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Re: Spigit looks for $4M more for co. social networks

bhc3 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:11:27 -0000

Hey Mark -

Thanks for taking an interest in our business. We will have to add you to our quarterly financial meetings!

As the article notes, Spigit is running in the black, thanks to closing a number of deals with Fortune 2000 enterprises. Spigit's SaaS innovation management platform integrates emergent social collaboration with traditional workflow and analytics in innovation communities. It's that combination of Enterprise 2.0 with traditional aspects of enterprise software and internal processes that's resonating with leading companies.

Thanks,

Hutch Carpenter
Director of Marketing
Spigit

Re: Teen Girl Falls into Sewer while Texting

bhc3 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:54:15 -0000

"Her mother plans on suing the city" - Oh c'mon! Walking around with your nose buried in your cell phone doesn't mean everyone else assumes liability.

Re: Quitting FriendFeed

bhc3 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:03:37 -0000

Bummer Jason - I've liked our interactions on FriendFeed. Is your account now completely pulled? Well, I'll catch you on Twitter (* goes to see if we're following each other *) and your blog.

Re: WTF Friendfeed – you may have just crossed the line

bhc3 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:08:48 -0000

Clicked it from FriendFeed, and read it Steven!

Re: That's not what I ordered...

bhc3 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:00:43 -0000

Drew - amazing post, and your philosophy is admirable. I'm rooting for you. You're gonna lick this.

Re: Three reasons you need to stay far away from FriendFeed - a contrarian view

bhc3 — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:22:10 -0000

Well, at least you are a FriendFeed fanboy! Good to consider the good with the bad. Fortunately, none of my 3 reasons relate to your reasons above.

And glad to see Louis's reach includes Facebook.

Re: Talking HEADs

bhc3 — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:29:50 -0000

Hi Bit.ly guys -

I'm seeing really odd traffic stats for some bit.ly URLs. The click counts are way too high. Are there other things that would cause that beyond the HEAD requests? This issue is happening this week, well after the removal of HEAD requests.

There's a discussion about this on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/bhc3/619f00e6/something-i...

Re: Twitter Link Page

bhc3 — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:09:48 -0000

I'll second Microplaza. It may be exactly what you're looking for Fred. It only lists links from people you follow, but for those links, you see the total number of times they were tweeted. You can create sub-groups from your Twitter list as well ("tribes"). That way you peruse tweeted links that are likely more targeted around specific subjects.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/05/good-people-bad-companies-intersection.html

bhc3 — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:01:38 -0000

Spot-on Louis. We in Silicon Valley underplay the luck aspect of what we do. It's easy to get dazzled by a company name on a resume. But there really is a confluence of timing and serendipity that drives the success of many workers. Were you at Jaiku or Twitter? Were you at Commerce One in 1999 or 2001? Not to say there isn't skill and great thinking in the success of these companies. But the pendulum swings too far toward crediting anyone ever associated with these companies with glory.

Re: Tweeting behind the firewall (Scripting News)

bhc3 — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:43:24 -0000

Yup Dave - it is all coming around again - nice to see. Narrating your work.

Re: On Walking out of the Classroom

bhc3 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:26:28 -0000

Congratulations Andrew - sounds like a great fit. Looking forward to your insights from MIT via the blog and Twitter.

Re: A review of idea and innovation software

bhc3 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:52:11 -0000

Hi Jed -

Thanks for including Spigit in your write-up. You're right - we are seeing great uptake by enterprise customers. Managing the multiple sources of ideas, and filtering for those that are most useful, is an *idea* that is taking root in the corporate world.

You raise some good questions about us, and I'll answer them here. First, in terms of complexity vs simplicity. The platform is actually quite easy for employees, customers and partners to use. It leverages some of the best practices one finds for social software: votes, tags, discussion forums, clickable reviews, wikis, blogs. We also provide a market for users to buy and sell ideas. Any or all of these are available for use when deployed, internally or externally.

We put a premium on a superior user experience.

The analytics engine and enterprise workflow of the platform is why companies are signing up for Spigit. Simple popularity contests for ideas do give a single metric - number of votes. Certainly that is a form of simplicity. But it's doesn't come close to mapping to the way innovation really works inside corporations. Spigit has designed-in functionality that reflects the different influence users have in advancing an idea forward.

Spigit's platform has enterprise workflow built-in. Role-based reviews and approvals, quantifiable criteria to advance through stages, and high configurability to adapt to each company's specific processes.

Happy to tell you more about what Spigit is up to. Please drop us a note at info@spigit.com.

Hutch Carpenter
Director of Marketing
Spigit, Inc.
http://spigit.com

Re: On (to) TechCrunch

bhc3 — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:20:51 -0000

You go MG! Looking forward to reading your news, analysis and wit over at TechCrunch.

Re: Doing what social media gurus would say you’re crazy to do

bhc3 — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:34:46 -0000

Cool - looking forward to seeing what's cooking Steven. Hope you'll save a little crank for what's next.

Re: Facebook wants you to give credit where credit is due

bhc3 — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:11:52 -0000

+1 bdude

Re: Is Twitter a news system? (Scripting News)

bhc3 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:52:02 -0000

When the US Air plane came down in the Hudson, the New York Times heard about it from two separate places: (1) the regular beat reporter for the police HQ; (2) Twitter. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/opinion/15pub...

