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Re: Introducing My Own "Stealth" Startup: Paladin Advisors Group

dpritchett — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:37:34 -0000

Grats Louis! I think I inferred most of this from your LinkedIn profile but it's still nice to see it out in the open. Best of luck to you and to PAG!

Re: Defrag Speakers Display Skepticism Over Current State of Social Web

dpritchett — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:53:06 -0000

Stowe's quote "people will trade personal productivity for connectedness, and they will accept an interrupt to help somebody in their social connections." is odd. He seems to be suggesting that strengthening social connections won't result in a productivity increase. From a short term "gotta finish this task today" perspective he's right, but in the long term connected employees prove to be more valuable. Those connections don't grow themselves!

Here's a Spigit blog post by Hutch that better explains:
"Employees who do not access the knowledge, perspectives and ideas of others generated lower quality ideas. Their network constraint consistently hurt them in the idea evaluations. But more importantly, look at the quality of scores for those employees with better collaborative networks. Being well-connected to colleagues across the organization resulted in generating high quality ideas."

Re: BREAKING: EA Acquires Facebook Game Maker Playfish For Up to $400 Million

dpritchett — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:40:47 -0000

So far they generate revenue through microtransactions (pay us $1 for a new item or a guaranteed win in your next turn) and through sidebar ads.

There are also merchandising opportunities both ways if you either create a game that people want to buy products for or bring in an existing game from a larger brand in exchange for a fee.

Re: BREAKING: EA Acquires Facebook Game Maker Playfish For Up to $400 Million

dpritchett — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:37:29 -0000

I agree with your assessment. Playfish makes good social games, Zynga has been making clones and skinner boxes jampacked with microtransactions and weird advertising. Playfish's talent plus EA's resources is a huge nightmare for Zynga. With any luck Zynga will reinvent themselves as a kinder, gentler business.

Re: BREAKING: EA Acquires Facebook Game Maker Playfish For Up to $400 Million

dpritchett — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:31:19 -0000

This is shaping up to be the month from hell for Zynga. First TechCrunch rips them with last week's corrupt advertising exposé, then a highly polished and experienced competitor sells out to gaming borg EA. Look for EA to hit Zynga head-on within 12 months.

Re: Enterprise collaboration’s image problem

dpritchett — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:50:17 -0000

Looks like Novell is taking a stab at solving this problem with the announcement of their new "Pulse" collaboration product. http://www.novell.com/products/pulse/

I wonder how they implemented it - through a browser-based clipboard grabber or through a Jing-style program that individual users have to install locally?

Re: Shameless Self-promotion

dpritchett — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:03:40 -0000

Do you think you could prevail upon the HBR folks to add Disqus or some other contemporary comments handling plugin to your new blog? It's really great for user engagement and I'm glad you use it here.

Re: Google Wave Is No Email Killer, But Will Be Valuable Anyway

dpritchett — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:54:16 -0000

I agree with you 100% Oliver. Waves are the new text boxes, enhancing the forums, wikis, blogs, and comment engines we're already using. Jive SBS, SharePoint, and everyone else can benefit from these advances.

Jive is lucky to have you as a Product Manager!

Re: The reason I don’t make money from blogging and social media

dpritchett — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:13:57 -0000

You really do all of this for no profit? No offense but I had always assumed your blogging was done to bring in cash to support your family. Otherwise, why all the ads and reviews of complimentary product samples? I pay maybe $20-40 a year in fees to keep my blog running and I haven't had to consider ads at all. I explicitly chose to make my blog not-for-profit to minimize the possible conflicts of interest with my day job.

Am I missing something?

Re: Found: “What problems does Google Wave Solve?”

dpritchett — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:48:04 -0000

Thanks for the tip - Rich. I guess Disqus has coopted my RSS link in the sidebar. I think I'll just hide that admin panel. If you look up at the title bar there's a "Subscribe" button that will lead to my Feedburner entries RSS: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/sharingatwork

Re: danieltenner.com — What problems does Google Wave solve?

dpritchett — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:36:41 -0000

Not that I've seen. GMail for example infers threading but it's not the same as an explicit split like you'll see in Wave when people choose exactly where and to what they're replying.

Re: danieltenner.com — What problems does Google Wave solve?

dpritchett — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:52:02 -0000

I really loved your post, Daniel. I feel conflicted when I see early adopters panning Wave. These people aren't necessarily interested in enterprise collaboration at all. It seems *obvious* how great it can be to merge email and IM with a rich text interface that could replace every text box you ever type into. The possibilities are still exciting me.

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

dpritchett — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:00:17 -0000

Ouch. If Cliqset has a shinier UI and more intuitive access to core features then there's an argument that Cliqset *is* better than FF for some users. The reasons that you (and I) love FF are mostly architecture related, not chrome.

