prosper in the Social Media Sandbox," during which Alan Levvy from BlogTalkRadio said: Of course content's got to
- [The Assembled Web: Notes Toward a Manifesto](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/09/22/the-assembled-web-notes-toward-a-manifesto) - In the spirit of (and heavily inspired by) the original Cluetrain Manifesto and the recent 10th anniversary edition, I offer the following definition and 10 principles of what we at Optaros have been calling the Assembled Web. The Assembled Web is not experienced as a set of discrete web applications and sites, neatly separated from
- [OMMA Global Day One: The Year the Media Died](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/09/22/omma-global-day-one-the-year-the-media-died) - Highlight of OMMA Global day one for me was Terence Kawaja of GCA Savvian, whose presentation included a verse by verse playing and discussion of his own satirical song "Mad Avenue Blues" (sung to the tune of "American Pie," with the refrain changed to "The Year the Media Died"). Like the original, it's long (9:21
- [New WordPress plugin: Twitter Tools - StatusNet](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/09/10/new-wordpress-plugin-twitter-tools-statusnet) - When Alex King's Twitter Tools plugin was in its 1.x days, I published some directions on how to change the API endpoints to point to Identi.ca. Now that Twitter Tools is at 2.x, Alex has provided an API for enabling additional posting. So I wrote a plugin for his plugin: Twitter Tools - StatusNet. It
- [Being Interesting is Not Enough: Be Useful](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/09/10/being-interesting-is-not-enough-be-useful) - I used to be fond of saying that the best advice for content-centric businesses on the web was a simple commandment: Above all, be interesting - everything else will follow from that Being interesting is still necessary, of course - if you're trying to create a content-centric business and your content isn't interesting, you're in
- [Social Media Engagement, Ice Cream, and Murder](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/09/04/social-media-engagement-ice-cream-and-murder) - Earlier this summer, the Altimeter Group and WetPaint collaborated to produce the ENGAGEMENTdb site and related ENGAGEMENTdb Report ( a free download). It's truly a must-read if you're interested in how large brands are engaging their customers through social media. In the Introduction, Ben Elowitz (of WetPaint) and Charlene Li (of Altimeter) claim: While much
- [SlideShare is now social (it has spam)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/09/03/slideshare-is-now-social-it-has-spam) - One of my favorite definitions of "social computing" is Clay Shirky's quip: Social software is stuff that gets spammed Well if that's the case, now even share-my-powerpoints site SlideShare (follow me there) is officially social. Here's an email I got yesterday via SlideShare: Hi jeckman, jane209 sent you a private message on SlideShare. ****** hi
- [Who Pays for Content? What's in it for Me? Vote!](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/09/02/sxsw-vote) - Pardon the brief, self-promotional nature of this post, but I just realized if I don't get one up soon I'm going to miss the deadline - voting for SXSW Interactive 2010 ends this Friday! I've submitted two panel proposals this year - each is described below with a voting link. The first is Who Pays
- [Community versus Commerce: MySears or Yours?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/08/05/community-versus-commerce-mysears-or-yours) - I was excited last month to see a blog post on ReadWriteWeb about Sears and Kmart adopting OpenID. In that post, Frederic Lardinois writes: Users on Kmart's and Sears' web properties can now use their OpenID credentials to sign up and log in to these sites. MyKmart.com and MySears.com, which are both owned by the
- [Coverville Citizenship and the Future of Paid Media](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/08/04/coverville-citizenship-and-the-future-of-paid-media) - Given all the raging debate about paid media online - whether users (or consumers, if you prefer) will pay for access to content, whether paywalls and micropayments have a place, and the like - it's refreshing to see an independent podcaster demonstrating the value of well curated content and the willingness of folks to pay
- [Open Source Microblogging](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/07/14/open-source-microblogging) - Many folks have been looking for an "Open Source Twitter" for about as long as Twitter itself has been popular. Here's a shortlist of those projects I'm aware of - please do let me know in the comments if there are others I've missed. Sweetter 2.0 - an "open source and fun microbloging service .
- [Twitter 101: These Are Not The Cavaliers You're Looking For](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/07/29/twitter-101-these-are-not-the-cavaliers-youre-looking-for) - I don't normally blog much about twitter: it seems like an already over-covered by other voices. Lately, though, I've been seeing an increase in twittering of dubious value. For example, automatically following (or stalking, as Ari Herzog put it) folks who mention a given term, and overly friendly twitter accounts purporting to be young women
- [Crowdsourcing, Incentive, and Value](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/07/20/crowdsourcing-incentive-and-value) - In this video, Jeff Howe, a contributing editor at Wired and the author of Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, presents during a Berkman Center Luncheon on some of the key issues around the concept, including: What motivates the contributors in crowdsourced efforts? Specifically, to what extent are
- [Open Source and Design: Ideologies Clashing (SXSW Extended Content)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/06/17/open-source-and-design-ideologies-clashing-sxsw-extended-content) - One of the panels I proposed for SXSW Interactive 2009 was on the intersection of open source and design: Thesis: Open Source and Design are fundamentally philosophically incompatible. Antithesis: Open Source and Design are profoundly similar in core beliefs and approaches. This talk works to articulate a meaningful synthesis between these two positions. The talk,
- [One Word: Audience](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/06/02/one-word-audience) - On the "Future of Publishing" panel this morning at Media Bistro Circus in New York, Dan Costa asked the panel what advice they'd give to young graduates looking to come to New York and enter the field of journalism. It reminded me of the scene in The Graduate where Dustin Hoffman's uncle corners him and
- [Save Paste and the future of publishing?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/05/18/save-paste-campaign-future-of-publishing) - I'm a big fan and subscriber of Paste, an independent U.S.-based monthly (now shifting closer to bi-monthly, with every other issue being a single-topic special edition) magazine focused on music, film, and books, with a passionate spirit. Currently, however, they are running a Campaign to Save Paste, soliciting donations to offset operating losses. What does
- [Times Wire, Experimenting in Public, and the Old Gray Lady](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/05/15/times-wire-experimenting-in-public-and-the-old-gray-lady) - In addition to the 2.0 release of the Times Reader, which also went live this week, the NY Times released Times Wire, another new user experience for consuming news from the NY Times. While Times Reader focused on creating a desktop experience that had some of the richness of the print edition, this one is
- [Return of Pay-to-Read](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/05/14/return-of-pay-to-read) - It's beginning to look like the summer of 2009 (or Fall of 2009, depending on how slowly these projects move forward) may be the season in which paid content on major news publishers returns to favor. Returns to favor among publishers, that is. Will readers accept new paywalls, or simply go elsewhere? Will micropayments finally
- [Weaving Identity into the Browser](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/05/14/weaving-identity-into-the-browser) - (via Dion Almaer and ReadWriteWeb) Mozilla Labs posted a screencast yesterday of a new feature as part of the Weave project, which enables OpenID at the browser level, which will have potentially significant impact on adoption and use of portable identity technology. Weave is a Mozilla Labs project, started back in December of 2007, which
- [The New Times Reader: User Interface versus Community](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/05/11/the-new-times-reader-user-interface-versus-community) - While I wouldn't go so far as Serge Jaspers and call the new Times Reader 2.0 AIR application "the future of newspapers," I do think it's an interesting demonstration of how different models for content consumption are possible in the assembled web. In short, Times Reader makes the bet that for at least some users,
- [Publishing in the Age of the Assembled Web](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/05/07/publishing-in-the-age-of-the-assembled-web) - The spring of 2009 has been a difficult one for publishers - newspapers especially - in the U.S., with many sizable metropolitan papers moving to online only, closing, or facing the possibility of closing. It's lead many to wonder (again) what the future holds for publishers - whose value has arguably been derived from information
- [New Devices, New Approaches, New Hope?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/05/11/new-devices-new-approaches-new-hope) - Last week, a number of articles appeared with additional entries in the search for new media business models for existing, old media companies. Mass High Tech, which I still read in print, featured on its front page Richard Anderson from Village Soup and Alan Baker of the Ellsworth American. (The article is online here: Two
- [Where do Memes come from? The Meme Factory](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/05/09/where-do-memes-come-from-the-meme-factory) - I've often thought that if I hadn't left academia to work in web development and consulting, I'd have become a professional analyst of Internet memes. Instead, I get to just be a fan. A few videos to spark (or reinforce) your interest. First, (via Biella) a two-part series from an event by the Meme Factory,
- [What are Communities Made of? Northeast User Group Leader Summit](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/05/05/what-are-communities-made-of-northeast-user-group-leader-summit) - This weekend, freshly jet-lagged by back-to-back trips to the UK and Switzerland, with a brief stop in between for BarCampBoston 4, I attended the Northeast User Group Leader Summit, sponsored (thanks!) by O'Reilly Media and Microsoft. (Although I don't technically lead a user group, I play host to BostonPHP at Optaros, volunteer for
- [Selfish APIs](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/04/21/selfish-apis) - Adina Levin wrote earlier this month (Twitter, Facebook, and the unselfish API about the differences between Twitter and Facebook not in terms of how they treat their users but in terms of how they treat external developers. In short: Twitter’s API is unselfish. Using the straightforward REST API, developers can and do write clients, search
- [Zeldman on the maturity of Open Source CMS](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/04/20/zeldman-on-the-maturity-of-open-source-cms) - Quick excerpt from an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman which includes some discussion of the impact of Open Source, and particularly open source CMS's, on the process of designing and building web applications: Although I think it's important to draw a distinction between simple, relatively cheap licensing (the Expression Engine model) and Free and Open Source
- [An Online Community is More Than a Place](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/04/16/an-online-community-is-more-than-a-place) - I often hear of or talk to Optaros prospects who want to "build an online community." That's great, and I certainly don't want to discourage them, but I think the phrase risks greatly oversimplifies what's involved in building a community. It suggests than an "online community" is something you build like you build: a web
- [Open Source versus Free Software from a Marketing Perspective](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/04/15/open-source-versus-free-software-from-a-marketing-perspective) - Via Sandro Grogans comes an interesting interview / discussion from http://initmarketing.tv/ about the use of the phrases "open source" and "free software" and the need to tailor the message to the audience. Bruce Perens (co-founder of the Open Source Initiative) and Shane Coughlan (from FSF Europe): Perens essentially calls the exclusion or downplaying of Richard
- [Facebook Comments Box, Ownership](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/04/14/facebook-comments-box) - I've been looking into the Facebook Comments Box, which launched in February. It's a perfect example of what I'm seeing as a growing trend, in which various "social widgets" actually replace functionality which should be built into the platform hosting the site. Bundling together the ability to use your Facebook identity with the actual management
- [Libre.fm and Free Network Services](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/04/12/librefm-and-free-network-services) - Like many web-savvy music fans, I've been using Last.fm for the past couple of years. Now there's a project, Libre.fm, which aims to bring the types of service last.fm offers into the world of Free Network Services. What's Last.fm? Basically you install some client software which tracks (the verb they use is 'scrobbles') get played
- [Media Cloud(s) On the Horizon](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/04/11/media-clouds-on-the-horizon) - The Berkman Center for Internet & Society launched Media Cloud in early March, though it had been quietly available for a few months before that. It's an exciting concept, limited in its current implementation but sure to grow in utility as more features get added. In essence, Media Cloud monitors a set of sources, and
- [Open Source Powered MyBarackObama](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/04/10/open-source-powered-mybarackobama) - The April BostonPHP meetup featured Josh King and Chuck Hagenbuch of Blue State Digital talking about two critical features of MyBarackObama.com: the Neighbor-to-Neighbor tool and the email marketing engine. The focus was quite technical - not sure if the "suits" in the room (there aren't normally many at a BostonPHP meeting, but there were a
- [Groundhog Day - Joining Facebook Network](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/04/08/groundhog-day-joining-facebook-network) - Early last year I wrote about the complete opacity of the Facebook network process (see "who do I have to poke to get a network?"). You can request a network be created, but you have no real sense of what actually moves the request through any process. Now, 15 months later, there is a network
- [Tracking Keywords in Twitter](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/04/04/tracking-keywords-in-twitter) - Tracking the occurrence of keywords in twitter through one of the automated tools is a quick way to add value to your experience. Brands often use this approach to track mentions of their products and companies, developers can use it to track mentions of their favorite languages, frameworks, and open source projects, and anyone can
- [WPBook 1.3 Released: Improved Admin, Bug Fixes - Last PHP4 release](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/03/27/wpbook-13-released-improved-admin-bug-fixes-last-php4-release) - Quick Update: I just (3/27) released 1.3.1, a quick bug fix update. Details in the readme. Recommended for all users - still supporting PHP4 in this bugfix release, as I haven't started on 1.4 yet. I've just checked the code for version 1.3 of the WPBook plugin into subversion, which means it should shortly be
- [WPBook 1.2 Released](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/02/14/wpbook-12-released) - (Updated: 1.3 has been released, so I've disabled comments here - please raise any still open issues there.) Just checked in changes for WPBook version 1.2 - get it from the WordPress Plugin Directory or on this blog. The biggest change here from 1.1.1 (and why I decided to make it 1.2 rather than 1.1.2)
- [BarCamp Boston 4](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/03/20/barcamp-boston-4) - One of my favorite new trends of the last couple of years is the unconference movement and the *Camps, associated originally with BarCamp (an alternative to the invite only, highly exclusive FooCamp put on for "Friends Of O'Reilly") but now extended to PodCamp, HeroCamp, TransparencyCamp, and even MooseCamp. (There's also the inevitable CampCamp, though the
- [Whoami? Google Account Leakage?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/03/03/whoami-google-account-leakage) - So I'm up working late tonight (well, late for me - 10pm. I normally go to bed by 9 - I'm old) and I fired up Firefox to recheck the time of my flight tomorrow morning (Yay! DrupalCon DC). I landed on the Firefox Google homepage, as I always do in a new browser window
- [Identi.ca Tools 1.6](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/02/23/identica-tools-2) - Alex King's excellent WordPress plugin, Twitter Tools, has been released in a 1.6 version. As described in this earlier post, I've modified Twitter Tools to use Identi.ca endpoints rather than Twitter ones, since I have my Identi.ca account set to auto-cross-post to Twitter. Here's a revised version of what I'm calling Identi.ca tools - just
- [WPBook 0.9.7: Share Posts, Ease of Installation, Add to pages](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/01/17/wpbook-097-share-posts-ease-of-installation-add-to-pages) - I've just released version 0.9.7 of WPBook (a WordPress plugin to bring blog posts into Facebook and enable comments from Facebook users) here and at the WordPress site. A few changes since 0.9.3, the last version I blogged about (the most recent version can always be found on this page or at the WordPress site):
- [WPBook 1.1.1 Released](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/02/09/wpbook-11-released) - (Update 2/10/09 - posted a quick bug fix 1.1.1 version just now - fixed two quick bugs in the facebook resizing code. Note that 1.1.1 may not show up in your autoupdate queue inside WordPress for 24 hours as WordPress doesn't check every time you load the page) Tagged and released version 1.1 of WPBook
- [Dopplr import fail](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/02/11/dopplr-import-fail) - I use Dopplr and TripIt, to keep track of traveling colleagues, update people on my own travel, and just generally simplify life. (I've blogged about each many times as well: see posts containing dopplr or TripIt). I'm getting tired of Dopplr's consistent FAIL on a common (for me) use case- a one day trip to
- [Teh Awesomeness: Miro 2.0](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/02/11/teh-awesomeness-miro-20) - Ok, this seems to be the week of me blogging about things being released, so I was going to skip the Miro 2.0 release announcement - figuring it has been well reported elsewhere - but then I got this in email: They're right, Miro is awesome, and it's an open source project which you can
- [ReTweeter 0.9.1 Released](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/02/10/retweeter-091-released) - Thanks to Karen Huffman (@slakm) who raised some issues she was having with an installation of ReTweeter, I've tracked down the bug and uploaded and released 0.9.1. Turns out that in late December of 2008, the Twitter API servers started sending a 417 Status Code response to many clients, including ReTweeter. (See Alex Payne's announcement
- [WPBook: WordPress Facebook Plugin Goes 1.0](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/01/19/wpbook-wordpress-facebook-plugin-goes-10) - UPDATE 2 (1-28-09): Seems that the WPBook plugin conflicts with the BadBehavior plugin - I'm looking into options to see if the conflict can be eliminated, but if your WPBook install is not working try disabling BadBehavior. UPDATE (1-26-09): As noted in the comments below, there is a bug in the copy of the Facebook
- [RIP Ma.gnolia - Back to Delicious](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/02/09/rip-magnolia-back-to-delicious) - For those of you who've been blissfully unaware, the social bookmarking service ma.gnolia imploded late last month. Although the CEO hints that it may someday return in the future: Ma.gnolia was approaching the third anniversary of its public launch; for me, it was the project and people to which I'd devoted most of my time,
- [What's your bug #1?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/02/06/whats-your-bug-1) - Evan Prodromou recently asked the following on the laconica-dev list: So, Ubuntu has a pretty famous Bug #1: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 The title is "Microsoft has a majority market share". I think it's a great part of the Ubuntu culture, because it focuses people on what they want to do with Ubuntu. Our bug #1, by the
- [Get Your OpenID On](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/02/06/get-your-openid-on) - Two quick announcements this week which bode well for OpenID: PayPal joins the OpenID Foundation Facebook joins the OpenID Foundation It's fantastic to see the largest and fastest growing social network (in the US anyway) and a major online payment provider both joining the momentum behind the open stack and the assembled web. See also:
- [Hybrid: Plaxo and Google collaborate on improved OpenID and OAuth user experience](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/02/05/hybrid-plaxo-and-google-collaborate-on-improved-openid-and-oauth-user-experience) - Late last week, Plaxo and Google unveiled an implementation - currently in limited testing mode - of OpenID and OAuth working together to create an improved user experience. In essence, the implementation affects Gmail users receiving invites to join Plaxo Pulse. They call this a "hybrid approach" and I think it will have a significant
- [Identi.ca Tools](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/01/25/identica-tools) - Alex King's Twitter Tools is a great little WordPress plugin for integrating your Twitter presence with your blog. It can show your latest tweets in a sidebar widget, create a "digest" post daily / weekly with a list of your tweets, and announce your blog posts to your twitter account. In this post I'll show
- [BostonPHP: MediaWiki in Production](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/01/18/bostonphp-mediawiki-in-production) - BostonPHP meeting at Optaros on the topic of MediaWiki, with presentations by Greg Rundlett and Daniel Barrett.
- [Updated: WordPress Facebook plugin update - with Profile Boxes!](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/01/13/wordpress-facebook-plugin-update-with-profile-boxes) - Updated for 0.9.3 (Jan 13 2009) Updated for 0.9.2. (Jan 7 2009) Updated for 0.9.1 (Jan 2 2009) I've been working on an update to WPBook, the WordPress to Facebook plugin I co-developed. I haven't yet released this version on the WordPress plugin site, but I do think it's stable enough for use - try
- [You Can Take it With You - WordPress App for the iPhone](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/01/02/you-can-take-it-with-you-wordpress-app-for-the-iphone) - I can't wait for the next version of the WordPress iPhone application, which will include: comment moderation - including batch edit page editing - creation of new pages as well as changes to existing pages Landscape mode - the wider keyboard is much easier for fat-thumbed typists like me Easier link creation - separate entry
- [Welcome to the Empowerment Age](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2009/01/01/welcome-to-the-empowerment-age) - Earlier this week, the Pew Internet and American Life project released a brief report on "voter engagement" in the 2008 election, which argued primarily that: Voters expect that the level of public engagement they experienced with Barack Obama during the campaign, much of it occurring online, will continue into the early period of his new
- [State of the Twittersphere - Q4 2008 Report](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/12/29/state-of-the-twittersphere-q4-2008-report) - Just catching up on some of the blogs and tweets I missed over the holidays. The folks at HubSpot, who are also the folks behind TwitterGrader and WebSite Grader, put out a State of the Twittersphere Report, modeled on the old Technorati State of the Blogosphere reports. It's got some interesting stats, though I'd wonder
- [What defines a community?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/01/28/first-rule-of-community) - Via the "They Said It" column in Linux Journal Issue 161 (Sept. 2007 - I'm a bit behind in my reading), I came across this bit of wisdom from Adam Fields on The First Rule of Community: There's really only one rule for community as far as I'm concerned, and it's this - in order
- [Type Pad (dis)Connect - All UR comments are belong to US](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/12/02/type-pad-disconnect-all-ur-comments-are-belong-to-us) - In some ways it is exciting to see the launch of Type Pad Connect but in others it seems a Faustian bargain. You get some spiffy features, including the ability of other bloggers to leave comments (which appear to be) on your site using OpenID, with threading, and with avatars; but in the process you
- [Open Source Content Management Panel at Gilbane Boston](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/11/25/open-source-content-management-panel-at-gilbane-boston) - Next week, I'll be moderating a panel on Open Source Content Management at the fifth annual Gilbane Boston Conference - "Where Content Management Meets Social Media." It's Thursday, December 4th, from 3:30-5:00pm. The panelists will be: Nate Aune of Jazkarta (Plone / Zope / Python) Elie Auvray of Jahia Michael Wechner of Wyona (Lenya, Yanel,
- [It's about time](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/11/20/its-about-time) - Why isn't this a feature of every modern email system? (This is a feature on Gmail Labs, which you'll find under the settings label in Gmail) The use case is so simple. The user writes "Attached you'll find" or "in the attached" or something like that - basically anywhere they use the word "attached" -
- [Are Flash and Flex Web Technologies? ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/11/19/are-flash-and-flex-web-technologies) - Throughout this week and part of last, I've been working (in between meetings) on getting Alfresco Labs 3.0 set up on my laptop to be able to demo (and experiment with) their new Share application. The challenge has been in getting the flash-based preview of uploaded multi-page PDF documents working (see this thread in the
- [LinkedIn Gets Events](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/11/10/linkedin-gets-events) - (via Bokardo on Twitter and the LinkedIn Blog) Building on the momentum of all the (OpenSocial based) applications they added a few weeks back, LinkedIn is now rolling out events. In this video, Christine Wodtke demonstrates how the application leverages your social graph, showing who in your network is attending various events: Its a great
- [Twitter, for the Enterprise](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/11/03/twitter-for-the-enterprise) - Laura Fitton of Pistachio Consulting (and @pistachio on twitter) has published a report covering 19 "Enterprise Microsharing" applications, including a number of open source applications: Identi.ca (The report refers consistently to Identica, not Laconi.ca - I know Evan's mentioned simplifying things by renaming the Laconi.ca software to match the site name, but for now the
- [Code Monkey Go To Job](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/11/01/code-monkey-go-to-job) - This summer Tara Hunt of HorsePigCow interviewed Jonathan Coulton. As a fan of both, I downloaded the podcast for later listening and then forgot all about. Finally got around to that "to listen to later" folder this morning, and would encourage you to check it out. If you're not familiar with Coulton, two quick gems.
