One of the sessions I attended at the Enterprise 2.0 conference yesterday here in Boston was Thomas Vander Wal (the man who coined the term “folksonomy”) talking about how to manage the flood of information that social bookmarking and other forms of tagging can result in.
Here’s his slides via slideshare:
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(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, upcoming trip destinations, connections in TripIt as well as important travel statistics like miles traveled, days on the road, etc.
It’s got a nice, RESTful public url – mine’s at http://www.tripit.com/people/jeckman
I’ve updated my TripIt Action Stream plugin – the good news is that it will now provide a real profile link rather than just linking to the TripIt homepage.
You will, however, have to make your activity feed available to everyone – but if you didn’t want to do that, you probably don’t want to publish your activity feed as an action stream anyway. (Actually you could leave your activity stream private and still publish your profile link – just uncheck the activity feed checkbox when adding the profile inside MT).
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 and generally geek out.
Highlights of the evening (for me):
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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. I’d love it if it were possible to create your own twistori terms – maybe they’ll release the code?
Read more about it on Amy’s Blog: love & hate: from knuckle tattoos to the internet’s emotional pulse with Twistori
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, collaboration, information management and access, enterprise search, and service-oriented architectures.
- Enterprise Portal and Collaboration Business Summit – an event designed for business users and technology managers that employs case studies and best practices to show attendees how companies today are gaining business benefit from the latest enterprise portal and business collaboration technologies and products.
- Microsoft SharePoint in the Enterprise Forum – this forum provides IT staff with the information they need to deploy a Microsoft SharePoint environment that can be integrated with enterprise-level information management and business collaboration systems.