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$500 mil in stock on a $15B market valuation? I don't think they are going to be kicking themselves, they have a strangle hold on this space right now. Even with Facebook entering more aggressively, Twitter's more open platform is a distinct advantage.

Great post. This would be a very interesting strategic move on FBs part, instant population of "yellow pages" directly onto the social graph of its existing user base. It would cause a massive infusion of the "everyday" person onto the Yelp functionality, Yelp is popular but you can bet most of Facebook are not active users of it.

Restaurant recommendations (and other things now) would be rampant into the news feeds (hopefully in some un-annoying way). And businesses would have to pay FB for advanced pages and functionality (possibly promotions and location-based advertising models as well). Of course, as the mobile web takes even further shape, location based services like Yelp are going to be huge.

wow, you are right. you have to transcode the files from the Vado in order to get them into a .mov file for iMovie to be able to edit. reports are that there is little degradation on conversion but that is ridiculous that you have to do it at all. i did a bunch of research on video quality and even mac compatibility, but I missed this one and it is a big one. not ideal at all.

Robert: Are you sure that is accurate? I have Vado movies playing fine on the Mac after installing the Perian codec, Perian 1.1.2 or later. I have not tried to edit in iMovie as of yet but I have it playback in iPhoto after the Perian codec as well. I will have to look at the iMovie edit function. Let me know if that codec helps.

This may be a nit but I do wish FriendFeed noted the feature as "interesting" or something in that light. The term "like" does not mean highlight, it means a positive persuasion or opinion to something. That is the one thing that I don't like. (pardon) To this point, I can remember marking something "like" that I found interesting but wasn't positive in nature.

As an example, when people post Flickr pictures that are questionable or post a news story headline that is negative or unpleasant, is is appropriate to "like" it. Highlight it, yes of course, but "like" it, just doesn't seem right.

Perhaps I am reading too much into the feature but it has crossed my mind several times and in fact have thought of requesting the feature "dislike" oddly enough.

why be upset with Apple? they are running a business and selling products/services that people want. I have no problem with them coming out with a new generation and better product offering and charging more over the life of ownership. It doesn't make sense to not do that and to market it exactly how they are marketing it. It is the only incentive to keep innovating.

smart business move. great products. solid strategy. smart pricing.

Ah, there I went with header override and header detection completely missing the obvious method, give the user the option :). How did you get to the full reader by the way?

Hate to be singled out here but I really have no problem with the web mobile version of Google reader. It is fast and easy to use. Is it like using the desktop, no but I haven't seen one that it is.

Robert, what is your alternative to the experience you are having on the iPhone. All they are doing is looking at the header to see if it is a mobile browser and routing you to the mobile version. I guess they could look for an iPhone specific header to give you the full web version. But I don't think it would be user sensitive to give all mobile users the full version. The full version would be unbearable on my Treo as an example.

Stephen: I must say that I had not heard of the account of Vieira and Lauer, I'll have to track that down. I do agree with you about the visual cues and the feel for a keyboard. I wrote about this is an earlier post:

http://correlate.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/rumor-apple-coming-out-with-phone/

I must say that I am very impressed, however, with the advancements Apple has made with their new visual keyboard. The demo on their sites is nothing short of amazing on how the keyboard knows and expands the touch point on the assumed next key. It does not get around the "touch" problem. For now, I am going with the Blackberry Curve 8300.

Yes, I think that is definitely sound thinking in the workplace. Many of Factiva's most powerful users write extremely advanced queries to get to the information they need or the information that is most relevant. Many queries could be considered small applets within themselves.

The consumer space, for me, is the bigger question. Is the linguistic technology going to be better enough for people to change their search habits. Consumers (majority of them) aren't interested in changing their ways from something that "basically works" if it isn't easy. I'm an early adopter but I really have no interest in typing questions (and remembering to do so). But as an early adopter, I will certainly try it when it is available.

Stephen, I appreciate your passion and fundamentally I agree that it would be most effective when managing within the flow. But while knowledge utopia does not exist, we must move forward in business with the best of our abilities. I don't think it is because people are ineffective. I also don't want to limit the importance/value of taking a snapshot at a given point in time or a given state. It has worked in finance for years, there are balance sheets that manage assets at a given point in time. And the standard practice has been to look at company financial quarter-to-quarter, year-to-year.

Paula, completely agree, it is about facilitating thinking...

"What end?", fantastic ending point! That is the question.