- [Ownership and the Importance of Open](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/10/28/ownership-and-the-importance-of-open) - So this weekend I was writing some blog posts, listening to new tunes, and in between catching up on my reading of the print magazines that tend to pile up on the corner of my desk. One of those print mags happened to be the November issue of Wired, including Paul Boutin's piece on how
- [Context is King](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/10/27/context-is-king) - While working on my PhD at the University of Washington, I taught for a couple of years in an Interdisciplinary Writing Program. The fundamental concept of the IWP was to address a fundamental problem common to first and second year composition classes, which is the lack of context. (A brief aside on "writing in the
- [Manging your online identities - Leslie Poston](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/10/26/manging-your-online-identities-leslie-poston) - At this week's North Shore Web Geeks meetup, Leslie Poston of Uptown Uncorked and Mashable gave a quick presentation on how to manage your online identity. (Photo from Marc Amos via BrightKite) You can find her own recap here (with slides). Here's some random notes I jotted (on my phone to evernote) I found interesting:
- [Cory Doctorow does Clay Shirky, Larry Lessig at the same time](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/10/23/cory-doctorow-does-clay-shirky-larry-lessig-at-the-same-time) - (via that canadian girl and via Cambridge Business Lectures - transcript of the video available on craphound) Cory Doctorow is always worth watching: insightful, funny, often provocative and consistently knowledgeable. OK, so I'm a bit of a boingboing fanboy. And yes, the video was posted weeks ago, but I'm just now getting to it. In
- [Skyfire Beta](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/10/06/skyfire-beta) - I've been playing around for a while with a beta version of Skyfire on my Samsung Blackjack. Skyfire's a new gecko-based browser for Windows Mobile and Symbian phones, and if you've got a Windows Mobile based phone, you'll want to request access to the beta ASAP (the beta program requires a US phone number, unfortunately).
- [Rockbox 3.0 Released](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/10/05/rockbox-30-released) - Via Engadget via OStatic via BoingBoing comes news that Rockbox 3.0 has been released. I first started using Rockbox Rockbox years ago because I had an Archos Jukebox Recorder, which was an early, 2.5" hard-drive based MP3 player/recorder, which was only hampered by its anemic software. When I later migrated to an iPod Nano, I
- [Blogging on and off the corporate domain](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/10/04/blogging-on-and-off-the-corporate-domain) - Always delightful social media guru practitioner (and north shore Massachusetts neighbor) Chris Brogan has an excellent post on the overlap/conflict between personal brand and corporate brand: "The Big Risk for Corporate Trust Agents." I started writing this as a comment on that post, but realized it was really a post in its own right. Key
- [Online Identity Management](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/09/26/online-identity-management) - Since the early 1990s, I've been fascinated by the concept of online identity management: what it means to have an identity online, what stays consistent with the offline world, what becomes more fluid, and what becomes more fixed. It's a very vibrant space right now, with commercial vendors, open source projects, trends, and standards all
- [WPBook Updated: WordPress Facebook Plugin](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/09/16/wpbook-updated-wordpress-facebook-plugin) - WPBook, the Wordpress plugin which lets you bring your blog posts into facebook, has been updated to version 0.8.1. (You can view this very blog in Facebook as an example, assuming you're not doing so already). The main updates were in the 0.8 release yesterday (0.8.1 is just a bug fix to that release). In
- [State of Drupal (Szeged 2008)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/09/15/state-of-drupal-szeged-2008) - I was unfortunately unable to get to Drupalcon Szeged last month, so I'm now making my way through the videos and slide decks from sessions there. One of the favorite keynotes of any Drupalcon of course is the State of Drupal address. Here's video of Dries from Szeged: (I took the one supplied by archive.org
- [Intranet 2.0 Global Study](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/09/15/intranet-20-global-study) - Toby Ward of Prescient Digital Media writes a blog called Intranet 2.0, which is consistently full of useful strategies for those who build, maintain, and manage internally facing corporate sites. He's currently running a survey, which you should take 10 minutes or so to fill out: What's in it for you?: Respondents who complete the
- [Ma.gnolia 2 (M2): Social Bookmarking for the Open Web](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/08/28/magnolia-2-m2-social-bookmarking-for-the-open-web) - 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. In the Project Charter (curiously only available as a PDF), they lay out these business goals: To further embrace and
- [Updated WordPress Facebook Plugin](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/08/13/updated-wordpress-facebook-plugin) - (As of 8/20 - updated again, to 0.7.5). WPBook, the WordPress for Facebook plugin which Dave Lester and others at Scholarpress originally created and which I've contributed some to, has been updated again. Version 0.7.4, which I just tagged in subversion (so it should be showing up in the Wordpress plugins directory by the time
- [SXSW 2009 Panels Proposed](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/08/12/sxsw-2009-panels-proposed) - Last week, while I was on vacation meeting my new nieces and attending my 20th year high school reunion, the Panel Picker for SXSW 09 went live. Although voting by prospective attendees is only "about 30%" of the decision making process, I figured I should promote my submissions here, and hope that readers of this
- [Community, Gender, and Free/Open Source Software](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/08/04/community-gender-and-freeopen-source-software) - Just came across yet another excellent post from Alex Russell of the Dojo project (and foundation): "The Price of Anonymity: Our Principles?" Russell uses the occasion of some nasty comments in Digg on a Caryl Shaw article for PC gamer (and a series of presentations at OSCON a few weeks back) to reflect on the
- [Scrabulous down for the count?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/08/03/scrabulous-down-for-the-count) - Guess the negotiations with Hasbro and Electronic Arts didn't go so well. It was really my primary reason for actually logging in to Facebook.
- [Comment Fail](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/07/29/comment-fail) - If you've tried to leave comments here recently, bless you, and I'm sorry. First, the WP-OpenID plugin for one specific version (2.2.0) had a bug which ate comments containing double quotes, which means all comments with links in them. 2.2.1 fixes the problem. Then, Luis Villa told me in email that the Captcha on my
- [Open Web Foundation is to Autonomo.us as OSI is to FSF?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/07/24/open-web-foundation-is-to-autonomous-as-osi-is-to-fsf) - This morning David Recordon formally announced the Open Web Foundation in a morning keynote at OSCON. (The shorter url openweb.org will come at somepoint). The OWF tagline / elevator statement is "The Open Web Foundation is an independent non-profit dedicated to the development and protection of open, non-proprietary specifications for web technologies." The OWF goals,
- [Identi.ca Action Stream Plugin](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/07/04/identica-action-stream-plugin) - Identi.ca is a new micro-blogging service which runs the open source Laconica platform. Ultimately, this will likely be the distributed, open microblogging platform twitter fans have been waiting for (though the community itself seems mostly to be sticking with Twitter, fail whale and all). For now, it's just fun to play around with. I just
- [Reviewing the Groundswell](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/07/22/reviewing-the-groundswell) - One danger of reviewing a book is the reality that the reviews ultimately say more about the reviewer, and the book he or she wishes had been written, than they do about the book which actually was written. It's in that context that I offer this review of Groundswell, by Forrester Research analysts Charlene Li
- [On the Internet, People Know if you're a dog](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/07/17/on-the-internet-people-know-if-youre-a-dog) - (Update, 2pm ET: Scott Hintz from TripIt replied in the comments on the original post apologizing for the employee's behavior - thanks Scott.) One of the famous cartoons of the first internet craze was this one from the New Yorker: The reality is, however, that increasingly people's online identity can be mapped to their offline
- [Things are going to get wierder](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/07/18/things-are-going-to-get-wierder) - Via Jake McKee I just discovered this video of Chris Heuer interviewing Clay Shirky: Clay's long been a favorite speaker of mine - Perl as an act of love and the cognitive surplus being two other videos featured here - and Chris does a great interview here. My favorite quote, as you might suspect given
- [Some people out there in our nation don't have maps](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/07/15/some-people-out-there-in-our-nation-dont-have-maps) - An oldie but a goodie. The folks at ROFLCON just announced that Miss Teen USA South Carolina will be the emcee at the upcoming SF-ROFL thing (August 29th). Unfortunately I don't think I will be able to get to this one - and not because I can't find San Francisco on my map. Unlike many
- [Dopplr gets Email, Twitter, SMS import](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/07/15/dopplr-gets-email-twitter-sms-import) - One of the more popular posts on this blog is the one which describes how to import trips from TripIt into Dopplr, in order to avoid the re-entry tax. After all, as I wrote in my comparison of the two services last October, TripIt's email import was the critical factor in my decision of how
- [Beyond Broadcast 2008, Fair Use Guide](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/07/14/beyond-broadcast-2008-fair-use-guide) - As appropriate for a conference by that name, the folks at the Center for Public Media at American University have made available a ton of content from Beyond Broadcast available online. You can also subscribe to their video podcast in Miro, using this as a channel: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/main/podcast/ (If you don't use Miro, just copy that
- [Mollom anti-spam](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/07/07/mollom-anti-spam) - I've enabled Mollom-based anti-spam to this blog - please let me know if this causes any unexpected difficulty or errors. Mollom will ask "suspicious" commenters to solve a CAPTCHA before allowing their comments to post. If this proves too onerous I will go back to just using Askimet but I wanted to try it out.
- [David Cancel's Web Beacon Finder](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/07/01/david-cancels-web-beacon-finder) - (Via David's blog) David Cancel's written a Greasemonkey script which alerts you to the various web beacons / tracking bugs used on the websites you visit. David's updated the script recently, including the following changes: Favicons are now stored locally to increase performance. Updated definition for Lookery Updated definition for Google Analytics Added definition for
- [3D Fail Whale](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/06/29/3d-fail-whale) - Via Rod Begbie comes this video by Hil: It's a kinetic sculpture of the Fail Whale, an illustration by Yiying Lu which is often seen by twitter users. Anyone care to write a greasemonkey script that will replace the default fail whale with this video whenever Twitter displays it? At least then it will feel
- [Boston IxDA Nano Conference Thursday 6/26/08](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/06/23/boston-ixda-nano-conference-thursday-62608) - (via Boston IxDA) The Boston chapter of the Interaction Design Association is hosting a night of short talks - I imagine something like Pecha Kucha or Ignite! - this Thursday (June 26th, 2008) 6pm-9pm at Bentley College. RSVP required Planned speakers: Juhan Sonin: Design and Open Source Software Jeremy Merle: Designing in an Agile Environment
- [Cultural Significance of Free Software: Two Bits](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/06/21/cultural-significance-of-free-software-two-bits) - I've mentioned Chris Kelty's Two Bits as part of my summer reading list. Although I have the PDF sitting in my "to read" folder I think I'm waiting on the hardcover I ordered from Amazon. Seems like the kind of book that requires more reflective reading. In the meanwhile, here's Chris presenting at a Berkman
- [Web Content 2008 Presentation](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/06/20/web-content-2008-presentation) - Wednesday was day two of Web Content 2008, and I presented in the afternoon on the rise of user-contributed content and community, and the impact that's had on content management. I had thought about calling it "From Content Management to Community Management" or maybe "Content Management is Dead" but ended up instead with: "Upload, Tag,
- [Enterprise 2.0 Panel on Open Source](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/06/18/enterprise-20-open-source) - Last week, at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, I moderated a panel on Open Source Platforms. The panelists were: Bob Bickel, from Ringside Networks John Newton, from Alfresco Jeff Whatcott, from Acquia Although the conference doesn't audio tape or videotape the breakout sessions in the smaller rooms - only the keynote - they were
- [Prettier Tag Coulds with Wordle](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/06/16/prettier-tag-coulds-with-wordle) - (Via Max Kiesler) Wordle is a java applet, created by Jonathan Feinberg, which creates aesthetically pleasing tag clouds from text you enter, offering you rough control over layout, font, and colors. Here's one I created based on the current content of this blog (click on it to view full size): Note that Enterprise comes out
- [Enterprise 2.0 Conference - Social Bookmarking and Tagging ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/06/11/enterprise-20-conference-social-bookmarking-and-tagging) - 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: | View | Upload
- [BrightKite, FireEagle, and Airports](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/06/11/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. ;) The problem is that when I send brightkite a message like: @bos It sometimes knows that is Logan
- [Enterprise 2.0: Sun's Project SocialSite](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/06/11/enterprise-20-suns-project-socialsite) - One of the entries in the launchpad competition today was Sun Microsystem's Project SocialSite. It's part of the larger Glassfish project, and uses Apache Shindig as an OpenSocial container - they demo'd OpenSocial widgets running inside Drupal and MediaWiki - all running inside a Java Application Server. Video: This could be a compelling option for
- [Enterprise 2.0 - SocialCalc explained](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/06/11/enterprise-20-socialcalc-explained) - Quick video interview from Digiphile at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, in which Dan Bricklin explains SocialCalc, which Ross Mayfield announced yesterday, and brings social spreadsheet functionality into SocialText wikis:
- [Ignite Boston 3](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/30/ignite-boston-3) - Update: 14 of the presentation slide decks are available at slideshare. Last night was the third Ignite Boston, at Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square. Ignite is an O'Reilly Media sponsored series of events in various cities around the US. Lots of O'Reilly authors, editors, and various Friends Of O'Reilly gather to talk about tech stuff
- [Summer Reading List](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/13/summer-reading-list) - Updated 5/31/08 - Like The Wealth of Networks, Two of these books are also available online: Two Bits and The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It. Here's my summer reading list. Tell me what I'm missing. The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It, by Jonathan Zittrain Here
- [TripIt Traveler Profiles, Action Stream](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/31/tripit-traveler-profiles-action-stream) - (Via the TripIt blog) TripIt has launched profiles for travelers, with some pretty good controls on what is public and what is private: The immediate goal is to give TripIt travelers one place to track all their travel information and showcase their travel history. The profile includes basic information about a traveler, including home location,
- [Twitter Visualization - Twistori](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/21/twitter-visualization-twistori) - I blogged a while back about We Feel Fine, a visualization of data from the internet cloud mapped to feelings by Jonathan Harris. Now Thomas Fuchs and Amy Hoy have brought a similar visualization approach to Twitter with Twistori (click for full sized image): It's wonderful - simple, clear, lightweight, easy to watch, and elegant.
- [Enterprise Portals, Collaboration, and the Web](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/20/enterprise-portals-collaboration-and-the-web) - I'm in San Diego this week for the Enterprise3 conference, which the organizers describe thusly: Enterprise3 consists of three separate, but related, components: Enterprise Web and Information Management Conference – a conference that provides technology managers and IT staff with a detailed guide to selecting and implementing technology and product innovations in Web 2.0, portals,
- [Programming to the Twitter API (ReTweeter)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/18/programming-to-the-twitter-api-retweeter) - Presented today at BarCamp Boston on programming for the Twitter API, based on the retweeter project I did for SXSW this year. You can grab the slides or the code. Went better than the WordPress talk yesterday, in terms of time - easier to describe Twitter (which everyone already knows) than to try to cover
- [BarCamp Boston 3 Presentation (WordPress to Facebook and Back)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/18/barcamp-boston-3-presentation-wordpress-to-facebook-and-back) - I presented yesterday at BarCamp Boston 3 on the topic of WPBook, the WordPress plugin for pulling blog posts into Facebook and letting people comment on them with their Facebook identities. Here's the presentation file: WordPress to Facebook and Back (Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license) As always, you can get the latest code here,
- [Wordpress Facebook Plugin wpbook 0.7 available](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/15/wordpress-facebook-plugin-wpbook-07-available) - (Update 5/17 - 0.7.1 is now available - bug fix release). I've spent some time over the past few nights revising the wp-book plugin, which lets you bring your WordPress (self-hosted) blog into Facebook as an application, and I've published a new 0.7 version. You still have to add the Facebook developer application, accept their
- [Newsflashr](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/08/newsflashr) - At last month's North Shore Web Geek Meetup, I met Gal Arav, the creator of Newsflashr (and formerly creator of InstantBull): Newsflashr aggregates feeds from a large number of news sources, and lets you scan the headlines from those feeds as a tag cloud (what are the interesting terms which appear frequently in the headlines
- [Enterprise 2.0 Conference Pass](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/06/enterprise-20-conference-pass) - I don't normally cross-promote heavily across the multiple places I blog, but this one seemed worthwhile. From my blog at Optaros.com: "Enterprise 2.0 Free Conference Pass" At the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this June, I will be moderating a panel on Open Source Platforms. The panel will be Thursday, June 12th, at 8:30am.
- [Babbledog](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/05/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
- [Twitter Charts via Yahoo! Pipes and Google Charts API](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/04/twitter-charts-via-yahoo-pipes-and-google-charts-api) - (Via David S. on Babbledog) Xefer has created an intriguing mashup using data from the Twitter API, a Yahoo! Pipe to some basic transformation, and the Google Chart API to display results: To get your own, just replace with your twitter username to the end of this url: http://www.xefer.com/twitter/ As Xefer writes in the blog
- [Preparing for the Future(s) of the Internet](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/03/preparing-for-the-futures-of-the-internet) - Lots of good quality discussion on the question of the Future (or Futures) of the Internet. There's the upcoming conference to celebrate the 10th year of the founding of the Berkman Center, which is titled "The Future of the Internet." There's Jonathan Zittrain's new book, The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop
- [Hiring in a 2.0 World (smb7)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/04/hiring-in-a-20-world-smb7) - Boston Social Media Breakfast 7 was this past Thursday, on the topic of Hiring and Getting Hired in a 2.0 world. Presenting were: Stever Robbins, consultant/executive coach and host of the Get-It-Done Guy Podcast Aaron Strout, VP of new media at Mzinga. Todd Defren, principal at SHIFT Communications Chris Brogan, VP of strategy & technology
- [Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/05/01/clay-shirky-on-cognitive-surplus) - You may have seen my link to a transcript of this talk if you follow my ma.gnolia feed or johneckman.com. Now (via LaughingSquid) you can watch the video. It's Clay Shirky's keynote at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week, on the "cognitive surplus" as a characteristic fueling mass collaboration. Interestingly, this seems to
- [WP-Book progress](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/04/27/wp-book-progress) - [Update: Minor bugs and tweaking to do - might want to hold off on download for now] Made some progress on wp-book over the weekend; should be able to release an update this week. (I will post updated code on this site as well as upload to the wp-plugins directory). (If you don't know what
- [ROFLCon - Alice Marwick on Internet Celebrity](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/04/26/roflcon-alice-marwick-on-internet-celebrity) - The critical frame I hoped for in my day one summary was delivered by Alice Marwick's keynote on Internet Celebrity. Here's my rough notes, though once the video gets put online I'd really recommend watching this one, of all the panels I've seen so far. The questions she raised were really the ones I hoped
- [ROFLCon day one: funny, but not insightful](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/04/26/roflcon-day-one-funny-but-not-insightful) - One of the major challenges of any conference on humor is that there are different modes for humor and analysis and in many ways they conflict. You can stay inside the humor, enjoy the meme, and celebrate the cultural profusion - which is pretty much what day one of ROFLCon was all about - or
- [ROFLCon Panel - Internet Fame](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/04/25/roflcon-panel-internet-fame) - Weinberger also (see previous post) stayed to moderate a panel on what it means to be internet famous. Panel description: YOU CAN GET PAID FOR THIS?: MAKING SOME BUCKS (W20: Sala del Puerto Rico): How do you make money? Are you making lots of money? Has all that money corrupted you? How about now? Are
- [Weinberger at ROFLCon: Fame in the age of ubiquity](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/04/25/weinberger-at-roflcon-fame) - David Weinberger, whom I'm a clear fan of to anyone who reads this bog, was the keynote speaker this afternoon at ROFLCon, which the organizers pronounce like roffle-con, not spell out like R - O - F - L- con, which is how I pronounce it. (Photo by kevingc on flickr, creative commons attribution non-commercial
- [BarCamp Boston 3](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/04/23/barcamp-boston-3) - Shimon Rura's email today reminded me that BarCamp Boston is fast approaching again. Third week in May we should easily avoid the snowstorm which put something of a crimp in BarCamp Boston 2. In case you've been somehow able to escape the increasing presence of *camps, BarCamp is one of the earliest and one of
- [WordPress to Facebook and Back Again](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/04/22/wordpress-to-facebook-and-back-again) - I was really intrigued by Dave Lester's WPBook plugin, which lets you bring posts from your wordpress blog into an application in Facebook. I really wanted, though, for users to be able to comment on blog posts from inside Facebook, with their Facebook identities, and have it work like the OpenID comment plugin (in the
- [Benkler, Jenkins, Sunstein: The good, the bad, the ugly](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/04/11/benkler-jenkins-sunstein-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly) - (Note that the order of names in the title is not meant to imply a specific relationship to the adjectives in the subtitle. I went with alphabetical.) Last night I grabbed the red line over to MIT after work and saw a wonderful event put on by the MIT Communications Forum, entitled: Our World Digitized:
- [Google OpenID](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/04/13/google-openid) - (via David Recordon) Ryan Barrett, one of the developers on the Google App Engine team, has released an application which allows you to use your Google Account as an OpenID. Once you've logged in to your Google account, you just use: http://openid-provider.appspot.com/yourgoogleusername On any site which relies on OpenID for validation. So now Yahoo!, AOL,
- [New Action Stream: TripIt Activity](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/04/10/new-action-stream-tripit-activity) - As regular readers of Open Parenthesis know, I've been using Movable Type Open Source (and particularly the Action Streams plugin) on JohnEckman.com to create a life stream of activity. It's basically a roll-your-own lifestream, though for now at least it isn't integrated to anyone else's streams, as in Friendfeed or Socialthing. This morning I posted
- [Twitter Clouds](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/04/07/twitter-clouds) - Check out Tweet Clouds - new app which uses the Twitter API to create a tag cloud based on your tweets, optionally suppressing @s and removing stop words. Here's mine (click to see full size): I wonder how much this changes over time, or how far back they are able to grab tweets.