Re: 10 million page views

bhc3 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:13:37 -0000

Congrats Duncan. I've been enjoying you, Steven and the gang on The Inquisitr. I'm always digging your tech, and find myself sneaking peeks at your celeb news too.

Re: Having a problem with all this Social Media crap

bhc3 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:27:59 -0000

I know where you're coming from on this Steven. I get the "to what end" aspect of social media. I'm of the belief that each of us makes it useful in our own ways. Would I love to have 50 Likes and comments for everything I post on FriendFeed? A bazillion retweets on Twitter? Sure! Why not? But what I've seen is that maintaining a high level of interaction is required for that, or having existing renown outside of the services. For most of us, that's just not happening. But then you have to ask yourself...how important is that, really? At least for white-collar professionals who aren't gunning for advertising revenue on their sites, these popularity metrics aren't so critical.

What *has* worked for me is leveraging social media to improve my knowledge and connections for a specific field. Professionally, I'm part of the enterprise 2.0 sector. I'm making a lot of connections there, and I've been pleasantly surprised how well tracking social media for e2.0 has helped me. The opinions, information and connections among different people have made me a lot smarter for my job. I've met some great people online in this way.

To paraphrase the Stones, you can't always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need.

Re: louisgray.com: Facebook's Success Makes It the Social Media Prism and Translator

bhc3 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:59:18 -0000

And what's been fascinating for me is the way Facebook does introduce some innovation, and then appropriates features it sees having value/getting traction. They originated the newsfeed, to controversy. FriendFeed is a much more evolved version of it. So they then make their newsfeed more like FriendFeed. Which AOL is apparently matching with its Bebo lifestreaming (http://mashable.com/2009/02/23/bebo-lifestreaming/).

The recent move to make status updates accessible via API is very Twitter-like. When you've got 175mm members, you can afford to wait and see what others come up with.

Re: More on Social Search

bhc3 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:02:01 -0000

Jake - this is something that I think works well inside an enterprise as well. For a couple reasons:

1. You hit on the creepiness factor. It's more natural inside an organization.
2. The need to have access to actions that provide the implicit social graph.

On #2, let me elaborate. Not everyone is going to take the time to update their explicit connections. A better solution is to capture connections between people based on what they do normally. If I'm regularly clicking/rating/commenting on your content, there's a good chance you're at least part of my "informaiton graph" if not my social graph as well.

Next time I run a search, it would make sense to see your content at the head of the line if you have something related.

I also think of another aspect. Even if your content is of lower quality (i.e. few ratings, clicks or comments), there's a good argument that it should be included higher in my search results assuming you are stronger in my social graph. Why? Because I'm comfortable reaching out to you for more information to make up for shortfalls in the information your content provides. We can discuss what I'm looking for. I won't do that with a colleague whom I don't know from elsewhere in the organization.

I articulate this more fully in this blog post, Social-Filtered Search: http://bit.ly/42pjnQ

BTW - I was formerly the product marketing manager for BEA Systems Pathways social search. Which is now Oracle, of course!

Re: louisgray.com: I'm Not Using Brightkite, and It Has Zero to Do With Privacy, Security

bhc3 — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:06:19 -0000

Louis - that'd be me as well. Once you have kids, you're just not as interesting in the places you're hanging out. I'll add that mine might include:

Hutch checked in @ Bay Area Discovery Museum
Hutch checked in @ Exploratorium
Hutch checked in @ West Portal playground

Brightkite is for the childless.

Re: Getting Started With Social Media

bhc3 — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:30:16 -0000

Hey - you need to get this out on Slideshare Mike!

Re: Twitter Files for an IPO….‘TWEET’ as the Ticker Symbol?

bhc3 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:10:28 -0000

Where you putting the IPO value of Twitter at Howard?

Re: The pros and cons of brainstorming | Broadcasting Brain

bhc3 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:17:34 -0000

Mark - Finally reading your article here on brainstorming, which I should have read before I wrote my own brainstorming piece! You hit on a couple of things that I think are important. First, your notion about individuals brainstorming is spot on. This study by INSEAD and UPenn researchers (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract...) found that the quantity and average quality of ideas yielded from brainstorming was higher when individuals came up with their own ideas..

The other finding is that individuals are better at evaluating ideas, than are groups. Groups do suffer from idea ownership biases and other political influences. But individuals were better at avoiding those issues when they evaluated ideas. This is where Web 2.0 technologies, things like prediction markets, have an advantage.

Re: louisgray.com: Scoble Starts His FriendFeed/Twitter Monetization Strategy

bhc3 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:38:16 -0000

Here's what I wrote in this post, Using FriendFeed for E-Commerce (http://bit.ly/sWKi):

"The secret sauce of FriendFeed is the development of a trusted network of referrals and commentary by users. People add users to and prune users from their subscriptions based on how well interests align. Once you subscribe to someone, you develop a good feel for their interests and perspectives over time.

This process lowers the barrier to accepting information from someone, as you learn to trust him or her."

As long as Robert actually likes the product, I don't mind. If some spammers cross the line to just ramming product reviews through the system. They will fail. I'd unsubscribe.