I was wondering when you were going to show up on this topic Mr. Smoliar. Here are my issues with your argument. First, why would the quality be jeopardized. There is nothing stopping a long-tail author in finding an equally long-tail editor (even if they don't work for Harper-Collins). Short film creators and directors seem to do just fine in finding a long tail producer. The same paradigm should hold.

As for the bricks analogy, your points only applies to the health of bookstores and boutique bookstores, not to the books themselves that they sell. Referring to Chris Anderson's Long Tail, books/music are classic examples of where fans of a niche topic will find the goods. Those individuals will still (at least for the foreseeable future) will want that niche good in the form of pulp and binding.

Cliff, I honestly don't see that as an issue either. I think there are passionate writers and readers out there. We are in the midst of "hit" madness in the movie industry but the art of films, film festivals and online shorts like found in iFilm.com are still rampant.

Generally, it is all about the long tail. We have and will continue to see reductions in prints of books that are not going to be bestsellers. But these authors will still write because they are passionate. And they will find readers because they share that same passion. The 'long tail' dynamic has shown itself to be true in a number of industries.

Stephen, I would agree with your sentiment about knowledge cannot be shared, only information can. It is up to the recipient of that information, if they are able to distill knowledge from the information.

Regardless of what definitions we come up with, my main point I believe still holds which is on which side of the aisle you are regarding the word "management". From James' contribution above, it sure sounds a lot like facilitation and enablement to me (as you say, making it sharable). The most strict definition is when it gets to the point of information or knowledge control. With web 2.0 technologies, the control aspect is heading towards the minority view of what KM is, it is more about enablement.

James, welcome to correlate! I actually like that definition of Knowledge Management quite a lot, it hits on all the high points including organizational learning and improving social activities in the pursuit thereof. Thanks for the contribution.

Stephen, unless I'm misunderstanding your point or the element you "disagree", I don't think our points are mutually exclusive or perhaps even conflicting.

You are making the point that organizations "need managers who are better at “reading” the actions that take place “on their watch” and making tactical (and sometimes strategic) decisions based on those “readings."

Could these intuitive managers also be the managers that put tactical and strategic initiatives in place that foster knowledge enablement and even knowledge creation?

Steve, I take your point that it isn't very valuable to advertise something I already know about...for me and arguably not for the advertiser (good thing it is billed by CPM). As for my brother, I will check with him to see what ad he received when he opens the mail...I'm sure he got the same one.

And as you say, as far as privacy goes, there are certainly ways to manage it. And your business behind the firewall is one...that is until Google releases Enterprise Gmail Server where businesses are running the same solution behind the firewall.

Pete: Agree that is user beware. Extending this beyond Google, however, is there really anything stopping any email provider (aside from patents) from copying the Google model. Right now Google is the focal point because they are the ones most successfully executing their strategy by leveraging the power of Ad Words everywhere.

The thing to think about is everyone is going to catch up at some point. Nothing to stop other web mail providers. Nothing to really even stop this type of technology and revenue drivers from being deployed in POP3 solutions as well.

Simply move back the email analysis layer back in the architecture, tail a contextual ad to the bottom of your email and then send along to the recipient. Furthermore, is there anything really stopping a *paid* broadband service from saying they are going to do it as well? Truth is, unless you are running your own mail service, this is something that is a possibility.

Don't get me wrong, I still want one. I'm not ready to say that with no keyboard, I'm not interested. Apple is the one company I would bet on to cause a paradigm change, if the screen keyboard is designed well and you can type just as fast as on a QWERTY, then I could convert.

But I'll let these version 1's hit the marketplace a bit before jumping on the bandwagon. I still have a v1 iPod and it is still cranking for me, it is heavy but it still works like a charm.

Absolutely, interesting point is that whether LinkedIn sees Facebook as a threat or as a channel towards their plan of being the dominant business network, developing an API for the Facebook platform probably is the right choice. All depends on the implementation and how much of the user relationship Facebook takes based on being the entry point.

Agreed! You probably have seen it but there is another fantastic conversation taking place on a follow-up post regarding Linda Stone's take on CPA.

http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2007/06/linda_stone_on_.html

I haven't seen the UK Apprentice but anything to add some creativity would have helped the show. It wouldn't interest me in viewing it b/c it would still function as a reality gossip type show instead of business oriented. But perhaps the cultural lens would add some interesting dynamics.

Glenn: Completely agree. Firms must always listen to customers and it is a great motto for customer service. That is, as long as it does not foster a culture that translates into committing to every customer request/need. It is certainly more art versus science on striking the appropriate balance between innovation and incremental improvement based on customer feedback.