- [Pecha Kucha Boston 4](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/04/05/pecha-kucha-boston-4) - Pecha Kucha Boston 4 poster Originally uploaded by brettstil Pecha Kuch is coming up on April 10th, 8pm, at Harvard Graduate School for Design. I'm hoping to make it over there after Our World Digitized at MIT
- [Clay Shirky on Colbert Report](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/04/04/here-comes-everybody) - (via BuzzMachine) comes this video (just under six minutes) of Clay Shirky being interviewed on the Colbert Report talking about Here Comes Everybody. As you might imagine, Colbert has some difficulty with the "who is paying them?" notion. Good fun for a Friday afternoon.
- [Don't Make Me Decide Yet: Lowering the Barrier to Entry](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/03/27/barrier-to-entry) - A few days ago Josh Porter was tweeting about the notion of "fatigue points": (One of the key benefits of open source, from my point of view, is the relatively low threshold of entry it makes possible - no need to negotiate an enterprise license, sign up for 2 years of support, and get lawyers
- [Upcoming Conferences: ROFLCon, WebContent 2008](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/03/17/upcoming-conferences) - While I'm still in recovery mode from DrupalCon and SXSWi, I wanted to mention two upcoming conferences I'm looking forward to: ROFLCon and WebContent 2008. If, like me, the LOLWUT? panel was one of your favorites at SXSW, or ICanHasCheezburger is one of your favorite sites, you should not miss ROFLCon. Coming to MIT April
- [One way openness, or learning to spit as well as suck](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/03/07/one-way-openness) - TechCrunch wrote last week about changes Facebook made to the news feed: Facebook is planning on allowing users to add activities from third party social networking site directly into their Facebook news feed, we’ve confirmed. The problem is that their only talking about allowing users to *add* activities into the news feed, not to take
- [Automated Import to Dopplr from TripIt](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/03/06/tripit-to-dopplr-auomtation) - I use both TripIt and Dopplr, as each is better at certain things than the other. In my ideal world, the act of forwarding a travel confirmation to TripIt, which establishes a trip, would also create the same trip in Dopplr, which my Dopplr badge, news feed on Facebook, Fire Eagle account, and lifestream would
- [State of Drupal](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/03/06/state-of-drupal) - (First part of this week I am attending DrupalCon 2008) [Update 3/4/08: Audio from the State of Drupal as well as Jay Batson and Dries' "Presenting Acquia" talk are available on Shai's podcast] [Updated again 3/6/08: Video from the State of Drupal at Internet Archive] Not surprisingly, Dries' state of Drupal presentation was well received
- [Graphing Social Patterns](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/03/04/graphing-social-patterns) - Ongoing at the same time as DrupalCon (which I'm at) is Graphing Social Patterns (which I'm not at). However, based on the twitterstream (hashtag #gsp), sounds like lots of interesting presentations there: Charlene Li on the Future of Social Networks (CNet coverage) Charlene Li on the Future of Social Networks (the Slides on Slideshare) Beth
- [Fluid - like Prism, but webkit based (Mac OS X only)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/03/04/fluid) - While watching James Walker talk about OpenID and user management in Drupal, I checked out his blog (and subscribed, on the basis of recent posts). One of his recent posts was on Fluid: Desktop Web Apps. If you're a Mac user (right now this is Mac OS X 10.5 or greater app) and you rely
- [Online Communities Whitepaper](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/03/03/online-communities-retail) - New whitepaper on the Optaros site today (free registration required): Online Communities: What Should a Retailer Do? Abstract: Most retailers have found success in providing online product ratings and reviews, and many have dabbled in engaging directly with participants in social networks. Many retailers are seeking to do more in the area of community, but
- [WordPress Avatar Plugin, Movable Type Action Stream Plugins](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/03/02/code-up) - Finally got around to publishing out (see Code) some things I've been tinkering with. Nothing major, but hopefully someone will find some of them useful. For Wordpress, check out MBLA+, which is an avatar plugin (shows people's avatars in comments) based on MBLA and hAvatar. I've been using it here and on Goatless for a
- [Windows Mobile still confused about Daylight Savings](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/03/02/windows-mobile-still-confused-about-daylight-savings) - So in addition to the often recurring, never fully explained phenomenon whereby my Windows Mobile phone (a Samsung Blackjack) suddenly finds itself in the future (no, the phone has never been on the Lost island), the geniuses of the Windows Mobile platform have once again issued updates to "fix" Daylight Savings Time. Thanks for the
- [IA Japan Web Trend Map 2008](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/03/02/web-trend-map-2008) - Via Bill Ives' Portals and KM Blog I discovered that the folks at Information Architects Japan have released (in beta, naturally) the 2008 version of their highly popular Web Trends Map : Web Trends Map Beta 2008 Unfortunately for me the download link is having issues - resulting in a corrupted PDF. But the interactive,
- [How Lego Caught the Cluetrain](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/03/01/lego-cluetrain) - I'm often amazed at how well the Cluetrain Manifesto stands up 10 years later, and constantly recommend it to new Optaros employees or others trying to understand how companies can engage with customers in new ways. The video below is from the "There's a New Conversation" event in NY on Feb. 13th this year, which
- [If a DM falls in a forest . . . ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/02/28/twitter-nobody) - On Twitter, when you try to send a direct message to someone using the web interface, by entering "d nobody My message" (where "nobody" is a username), and the person you are trying to reach doesn't follow you, you get a nice error message: The same is true when you use SMS or IM to
- [Tripit vs. Dopplr - Travel 2.0](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/03/tripit-dopplr) - Ok, first off, I apologize for the Travel 2.0 title. I know we're all a bit tired of the 2.0 meme by now, but you can bet that somewhere both of these have been described as Travel 2.0 companies. I written before about both Dopplr and Tripit but never specifically to compare the two. Both
- [Tantek Çelik on Open Media Web](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/02/26/tantek-open-media-web) - The second episode in the OpenMediaWeb series is Tantek Çelik: I wonder if the trajectory he describes whereby proprietary data formats are ultimately superceded by open ones will also hold true for all this FLV video being created - as I recall the file format/spec is already well understood, and I know I've seen FLV
- [Prepare for the New Openness](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/02/25/open-innovation) - Optaros is sponsoring (with Red Hat) a webinar on Wednesday: Are Your Products Open or Closed? How to Respond to the New Openness Registration (free) is required. Description: February 27, 2008 2–3pm – Are Your Products Open or Closed? How to Respond to the New Openness– at Online Overview: Companies in many industries are struggling
- [Hacking Hardware at Berkman Center](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/02/21/kolko-hacker-ethic) - If Ethan Zuckerman apologizes for being three days behind in blogging his notes from a Berkman event, how much do I have to apologize for being three weeks behind? On January 30th, Beth Kolko spoke at the Berkman Center luncheon series on "User, Hacker, Builder, Thief - Creativity and Consumerism in a Digital Age." You
- [Fair Use in User Generated Content](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/02/20/fair-use-ugc) - The Center for Social Media at American University put out a report in January on the concept of "fair use" in user-generated content: "Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video." I bookmarked it at the time, downloaded a copy to my "to read" folder (a dangerous thing to have) and then ignored it
- [User Led Innovation Report from Down Under](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/02/19/user-led-innovation) - (via Smart Mobs) I came across this interesting report from Darren Sharp and Mandy Salomon at Smart Internet Technology CRC in Australia: "User-led Innovation: A New Framework for Co-creating Business and Social Value." (PDF link). The first half of the study results from qualitative interviews with "experts on the social, economic and legal aspects of
- [IxDA Interaction 08](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/02/18/ixda-interaction-08) - Damn, wish I had been there. Interaction08, The first annual conference from IxDA, the Interaction Design Association, was held last weekend (Feb 08-10) in Savannah, at the Savannah College of Art and Design. The videos from IxDA are being uploaded and will end up on the Interaction08 site, but for now you can preview them
- [Resources for Designing Online Communities or Social Web Applications](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/02/15/online-communities-resources) - 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 Joshua Porter of Bokardo,
- [Open Source, Freedom 0, and Mac OS X](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/02/12/freedom-zero) - I've been reflecting a lot lately on this blog post from Coding Horror: Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero? Atwood argues that: when you buy a new Mac, you're buying a giant hardware dongle that allows you to run OS X software. and that: When the dongle-- or, if you prefer, the
- [Drupalcon Boston 2008](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/02/11/drupalcon-boston-2008) - Looking forward to the upcoming Drupalcon: Drupalcon Boston 2008 takes place from March 3, 2008 to March 6, 2008 at the Boston Convention and Expo Center. There will also be a Drupal Code Sprint on March 7 at the Stata Center at MIT in Cambridge. Drupalcon is the twice-yearly gathering of Drupalers to learn about,
- [MT Activity Streams](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/02/10/action-streams) - I'm experimenting a bit with Movable Type 4.1 and the Action Streams plugin. Check out the work in progress at johneckman.com. Read on if you're interested in creating your own action streams. Although it has been a while since I've worked in Movable Type, it was a relatively painless install (assuming you've got the basic
- [Think Globally, Meet Locally](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/02/07/think-globally-meet-locally) - It's been a busy week in the Boston area for me, with lots of "meat space" (not my favorite description, as a vegan) or "real world" (not my favorite description as a net citizen) meetings to go with various online groups. Tuesday night Mike Krigsman (twitter.com/mkrigsman) organized a "tweetup" at the Boston Beer Works in
- [Return to Dark Castle](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/02/05/return-to-dark-castle) - Oh my, does this bring back memories. Just the sound effects from this game take me back. I may need to schedule some time off for when it comes out. Joe Williams of Delta Tao software (Spaceward Ho! anyone?) sent an email to the DeltaTao News mailing list this morning pointing to the trailer. They've
- [Alice's Drive](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/02/02/alices-drive) - In 1909, Alice Ramsey drove a Maxwell DA across the US, from 1930 Broadway in New York City to San Francisco, becoming the first woman to complete a transatlantic drive. Her journal of the journey was published in 1961 as Veil, Duster, and Tire Iron, which you can find on various rare book sites for
- [Activity Streams, Prologue](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/01/31/activity-streams-prologue) - Lots of activity in the last week on the distributed social networking front. Matt and co. at Automattic released Prologue, a WordPress theme (GPLv2) which creates a twitter-like experience based on posts to a WordPress blog. (It's already been updated once). Check out the Prologue Demo Blog for a sense of how the theme works.
- [Urban Computing and Its Discontents](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/01/25/urbanism-discontents) - I've long been fascinated by the intersection or what might be called "imagined spaces" and real spaces - the way that the places we live influence our imaginations and vice versa. (Long ago, in a world far far away, I did a dissertation on Urbanization and American Fiction from 1880-1930). I was fascinated, therefore, to
- [Chris Messina Talks to Himself . . . ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/01/25/messina-on-diso) - . . . about DiSo. Good video interview (about 20 minutes), if you can get past the conceit (in the rhetorical sense of the word, not the egoism sense) of the self-interview. The Existential DiSo Interview from Chris Messina on Vimeo Only part I really struggled with was about 16 minutes in when he starts
- [Who do I have to "poke" to get a network?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/01/11/poke-network) - What does it take to get a corporate network set up inside Facebook? I first requested one about a year ago and recently re-requested it. We've got an Optaros group, and I know we could set up a page for people to become fans of Optaros, but what I really want is for us to
- [Videos of Le Web 3 ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/27/videos-of-le-web-3) - For those of us who couldn't attend the recent Le Web 3 conference in Paris, videos are up on Vpod.tv. See this blog post: "Videos of LeWeb3'07 are up" Or check out the official channel: http://my.vpod.tv/leweb3 Or, if you use Miro, add this channel: http://studio.vpod.tv/rss/tags:leWeb3
- [Adam Greenfield is anti Social Networking](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/27/anti-social-networking) - I only recently came across this post from Adam Greenfield in which he explains why he believes that computer-mediated social networking is inherently bad: "Antisocial networking." It's an important and powerful critique, though one with which I ultimately disagree. Greenfield essentially argues that: Social networking applications must, necessarily, oversimplify human relationships: they couldn't possibly represent
- [Is that a weave, or your natural hair?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/24/is-that-a-weave-or-your-natural-hair) - Mozilla just (on 12/23, while I was off celebrating Lille julaften) launched another project on Mozilla Labs. This one's called Weave, and it represents Mozilla's entry into the data portability discussion. (I'm sure they meant weave as in the "weaving the web" reference - but I can't but help think about hair weaves, and the
- [Another BlackJack Mystery: SMS messages in Europe](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/21/sms-messages-eruope) - I'm often puzzled by aspects of my Windows Mobile device (a Cingular Blackjack / Samsung i607). One is its occasional glimpses into the future (see here and here). Another is its refusal to expose my location to Google Maps. One I haven't ever figured out is the fact that whenever I travel in Europe (usually
- [Where am I? What day is it?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/20/google-maps-my-location) - My Cingular Blackjack (Samsung i607) seems determined to keep me in the dark. First, it never works with the Google Maps "My Location" feature. Here's all I get: On top of that, I'm still getting the occasional moment where my cellphone decides it is the future. This morning my phone briefly thought it was 2009:
- [Like Facebook, but without all the fun](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/20/workbook) - The newest splash in the "Facebook in the Enterprise" race is a facebook application called "WorkBook" from a company called WorkLight. WorkBook is apparently part of the WorkLight platform, and pricing starts at $10/user/month. Some coverage: WorkLight secures Facebook for enterprises (Dan Farber on ZDNet blog - with a photo) WorkLight enters the Enterprise Facebook
- [I feel like a star](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/19/solving-challenges-2008) - Kyle Flaherty posted a video compiled largely during the Social Media Breakfast IV earlier this week in Boston: Solving the Challenges of 2008. It includes yours truly (0:42 through about 1:20) babbling on about distributed social networking and the DiSo project. (I didn't really go prepped to give the elevator pitch for DiSo, but I
- [Flash, Flex, Open Source?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/19/flash-flex-open-source) - (Via Alex Russell's blog I came across Mike Shaver's "Being Open About Being Closed," which is an excellent discussion of Adobe's positioning of the Flash player and Flex in Top 10 Adobe Flex Misconceptions. As Mike points out, the fact that the Tamarin is an open source project, and that various people in the community
- [Now it's getting interesting - distributed social networking](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/13/distributed-social-networking) - Two exciting and (relatively) new projects this morning for those interested in social network portability, the social graph, and related concepts: Apache Shindig and DiSo. Both are critical, necessary, and sizable building blocks pointing in the direction of a free (as in freedom AND beer), open, portable, distributed social network infrastructure. Shindig first, direct from
- [Who clicks on Ads?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/10/who-clicks-on-ad) - danah boyd asks the question that's been on my mind since (at least) the Futures of Entertainment confernce panel on metrics and measurement: Who Clicks on Ads? Advertising is the bread and butter of the web, yet most of my friends claim that they never click on ads, typically using a peacock tone that signals
- [Blog Spam Poetry](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/10/blog-spam-poetry) - I'm inspired this morning to think I may create a weekly or monthly blog spam poem, assembled from the best lines of comment spam this blog recieves. My favorite blog spam comment of the day (with no link so as to not encourage them, and therefore no credit): Candy cheap folklore urged birth heroic, carpet
- [This little light of mine . . .  I'm gonna turn it off](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/06/beacon-gone) - In case you live under a rock or haven't read news in ~2 weeks online, Facebook Beacon is an application which allowed third-party web sites to access your Facebook cookie and post messages to your activity feed regarding your purchases. For example: "John bought Finding the Perfect Job at Amazon.com" - how would you like
- [Just one question](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/05/just-one-question) - 11:15, Geneva time, from the lobby of the Ramada Park Hotel, as I catch up on blog comment moderation. Has anyone, ever, anywhere in the universe, actually purchased Xanax based on a blogspam comment? Or even visited the link to which the Xanax push pushes?
- [What's Love(tm) Got To Do With it?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/11/29/advertising-and-dialectic) - Dale Dougherty, in the context of an O'Reilly Radar blog post about the Monaco Media Forum, describes what he sees as the shared understanding which has developed between advertising agencies and web properties: Like an arranged marriage of members of distant royal families, they are talking about a union that will bring together very different
- [A Few Good Channels](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/11/27/video-channels) - Now that Miro 1.0 is out, I thought I'd share a few excellent video "channels" I've been watching lately - TED Talks, Google Tech Talks and Google engEDU, Pop!Tech, and Ask a Ninja!. Between them all, they may just get you through the writer's strike. (To subscribe to any of these in Miro, you can
- [Futures of Entertainment II](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/11/16/liveblog-foe2) - Other liveblogs from FoE2. In fact there are so many good ones I'm not going to try to keep up - I'll add some thoughts later about the conference as a whole. Convergence Culture Consortium Blog FoE2 Opening Remarks FoE2: Mobile Media FoE2: Metrics and Measurement FoE2: Fan Labor FoE Day 2 Opening Comments FoE2:
- [Opening Remarks, Futures of Entertainment II](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/11/16/opening-remarks-foe2) - MIT Convergence Culture Consortium Futures of Entertainment II - http://convergenceculture.org/futuresofentertainment/2007/program/index.html Opening Comments: Henry Jenkins, Joshua Green Henry Jenkins Joshua Green Longer panels in order to encourage substiantial conversation. http://jellyfish.media.mit.edu/backchannl/ Starts with TV of Tomorrow - Tex Avery 1953. Did You Know that 4 out of 5 people now own television sets. Early attempt to imagine
- [Liveblogging Futures of Entertainment 2 - Mobile Panel](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/11/16/mobile-futures-of-entertainment) - This was an absolutely fantastic panel - best I've seen in the last year certainly on mobile, probably overall. This might mean my notes are a bit more scattered - but there are lots of interesting points and questions in what follows. I will try to clean up a bit later. Panelists: Marc Davis, Yahoo!
