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Re: Unlocking My iPhone

Dan Keldsen — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:30:02 -0000

Have not (yet) bought an iPhone, still weighing my options while remaining blissfully mobile mail free at the moment.

However, I'm going to Denmark in a few months - anyone who has unlocked an iPhone and traveled abroad, I would love to hear about the experience, as it would be awfully handy (no pun intended) to have mobile mail/web available for this trip, and others brewing that will have me untethered for a good amount of time.

Re: LinkedIn vs Facebook: Newsfeed

Dan Keldsen — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:13:09 -0000

Amazing how long it has taken for them to morph their previous "lifestream" ability into something like this. And 3 years to add just ONE photo to a profile? Ooph. And yet, I still prefer LinkedIn (in general) to Facebook. Go figure! ;)

Re: The Invisible Web

Dan Keldsen — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:15:03 -0000

How about exposing the Facebook Beacon? (while this world is still murky)

Re: We have met the enemy: He is us

Dan Keldsen — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:33:14 -0000

Mathew - found you via (mistyped) twitter lead from Steve Rubel... there's a joke in there somewhere.

Interesting points all around - and finding the signal in the noise is a major issue. Which is why search (and find - the end product) is still nowhere near a done deal. We've got content creation tools aplenty, and tagging/sharing tools out the wazoo, yet much content gets buried (whether maliciously - as is rumored in the DIGG world, or just due to volume).

Plenty of work to be done!

Cheers,
Dan

PS - The pogo strip can't be THAT ancient, if I know about it. Wait, how'd I age that quick? ;)

Re: ChangeForge | Ken Stewart | Where business and technology collide » Are Your Solutions Sales Part of the “In-Crowd”?

Dan Keldsen — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:33:51 -0000

Hi Ken - well, it's about time ECM/DMS/etc. gets a bit more attention, eh? The fastest growing source of "digital stuff" is the unstructured world of documents, content, information and knowledge, and yet the ratio of database and operations people to the unstructured world is entirely flipped around...

Great to see a conversation about solution selling, and honing in on the combined needs of both business and IT. Of course, are those teams aligned? Perhaps, perhaps not - so always wise to uncover how the parties involved in this decision interact, and how to affect useful change by being a bridge builder between those parties, and into a solution that will fit their needs.

Hard work to be sure, but well worth it, all around.

Cheers,
Dan

Re: ChangeForge | Ken Stewart | Where business and technology collide » Are Your Solutions Sales Part of the “In-Crowd”?

Dan Keldsen — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:25:11 -0000

Ooph, CIOs reporting to the COO is bad enough, but MAYBE good. To the CFO? Been there, really mixed bag...

Having sales and marketing skills are awfully handy for any technical role. Completely changed my role, when I took that to hear. Out of the weeds, and into executing on the business vision.

Bridges don't build themselves - at least not until we get nanotechnology working! :)

Cheers,
Dan

Re: ChangeForge | Ken Stewart | Where business and technology collide » Are we too connected to social media?

Dan Keldsen — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:19:11 -0000

Ken - thanks again for popping over and commenting, and then this great commentary here!

Definitely worth keeping an eye out for the Big Brother-ish and Minority Report-ish bits (presumably the predicting your future issues rather than the portal/dashboard-like view?).

The privacy aspects are certainly concerning, although as any sufficiently paranoid person will tell you, your private information is already quite public - if not overtly, then in barely hidden silos.

Still, yes, human oversight is needed, and it is tricky stuff, whether automated, done by a 3rd party, or managed by the individual/owner of their social/relationship information. Who is right? Who is wrong? If I say I went to Harvard on every social profile I can find, yet I didn't, does that tilt these systems towards pollution or purity?

Early days, although we're motoring along - and stumbling in the right direction, getting some things right and some thing wrong.

And the answer is, yes we're too connected. Except that the vast majority of the world isn't - so there is still hope! ;)

Re: ChangeForge | Ken Stewart | Where business and technology collide » Is FriendFeed the feed for me?

Dan Keldsen — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:09:13 -0000

Synchronicity is a wonderful thing, eh?

Between FriendFeed, OpenID, OpenSocial and some other "meta layer" concepts, we're finally reeling back in some of the chaos that was unleashed via so many disparate sources.

We'll see what happens, but the expansion/contraction of running wild and then pulling it back a bit seems to be getting us going in the right direction.