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10 Nov 09

McAfee’s Hypothesis (plus contest results!) : Andrew McAfee’s Blog

  • First, that all email, all the time yields many problems but also one benefit: one-stop shopping for all collaboration activities. Second, that that benefit is highly valued by busy senior managers. And third, that these managers get to call the shots for the collaborations they’re involved in.
  • McAfee’s hypothesis: Within organizations, collaboration technologies are dictated by the most powerful person involved in the collaboration.

Dunbar’s Number and the Future of Communications

  • The asymmetrical and casual nature of social networks is allowing humans to engage in what Robin Dunbar has termed “social grooming” with increasingly larger groups — without investing increasingly larger amounts of time.
  • Dunbar argues that the number of people with whom humans can maintain a relationship is a function of neocortical size.
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27 Oct 09

Ozzie on the realtime wave

  • We expected to get the answer e-mail, because e-mail is the 99th percentile tool that we use for collaboration, but people don’t view it that way. They view e-mail as personal: I’m sending stuff that I want to be sent, I receive stuff that I should see or that people —
  • Blogging was at its birth default public, and so that had a certain impact on the vast majority of how people used it. E-mail was born as a default private mechanism.
23 Oct 09

Mozilla's Raindrop: An Open Conversation Aggregator

"Raindrop's mission is to "make it enjoyable to participate in conversations from people you care about, whether the conversations are in email, on twitter, a friend's blog or as part of a social networking site.""

www.readwriteweb.com/...n_and_smart_conversation_a.php - Preview

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01 Oct 09

Facebook Eats Away at Email Usage on Today's Web

  • people are using traditional communication sites and services (think webmail, IM, and discussion groups) less and less and choosing to use Facebook and other social networks instead.
  • that it's because people can conduct the same activities on the social networks as they did before via email, IM, and other communication properties, but now they can do so more efficiently.
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11 Sep 09

Does your e-mail reveal how productive you are? - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine

Cataphora is a Silicon Valley company that tries to model what an "effective" employee looks like based upon her electronic trail.

www.slate.com/2226312 - Preview

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