- [Liveblogging Futures of Entertainment 2 - Metrics and Measurement Panel](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/11/16/foe2-metrics-measurement) - Metrics and Measurement - 1-3:30 Panelists: Bruce Leichtman, Leichtman Research Group Stacey Lynn Schulman, Turner Broadcasting Maury Giles, GSD&M Idea City Jim Nail, Cymfony Description: As media companies have come to recognize the value of participatory audiences, they have searched for matrixes by which to measure engagement with their properties. A model based on impressions
- [Miro goes 1.0](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/11/13/miro-10) - Miro, the open source video subscription management and player application about which I've blogged many many times (really many) , has finally gone 1.0! Check out the announcement on the Miro blog: Miro 1.0 is here. There's also: Comprehensive Feature Guide to 1.0 The official Press Release Explanation of co-branding potential A comparison of Miro
- [Mozilla Prism vs Adobe AIR](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/11/10/prism-vs-air) - A few weeks back, Mozilla introduced into Mozilla Labs an application called Prism, which essentially rebrands the old Mozilla WebRunner as a desktop container for web applications. As the following image (from the Mozilla Labs Prism page) illustrates, the idea is that Prism splits apart the light coming from the cloud into separate apps. (I
- [TripIt gets rail](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/11/09/tripit-rides-rails) - Ok, so I'm a bit behind in reporting the news here - I see from my email that TripIt added rail back on November 1st. But it was one of my few gripes about tripit, so I felt it was worth noting. From their email update: We’ve also received feedback from many of you who
- [Open Social is not Social Network Portability](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/11/08/open-social) - I've been struggling since OpenSocial was announced last week to figure out how to put into words what exactly I felt was missing. I feel like I'm seeing lots of people reacting to the announcement describing what they want OpenSocial to be, not what it actually is. (People I'm reading on this include my colleague
- [Webinar Presentation - Rich Internet Applications](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/11/08/ria-webinar) - A few weeks back, on Oct. 30th, my colleague Hugo Schotman and I presented an Optaros Webinar on Rich Internet Applications. Unfortunately we weren't able to record the audio of the whole presentation, but the slides themselves are now available on the Optaros site: "Rich Internet Applications: The What, Why, When, and How" (pdf, 3.37
- [Tripit To Me](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/24/tripit-to-me) - Via the TripIt Blog comes the announcement of their mobile (email, really) offering called Tripit To Me. (Not that I'm old enough to have watched Laugh In, but I keep seeing (in my head) the video of Richard Nixon's deadpan "sock it to me" in the name of this feature) This is genius - simple,
- [Windows Mobile From the Future](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/23/phone-future-bug) - My Cingular BlackJack, which runs Windows Mobile, occasionally resets itself to dates in the future. Here's a screenshot from this morning, which should be October of 2007, but thinks it is November of 2008: Anyone else see this happening on their Windows Mobile device? One theory is that I'm hitting a rogue cell tower somewhere
- [Free as in Libraries](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/23/open-library) - An interesting front page article in yesterday's NY times: "Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web." The headline is a bit disingenious, since it implies that libraries are trying to prevent access, when in reality they are trying to preserve it. The situation is really that the libraries are beginning to recognize the tradeoff
- [There is no shelf](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/18/there-is-no-shelf) - Via David Weinberger's blog comes this video, by Mike Wesch (he of The Machine is Us/ing Us), which explains the same point Weinberger's making in Everything is Miscellaneous: It's licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License, so spread it freely. I didn't care for the fit of the music to the video in
- [Social Network Just for Two](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/17/social-network-zefrank) - Best thing I've seen this week: Ze Frank's Social Network song (mp3 format direct link) set to animation: Social Network Just for Two by Shaun Moriarty No embed code, so you'll have to go there to see it.
- [Why Make Miro?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/14/why-make-miro) - Regular readers of Open Parenthesis know I'm a big fan of Miro (even back when it was the Democracy Player), the Participatory Culture Foundation, and Make Internet TV. To help understand why, watch this video from Nick Reville, the foundation's executive director, talking about the mission behind Miro. Click To Play
- [Use your Long Tail Facebook Apps](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/13/more-facebook-apps) - Thanks to Dion Almaer using more than six apps on facebook is again possible. Well, possible is an overstatement - but I tended to forget the ones which fell below the virtual fold imposed by Facebook showing only six by default. Dion's aptly named Greasemonkey script to expand Facebook left bar effectively clicks the "more"
- [WordPress 2.3 Tags not indexed on Technorati?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/13/wordpress-tags-technorati) - Update: Changed the permalink structure (options->permalink) to custom so that permalinks are of the form: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname% Rather than using the "date and name" option which looks much the same but has the trailing slash. This also strips the trailing slash from the tags link. I'll try this for a while and see how it works
- [Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture at Forrester Consumer Forum](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/12/jenkins-forrester) - I've written several times before on Jenkins - he's a major guru I think of the new media shift. If you haven't read Convergence Culture go do so now. Today he's one of the keynotes at the Forrester Consumer Forum Notes: ------ I'm here as the token EggHead of the event. I always go where
- [Next Generation of Media Panel, Forrester Consumer Forum](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/12/next-generation-media) - Shar VanBoskirk leading a "Next Generation of Media" Panel Panelists: Jeremy Allaire, Brightcove Ze Frank Philip Kaplan (pud), AdBrite (and AskPud) Q: What is media? Philip - networks are going away. We are all our own networks now. You no longer care so much about the "package" so much as the specific content you're looking
- [Forrester Consumer Forum 2007 Day 1](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/12/forrester-consumer-forum-2007-day-1) - What people learned from day 1 of Forrester: Don't get caught up in the next shiny object: forcus on creating experiences for people People ask how much control to give customers - but customers have already taken control and we'll never get it back Twitter (with friends) Flickr Carrie Johnson and Christine Overby just finished
- [Living in the age of the Groundswell](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/12/bernoff-keynote) - Josh Bernoff's day 2 keynote from Forrester Consumer Forum. Key point: Objectives, not technology, need to lead your effort Don't build a community just because your competitors do. Don't just try to "generate buzz" - what is the goal you hope that buzz will accomplish? Figuring out what you're trying to achieve will let you
- [Christina Norman, MTV keynote from Forrester Consumer Forum](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/12/christina-norman-mtv) - Christina Norman, MTV - really excellent keynote. Dynamic, engaged - easy to see that MTV gets it. (Of course it isn't just one person, but she represents well the variety of efforts they have underway). At MTV, we're pretty psched - being our fans BFF has always been important to us as a company. It's
- [No More Talkin' Blackjack Bluetooth Blues](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/10/bluetooth-blackjack) - Thanks to Jay's Technical Talk I've finally got my Cingular Blackjack working with my laptop (Kubuntu) via Bluetooth. This means I can turn on internet sharing on the phone and get online from my laptop while on the Acela between NY and Boston, without the tether cable. I've got a Dell Latitude D810, running Kubuntu
- [Talk of the Nation on Social Networking](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/07/carvin-npr) - The always interesting Andy Carvin joined Talk of the Nation this week to talk about Social Networking. You can get the audio (36:55) or leave comments at Blog of the Nation: The Sociology of Online Social Networks. Unfortunately I missed the original broadcast, but I listed to the audio of it. It's great to hear
- [Free (as in Freedom, not as in Beer) Beauty Squadron](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/02/free-beauty) - Nicholas Reville has an interesting post yesterday at miro ("The Free Beauty Squadron") about the challenge of good interface design which has classically plagued open-source projects, especially on the desktop: Open-source software projects tend to be initiated and built exclusively by programmers and their focus usually lies, as it should, with core features and technology.
- [Douglas Crockford on Google Gears and the Mashup Problem](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/09/29/gears-mashup) - Douglas Crockford is always an interesting speaker. At AjaxWorld last week he gave a talk about the good parts (there are a few) and the bad parts (there are many) of the current JavaScript standard. (That talk was similar to this Yahoo! Video of the Keynote from the 2006 Konfabulator Developer Day). My favorite pearl
- [YouCanHasCheezburgers; or, Employees are Miscellaneous](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/09/26/youcanhascheezburgers) - ICanHasCheezburger, or at least sites like it, should have a place on your corporate intranet. So Why should lolcats (pictures of cats with captions in the imagined/projected diction of a cat who uses IM/SMS a lot) belong in your Enterprise 2.0? Developed by two individuals known as Cheezburger and Tofuburger, is best enjoyed without deep
- [Gartner Web Innovation Summit Notes, Day 2](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/09/26/gartner-web-innovation-day2) - On the second day of the Gartner Web Innovation Summit, I unfortunately had to miss a number of sessions - had some conference calls and some briefings with folks at the conference. There were a few good ones I did get to, though. First was titled "User Experience: The Next Wave" and was Ray Valdes'
- [The $3.97, Mobile, Web 2.0, Infrastructure Appliance](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/09/25/web20-appliance) - As a consultant who travels a fair amount, this device gets my vote as the single most important discovery this year: When you're at a conference (I've been at both Ajax World West and Garnter Open Source / Web Innovation Summits in the last week) or in an airport, electrical outlets are at a premium.
- [Gartner Web Innovation Summit Notes, Day 1](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/09/24/gatner-web-innovation-day-one) - I've already written up a number of notes from sessions I saw at the Gartner Open Source Summit, which overlapped with the Web Innovation Summit. (Full disclosure: Optaros was a sponsor of the Web Innovation Summit). Unfortunately I got in too late on Tuesday night to see any of the Tuesday evening sessions. I would
- [AjaxWorld West Presentation: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/09/24/ajaxworld-johneckman) - I presented earlier this morning at Ajax World West. The title of the presentation was "Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Back to the Browser Wars." Not sure how valuable the slides will be in the absence of my commentary on them, but here they are: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back (4.3MB, in ODP
- [Extra Extra: Users Finding New Things is Different than Newspeople Writing News](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/09/24/user-news) - The Project for Excellence in Journalismpublished results a few weeks back from a week long study of Reddit, Digg, Del.icio.us, and Yahoo! News. ("The Latest News Headlines: Your Vote Counts"). The study asked "How would citizens make up a front page differently than professional news people," and found that: If a new crop of user-news
- [Gartner Open Source Summit Day 3](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/09/23/gartner-wasserman-prentice) - The third and final day of the Gartner Open Source Summit included Tony Wasserman talking about Best Practices for Open Source Evaluation and Adoption. Wasserman works with Carnegie Mellon West, and is the Executive Director of the Center for Open Source Investigation. He covered a lot of the basics of what organizations need to keep
- [Gartner Open Source Summit Day 2](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/09/23/gartner-tiemann) - Day 2 of the Gartner Open Source Summit started with the "Mastermind Interview" with Michael Tiemann, current president of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and VP of Open Source affairs for Red Hat. Many of the points Tiemann made about the efficacy of open source as a development methofology as compared to closed source were
- [Gartner Open Source Summit Keynote](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/09/22/gartner-driver-keynote) - Just a few quick impressions from some of the sessions at the first day of the 2007 Gartner Open Source Summit. The opening session was Wednesday afternoon with Mark Driver : Gartner's Open Source Scenario for 2007: Risks and Rewards for Mainstream IT. This was the session which led to this Network World article and
- [Yochai Benkler at the Gartner Web Innovation / Open Source Summit](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/09/22/benkler-gartner) - I spent the latter half of this week at the Gartner Web Innovation and Open Source Summits. (Officially two different conferences, but held over the same three days in the same location). Luckily, despite some overlapping sessions, the keynote by Yochai Benkler was shared across summits and I was able to attend. If you're not
- [We Gotta Have a Presence: Failing at Marketing in Second Life](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/09/14/second-life-marketing) - Is it possible to create engaging branded experiences in Second Life which actually help your company sell product, or at least reinforce your customer's perception of your brand? In the August issue of WIRED, Frank Rose is pretty down on the opportunities in Second Life for consumer brands in the US trying to create interest.
- [Wikipedia, Ogyu Sorai, and Academia](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/09/10/wikipedia-ogyu-sorai) - I've heard a number of different folks - both in personal conversations and at conferences - talk about issues citing Wikipedia in an academic context. Generally this begins with a reference to some school or another (generally seems to be a History department, but I've heard multiple schools referenced) which has forbidden the citation of
- [This relationship is off to a bad start](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/08/28/myshc-no-soup-for-you) - Coming across Roger Dooley's post about Sears and their privacy policy (Sears- Marketers vs Lawyers, with a tip of the hat to Make the Logo Bigger) I decided to go check out the site he references, My SHC Community. Unfortunately, no such luck (cue the "No soup for you!" clip from Seinfeld): Was the problem
- [The Slippery Slope of Intent: Microsoft and the OSI](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/08/23/microsoft-osi) - It's been a very active couple of weeks on the license-discuss mailing list. Now the debate is spilling over into the blogosphere. The immediate question is: should the OSI approve the licenses Microsoft recently submitted as being compliant with the open source definition? The underlying questions, though, are about the role of the OSI, and
- [Moving Windows from Dual Boot to Virtualization (Help!)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/08/20/virtual-windows-help) - When I initially set up my new laptop, I opted for dual boot, assuming that from time to time in client work I'd need to be able to get to windows applications. Now that I'm moving to virtualization, I've run into an issue with my shared partition. Hoping to avoid significant "I can't get to
- [Represent](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/08/17/visual-representation) - I've been catching up with videos since the release of the Miro player public preview. (And as I've had some traveling time, on trains, waiting for planes, etc). Two recent videos stood out as worth sharing. Both focus on creative visualization, and are inspiring in terms of how some relatively simply changes in visual display
- [Eben Moglen and Tim O'Reilly Video](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/08/16/moglen-video) - Thanks to Robuka Kenderle for the pointer to this video from the Tim O'Reilly interview with Eben Moglen from the O'Reilly Radar: Click To Play Related posts: Eben Moglen - Putting the F Back in FOSS More on Moglen v O'Reilly
- [Youth, Social Networks, and the New "Public" Space (danah boyd at Berkman)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/08/15/danah-boyd-berkman) - For a long time (well, since roughly 6/26) this Berkman Video of danah boyd has sat in my "to watch" queue. I finally got time to watch it on the train on the way to New York last week. It was well worth the wait, and I'd really encourage you to go watch it if
- [TripIT Reviewed](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/08/14/tripit) - Stowe Boyd's detailed review of TripIT is well worth a read. Sounds like TripIT provides some of the features I wish Dopplr had - including the ability to pull travel information out of the confirmation emails generated by the airlines, as well as more granular (hour by hour) info about overlaps in your travel with
- [Checklist: Thinking about white label social networking?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/08/13/checklist) - Via High Touch I came across Jeremiah Owyang's: A Checklist: Before you select that White Label Social Networking Site It ought to be required reading for every marketing exec or entrepreneur thinking of starting a "myspace for _____" or "facebook for _______." (OK, maybe not fair to pick on marketing there - any exec thinking
- [Microsoft and the Future Imprecise](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/08/11/ms-future-indecisive) - [Update: 8/11/07] Well it turns out to be not so indefinite as I thought. Yesterday while I was in New York these emails arrived at license-discuss - submitting the Ms-PL and the Ms-CL: Subject: For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License From: "Jon Rosenberg (PBM)" Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:16:05 -0700 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:16:05
- [Web 2.0 - The Power Behind the Hype](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/08/07/web20-power) - Another for the "What is Web 2.0, again" file - excellent write up from Jared Spool at User Interface Engineering: "Web 2.0: The Power Behind they Hype" It's a basic primer on web 2.0, mostly focused on mashups and quick integration, in which Spool argues: The speed and ease at which these new applications were
- [Yahoo! GO on Blackjack](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/08/03/yahoo-go-blackjack) - Yahoo!'s mobile client, GO, is now available (beta) on the Samsung i607 aka Cingular Blackjack. Go here to enter your mobile number, and they SMS you a link to download the CAB file. Once you download and install the CAB file, at first launch it downloads a bunch of other stuff - perhaps it is
- [More on Moglen v. O'Reilly](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/08/03/moglen-v-oreilly) - Last week, during the O'Reilly Executive Briefing at OSCON, I blogged about the Moglen O'Reilly interview - "Eben Moglen - Putting the F back in FOSS." Although the video hasn't yet surfaced, some interesting commentaries have. Stephen Walli's "Tim O'Reilly, Eben Moglen, and Jane Jacobs" links the tensions between O'Reilly and Moglen to the "two
- [More OSCON Goodness](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/30/oscon-goodness) - The OSCON folks always do a great job of making available conference materials outside the conference experience - and this year is no exception. First, check out the Presentation Materials page on the OSCON site. If you were attending, but couldn't make every session you wanted to see (with 14 parallel tracks this is unavoidable)
- [Eben Moglen on the Republic of Open Souce](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/25/moglen-oscon) - Notes from Eben Moglen's talk this morning at OSCON. There's no way I could really capture all of Moglen's points - so think of these as rough, raw highlights. All typos, grammatical errors, and other goofs are mine. -- Licensing is not where it is going to be at for the next while, and there
- [O'Reilly OSCON keynote highlights](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/25/oreilly-keynote) - [Not really liveblogging here - just some nuggets from Tim's talk. Took a long time to post because the wireless is overloaded. ] Degrees of Freedom, Open Source in the Web 2.0 Era How do we preserve freedom when: - Running the program requires a hundred thousand cpus and terabytes of data - When open
- [Eben Moglen - Putting the F back in FOSS](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/24/moglen-oreilly) - Eben Moglen's interview with Tim O'Reilly this morning was certainly eventful. I hope they'll post video of it somewhere online, and won't make any attempt to liveblog it. It started off with Moglen arguing that the whole notion of a "web 2.0 era" is pure "hooey." Then it went downhill from there. O'Reilly seemed a
- [Facebook and Firefox, Platforms, and Freedom](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/24/facebook-and-firefox-platforms-and-freedom) - Very interesting set of conversations this morning at the O'Reilly Executive Briefing. Tim O'Reilly interviewed Dave Morin from Facebook - they're building on a LAMP stack, and have contributed some things back, but clearly the main core of facebook is not an open source project. His basic response was that "We will continue to release
- [Freedom in a new context ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/24/freedom-in-a-new-context) - Tim O'Reilly kicked off the O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing this morning by talking about the need to "rediscover the values of free and open in a new context." He talked about a number of different freedoms, beyond the "free as in beer" and "free as in speech" dichotomy: Freedom to use Freedom to build on
- [Now, I want an iPhone](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/24/now-iphone) - A few weeks ago, my blackjack suddenly decided to reboot itself, and in the process seems to have killed all the registry settings. In Windows Mobile Terms, it's like a self-induced frontal lobotomy. My phone no longer knows what applications are installed on it, doesn't remember how to sync to our exchange server, etc. After
- [So Many Conferences, So Little Time](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/22/conferences-2) - Lots of great conferences going on right now - wish I could be at all of them. This weekend is WordCamp, in San Francisco. Chz and Tofu from ICanHasCheezburger, one of my favorite blogs, will be there. (Yes, I have a doctoral degree in English and ICanHasCheezburger is one of my favorite blogs. Deal with
- [Convergence, Open Source Style](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/19/miro) - The Free Open Source Internet video platform sponsored by the Participatory Culture Foundation and formerly known as Democracy Player has relaunched as Miro. Head over to GetMiro and download the Public Preview 1 (v. 0.9.8) release. Miro is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and pre-packaged for a number of Linux distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, with
- [Corporate Blogging, Comment Seeding, and Controversy](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/16/bowles-weil-fake) - Jerry Bowles at Enterprise Web 2.0 posted a fairly scathing indictment of Deb Weil and the GlaxoSmithKline corporate blog (clog?) for Alli: Deborah Weil and the Art of the Fake . Bowles argues: Deborah Weil has been around the block a couple of times and she must have known when GlaxoSmithKline’s agency approached her to
- [Matt Mullenweg won't Upgrade: WordPress and the PHP4 Dilemma](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/15/gophp5) - Last week the folks at PHP.net announced that support for PHP 4 would end at the end of 2007: The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make
- [Social Network built on WordPress](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/13/chickspeak-wordpress-mu) - (Via Photo Matt) Andy Peatling at Blaze New Media posted about a recent project: Chickspeak, a social network for female college students. In their words, it's is "an organization for young women created to inspire big dreams, strong values and success in the world": Our website exists to be the most entertaining and engaging reflection
- [Hyperlocal is People and Technology](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/13/hyperlocal-technology) - An interesting synchronicity (dare I say even a synergy?) presented itself in two different firefox tabs while catching up on my rss feeds the other day. In one tab, Andrew McAfee arguing that sometimes "It's not not about the technology" In the other, Jeff Jarvis arguing that "Towns are hyperlocal social networks with data (people
- [Enterprise Open Source Directory](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/12/eos-directory) - At the risk of too much self-promotion (posting two Optaros related entries in one week), I have to at least briefly mention the Optaros Enterprise Open Source Directory, which launched (in beta) at the beginning of the week. This new online community continues and extends the work Optaros did on the print version of the
- [We get our Thursdays from a Banana - Clay Shirky on Love](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/10/shirky-love) - Via David Weinberger I came to this video on conversation hub from supernova: Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style. Go watch it, now. (Direct link to the file - it's a 14.4 MB MOV file) Best 10 minutes I've spent today. (Apologies in advance to everyone else I spent 10 minutes talking to today.) Shirky
- [Next Generation of Customer Online Interaction](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/10/next-generation-customer-interaction) - While most of us in the U.S. were enjoying the day off and the summer sunshine, my colleagues from Optaros Europe were having a webinar: "Enabling the next generation of customer online interaction." They discuss a project Optaros did with Swisscom Hospitality Services as an example of the impact next generation Internet applications can have
- [PEW report on broadband adoption - 47% have high speed at home](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/09/pew-broadband) - The PEW Internet and American Life project published an update last week on American's access to the Internet: Home Broadband Adoption 2007 The report finds that nearly half (47%) of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection at home, according to a February 2007 survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life
- [How many of your friends are juristic persons?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/08/fictitious-friends) - (Updated July 8th) A corporation is by definition an artificial person, or a legal entity which can act like a person. (Among other things, sue and be sued, make money, enter into contracts, and so on.) If you're really interested in the legal concept, check out the Wikipedia entry on the notion of a juristic
- [It takes a village - hyperlocal means not going it alone](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/06/hyperlocal) - Jeff Jarvis takes the occasion of the "long-time coming closing" of backfence to talk broady about the Local Challenge: Hyperlocal will not, I firmly believe, happen at one site. It will work only via networks: content, commercial, social. It will work by gathering, not producing. In other words, hyperlocal efforts must be based on content
- [If it's Tuesday, this must be New York: Dopplr](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/05/if-its-tuesday-this-must-be-new-york-dopplr) - I've been trying out Dopplr in beta for the last few weeks and thought I'd my impressions of the service, as well as a few wishlist items I'd love to see it have. Dopplr (named after Christian Doppler but with the obligatory missing-vowel-of-web-2.0) allows you to share travel information with others. You enter your basic
- [Can open standards and open source save us from a digital dark age?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/05/digital-dark-age) - SmartMobs posted a story yesterday about "The Looming of a Digital Dark age." The title of the BBC story to which they link is even more dramatic: Warning of data ticking time bomb Both are borrowing the phase used by the chief executive of the UK National Archive, who say "the growing problem of accessing
- [Evolve or Die: The PR Firm in the Era of Conversations](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/03/pr) - At hubbub, Giovanni Rodriguez posted "Relating to the Public," a whitepaper he and Paul Rand have written on behalf of the Council of Public Relations Firms. It's well worth a read, even if you're not in the PR world. At first I was concerned it was going to be all too Dr. Pangloss (or Pollyanna,
- [Google Maps for Windows Mobile Smartphone](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/03/google_maps_mobile) - Google's maps application is now available for Windows Mobile Smartphone edition based phones, like my Cingular Blackjack (Samsung i607): The left soft-key is zoom out, clicking on the OK button in the center of the navigation pad zooms in. You can have satellite view or map view, though hybrid doesn't seem to be an option
- [BlackJack Java Unleashed](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/01/09/java-unleashed) - A few weeks back I was thinking about getting a BlackJack. Well, I did, and I've been slowly getting up to speed on its features. One immediate annoyance was the way Cingular/Samsung have configured the JBlend Java Virtual Machine on the phone. That had to go, or the phone was going back to the store.
