Comments on: Freedom is Still Overrated, but Technology Can Fix It

By: pixbook

pixbook — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:34:09 +0000

Ways to make money

I don't know why the people are so much excited about the twitter??? What's good is with that???

By: Kia Soul

Kia Soul — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:59:48 +0000

Hey there Andy! Nice follow up on the Twitter! Although being in the blogging sphere for almost 15 months, I haven’t checked out Twitter. I know many of bloggers have and use it daily.

As soon as I get some time I’ll join it and hopefully, after a few months of use, I’ll join this debate with some experiences and my own $0,02!

Cheers!
M.D.

By: IITJEE

IITJEE — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:02:02 +0000

I know, it’s totally silly and shallow, but that’s precisely why Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app. And if you don’t like it, well, in the words of one Twit from San Francisco, “I’m so sick to death of Twitter-haters. If you don’t like it, why waste your time writing, reading, or talking about it? Sheesh.”

Rohit
IITJEE Preparation

By: Fran

Fran — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:17:00 +0000

This may have been covered, but the challenge I have with Twitter is keeping my various lives separate. I have my bloggy friends in a rather anonymous world that I’d like to follow on twitter, but I don’t want to combine those folks with professional friends or people in my neighborhood (who I like to complain about on my blog–just kind-of kidding). So for the light twitter user, these different orientations to use (professional, local, virtual) can clash unless you’ve been thoughtful about how you have set things up with email, etc. Anyway, too much to juggle, so I use it more for work than anything.

By: sengseng

sengseng — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:59:38 +0000

Within organizations, technologies are always engaged in an interesting dance with social structures like norms and policies.. It’s to the detriment of organizations whose social constructs and practices are so absconced in inherited policies that have gone unchallenged (and are often treated as gilded virtues) that when a technology comes along that offers real change, its benefits are often rendered impotent in order to comply with these archaic norms.

By: Kishore Balakrishnan

Kishore Balakrishnan — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:20:51 +0000

Including sengseng’s levels and spheres is very related to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxemics

By: Martin BÃ¶hringer

Martin BÃ¶hringer — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:48:41 +0000

If we want to analyze EnTwitter posts by their tags we need some kind of semantics for these tags. I create a concept for an enterprise microblog in my master thesis. We already programming a prototype now and tagging is one of the biggest problem. How can we tell the system to handle a post tagged with Â“importantÂ“ in another way as a one tagged with Â“lunchÂ”? We try to solve the problem by using a meta-level, you could say Â“categorized tagsÂ”. The main problem is to design this solution in a way the user has no additional effort.

By: Carlos Caballero

Carlos Caballero — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:11:51 +0000

One foreseeable problem with En-Twitter is that enterprise channels are not supplied ‘just-in-case’: as soon as they are added, many bored managers will find excuses to insert the new modality into mission-critical processes. I shudder from thinking about a couple micro-managers I have had, who would immediately build my ambience-building acumen into my MBO’s…

Where does that leave the crowds of people (me included) who find twitting irrelevant, presumptuous, distracting and yes, quite adolescent? You know, people who say things like “Oh, yeah, I used to sorta twitt all the time, but then I went to high school and grew out of the habit”…

ACLU, here we come… Don’t worry, for those who like it, we will twitt the Supreme Court sessions that will arise…

PS: Thanks for bringing crucial issues such as En-Twitt to public attention

By: JD Graffam

JD Graffam — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:56:03 +0000

One way to strengthen weak ties is to understand how colleagues interact with each other socially. When you understand the social network in which you work, it gives you the ability to leverage your stronger ties to strengthen your weaker ones.

I have been in many situations where, having recently discovered that so-and-so is in really good with whats-her-name, I instantly had the ammunition I needed to get stuff done.

If these people twitted with each other, I could have known they were buddy-buddy even sooner. So, it’s good as fodder in down-time.

A categorical approach, in addition to this, makes perfect sense in improving productivity and the spread of knowledge.

Btw: I recently began following my local Fire Department on Twitter. It’s sort of like a Police scanner. That use seems very functional and makes perfect sense out in the wild, but could serve a great purpose for an enterprise. Imagine, rather than using an email dis list, a development team twitted when they verified that a bug was fixed or when they bounce a server.

By: Kyle Mathews

Kyle Mathews — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:20:40 +0000

I second hashtags — they’re already being used as you describe Andrew, as a light-weight tagging system.

And, if anyone hasn’t seen mention of this already, there’s an open-source twitter-clone being developed ready to be deployed in the enterprise. Check it out at http://identi.ca

The software can be downloaded at http://laconi.ca/