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02.09.10Predictions for enterprise social software and social network analysisGartner has released five interesting predictions for social software. Here are the predictions along with a few of my thoughts. By 2014, social networking services will replace e-mail as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users. This is a transition that we’ve seen for a very long time, and looks finally ready to come to fruition. Coming from a financial markets background, I’d seen from as far back as the late 1990s that email as a primary medium was resulting in communication breakdown. I’ve long believed that shifting communication out of email was one of the main ...
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12.30.09The top 10 trends for the 2010s: the most exciting decade in human historyIn his excellent book The Meaning of the 21st Century, James Martin asks when in human history you would most like to be alive. For me there is no question that it is now. The coming decade will be the most exciting in human history. The very challenging year of 2009 that we are preparing to bid farewell to helped to tear up the fairly linear progress of the first decade of the century. Now, technological and social change are poised to accelerate far beyond what we have become accustomed to. A critical uncertainty is how well we will respond to this ...
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12.14.09I’m Dumping My Blog for Google WaveWhen I first started blogging in 2006 or so, I loved the idea of being able to have conversations with people all over the world, many of whom I didn't even know existed. It's served me really well in that respect, I've met a ton of people and developed my most important online social network. I have several relationships in the real world that developed because of blogs. Then Twitter came along, and was all real-timey and stuff. It's fun. It feels like a cocktail party. I can blurt out things that I think would make funny fortune cookies and ...
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09.24.09A Vision of a Post-Wave InternetThis is a follow up to my last post about Google Wave, er, XMPP. That post generated a ton of commentary and questions, and my goal here is to address a lot of them, as well as take a stab at outlining what a post-Wave Internet looks like to the average person. First, there were STILL some questions about why exactly Wave and XMPP are so cool. Well, the short answer to that is that the guys working on Wave did a number of things right.The Conversation The first thing they got right is the concept of a “conversation". This is not some ...
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About Me
CIO at Shine Lawyers
Non-exec Director of Ozmota
Non-exec Director of Queensland Kids
Ex CIO/CTO of Ozmota, Benefon and Voxson.Education
Executive MBA from QUT
High Distinction average
Singapore Airlines International Business Award
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Computer Science from QUT
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