- [Hey!Watch - Transcoding 2.0](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/01/02/heywatch-transcoding-20) - Hey!Watch launched over the holidays. Got an invitation code this weekend, just as I was getting up to speed on using my new Samsung Blackjack phone. Ah, the joy of synchronicity. What Hey!Watch does is allow you to transcode video - translating it from one format to another. In and of itself, that's nothing to
- [Convergence](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/12/22/convergence) - So I'm trying to decide whether I'm finally ready to bring my phone into the 21st century. I have, and generally carry with me on trips, a cell phone (Nokia 6200), an iPod (4GB Nano, 1st generation), and a digital camera (Powershot SD200). These three devices could be replaced with one - the new Samsung
- [YouTube Mobile on Cingular BlackJack](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/04/blackjack-youtube) - Thanks to PPCGeeks.com, I finally have videos from http://m.youtube.com/ streaming on my phone. Yes, I too can watch the skateboarding dog while riding the commuter rail. Presumably this works with lots of other Windows Mobile based devices as well, but I've only tried it on my Cingular BlackJack (aka Samsung i607). You have to copy
- [To Liveblog or Not to Liveblog: That is the Question](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/02/to-liveblog-or-not) - Now that I've had some time since the Enterprise 2.0 conference, I want to reflect a bit on the experience of liveblogging directly from the conference. I have a feeling this is going to be a lengthy post, so if you've no interest in liveblogging pros and cons, you've been warned. (Quick Summary: there's more
- [Enterprise 2.0 on Open Source](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/21/podcast-alfresco-potts) - In addition to the Optaros whitepaper ("Assembling Enterprise 2.0") I mentioned the other day, those interested in the topic of Enterprise 2.0 and open source should check out my colleague Jeff Potts' podcast interview with Ian Howells of Alfresco. In Jeff's description: In this podcast we discuss some of the details behind the Liferay-Alfresco-Roller solution
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0: Marketing 2.0 - Set your customers free!](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/21/marketing-20-enterprise-20) - Jeffrey Walker from Atlassian and Willms Buhse, CoreMedia Marketing 2.0 - the Beauty comes from the inside Someone else was going to speak this am, but we were asked to do this session via twitter this morning. So if you have thought twitter didn't have value - it can. Some broad thoughts to begin the
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 - Using RSS to Bridge the Information Gap](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/21/rss-enterprise20-conference) - RSS: Bridging the Gap Between the People and Information that Drive Business Speaker - Sam Weber, VP Technical Services, KnowNow Customer story - large outsourcing company and the challenges they face in keeping over 40,000 employees in 120 countries up to speed. Roughly 30 intranets, portals, and knowledge bases, over 1000 internal blogs - the
- [This way to enterprise 2.0](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/21/do-you-know-the-way) - While viewing these pictures, hum the tune to "Do You Know the Way to San José" - the version in my head is Frankie Goes to Hollywood, but you may have an earlier version.
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0: Keynote Panel Day Two](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/20/panel-enterprise2) - Joe Schueller (Procter & Gamble) For us it's about finding the ways that these new trends - enterprise 2.0 or web 2.0 broadly - work within our enterprise to make us more effective as an overall organization. How do we fit these fundamentally social concepts of web 2.0 and map those to a hierarchical enterprise
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 - Kim Polese](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/20/polese-enterprise20) - Kim Polese - SpikeSource [Editorial comment: Very focused on the SuiteTwo and SpikeSource and what they offer - good pitch for SuiteTwo, but still pretty much a pich. Full disclosure: Optaros are partners with SpikeSource.] Web 2.0 is real, has real benefits which are clear. What are the Enterprise concerns? Cost of point solutions Security
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0: Ross Mayfield](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/20/mayfield-e2) - Ross Mayfield, SocialText Enterprises are made up of people. In building enterprise software, we've screwed up several ways. First, we've designed software for buyers, not users. We've also tried to push structure and complexity into the tools - taking it out of the social network and trying to put it in the software. This makes
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0: Don Tapscott](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/20/tapscott-enterprise20) - (If you've not seen Don Tapscott present the material behind Wikinomics it is well worth seeing - I'm sure the video will go up in the next day or two.) Tapscott Happy to be here. Flew in late last night - but hey, sleep is overrated. I totally believe there are fundamential shifts underway: from
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0: From the Labs](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/20/from-the-labs) - Moderator - David Coleman, Managing Director, Collaborative Strategies Speaker - Chad Ata, Software Developer, Brightcom Speaker - Denis Browne, Vice President, Emerging Solutions Imagineering, SAP Labs Speaker - Irene Greif, IBM Fellow and Director, Collaborative User Experience, IBM Research Speaker - Robert McCandless, CEO & Chief Technology Visionary, BrightCom BrightCom One of the things were
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 - Launch Pad](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/20/launch-pad) - Launch pad: Moderator - Michael Sampson, Principal Advisor, Collaboration Success Advisors Judges - David Coleman, Stowe Boyd Four vendors - each will present for six minutes, then 1 minute of judge feedback from each judge. Collanos Enabling cross-organizational talent. Team collaboration across company boundaries - freelancers, design firms, offshore contractors, others - they need an
- [Enterprise 2.0 Keynote Videos](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/20/e2-videos) - The keynote videos from yesterday have been posted: http://enterprise2conf.vportal.net/ You too can be inspired by Dave Weinberger, Andrew McAfee, and Jessica/Jeffrey from NetAge, and bored by vendor presentations from Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, and SAP. (Sorry, couldn't resist). You can even check my notes to see how well I captured what was said.
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 - How to build solutions people actually use](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/20/solutions-people-use) - Excellent panel - well worth reading the lengthy stuff below. Short version: build a really good platform that actually helps people collaborate, turn it on, and get out of the way. * Moderator - Rob Preston, Editor in Chief, Information Week * Speaker - Mike Fratesi, Manager, Solutions Marketing, Unified Communications, Cisco Systems, Inc. *
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 - 90% people](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/20/90-percent-people) - 90% People, 10% technology sesison. * Moderator - Jessica Lipnack, NetAge, Inc., CEO and Co-Founder * Speaker - Bill Ives, Web 2.0 Consultant and Writer * Speaker - Dan Somers, Managing Director, VC-Net * Speaker - Jeffrey Stamps, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, NetAge * Speaker - Milton Chen, Founder and CTO, VSee Lab * Speaker
- [Enterprise 2.0 Day One](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/20/e2-day-one) - Actually the themes stayed fairly consistent to the below. I wish the show was a bit less vendor centric as a whole - the best panels (aside from keynotes by Weinberger, McAfee, and the NetAge folks) have been the smaller panels. Even the SuiteTwo panel, though packed with vendors, got into better issues because
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 - Enterprise Search](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/20/liveblogging-enterprise-20-enterprise-search) - Enterprise Search * Moderator - Larry Cannell, Enterprise Technology, Ford IT * Speaker - Aaron Brown, Program Director, IBM * Speaker - Lee Phillips, Senior Director, Knowledge Discovery Solutions, FAST * Speaker - Matt Eichner, Vice President of Strategic Development, Endeca * Speaker - Seth Gottleib, Principal, Content Here Larry: This won't be a pure
- [Liveblogging - Andrew McAfee's report card on Enterprise 2.0](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/19/mcafee-e2) - (Andrew McAfee is another keynote this morning at Enterprise 2.0 - what follows are my rough notes.) Report card for Enterprise 2.0 Awareness = A Mainstream media, these conferences, high school and college age children of executives who are spreading this meme as well. What he hears from execs is that their sons/daughters are on
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 - Suite Two panel](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/19/liveblogging-enterprise-20-suite-two-panel) - (Have to run now - was a great panel, will come back and add details and links later - John) * Moderator - Rob Rueckert, Investment Manager, Intel Capital * Speaker - Chris Alden, EVP, Professional Products, Six Apart * Speaker - David Cassady, EVP of Operations, SpikeSource * Speaker - Greg Reinacker, Founder /
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 - Stowe Boyd, Social = Me First](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/19/stowe-boyd-e2) - Social = Me First Stowe Boyd, Editor/Writer - /Message The core concept of "Social = Me First" is that everything truly social is at heart about the individual. There are lots of new applications which have taken over the old groupware notion of "groups." But rather than having to belong to specific groups (see his
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 - SAP (Enterprise 2.1)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/19/sap-e20) - Dennis Moore, General Manager, Emerging Solutions, SAP Labs I'm going to talk about what we're finding in our own use of Web 2.0 in the Enterprise. Basis: Migration of our economies from task work to information work. It's at the edges where web 2.0 has started to penetrate the enterprise - collaboration. 45% using blogs.
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 - Microsoft's Derek Burney](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/19/microsoft-e2) - Keynote: Amplify the Impact of your People with Enterprise 2.0 Technologies 11:00 am–11:30 am Derek Burney, General Manager, SharePoint Platform and Tools, Microsoft People drive business outcomes. Your employees are the ones who really have customer relationships, know what customers want, know where your operation is inefficient, and so on. The Microsoft approach is People-ready
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 - Jeffrey Stamps and Jessica Lipnack - Decide to Network](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/19/netage) - 10:45 am–11:00 am General Session - Collaborating in the Transparent Enterprise Jeffrey Stamps, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, NetAge Jessica Lipnack, NetAge, Inc., CEO and Co-Founder It is important to remember the people stuff, not just the technology stuff. Flashback to 40 years ago - networks forming (a time of another war) around common purpose and
- [Liveblogging Enterprise 2.0 - Cisco's Martin De Beer](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/19/cisco-e2) - How Video and Other Web 2.0 Technologies Are Changing the Enterprise, Marthin De Beer, Senior Vice President, Emerging Markets Technology Group, Cisco Systems, Inc. The face of things to come - Sarah as a prototype of the new employee: uses flickr, pandora, facebook, youtube, "computer science and modern culture" major What will the impact of
- [Liveblogging - David Weinberger - Metadata is what you know, data is what you are looking for](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/19/weinberger-e2) - (David Weinberger is the keynote this morning at Enterprise 2.0 - what follows are my raw notes from his talk.) We may feel like we are in change overload - everything has been changing for the last decade - we're tired of it all changing. Next up for change: Authority, Trust, boundaries. There's nothing more
- [Assemble Enterprise 2.0 from Open Source](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/18/e2-whitepaper) - Optaros this morning published a white paper I co-wrote with colleagues Bruno Von Rotz, Jeff Potts, and Dave Gynn: Assemble Enterprise 2.0 from Open Source. (It is freely available from the site, but registration is required). Executive Summary: Enterprise 2.0 promises a new approach to creating, managing, and consuming knowledge within the enterprise, allowing patterns
- [Fragile connection - hold tight](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/15/phonebooth) - If you've tried to visit this blog in the last few weeks, sorry. My hosting provider underwent a series of upgrades somewhere back around May 26th, and ever since then you've had about a 50/50 chance of getting either no response at all or a "database connection error" page. Things seem (knocking wood) relatively stable
- [Democracy Player](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/12/democracy) - You might have seen mention of the Democracy Player go by in my del.icio.us links feed, back when the Mozilla Foundation donated money to the Participatory Culture Foundation. If you haven't taken a look at the Democracy Player itself, you really should. Think of Democracy Player as an alternative to Joost : an open source,
- [Safari for Windows](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/11/safari-windows) - I have to admit I thought I was stumbling across an old April Fool's joke when I found this BBC article. However, now that I've installed and used it for a bit, I can validate this is not a joke. Apple's Safari browser, version 3 beta, is available for Windows XP and Vista.
- [Movable Type Open Source](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/11/mtos) - (via blog.wohlrapp.com among others) The folks at SixApart have announced that coinciding with the release of Movable Type 4, there will be an open source edition of Movable Type, which will form the basis for the commercial products. The Movable Type Open Source Project was announced in conjunction with the launch of the Movable Type
- [CNN.com Beta: Behind the Scenes](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/06/07/cnn-beta) - The good folks at CNN.com have launched a beta site for their ongoing redesign of the main cnn.com experience, at http://beta.cnn.com/ Accompanying the beta site, they've launched a blog, Behind the Scenes at CNN.com, where they are encouraging discussion of the redesign. It's a great concept - specifically highlighting what the team is trying to
- [Optaros Alfresco Platinum Partnership](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/05/22/alfresco) - Via Jeff and Sebastian comes the announcement that Optaros has become a platinum partner of Alfresco. Check out the press release or hit the Alfresco Partner page on the Optaros site for more info about what kinds of work we're delivering on Alfresco's platform.
