Monthly Archives: November 2009

A showstopper from letting Google Wave in the enterprise – for now

While reviewing the specs and digging deeper into Google Wave federation, while waiting for a flight, I ran across a show stopper for any enterprise thinking about using this in deployment for now.  Yes, it is beta.  I don’t want to hear it.  But, someone as your company has thought since this mightbe the next…

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Google Dashboard – what does Google see in you?

Now Google was quite excited about what the dashboard itself would offer, and I agree with Mashable on this one in that it is nothing more than an unflattering UI that makes a list of certain things instead of being a workable dashboard

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Foursquare badges – worth the effort?

I posted how Foursquare and restaurants/clubs/whatever can work together to drive traffic by offering incentives.  As I recently started getting emails from Foursquare about unlocking and earning new badges, I wondered what use they were and who saw them.  Actually no one sees them unless I visit your profile page on FourSquare.  Here is what…

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How Twitter got lists wrong – issue #2

Yesterday I covered Issue #1 with lists.  This one is much simpler.  You cannot add yourself to a list.  How can anyone in a company make a list to share and then add themselves?  Can’t happen. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?  Look at the list I created for TheSocialGeeks.  I created it so I can’t…

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