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Tom's pent-up postings

Posted by tom.altman on September 28th, 2007

Sorry for ignoring the blog for a few days – I feel guilty and also anxious to post a few very cool things I found. So here are three things I have been looking at: Interview With A Convicted Hacker: Robert Moore Tells How He Broke Into Routers And Stole VoIP Services
This is a great article about a hacker who stole VOIP services for another dude to sell. The just of the article is how he explains it was like taking candy from a baby – so easy, anyone could be taught how. Good read.

New Zealand Launches Wiki To Help Citizens Draft New Law
This is some real community intelligence. How open and honest is this – let’s ACTUALLY let the people help draft the law…wow!

“The Office” Convention
Now this is a great idea. How many TV shows do you know of that have a convention? Can you imagine? If you think about it – it is not really that different than us going out into the neighborhoods…but let’s pretend we set-up a wiki first, and asked people to participate and asked what they wanted to have us do. Interesting way to promote and thank.

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Data Dump II

Posted by tom.altman on September 11th, 2007

This is what happens when I put links into my “blog” folder to blog about – then it gets so big I cannot manage it any more. So here we go: 9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Network
This is a little techy, but gives you an idea of how easy it is to get started in the social networking space.

10 Future Web Trends
Of the ten I really think #2. AI and #4. Mobile – some of the others are more theories than trends- but good stuff.

A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change
This was an article Jason K forwarded to me…this is dead on and it really pertains to “big media” just the same. Take a look and compare it to the ideas Smitty is working on in the Content Management Group.

Change Advertising Forever
If this doesn’t get the ad agencies all scared and quivering in a corner – nothing will. But think about it – it is the eLance for the media world.

How to Write Remarkably Creative Content
I thought this was good and it is really targeted for the website builder to step away from the old and stale – but what if we took the same principals and applied it to how we write newspaper copy?

Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive
Cool new book talking about a need for J-School evolution. Wouldn’t it be cool if we offered this as a internal class to our employees?

Martin’s Wiki
“In my research I have explored the concept of Web 2.0 and related technologies including RSS. My research is represented herein. I will examine and explore what they mean for businesses, developers and the end web user.”

MyChingo™ Audio Comment System
A new way to leave comments – instead of text…it is audio based.

How businesses are using Web 2.0?
A little dry, but: “This McKinsey Global Survey highlighted that respondents (2,847 executives worldwide, 44 percent of whom hold C-level positions) show widespread but careful interest in this trend.”

Cool stuff for your life online
Need I say more?

OK – now move on…I don;t want to get in trouble for low productivity numbers.

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DATA DUMP

Posted by tom.altman on August 8th, 2007

Wow – have I fallen behind – I took a look at my “blog topics” folder in outlook and it is so big I figured I have to resort to the data dump.

I will try to group these into like groups, but if I don’t purge my folder…I’m history! So here we go:

News/Aggregator Type Stuff

http://popurls.com/ – This is a cool little site which just pulls feeds from all the “cool” sites.
http://www.nowpublic.com/

Online Apps & Articles about Aps

Twitter Is A Publication – This is just what is says – an article describing how the author thinks twitter is not an app, but a pub.
Imagination Cubed – This is only interesting to me because of the source…GE. Now they are innovative.
Grand Central – I heard a great quote on a podcast about this site (it is a very cool application that “finds” you when some calls) that said: “this may be one of the coolest applications of today – if you can get by the privacy barriers you need to break to use it.”
Online Maps: 50+ Tools and Resources – It’s about “Online Maps” :)
http://www.dapper.net/index.php – This site has figured out a way to help you syndicate your news and also promises to help you make money doing it.
http://ohdontforget.com/ – This is a very handy concept.
http://www.musicmesh.net/ – This is one of those sites you go to and close after you’ve been using it for 2 hours. Great concepts of mashup and innovative thinking.
Girl Sense – I just love the idea that there are site targeting girls. This (Girl focused Sites) is a huge opportunity on the web.

Interesting Articles

Impact of Facebook as a platform – This is a good article explaining how interesting Facebook has become.
Zoho v. Microsoft v. Google – Online Office Apps – This is part inspirational and part informational. See how the little guy cam compete with the BIG dogs.
Usability Heuristics – Interesting article on User Interface.
What’s after Social Networking – I may have commented about this before – but this is a great retrospect and look at a proposed future.
Google v. World – “Google is the 600-pound gorilla: the company that no one wants to see build a competing product. “

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