- [Ignite Boston](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/05/18/ignite) - No, I'm not suggesting any revolutionary activity in Beantown - so if you're NSA, you can stop reading now. Ignite Boston is an O'Reilly event, which Andy Oram calls "not a serious academic conference . . . [but] a chance to meet interesting folks and be dazzled by the wide range of stuff your neighbors
- [Streaming from home](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/05/17/slimserver) - This weekend I finally got around to setting up our music library machine to stream outside the house: so that I can take my whole library with me wherever I go, and Jo can listen from her studio. (Kudos to mick_w and his guide Building a Mini-ITX server) I've been using slimserver for years, and
- [:Vocalo - the station/community formerly known as Chicago Public Radio](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/05/16/vocalo) - (via Reclaim the Media) I don't normally blog here about projects Optaros has been involved in, but I think this article in the Current is too good to pass up sharing: "It's public radio, but with nearly everything different, including the name" It describes the new station/site (in which Optaros was involved) from Chicago Public
- [Plugin mania](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/05/10/plugins) - I've recently added a bunch-o-plugins. Please let me know if you notice anything funky going on in terms of being able to access the blog, make comments, etc. Plug-ins I'm trying: Bad Behavior - an anti-spam plugin to compliment Akismet. Dagon Design Form Mailer for Wordpress - to enable the contact page and let people
- [It's the community, stupid](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/05/09/community) - Joshua Porter writes in "Why Invest in Social Features for Your Web Site?": In addition to the explicit benefits for the site owner, implementing social features means building a community around shared experiences. The notion of “shared experiences” difficult to define, but the benefits of increased participation and caring are clear. People respond best to
- [AT&C1&D0&H3&K4&N0](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/08/09/atc1d0h3k4n0) - Do you remember Bulletin Board Systems? My first intro to "online communities" came not from AOL, CompuServe, or Apple's eWorld but from local bulletin board systems, first in the Boston area circa 1991-1992 and then in the Seattle area circa 1992-1996. I vividly remember sitting on auto-redial waiting to hear that modem challenge tone after
- [Back to the default theme](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/01/28/default_theme) - Last Update: Decided to abandond Flickrfy_cats as it seemed like filters weren't being applied to calls to list_cats() or wp_list_cats() anymore. Instead I'm using a wigetized version of the Category Tagging plugin. (Making it into a widget just for placement in the appropriate sidebar but otherwise leaving the call to cattag_tagcloud(); pretty much alone). ----
- [The Real Trouble With Twitter - There's no There, There](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/30/twitter-trouble) - (Image from Darren Greaves (Boncey) via Creative Commons license) I've been thinking a lot about - and playing around with - Twitter. These Dylan lyrics came to on the plane this morning, as an apt description of why I've had a hard time "getting" the value of Twitter: And what did you hear, my blue-eyed
- [Newspapers all a-twitter; me, not so much](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/25/twitter-news) - Via Smart Mobs, via Random Mumblings, comes this piece from The Digital Edge: "Twittering the News" It's an interesting concept - Newspapers using Twitter as a way of reaching new media savvy consumers. Because of the 140 character limit, the stories are effectively limited to headlines and short blurbs anyway, so it isn't that great
- [State of the What?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/09/state-of-what) - David Sifry from Technorati has posted the latest State of the Blogosphere - except that now it is the "State of the Live Web." He notes that, in a change from the old State of the Blogosphere reports: With this report, we expand on this tradition by introducing information and analysis relating to the broader
- [SXSW 2007 Day One - Emerging Social Trends](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/19/sxsw1-emerging-trends) - Over the next week or so I'll be working my way through notes from the panels and such I attended. Suffice it to say SXSW 2007 was a fantastic experience - lots of good panels, lots of good food, lots of good parties and lots of good people. I flew into Austin Friday night, but
- [Did Twitter or iChat kill irc?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/12/twitter) - Seems like twitter has hit its tipping point this year at SXSW. The twitter sxsw group page is being displayed on flat panels throughout the halls. They also won an award last night at the Web Awards - in the blog category. It's a neat app, but I have to say I miss the old
- [Profiles of Web 2.0 users and usage](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/05/08/web20-users) - Two publications recently came out which try to break out of the "everyone uses Web 2.0" versus "no one uses Web 2.0" argument and produce more detailed breakdowns of different kinds of people and different ways of using different web 2.0 technologies. The first (as described on Charlene Li's blog) is Forrester's Social Technographics report:
- [Web-Killer 2.0](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/05/07/web-killer-20) - Carl Howe's "Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's Apollo: Web-Killer 2.0" argues that "these proprietary browser extensions break the utility of the World Wide Web in important ways": Put users into plug-in hell. Create Web ghettos. Don't provide accessibility. Make search a pain. It's a great beginning to a real debate about the place of technologies like
- [Words, Words, Words](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/05/06/words-words-words) - Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words. Words. Words. - Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii I'm not normally prone to quoting Shakespeare - more of a Modernist and Americanist by (academic) training and by inclination. But a few blog memes this weekend have me thinking of Hamlet and his antic disposition, and the
- [Obama and Creative Commons](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/05/05/debates-cc) - (via Lessig Blog) comes notice that Barack Obama's campaign posted this notice encouraging the DNC to license all Democratic presidential debates under a creative commons license: I am writing in strong support of a letter from a bipartisan coalition of academics, bloggers and Internet activists recently addressed to you and the Democratic National Committee. The
- [Goodbye Yahoo! Photos, Hello Flickr (on TiVo)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/05/04/flickr-tivo) - (Via Slashdot) I came upon a story from USA Today which announces that the powers-that-be at Yahoo! plan to shut down the long running #1 or #2 site in the photo-sharing category (Yahoo! Photos) and ask users to migrate their photos to Flickr (which Yahoo! acquired in March of 2005) instead [1]. The irony for
- [Slingshot - lightweight apollo?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/05/02/slingshot-public) - Today Joyent announced the public release of Slingshot, a framework for (their words) obliterating the distinction between the web and the desktop. Slingshot lets developers take Ruby-on-Rails applications and deploy them to desktops (Windows, Mac OS X). Is it just me, or does the red rock in the slingshot graphic look a bit like the
- [Open Source Flex (MPL)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/26/open-flex) - It's worth taking a look at Ed Burnette's take on this at ZDNet: "Adobe keeps Flash, Flex close to the vest." Although I am certainly happy to see Adobe moving in the direction of open source, it is good to more closely at the overall picture: what is being open sourced and what is
- [Creative Commons by default](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/27/cc-by-default) - (Via Lawrence Lessig) Sony's new competitor to YouTube, eyeVio, will license content users upload under a Creative Commons Attribution license by default. Lessig points to this article from Digital Trends as the source of this bit of info. I wish Flickr would do this. Flickr already allows you to set, as an individual user, your
- [Brands whose consumers tell the best stories, win](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/23/brand-stories) - David Armano points on Logic + Emotion to Alain Thys' "I Am The Media," a presentation given at the Marketing3 conference in the Netherlands back in November 2006. The presentation itself is available under a creative commons license via Slideshare - if you actually download the ppt file from there, you can view the notes
- [Web Apps with Offline Mode - Dojo Offline Toolkit](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/23/dojo-offline-toolkit) - Reading Dion Almaer's "Web 2. 0 Expo Was Poor?" (I couldn't be there due to client commitments so I can't comment myself) I noticed a comment from Brad Neuberg of the Dojo project. He's posted a video of the talk he gave at the expo: "Creating Offline Web Applications Within the Browser." It describes in
- [Serious Business - Web 2.0 Goes Corporate](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/19/serious-business) - Via FASTForward Blog comes a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit titled "Serious Business: Web 2.0 Goes Corporate" (registration required, but the report is free). The report is based on a poll of 406 senior executives (globally) who were asked questions about the impact of Web 2.0 on their businesses. Some key conclusions: 31% of
- [Rich Internet Applications and Greek Mythology](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/12/apollo-dionysus) - Ever since I first starting hearing about Adobe Apollo, I had a feeling there was more to the name than was apparent. or ? Adobe wants you to believe that the name Apollo is a reference to the Apollo project, the series of NASA missions aimed at landing a man on the Moon and returning
- [Economic Motivation of Open Source Software](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/10/open-source-stakeholders) - I came across Dirk Riehle's excellent article: "The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives" while reading the April issue of Computer on the train this morning. Thankfully, he's also put it online: "The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives" Some interesting conclusions about system integrators: Large system integrators, or solution providers,
- [How would you like your Web 2.0?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/04/08/web20-suites) - In the last couple a week, a number of surveys about Web 2.0 in the Enterprise have been published: Forrester Research published a report titled "CIOs Want Suites for Web 2.0" The McKinsey Quarterly published "How businesses are using Web 2.0" Optaros published the results of our own survey: "How will enterprises respond to the
- [Kflickr - Flickr uploader for Kubuntu](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/27/kflickr) - Tired of having to use the web form based flickr upload process, and uploading six photos at a time? or, tired of rebooting into windows just to upload photos? I just discovered kflickr - it's in the Ubuntu repository for Edgy. (Looks like it is in Dapper and Feisty as well) (At a terminal, sudo
- [Optaros Executive Events - "Unleashing the power of Web 2.0 and Open Source"](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/27/exec-events-switzerland) - (via Sebastian Wohlrapp) While I'm in Switzerland this week I'm going to be speaking at two Optaros Executive Events on the subject of "Unleashing the power of Web 2.0 and Open Source for your customers": The internet is becoming more and more critical to enterprises. According to Google by 40% of all business transactions
- [Open Phishing](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/27/open-phishing) - (via Rod Begbie) Marco Slot has written up a "Beginner's Guide to OpenID Phishing" to demonstrate how vulnerable the popular distributed identity system can be to impersonation / person-in-the-middle attacks. The real problem, of course, is the reliance on username/password based authentication schemes, and the ease with which a login form (for the OpenID provider
- [How the OLPC was Built](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/26/boston-olpc) - By relying on open source, of course. This April 26th, Jim Getty's will be speaking (at MIT) on "How We Built the OLPC (the $100 laptop for 3rd world children)" It's a joint meeting of the Computer Society and the GBC/ACM. He says: The ability to design hardware knowing that the software can be modified
- [SXSW Day Four - Bruce Sterling's Annual Rant](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/26/sxsw-day-four-sterling) - The last panel of SXSW Interactive was Bruce Sterling's Rant. (Audio here). Sterling is a favorite son of Austin, and was clearly basking in the throngs of adoring fans. He spent most of his time on a few specific subjects. First, a plea for people to look seriously at Reed Hundt's organization (Frontline Wireless) which
- [SXSW Day Four - WorldChanging](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/26/sxsw-day-four-worldchanging) - Seeing Alex Steffen from WorldChanging.com speak was a very nice way to (begin to) wrap up SXSW, reminding me that there's more to creativity than just cool games. (Though SPORE was really cool). Creativity - in its broadest sense - is critical to our ability to make positive change in the world. It is really
- [SXSW Day Four - Will Wright Keynote](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/26/sxsw-day-four-will-wright) - One of the highlights of the conference as a whole was Will Wright's keynote from Tuesday. Wright mixed together a demo of Spore with some reflections on the intersections of interactive media (specifically game design) and film, in the spirit of SXSWi and SXSWf. He basically described how films are organized around empathy, and create
- [SXSW Day Four - Open Knowledge versus Controlled Knowledge](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/26/sxsw-day-four-open-knowledge) - Day four for me started with "Open Knowledge vs. Controlled Knowledge" - as though it would be difficult to determine how a SXSW crowd might come out on that contest. (Is there anyone who would say "controlled knowledge" is better than "open knowledge"? If they would, they wouldn't use those terms - piracy versus respect
- [RSS is del.icio.us](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/23/rss-delicious) - Readers with an eye for detail will have noticed the "del.icio.us links" widget in the right column of this blog, just below the "reading list." (I should say, of course, readers who've actually been to the blog, rather than just consuming this in RSS!) That's generated by a Wordpress Widget, which consumes an RSS feed
- [Creating Rich Internet Applications on Open Source](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/23/ajax-future) - Should you build your RIA application in Flash or Ajax? On an open source technology or with a proprietary vendor? At AjaxWorld this week, I was amazed at the number of solutions for creating Rich Internet Applications. On the Open Source front, the usual suspects (libraries, frameworks, languages and tools) were mentioned: Dojo Prototype /
- [SXSW Day Three - Open Content, Remix Culture, and the Sharing Economy ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/22/sxsw-day-three-open-content) - Last panel of Monday was "Open Content, Remix Culture and the Sharing Economy: Rights, Ownership and Getting Paid" - moderated by Eric Steuer of Creative Commons. (He's also one half of the duo Meanest Man Contest). Panelists included: Genn Otis Brown (YouTube) John Buckman (Magnatune) Laurie Racine (Eyespot, DotSUB, co-founder of Public Knowledge) Max Schorr
- [SXSW Day Three: Dan Rather](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/22/sxsw-day-three-rather) - They keynote for day three was Dan Rather, interviewed by Jane Hamsher from Fire Dog Lake (also the producer of Natural Born Killers and Permanent Midnight). The mp3 of the interview is available from the SXSW podcast page: Dan Rather Keynote Interview. Apparently the acoustics of the room were quite bad - Rather asked several
- [SXSW Day Three: Henry Jenkins, Danah Boyd](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/22/sxsw-day-three-jenkins) - So if my blog posts from Beyond Broadcast didn't make it clear, I'm a huge fan of Henry Jenkins' work. Monday's panel "Convergence Culture: A Conversation with Henry Jenkins" was simply further evidence that I'm right to be Jenkins Fanboy. (I ran into Erik after the session for lunch and told him "Henry Jenkins is
- [SXSW Day Three - Revisting Open Source Business Models](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/22/sxsw-day-three-open-source) - Monday morning started with a panel on "Revisiting Commercial Open Source Business Models." It was moderated by Edward Cavazos (Fish & Richardson PC) and panelists were: Mark Fischer (Fish & Richardson PC) Alan Shimel (StillSecure) Adina Levin (SocialText) (Who for some reason isn't listed on the SXSW page for the panel) Don Jarrell (Digital Thinking)
- [SXSW Day Two - People-Powered Products](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/22/sxsw-day-two-people-powered) - The last panel I saw on Sunday was "People-Powered Products." It was moderated by Jason Levitt (Yahoo! Developer Network) and included: Jeremy Hogan (Lulu) Matt Rubens (Jamglue) Derek Powazek (8020 publishing, which produces JPG Magazine, about which I blogged a while back) Heather Champ (Flickr community manager) Aside from the humorous bits (the bored balloon
- [SXSW Day Two - Future of JavaScript](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/22/sxsw-day-two-javascript) - Aaron Gustafson (Easy Designs) and Andrew Dupont (Prototype core team) gave a very developer focused, brief presentation on "The Future of JavaScript." It was crammed into one of the 25-minute sessions SXSW had in the afternoons (a 3:30-3:55 spot and a 4:05-4:30 spot each day) so the rapid-fire nature of it made good sense. They
- [SXSW Day Two - Learning (Web Design) From Las Vegas](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/22/sxsw-day-two-vegas) - Dan Saffer (Adaptive Path, No Ideas But in Things) presented Sunday afternoon under the title "Learning Interaction Design From Las Vegas." The slides are available from his blog. As a big fan of Venturi, Brown, and Izenour's Learning from Las Vegas, I was worried at first that the presentation would be either: Just a cute
- [BarCamp Boston 2 Videos](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/22/barcamp-boston-2-videos) - Philippe Lejeune has posted a great video collage of Boston BarCamp 2 from last weekend. Although I had planned to attend, I ended up not being able to make it - these vides give you a very good sense of the kinds of presentations, discussions, and generally technology tomfoolery that makes up a successful BarCamp.
- [SXSW Day Two - Non-Developers and Open Source Acolytes: Why Should I Care?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/21/sxsw-open-source) - One of my favorite panels of the whole SXSW experience was "Non-Developers to Open Source Acolytes: Why Should I Care?" It was moderated by Elisa Camahort (BlogHer), and panelists were: Dawn Foster (Compiere, Open Culture) Annalee Newitz (Freelance writer, co-editor of She's Such a Geek) Erica Rios (Anita Borg Institute) It was one of the
- [SXSW Day Two - Using RSS For Marketing](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/21/sxsw-rss) - Sunday morning, I start to recognize what people mean when they say the panels start too early. Looking at the schedule before coming, I couldn't understand how 10am could seem early. (AjaxWorld, where I am as I write this, has panels starting at 7:30am). The 10am panel was rather plainly titled "Using RSS for Marketing."
- [Business Case for Ajax Applications](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/20/ajaxworld07) - I presented this morning at the AjaxWorld Conference and Expo in New York. The slides are available here: Building a Business Case for Ajax Applications (odp - Open Document Presentation) Building a Business Case fo Ajax Applications (pdf - Portable Document Format) Building a Business Case for Ajax Applications (ppt - PowerPoint Format)
- [SXSW Themes](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/19/sxsw-themes) - While writing up notes on SXSW panels I attended, I've start pulling out a few key themes - I guess you'd call them my take aways from the conference. I'll come back and revisit and expand on these as I get through days 2, 3, and 4, but thought I'd start talking about them now,
- [SXSW Day One - Mapping, Where the F#*% are we now?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/19/sxsw-day-one-mapping) - OK, so by the end of day one both of my laptop batteries are dead, my own internal battery is pretty low as well, I'm crashing as the caffeine from the several lattes I've had throughout the day starts to wane, and I headed to the mapping panel: Mapping, Where the F#*% Are We? The
- [SXSW Day One - TV: The Next Generation](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/19/sxsw-day-one-future-tv) - My first joint SXSW Interactive and SXSW Film panel was on TV: The next generation. In this panel in particular, my notes get pretty loose on who was saying what. Especially since I was in a back corner of the room and couldn't always see who was saying what. But I think the gist of
- [SXSW Day One - Kathy Sierra Opening Remarks](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/19/sxsw-day-one-kathy-sierra) - Went out to lunch with Erik and two of his friends from Austin - ended up coming back too late to actually be in the room live watching Kathy Sierra's Opening Remarks. Listen to the podcast audio of the session and you'll get most of what she's talking about, though you'll have to imagine the
- [SXSW Day One - Turning Projects Into Revenue Generating Businesses](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/19/sxsw-day-one-revenue) - The Turning Projects Into Revenue Generating Businesses panel was, for me at least, the classic example of choosing what panel to see based on how interesting the panelists were, rather than the subject of the panel. I confess, I have no personal projects I'd like to turn into revenue generating businesses. I'm happy for the
- [Thanks for the notice](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/17/dst-cingular) - Thursday I got this helpful message from Cingular: This after the phone refused to get or send SMS/MMS messages in Austin for several days - probably the four or five days of the year where I most wanted to actually be able to get SMS messages. Incredibly, not only did the phone stop receiving or
- [No #sxsw irc love](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/10/sxsw-irc) - Liveblogging from sxsw this morning. Wireless connectivity seems pretty good, but the semi-official IRC channel seems to have fallen over and not gotten up. (sxsw.com/geekout says to use irc.slacker.com channel #sxsw). But there's an active channel at irc.freenode.net - c'mon in!
- [So many conferences, so little time . . . ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/08/conferences) - This weekend in Austin, TX will be SXSW, Dorkbot, and BarCamp Austin. What's a geek to do with so many options and so little time? Check out the BarCamp Austin YouTube channel - not quite the same as being there, but maybe some of the good sessions will get taped. I wish I'd arranged my
- [Manufacturing Dissent (Henry Jenkins)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/03/convergence-culture) - (Updated again: Jenkins' own notes on his presentation are here: part one and part two (Update: The recorded videos from the conference are now available). Beyond Broadcast 2007 kicked off with a keynote by Henry Jenkins, which was by turns entertaining, upsetting, and thought provoking. Much of the material was drawn from Convergence Culture in
- [I am So blogging this . . . ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/06/web20-song) - (via Coach Wei's Direct from Web 2.0) Are you blogging this? The Web 2.0 song:
- [Dr. Dobb's Journal - MyMap cross-provider API](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/05/mymaps) - The march Dr. Dobb's Journal has an article on mapping: "My Map: A Portable API for Maps" In it, Lionel Laské develops a (LGPL licensed) cross-provider API for drawing maps in web applications: MyMap is the portable API I created to display maps in a web site with either Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, or Microsoft
- [Full text feeds, WordPress 2.1](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/04/full-text-feeds) - (With feed reader caching and other variables, I can't be sure this is fixed - sorry it you get "summary" feed rather than full text - I'm working on it). I didn't notice at first, but apparently WordPress 2.1 and later no longer provides full-text feeds. (See this thread in WordPress Support). Even if you
- [Beyond Broadcast Panels](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/04/bb07-panels) - The last two sessions I was able to see at Beyond Broadcast (I had to leave at midday) were panels. The first was on "Participatory Culture," moderated by Jesse Walker from Reason magazine, with Kenny Miller from MTV, Elizabeth Osder from Yahoo!, and (via webcam) Arin Crumley from the film Four-Eyed Monsters. The second was
- [Participatory Culture, Participatory Democracy? (John Palfrey)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/04/palfrey-bb07) - The second speaker at Beyon Broadcast 2007 was John Palfrey from the Berkman Center at Harvard Law. He presented a mind map covering a set of topics, all around the question of whether participatory culture leads to participatory democracy. I'll try to reproduce some of the ideas here, but for best effect just watch the
- [Fauxpen Source?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/03/fauxpen-source) - (Updates at the end) In 2006, some of the interesting conversations at OSCON were around the relevancy of the open source definition when it came to software-as-a-service. Tim O'Reilly suggested open source licenses are obsolete, in the sense that "because their conditions are all triggered by the act of software distribution, they fail to apply
- [DCMA, KEXP, and Streaming Goodness](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/28/music-rights) - (Yes, I'm still catching up on blogging my notes from the IMA Public Media 2007 conference. Almost done. ) One of the sessions on Friday was about music rights. The panel was moderated by Bruce Warren from WXPN, and panelists included: Steve Altman, Senior Vice President, Business Affairs, CPB Neal Jackson, Vice President for Legal
- [Station Experiments in Social Media](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/01/station-experiments) - On the last full day of the IMA Public Media 2007 conference, there was a session on station experiments in social media, moderated by Jake Shaprio from Public Radio Exchange, and including: Daniel Ash from Chicago Public Radio (not this Daniel Ash) Julia Schrenkler from Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media Ken Freedman from
- [Alfresco Meetup in Boston, March 12th](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/28/alfresco-boston) - Just a quick note about an Alfresco Meetup in Boston in a couple of weeks: The Christian Science Monitor would like to invite you to attend an Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Meet-up in Boston: Time: 11am – 3pm (Lunch provided with RSVP) Place: 200 Massachusetts Ave The First Church of Christ, Scientist Boston, MA 02115
- [BarCamp Boston March 16-17](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/28/bb2) - I've written about BarCamp Boston before, but wanted to add an update. There's going to be coding contest, and the prize (thanks to Philip Greenspun) will be helicopter rides via Boston Helicopter Tours. Print out the poster and put it up at your place of employ: BarCamp Boston 2 Flyer
- [Music Discovery](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/26/music-discovery) - (So I'm a bit behind in writing up these entries. Never could get the hang of the unfiltered liveblog. The session wasn't this morning, but last Friday. Unfortunately, I'm not sure the intervening time to reflect has improved my notes). One of this morning's sessions at Public Media 2007 was on music discovery: "how has
- [Should I burn my feeds?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/23/feedburner) - There was a great session on Wednesday at the IMA Public Media 2007 conference on RSS, which included Rick Klau from FeedBurner. I've been checking them out for a while now, and trying to decide whether I should "burn" my feeds. Honestly, I'm not sure what's holding me back, but I find myself reluctant to
- [Ajax hits the terrible twos](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/20/terrible-twos) - (via Jeremy Geelan at AjaxWorld magazine) Happy Birthday, AJAX! – Two Years Old Already Yesterday marked the passing of two years since Jesse James Garrett posted online his seminal essay, 'Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications' and then went offline, on a trip. What he came back to is now a part of Web
- [Making Content (Not) Suck](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/21/suck) - Christine Perfetti, from User Interface Engineering, wants your content to suck. Her presentation at the Public Media 2007 / Integrated Media conference this morning - "Why Content Must Suck" managed to draw a full crowd, despite being at 8am. The concept, once you get passed the deliberately provocative title, is that rather than pushing users
- [Fly-On-The-Wall: NPR and Social Media](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/19/npr_social) - Last week, NPR hosted a "small group of really interesting people from the Web 2.0 universe" to talk about social media. Those interesting people included: Zadi Diaz, Jeff Jarvis, Rob Paterson, Jay Rosen, Doc Searls, Euan Semple, and David Weinberger. (In addition to David Folkenflik, Michel Martin, Andy Carvin, and others from NPR). I was
- [Jakob Nielsen on AJAX](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/07/21/jakob-nielsen-on-ajax) - Sitepoint recently published an interview with Jakob Nielsen, in which he says that AJAX is basically "irrelevant for the vast majority of business web sites" but that "The very nerdiness of the name 'AJAX' gives [him] hope that it will be used for causes more worthwhile than those now characteristic of Flash." While I agree
- [Closed by Design?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/17/closed_design) - At last year's OSCON, one of the themes was the influence of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) on other areas - broadening the definition of "open source" to include scientific research, for example, or creative works (see creative commons). The distinction between closed approaches and open approaches is clearly demonstrated by an article in
- [Want better community? Connect people around useful content](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/16/community_study) - There's an interesting study reported in the February 2007 Communications of the ACM: "Encouraging Participation in Virtual Communities" (Jack Vinson's written about it as well) The authors, Joon Koh, Young-Gul Kim, Brian Butler, and Gee-Woo Bock, conducted a field study of 77 virtual communities in Korea. The findings, while not revolutionary or completely unexpected, are
- [BarCamp Boston 2.0](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/15/barcamp-boston-20) - At the risk of turning this blog into a list of upcoming conferences, I wanted to make sure to mention BarCamp Boston 2.0 Ok, this time the 2.0 isn't just another reference to the next generation of something which now feels old fashioned - it really is the second annual BarCamp in Boston. This year
- [Will they call it APNP?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/14/apnp) - News from late last week that NowPublic, a Vancouver BC based participatory news network, has partnered with the Associated Press, which calls itself "the essential global news network." You can read the press release from the AP, or track reactions to the story at NowPublic. While the releases so far have been rather light on
- [Public Media and Beyond Broadcast (Conferences)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/13/public-media-and-beyond-broadcast-conferences) - I'm looking forward to attending two conferences coming up toward the end of February in the Boston area. The first is the Public Media 2007 conference, from February 20th to 24th, at the Marriott Copley Place. Optaros is an event sponsor and Seth will be participating in a pre-conference panel (Choosing CMS Solutions) on the
- [Want Buzz? Be Interesting (and don't put up barriers to conversation)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/12/buzz) - A few weeks ago, at the AlwaysOn Media conference in New York, there was a panel titled "Can Brands Get Away with 'Buzz Marketing' in the Blogosphere" - it was moderated by Jeff Jarvis (BuzzMachine), and included Rick Murray (Womma, me2revolution, Edelman), Gordon Gould (ThisNext), Barry Reicherter (Porter Novelli), and David Weinberger (Joho the Blog).
- [Social Bookmarking on the Corporate Intranet](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/09/scuttle_drupal) - I've been looking recently at a number of different approaches to social bookmarking in an intranet context. There are a number of open source projects in the space, most notably scuttle (PHP), Connotea (Perl), and MarkaBoo (Ruby-on-Rails) (see a much more complete list at 3Spots). In addition, there's an interesting project underway at MITRE called
- [Jobs on DRM: Why wait for the major labels?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/07/jobs) - There's been a ton of posts already on Steve Job's open letter about DRM. At the risk of adding one more, I wanted to echo a significant point that seems to be getting lost in the celebration: what's holding back Apple from acting on their beliefs? It's great to see Jobs, and Apple, coming out
- [Tips for ASPs](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/07/tips-for-asps) - One of my Optaros colleagues in Austin, Erik Smartt, recently posted 8 "Tips for ASPs." He's put together a great list which should be required reading for any application service provider. It's amazing to me how many managed service providers and large software companies make it terribly difficult to engage with them. I'd add these
- [I'm from Corporate IT, and I'm here to help you innovate](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/05/center_edge) - Dennis McDonald, in "Needed: Enterprise Strategies for Innovation, Content Management, and Social Media Infrastructure," argues for situating social media as part of your Enterprise infrastructure: The more I think about how processes like innovation management can stretch across and into all aspects of an organization, the more it reinforce my strong belief that social networking
- [Web 2.0 Panel at Davos](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/04/davos) - A webcast is available of this panel from the World Economic Forum: "The Impact of Web 2.0 and Emerging Social Network Models" The panel, moderated by Peter Schwartz, Chairman, Global Business Network, USA, includes: Caterina Fake, Founder, Flickr, USA William H. Gates III, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation, USA Chad Hurley, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, YouTube,
- [This is your brain. This is your brain on Web 2.0. ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/04/right_brain) - John Newton, reflecting on the "Geek's Dinner" held during the World Economic Forum in Davos, describes a kind of epiphany he had regarding Web 2.0: When you think about the touchstones of Web 2.0 like Google Maps, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace and Second Life, it all falls into place. When the last generation says that there
- [ODF Converter available for MS Word](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/03/odf_converter) - Version 1.0 of the ODF translator for Word has been released. 32-Bit Windows only (NT, 2000, XP) Per the announcement on the project's SourceForge page: It has been tested over Word XP, Word 2003 and Word 2007 in five different languages (English, Dutch, French, German and Polish) . . . We'are also planning to work
- [Better Security Through Open Source](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/02/security_foss) - The January 2007 Communications of the ACM had an article by Jaap-Henk Hoepman and Bart Jacobs: "Increased Security Through Open Source." (PDF or PostScript). The authors argue that: . . . using open source software is a necessary requirement to build systems that are more secure. Our main argument is that opening the source allows
- [PEW Redesign, and publication on tagging](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/01/pew_tagging) - I've blogged before about the PEW Internet and American Life project - it's a fantastic resource, and anyone interested in the future of the web in the U.S. (which means anyone concerned about the future of the U.S.) ought to subscribe to their reports and publications. The Pew Research Center, which is the parent organization
- [Slimdevices: Open Source Streaming Audio](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/02/01/slim_devices) - A number of years ago I came across a device called a Squeezebox, made by a company called Slim Devices. The first-generation model, which I bought, is pictured at the left. (There was also device called a Slimp3 which preceeded the Squeezebox). The device sits with your stereo, connects to a wireless network (802.11b in
- [The Hype is Real: Social Media invade the Inc. 500](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/01/31/umass_inc_500) - The folks at the UMass Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research have released results of a study involving a telephone survey of companies in the Inc. 500 for 2006. They got 121 participants, including "4 of the top 10, 7 of the top 25, and 22 of the top 100 companies" in the list. Their conclusion?:
- [Is User Generated Video a Commodity?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/01/29/commodity) - I've been looking over the last few months at vendors and platforms in the user contributed video space. It's become, especially since the infamous Google acquisition of YouTube, a rather crowded category, with a number of vendors vying for your uploads. (Ever since "You" were named Person of the Year everyone wants your content). It
- [digital.life](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/01/28/digitallife) - The folks at the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) have been publishing a series of reports about the internet since 1997. The latest, from December 2006, is called digital.life. As they describe it: . . . the 8th in the series of ITU Internet Reports, entitled digital.life, begins by examining the underlying technologies for new digital
- [Is Apollo the future or RIAs?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/01/27/apollo) - Mike Chambers recently posted an updated Apollo presentation on his blog. If you're not familiar with Apollo, it is a cross-platform (purportedly Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux) application which will run applications developed using HTML & Ajax as well as Flex/Flash applications: a rich internet application container of sorts. It'll also understand the PDF
- [You got your REST in my SOA](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/01/24/rest-soa) - There's a great article by Steve Vinoski in the Jan/Feb 2007 Internet Computing on the difference(s) between SOA and REST as architectural concepts and approaches titled "REST Eye for the SOA Guy." In the intro, he writes: I’m torn in the Representational State Transfer (REST) and SOA debate — REST is extremely appealing, but my
- [Blogs, Wikis, and BI (oh my)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/01/23/ems) - Good article from the CIO of Eastern Mountain Sports, Jeffrey Neville, about how they are leveraging what he calls "Web 2.0" applications to improve collaboration and decision making in a retail environment: Adventures in X-Treme Web 2.0 (It's been published on a number of different CMP properties - the link above is to Dr. Dobb's
- [BBC's Fifteen Web Principles](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/01/18/bbc) - Via CM Professionals mailing list, I came across the BBC's Fifteen Web Principles. They were developed as part of the BBC 2.0 project, and (maybe only because 2.0 was already in the title of the project?) they avoided calling them the BBC's Fifteen Web 2.0 principles. You should visit Tomski's site to read the whole
- [Microsoft Linux: Insidious Tight Coupling](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/01/15/insidious) - When I first saw the February 2007 Dr. Dobb's Journal, I actually thought that the "Insidious Tight Coupling" cover blurb at the bottom, in white, referred to the Microsoft Linux article. It isn't - as the "insidious tight coupling" article makes clear, the author is referring to "the situation where one module depends on another
- [90% of Everything is Crud](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/01/10/ninety) - Although there is some disagreement about whether the final word should be "crap," Sturgeon's Revelation says that "Ninety percent of everything is crud." In context, Sturgeon was defending science fiction against the claims of highbrow critics - by demonstrating the obvious but often overlooked fact that simply showing bad examples of a given genre does
- [Collective Intelligence, Inpsired Design](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/01/08/inspired_design) - In "The 'Dumbness of Crowds,'" Kathy Sierra points out that the notion of the Wisdom of Crowds has been poorly understood, especially as it concerns creative endeavors. She draws a distinction between "Collective Intelligence" properly controlled and leverage and "The Dumbness of Crowds": "Collective intelligence" is a pile of people writing Amazon book reviews. "Dumbness
- [Microsoft RSS](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/12/30/microsoft-rss) - What's really behind Microsoft's patent applications related to RSS? Initial reports that Microsoft was trying to "patent RSS" turn out to be at best over-simplified. At issue isn't RSS itself, or an RSS reader, or feed publisher. What's at issue is the way that RSS is handled in Vista, and in the combination of IE7
- [This isn't what I meant by social software](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/12/29/this-isnt-what-i-meant-by-social-software) - There's an Internet Explorer plug-in from the folks at Weezu. It's an interesting idea - trying to bring "social" activity to what is otherwise typically a solitary activity - using the web. I think it's ultimately unsuccessful, for a few reasons I discuss below, but it will be interesting to see what other approaches might
- [Is it still sharing if it stops working three days later?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/09/20/is-it-still-sharing-if-it-stops-working-three-days-later) - -UPDATE- According to this post today on ArsTechnica, Zune doesn't actually change the shared file: Trusted sources tell us that Zune's wireless sharing feature, which requires Zune's DRM to function, will only monitor the presence of shared songs for the purposes of controlling playback. Files themselves will not be modified, either on the player or
- [Random Kubuntu / KDE tip: Device Names on Dekstop](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/08/09/random-kubuntu-kde-tip-device-names-on-dekstop) - Having recently installed Kubuntu, I'm reacquainting myself with KDE. Configuring your desktop (right click on the desktop and choose "Configure Desktop ... " or go to the K-Menu -> System Settings -> Desktop) gives you the option (in the behavior pane, under the Device Icons tab) to show device icons for various kinds of devices,
- [Do You Ubuntu?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/08/07/do-you-ubuntu) - After reading a number of stories about Mac users switching to Ubuntu (Mark Pilgrim, Cory Doctorow, Bryan Lund and Chris Fisher), running into my cousin (Micah Anderson - he's the one on the left) at my sister's wedding, and being overwhelmed at the sheer volume of Ubuntu stickers, splash screens, and swag at Oscon 2006
- [BarCamp Boston - How Technology is Changing the Music Industry](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/06/04/barcamp-boston-how-technology-is-changing-the-music-industry) - This morning the first session I sat in on was on "How Technology is Changing the Music Industry," which was organized by Nate Aune from BostonJazz.net, Jazkarta, and Plone4Artists, and Mike Champion and Gary Elliott from Tourbus. It was in the Monster Lab's BigBrain, which turned out to be rather small. BostonJazz.net's goal is to
- [Flash Player development on Linux](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/05/31/flash-player-development-on-linux) - Penguin.SWF is a new blog at Adobe which claims to track "development status and issues regarding the Linux version of Adobe's Flash Player" (according to the masthead). Mike Melanson, the blog's author, says he "may" ask for input on issues. I'm hoping that means development of a Flash player for Linux is actually occuring, to
- [Can Google OneBox put the Joy back in Enterprise Applications?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/06/28/can-google-onebox-put-the-joy-back-in-enterprise-applications) - (August 24 2006) Update: Podcasts are now available of the sessions from the symposium. Last week Dave Girouard from Google Enterprise Services spoke at the 2006 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. His talk was entitled "Arming the Innovators: How Consumers have changed the game for IT." His basic argument: Consumer technology is driving innovation today -
- [Lost your cellphone charger? Ask at the front desk](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/07/03/lost-your-cellphone-charger-ask-at-the-front-desk) - So last Wednesday night, while I was travelling on business, I realized that my cell phone battery was dying, and I wouldn't be home until Friday. Unfortunately, I'd left my charger (normally packed in my laptop bag) plugged in to my desk at work. On a whim, I decided to try the front desk, to
- [Legal Weak?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/12/21/legal-weak) - Sorry for the pun in the title - I couldn't resist. Earlier this week I came across an article from the UK-based site (and magazine?) Legal Week about legal issues and open source software: "Law In Business: Open Source of Confusion." Yikes - it's almost 2007, and the legal profession is still spreading FUD about
- [Open Source Year in Review (Webinar)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/12/20/open-source-year-in-review-webinar) - My colleague Dave Gynn recently hosted an Optaros webinar on "Ten Events and Trends That Shaped Open Source in 2006." I should really have posted the link to it before the event rather than after it, but better late than never. You can download just the slides, or the whole webex recording with audio and
- [The Person of the Year is Who?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/12/18/the-person-of-the-year-is-who) - As you've probably already heard, you've won Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2006. Well, not you specifically, but "You," the abstract third-second-person plural pronoun. (Perhaps really it should be Y'all who were awarded People of the Year, but I don't think their editors would allow that. Dan Gillmor at the Center for Citizen
- [What is it you do, again?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/11/29/what-is-it-you-do-again) - I'm often asked to give a brief definition of Next Generation Internet, since it is in my job title. Unfortunately, that can be a bit challenging, because it's really a combination of a number of different fundamental changes all occuring in parallel: The architecture of participation, and the increased user expectations it is driving, The
- [Making Edgy Eft less Edgy](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/11/28/making-edgy-eft-less-edgy) - Ever since I upgraded my (K)ubuntu install from Dapper Drake (6.06) to Edgy Eft (6.10) I've had a few rough edges. This morning I finally sorted them out. The first was related to my Dell Lattitude D810's touchpad - an Alps Glide touchpad. Ever since the upgrade it has been fundamentally unusable, moving the cursor
- [AjaxWorld Expo](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/11/21/ajaxworld-expo) - Ajax World Conference and Expo Theme: Rich Internet Applications Begins: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 at 8:00 AM Ends: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 at 5:00 PM Location: Roosevelt Hotel New York, NY 10017 USA Registration fee: $1695 Last date for registration: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 Last date for paper submission: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 Speaker: John Eckman Link: AjaxWorld Expo Experience AJAX, RIA, and Web 2.0 Knowledge and Best Practices at AJAXWorld Conference and Expo 2007 In March 19-21, 2007 over 1,000 developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of every stripe will be converging in New York City to attend the East coast AJAXWorld Conference & Expo -- the most comprehensive meeting on the most significant technology subjects of recent times: AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, and Web 2.0. Delegates will hear first-hand from the creators, innovators, leaders and early adopters of AJAX, and a slew of leading vendors will provide sneak-peeks of the very latest frameworks, tools, products and applications during the conference, which will have over 100 sessions and presentations given by 125 different speakers - the largest AJAX-focused speaker faculty ever assembled in one place at one time. Conference & Expo 2007 East will be jump-started with a full one-day "AJAX University Boot Camp," personally led by Web 2.0 and AJAX guru Dion Hinchcliffe, followed by the Main Conference and Expo over the following 2 days. Topics include: Enterprise AJAX | Mobile AJAX | AJAX with Java Toolkits/Frameworks: TIBCO GI | JackBe | Spry | Client-Side: ( Dojo | Script.aculo.us | Prototype | Open Rico | Yahoo! UI Toolkit | Google Web Toolkit ) Server-Side: ( DWR | JSON-RPC | SAJAX | Ruby on Rails | Backbase | ThinWire ) Extending AJAX (Flash | Flex | Laszlo | Atlas | XUL) Real-World AJAX and Web 2.0: Case Studies Lesser AJAX, Greater AJAX Microsoft Atlas for ASP.NET AJAX, Web Services and SOAs Security in the AJAX/Web 2.0 Era How Java, AJAX, and Web 2.0 Work Together AJAX Offline (LAJAX) The Present and Future of JavaScript The State of the DOM Integrating CSS Into AJAX/Web 2.0 Apps Comprehensive XMLHttpRequestObject A Venture Capitalist View of Web 2.0 AJAX and Comet AJAX and the Browser Mashing AJAX
- [Enterprise Blogs Could Be Sweet, Too](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/11/21/enterprise-blogs-could-be-sweet-too) - Interesting exchange last week about Intel's new SuiteTwo product, announced at the Web 2.0 summit, which is an appliance (hardware) bundled with solutions from: SixApart's Movable Type (blog) SocialText (wiki) NewsGator (rss feed management) SimpleFeed (rss publishing) SpikeSource (integration, support) Josh Bancroft, an Intel employee, and self-described "Technology Evangelist and Geek Blogger," was fairly critical
- [Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of Web 2.0?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/10/25/are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-a-member-of-web-20) - Wow. It's been a crazy couple of days in the Blogosphere. It all began innocently enough, with a post on Lawrence Lessig's blog: The Ethics of Web 2.0: YouTube vs. Flickr, Revver, Eyespot, blip.tv, and even Google, in which he tried to make a distinction between "fake sharing" and "true sharing." The basic concept was
- [Who owns (y)our data?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/11/17/who-owns-your-data) - The panel I most wish I had been at the Web 2.0 Summit to see is the one on Open Data (see "Web 2.0 Confab Takes Aim at Closed Platforms" and "Google CEO Eric Schmidt: We Would Never Trap User Data"). In Marc Hedlund's summary: Whenever people talk about the new wave of web applications
- [One Sitemap Protocol to Bind Them All](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/11/16/one-sitemap-protocol-to-bind-them-all) - (Via Techrcunch) Google, MSN Microsoft Live Search, and Yahoo have all agreed to use the same sitemap protocol: In an encouraging act of collaboration, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced tonight that they will all begin using the same Sitemaps protocol to index sites around the web. Now based at Sitemaps.org, the system instructs web masters
- [Old Media, meet New Media: Dan Rather to Keynote SXSW Interactive](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/11/14/old-media-meet-new-media-dan-rather-to-keynote-sxsw-interactive) - SXSWorld, "the official magazine of the south by southwest conferences & festivals," which is not apparently available online anywhere, but gets mailed to people registered for the conference, has an interview with Dan Rather conducted by Amanda Congdon (formerly of Rocketboom, now of Amanda Across America). The interview outlines Rather's accomplishments (coverage of Hurricane Katrina,
- [Your Employees Are Consumers Too: Enterprise IT and Consumer Applications](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/11/13/your-employees-are-consumers-too-enterprise-it-and-consumer-applications) - Ben Worthen at CIO magazine has been blogging about "consumer applications" in enterprise settings since at least last spring (see "I'm violating our corporate email policy . . . and I love it!" for an early example). Now in the October 15th print edition, his colleague Susannah Patton has put together an examination of a
- [Quality online is a lot like quality offline](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/11/12/quality-online-is-a-lot-like-quality-offline) - The Fall 2006 issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review includes an article titled "How Do Customers Judge Quality in an E-tailer?" (online full-text PDF is free to subscribers, otherwise $6.50). When I read that the focus of the article was to answer the question "What are the specific aspects of an online transaction that
- [How do I gouge thee? Let me count the ways . . . ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/11/11/how-do-i-gouge-thee-let-me-count-the-ways) - (Yes, I'm still catching up on my reading - I find I can get through about 15 magazines in a 2hr flight just skimming and pulling out what looks worthwhile). There's a nicely provocative one-pager in the December Dr. Dobb's Journal: "Five Ways Vendors Gouge Customers on Integration." In it, Ross Mason (from the Mule
- ["Under Construction" is sooo Web 1.0](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/11/09/under-construction-is-sooo-web-10) - While traveling yesterday I finally caught up with the stack of industry magazines I've been carrying around for the last few weeks. (I find I still prefer to skim through the trade pubs in actual printed editions - if I find something interesting I just rip out the title page, knowing I can always find
- [Walmart.com on open source](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/10/26/walmartcom-on-open-source) - Matt Assay (Walmart.com runs open source) points to a Yahoo News article on Wal-Mart's recently launched redesign with features built on top of the Open Laszlo platform. There's a tour of the new features or you can go directly to Toyland and start creating your wishlist by voting yes or no on the toys. Some
- [When is 2.0 > 7.0?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/10/24/when-is-20-70) - In case you've been hiding under a rock, there have been a couple of major releases last week and this week in the web browser world. Internet Explorer 7.0 was officially released last week, for Windows XP (and Windows Server 2003). (Finally, tabbed browsing and RSS feeds awareness . . . ). Today Firefox 2.0
- [Malcontents, Episode One: Web 2.0 and your CM Strategy](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/09/20/malcontents-episode-one-web-20-and-your-cm-strategy) - Updated 10/24/06 Thanks to Seth Gottlieb and Bryant Shea (not Shea Bryant), I participated in the first episode of the new CM Professionals podcast, Malcontents. The other guest was Riccardo La Rosa, who is at Molecular with Bryant. The topic was essentially Web 2.0, and what impact it has (or should have) on your enterprise
- [Open Source Content Management Webinar (Microformat)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/09/19/open-source-content-management-webinar-microformat) - Open Source Content Management Webinar Begins: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 at 1:00 PM Ends: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 at 2:00 PM Location: Link: Interactive Webinar: Ask the Experts Your Questions About Open Source Content Management Update 10/24/06 - The audio from the event is available on the Optaros site or at this direct link (MP3, 14.5MB). (Sorry for duplicate postings - I'm testing Microformats using the Structured Blogging plugin for WordPress. This post contains an Event notice microformat). The latest trends in Internet technologies and the rise of the knowledge worker have put pressure on the enterprise to be more responsive and deliver more usable technologies for collaboration and improved efficiency. To meet these challenges and capitalize on new opportunities for growth, content management technologies must be agile and innovative. Flexible and typically lower in cost, open source content management technologies have the potential to quickly deliver targeted solutions that answer immediate needs and can evolve to the changing demands of the enterprise. At the same time, many new questions need to be answered when considering open source content management solutions. Join leaders in the open source content management space from Optaros, Alfresco, and ZEA Partners as they offer multiple perspectives to address such questions in a panel discussion. Audience participation is encouraged by submitting questions for discussion prior to and during the event. Panelists include: Seth Gottlieb, Content Management Practice Lead, Optaros Matt Asay, Vice President of Business Development, Alfresco John Eckman, Next Generation Internet Practice Lead, Optaros Paul Everitt, ZEA Partners Tags: Open Source Content Management
- [Flash 9 (Beta) for Linux](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/10/23/flash-9-beta-for-linux) - The Adobe Flash 9 team has released a beta of the Flash plug-in for Linux! Read the announcement on the Penguin.SWF blog or the release notes, or download it from here. (Make sure what you're downloading is the beta update - if you go off on the path to download released versions you'll end up
- [Kom In I Garderoben](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/10/14/kom-in-i-garderoben) - Sites like these make me wish I spoke Swedish. Two excellent examples of how rich internet applications (in this case Flash based) can revolutionize the shopping/merchandising experience on the web. Both are from Ikea, and not available (so far as I can tell) in English. (Not that their regular e-commerce site in the US isn't
- [Schadenfreude 2.0](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/10/11/schadenfreude-20) - The blogosphere has been exhibiting a bit of Schadenfreude 2.0 over the demise of WalMart's "The Hub" site, which until recently was found here. At SearchViews, the epitaph was: "Launched as part of a back-to-school promo, the entire project is an embarrassment – and an excellent example of How Not To Build A Social Network."
- [Business Value of Interaction? - The more the better](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/10/11/business-value-of-interaction-the-more-the-better) - This post on the Enterprise Web 2.0 Blog - "Where is the Business Value in Enterprise 2.0?" is a very interesting exposition of an article in the McKinsey Quarterly, "Competitive advantage from better interactions." (registration is required to read the McKinsey Quarterly). The authors (of the article, that is, not the blog post - both
- [The beating heart of the internet? Social connections](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/10/09/the-beating-heart-of-the-internet-social-connections) - I've long been a big fan of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, if "fan" is the right word to use for an independent, non-profit research organization. I'm always eager to see a new Pew report or presentation released. Last week they published "Riding the Waves of 'Web 2.0'" which "provides a short history
- [Creating influence in the next generation Internet](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/10/09/creating-influence-in-the-next-generation-internet) - I just came across this post on TechCrunch today. It's quite smart, though I think they mis-titled it ("Use Case: How Companies Can Use Photosharing Correctly"). It isn't about photosharing at all, but about how Nikon basically leveraged Flickr to locate a certain number of photographers it felt were talented, sent them some new products,
- [From "View Source" to Open Source](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/10/06/from-view-source-to-open-source) - If I may be so bold as to self-promote for a moment, an article I wrote appeared this month in AjaxWorld Magazine: "From 'View Source' to Open Source." The basic point of the article is that the increasing leverage of formal, explicitly licensed Ajax libraries and frameworks represents a fundamental evolution from the old "view
- [Next Generation E-Commerce](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/10/05/next-generation-e-commerce) - Excellent article by Simeon Simeonov at Web 2.0 journal on the relatively quiet revolution going on in e-commerce. "E-Commerce 2.0" – The Velvet Revolution — With all the noise the Web 2.0 revolutionaries are making, it's easy to ignore another - this time velvet - revolution: 'E-commerce 2.0' is coming into maturity and getting ready
- [RSS For the Enterprise, Free (as in beer)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/09/25/rss-for-the-enterprise-free-as-in-beer) - The folks at Attensa have released Attensa for Outlook 2.0 for free (as in no cost). Go here to download - you will have to provide an email address. Requirements: Windows 2000 (most recent service pack) Outlook 2000 (most recent service pack) 667 Mhz CPU 20Mb free disk space 256 Mb RAM Windows Media Player
- [Open Source Frameworks Dominate Ajax](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/09/25/open-source-frameworks-dominate-ajax) - The folks at Ajaxian just published the results of their second annual survey of Ajax developers. A number of interesting tidbits - first, the sheer dominance of Prototype, Scriptaculous, Dojo, and DWR as frameworks (after that you start to move into the long tail): From this, at least, it appears few folks are leveraging the
- [Gartner Open Source Summit](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/09/22/gartner-open-source-summit) - Gartner Open Source Summit Theme: Understanding the True Costs, Optimizing the Rewards Begins: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 at 11:00 AM Ends: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 at 12:15 PM Location: JW Marriott Desert Ridge Hotel Phoenix, AZ United States Registration fee: US $1595 Last date for registration: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 Last date for paper submission: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 Link: Gartner Open Source Summit Next week I will be at the Gartner Open Source Summit in Phoenix. Looking forward to their predictions about the size of the Open Source IT Services market, and Optaros' place within it. Optaros is a sponsor and will have a booth - stop by and say hello!. "By 2010, most IT organizations will have formal Open Source management and acquisition strategies" Mark Driver, Open Source Summit Chair. Will you be ready? As this new software model merges into more everyday applications, the second Gartner Open Source Summit is an opportunity to fully explore the challenges of adopting it - as well as a chance to meet the vendors at the forefront of the movement. Open source is, and will continue to be, at the head of a sea-change in the world of information technology. With some 50% of IT personnel calling themselves "beginners" when it comes to open source, the Summit offers a rare chance to go from "zero to 60" in critical Open Source IT know-how. Attend the Summit and position yourself as a leader as you examine how to deliver the benefits of Open Source technology to your organization.
- [Open Source Content Management Webinar ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/09/19/open-source-content-management-webinar) - Next week I'll be participating in an interactive, panel discussion webinar sponsored by Optaros: "Ask the Experts Your Questions About Open Source Content Management Solutions." It's Tuesday, Sept. 19th, 1PM Eastern Daylight Time (GMT - 04:00). Seth Gottlieb, who is organizing the panel and blogged about it here, lays out an interesting agenda: We are
- [With friends like these, who needs marketing?](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/09/18/with-friends-like-these-who-needs-marketing) - Social networking and user-contributed content sites are increasingly forming partnerships with traditional media companies, as the media companies try to retain their place in the attention-economy. One recent (and significant, in terms of size and who the players are) example of this is the black carpet service from MySpace. By adding "Black Carpet Screenings" as
- [SD Expo Best Practices Round table](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/09/15/sd-expo-best-practices-round-table) - Earlier this week, I participated in a round table at the Software Development Best Practices Expo. Surprisingly (to me anyway) it was the only section specifically talking about Open Source. In addition to Andy Oram from O'Reilly, who was the organizer/moderator, the other participants were: Leon Shiman (of Shiman Associates and X.org Foundation) Gregor Rothfuss
- [Alfresco 1.4, Podcast, Commoditization of ECM](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/09/11/alfresco-14-podcast-commoditization-of-ecm) - A number of interesting things in the Open Source ECM arena over the last week or so.John Newton, the Co-Founder and CTO of Alfresco, posted this excellent blog entry on the commoditization of ECM and the thinking behind Alfresco's strategic direction. In the post, he argues that "the scene is set for real standardization in
- [Open Source and the Long Tail](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/09/05/open-source-and-the-long-tail) - I've been thinking recently about open source software and the notion of the long tail. (See Chris Anderson's blog, book, and Wired article for the canonical description of the whole "Long Tail" meme). One way to approach open source and the long tail is to focus on the sheer volume of available open source projects:
- [Over 70% of statistics are made up on the spot](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/09/03/over-70-of-statistics-are-made-up-on-the-spot) - If you've ever read an article about project management, software lifecycle management, or any "new methodology" for developing software, you've undoubtedly come across the infamous Standish Group CHAOS Report. (The original 1994 version is available in HTML or PDF directly from the Standish Group). A column in the August Communications of the ACM ("The Standish
- [Rockbox: Open Data for your iPod](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/08/31/rockbox-open-data-for-your-ipod) - For the last year or so, I've been trying out various different methods for working with my iPod nano without relying on iTunes. (iTunes is slow and bloated, at least running under Windows, doesn't run on Linux, and relies on proprietary DRM so it makes it very difficult for me to move music files between
- [Open Laszlo - Beer, Pizza and Ajax](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/06/12/open-laszlo-create-applications-targeting-flash-player-or-ajax-from-one-codebase) - Update 6/13/06 - PTW (who commented below) also posted photos from the event on flickr. Last week, the folks from OpenLaszlo / Laszlo Systems presented at a "Beer, Pizza, and Ajax" event here in Boston in the Optaros space (where I work). David Temkin, the founder and CTO, did most of the presentation, joined by
- [AJAX, Open Source, and Business Models](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/06/13/ajax-open-source-and-business-models) - Had I but world enough and time . . . I would do an audio mashup of these two conversations. That is, assuming I couldn't warp space and time and cause the two discussions to have occured together in the first place. The first audio source would be this panel from the recent Usenix conference
- [Adobe Flex Demo at BostonPHP](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/06/02/adobe-flex-demo-at-bostonphp) - Last night, Mike Potter (from Adobe's developer relations group) presented to BostonPHP. The podcast version is now available from the BostonPHP homepage or this direct link. Most, if not all, of the demos Potter gave are on his site as well. He showed a number of intriguing things, including: Flex 2 SDK, FlexBuilder, Flex Data
- [RSS Feeds Get More Action](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/06/07/rss-feeds-get-more-action) - Marshall Kirkpatrick » RSS yields most action: Geffen Records to leverage FeedBurner Good analysis of how Geffen is leveraging FeedBurner feeds on their site, offering end consumers a better way of staying up to date on their favorite artists than the old "newsletter" email approach. Not only do these RSS feeds avoid the spam-filter problem
- [Boston BarCamp - Consuming Amazon's Web API Directly with Javascript (via JSON and XSLT)](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/06/05/boston-barcamp-consuming-amazons-web-api-directly-with-javascript-via-json-and-xslt) - This was actually a session I attended at BarCamp - in fact it was presented on my laptop. ;) However, Alan Taylor already had the guts of the session put together as a blog post, so rather than try to reconstruct my notes, I'll just link to the original. Good clear overview of how to
- [Boston BarCamp - Hey Lets Go!](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/06/04/boston-barcamp-hey-lets-go) - The second session I attended was titled: Hey Let's Go: Building a social networking site using Web2.0 technologies HeyLetsGo is a site, currently focused on Boston, that pulls together social networking and events: you can see what your frieds are going to (or saying they are going to), and talk about where you are going
- [Boston Bar Camp - Startup 2.0](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/06/04/boston-bar-camp-startup-20) - The Startup 2.0 Panel was Saturday at 2pm. The moderator was Ryan Sarver. Participating were (left to right in the photo): Dave Beisel from Masthead Venture Partners in Cambridge - focused on Digital Media, Web 2.0 space. Nick Beim from Matrix Partners, Waltham. Two areas of focus - online services, software. (Ladders.com) . Most fertile
- [BarCamp Boston](https://www.openparenthesis.org/2006/05/30/barcamp-boston) - BarCampBoston is coming up this weekend (June 3-4th). It'll be held at the Moster campus in Maynard MA. Download the Poster, print it, and plaster your cube walls with it. I've decided to use the occasion to force myself to stop playing with the design of Open Parenthesis and start blogging. Of course, this doesn't

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- [new media](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/new-media)
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- [paywall](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/paywall)
- [hyperlocal](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/hyperlocal)
- [journalism](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/journalism)
- [NY Times](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/ny-times)
- [newspapers](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/newspapers)
- [desktop client](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/desktop-client)
- [Times Reader](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/times-reader)
- [ux](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/ux)
- [Wall Street Journal](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/wall-street-journal)
- [WSJ](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/wsj)
- [Gawker](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/gawker)
- [micro-payments](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/micro-payments)
- [micropayments](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/micropayments)
- [paid content](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/paid-content)
- [revenue](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/revenue)
- [premium](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/premium)
- [Times Wire](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/times-wire)
- [Experiment](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/experiment)
- [Code](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/code)
- [Paste Magazine](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/paste-magazine)
- [Save Paste](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/save-paste)
- [donations](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/donations)
- [mbcircus mediabistro anildash copress graduate audience build content publishing](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/mbcircus-mediabistro-anildash-copress-graduate-audience-build-content-publishing)
- [career journalism](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/career-journalism)
- [Jeff Howe](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/jeff-howe)
- [MediaBistro Circus](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/mediabistro-circus)
- [value](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/value)
- [cost](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/cost)
- [99designs](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/99designs)
- [crowdspring](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/crowdspring)
- [No!Spec](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/nospec)
- [AIGA](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/aiga)
- [Cavaliers](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/cavaliers)
- [King Charles Cavaliers](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/king-charles-cavaliers)
- [Brands](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/brands)
- [Marketing Profs](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/marketing-profs)
- [Basketball](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/basketball)
- [Dogs](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/dogs)
- [open video](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/open-video)
- [biella](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/biella)
- [DeCSS](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/decss)
- [DVD Jon](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/dvd-jon)
- [coverville](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/coverville)
- [pay](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/pay)
- [freemium](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/freemium)
- [niche](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/niche)
- [sears](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/sears)
- [kmart](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/kmart)
- [commerce](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/commerce)
- [experience](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/experience)
- [portable identity](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/portable-identity)
- [Knight Foundation](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/knight-foundation)
- [EveryBlock](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/everyblock)
- [VillageSoup](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/villagesoup)
- [Grants](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/grants)
- [Hyper-local](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/hyper-local)
- [SlideShare](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/slideshare)
- [sxswi](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/sxswi)
- [interactive](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/interactive)
- [ixd](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/ixd)
- [monetize](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/monetize)
- [social sotware](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/social-sotware)
- [Altimeter Group](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/altimeter-group)
- [Engagement](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/engagement)
- [Consumers](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/consumers)
- [Financial Performance](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/financial-performance)
- [ROI](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/roi)
- [useful](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/useful)
- [attention economy](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/attention-economy)
- [interesting](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/interesting)
- [content-centric](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/content-centric)
- [Whole Foods](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/whole-foods)
- [Charmin](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/charmin)
- [Sit or Squat](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/sit-or-squat)
- [status net](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/status-net)
- [twitter tools](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/twitter-tools)
- [statusnet](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/statusnet)
- [OMMAGlobal](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/ommaglobal)
- [Mad Avenue Blues](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/mad-avenue-blues)
- [Terence Kawaja](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/terence-kawaja)
- [New York City](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/new-york-city)
- [Madison Avenue](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/madison-avenue)
- [Manifesto](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/manifesto)
- [Assembly](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/assembly)
- [Principles](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/principles)
- [Definition](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/definition)
- [OMMA](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/omma)
- [Innoation](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/innoation)
- [Distribution](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/distribution)
- [Ubiquity](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/ubiquity)
- [Revolt](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/revolt)
- [Metaphor](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/metaphor)
- [Fun](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/fun)
- [Control](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/control)
- [Squidoo](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/squidoo)
- [Brands in Public](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/brands-in-public)
- [Seth Godin](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/seth-godin)
- [Meghan Keane](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/meghan-keane)
- [Spezify](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/spezify)
- [GetSatisfaction](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/getsatisfaction)
- [Crowdsource](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/crowdsource)
- [Influence](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/influence)
- [Identi.ca](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/identi-ca)
- [Laconi.ca](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/laconi-ca)
- [Twit.tv](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/twit-tv)
- [status updates](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/status-updates)
- [cross post](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/cross-post)
- [Ford](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/ford)
- [Sidewiki](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/sidewiki)
- [Brand Control](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/brand-control)
- [Free](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/free)
- [Amanda Palmer](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/amanda-palmer)
- [Money](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/money)
- [Performer](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/performer)
- [PodCamp](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/podcamp)
- [Inbound Marketing Summit](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/inbound-marketing-summit)
- [syndication](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/syndication)
- [syndicated interactivity](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/syndicated-interactivity)
- [application syndication](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/application-syndication)
- [digital footprint](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/digital-footprint)
- [inc. technology](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/inc-technology)
- [ims09](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/ims09)
- [ProjectVRM](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/projectvrm)
- [inbound marketing](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/inbound-marketing)
- [outbound](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/outbound)
- [VideoWTF](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/videowtf)
- [Participatory Culture Foundation](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/participatory-culture-foundation)
- [Paul Gillin](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/paul-gillin)
- [IMS](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/ims)
- [WordCamp](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/wordcamp)
- [wcnyc](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/wcnyc)
- [wcb2010](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/wcb2010)
- [New York](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/new-york)
- [nyc](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/nyc)
- [storytlr](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/storytlr)
- [sweetcron](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/sweetcron)
- [friend feed](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/friend-feed)
- [Comcast](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/comcast)
- [XFinity](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/xfinity)
- [TV Everywhere](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/tv-everywhere)
- [On-Demand](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/on-demand)
- [VOD](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/vod)
- [Hulu](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/hulu)
- [Scott Berkun](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/scott-berkun)
- [Confessions of a Public Speaker](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/confessions-of-a-public-speaker)
- [Talks](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/talks)
- [Conferences](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/conferences)
- [WordCamp Boston](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/wordcamp-boston)
- [Feedback](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/feedback)
- [SpeakerRate](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/speakerrate)
- [Rollip](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/rollip)
- [image processing](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/image-processing)
- [effects](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/effects)
- [photoshop](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/photoshop)
- [gimp](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/gimp)
- [application](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/application)
- [opensource](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/opensource)
- [Kentico](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/kentico)
- [Express Engine](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/express-engine)
- [Debate](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/debate)
- [Web CMS](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/web-cms)
- [3Cs](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/3cs)
- [pixazza](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/pixazza)
- [gumgum](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/gumgum)
- [convergence](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/convergence)
- [Boston Web Studio](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/boston-web-studio)
- [Atom Group](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/atom-group)
- [Jay Batson](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/jay-batson)
- [Marc Amos](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/marc-amos)
- [Tom Herer](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/tom-herer)
- [EE](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/ee)
- [Stream.publish](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/stream-publish)
- [Nokia](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/nokia)
- [test](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/test)
- [conflict](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/conflict)
- [Remote](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/remote)
- [Apple Remote](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/apple-remote)
- [MacBook](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/macbook)
- [Leanback](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/leanback)
- [Lean Back](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/lean-back)
- [iRed](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/ired)
- [Mira](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/mira)
- [feed](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/feed)
- [MBCR](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/mbcr)
- [Commuter Rail](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/commuter-rail)
- [Parking](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/parking)
- [App](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/app)
- [Application Profile page](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/application-profile-page)
- [Export](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/export)
- [Nameless](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/nameless)
- [Theme](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/theme)
- [Social Business Software](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/social-business-software)
- [Eureka Streams](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/eureka-streams)
- [autodiscovery](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/autodiscovery)
- [OAuthpocalypse](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/oauthpocalypse)
- [Drupal Gardens](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/drupal-gardens)
- [Drupal Commons](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/drupal-commons)
- [Ning](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/ning)
- [Vox](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/vox)
- [SixApart](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/sixapart)
- [Exit](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/exit)
- [Migrate](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/migrate)
- [Calendar](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/calendar)
- [Plug-in](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/plug-in)
- [Real Time](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/real-time)
- [jQuery](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/jquery)
- [Thickbox](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/thickbox)
- [Anthologize](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/anthologize)
- [Digital Humanist](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/digital-humanist)
- [One Week One Tool](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/one-week-one-tool)
- [CHNM](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/chnm)
- [script](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/script)
- [Hack](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/hack)
- [Future of Marketing](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/future-of-marketing)
- [Rockshop](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/rockshop)
- [Music Hack Day](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/music-hack-day)
- [Microsoft NERD](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/microsoft-nerd)
- [Packt](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/packt)
- [Ajax and PHP](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/ajax-and-php)
- [Web Applications](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/web-applications)
- [Square](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/square)
- [mcommerce](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/mcommerce)
- [payment](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/payment)
- [Jack Dorsey](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/jack-dorsey)
- [Social Shopping](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/social-shopping)
- [Android](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/android)
- [iOS](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/ios)
- [Developer](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/developer)
- [Private Sales](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/private-sales)
- [TripAdvisor](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/tripadvisor)
- [Invite Only](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/invite-only)
- [Social Technographics](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/social-technographics)
- [Creation](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/creation)
- [Ideas](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/ideas)
- [Ladder](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/ladder)
- [Creators](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/creators)
- [Critics](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/critics)
- [Inactives](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/inactives)
- [Social Commerce](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/social-commerce)
- [Like](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/like)
- [PEW](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/pew)
- [Nielsen](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/nielsen)
- [Apps](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/apps)
- [Applications](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/applications)
- [Cell Phones](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/cell-phones)
- [Small Business](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/small-business)
- [Business Information](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/business-information)
- [Hoovers](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/hoovers)
- [Malcolm Gladwell](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/malcolm-gladwell)
- [Activism](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/activism)
- [Debian](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/debian)
- [Weak Ties](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/weak-ties)
- [Strong Ties](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/strong-ties)
- [Chat Catcher](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/chat-catcher)
- [Shannon Whitley](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/shannon-whitley)
- [Tweetbacks](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/tweetbacks)
- [Monitoring](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/monitoring)
- [F-Commerce](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/f-commerce)
- [fcommerce](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/fcommerce)
- [JCPenney](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/jcpenney)
- [Usablenet](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/usablenet)
- [Content Marketing](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/content-marketing)
- [Videos](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/videos)
- [Forums](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/forums)
- [Customer Service](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/customer-service)
- [Middle Seat](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/middle-seat)
- [Magento](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/magento)
- [Los Angeles](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/los-angeles)
- [MagentoImagine](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/magentoimagine)
- [Nordstrom](https://www.openparenthesis.org/tag/nordstrom)