I hope Warren isn't too discouraged by this feedback - the brief overview of Cliqset and why the average Mashable reader might want to try it is fairly accurate. It's only the "and way better than FF" part that's questionable.

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

dpritchett — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:43:13 -0000

Tad is right that those features have been in FF for a good while. You can always rebut with Scoble's complaint about "imperfect affordances" in FF: http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/cdde7b28/why-f... If a feature is coded in the forest and nobody notices, did it ever really exist?

Re: Intense Debate Update

dpritchett — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:22:40 -0000

I hope you didn't run into the hellish comment spam problems I did when I managed to somehow get IntenseDebate turned on but Akismet turned off. I was getting thousands of spam comments a day pushed to my WP database but they weren't visible after IntenseDebate overlaid the built in comments and so I was completely stymied by the huge bandwidth sucking hole I'd fallen into.

Eventually I put in a plugin called "Bad Behavior" that helped keep the spammers from ever loading my page.

Re: louisgray.com: Designing the Perfect Twitter Client Is Impossible, But Tweetie Is Close

dpritchett — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:22:51 -0000

I'd been using free clients (twitterriffic, TweetDeck, Hahlo) and resisting the call of premium for months now. The Tweetie hype last week led me to check out the sweet online help and I was sold.

Every time I use it I'm amazed at how it's the most responsive, comfortable, no-frills client out there. It's far more comfortable to browse Twitter via Tweetie than via any desktop client or web site I've seen thus far. If I were an Apple fan (oh crap!) I might say that Tweetie has given Twitter the Apple treatment in terms of slick UI and ease of use.

Oh jeez, don't let my Dad the MS fan read this.

The fact is Tweetie gets the "let's pick up where we left off, seamlessly queue up the next page of Tweets without making me click through every twenty messages, and tap the top of the screen if you want to jump to [now] stream-browsing interface JUST PERFECT. Thanks, whoever wrote Tweetie. You earned my $3 and more.

Re: A Yammer Widget? Adopting Internal Microblogging

dpritchett — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:39:03 -0000

Samuel,

I'm looking for something just like this to propose for the 2.0 Adoption Council's private site. Have you had any luck yet finding such a widget?

Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Email

dpritchett — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:54:18 -0000

Samuel, I like the quote from your link here but I disagree with the accompanying analysis:

"Because business processes don't have a system to translate them into practice, we spend more than a quarter of our day emailing about the exceptions to the business process rules."

Email is great for generating alerts to notify us of exceptions or incoming messages. My only quibble is that an email alert works better if it contains a link to the web application that hosts the exception information or the discussion (like say a Twitter DM notification email) instead of putting the information into the email and nowhere else.

Email as an alert system is great, email as a standalone internal communications network causes headaches.

Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Email

dpritchett — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:43:16 -0000

You are spot on about the pointlessness of trying to kill email. The best we can do is try to bring alternatives up to the same level of usefulness as email.

Email is really a glue technology and the best way for aspiring E2.0 toolsets to catch on is to embrace it rather than attempting to replace it. Your DISQUS comment stream here is a great example: Leave one comment on the web, receive replies (and respond to them) via email.

I tried to distill all of my blog posts about our love-hate relationship with email into my latest presentation, specifically starting on slide # 11. I'd love it if you and your readers could give me some critique.

Re: The Point You’re Missing About Google Wave

dpritchett — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:30:46 -0000

I agree, Eric. The point about how private Waves won't have to be clones but will be fully compatible with the wider Wave ecosystem is a big one that we need to keep in mind.

Re: Four hot collaboration trends for 2009: Internal Facebooks, SharePoint microblogging, expert location, and Django wikis

dpritchett — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:05:55 -0000

No apology necessary Alan, thanks for commenting. I am definitely a
fan of Signals right now and I hear there are even more cool things
coming in the next release.

Your integration of a decent contact list with your micromessaging /
wiki platform is my favorite feature currently. I'd really like to see
you borrow some of Newsgator's profile goodies too like the people-
centric keyword map and social graph visualizations.

Re: louisgray.com: Google Wave Hits Shore. Flash Flood Warning In Effect.

dpritchett — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:16:39 -0000

That's a shame given that it's not finished and not launched. Oh well, it took people a while to get Twitter - hopefully folks will come around to Wave too.

Re: Why Are You Hiding?

dpritchett — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:59:39 -0000

I just saw this post linked from Stewart Mader's Future Changes blog, neat!

http://www.ikiw.org/2009/10/01/air-new-zealand-...

Re: louisgray.com: Google Wave Hits Shore. Flash Flood Warning In Effect.

dpritchett — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:53:20 -0000

Wave is simultaneously less and more than I'd hoped. Right now the only waves I've seen are plodding meta topics about Wave itself. The service itself has been rather slow - not sure if that's my aging laptop or the full load of 100,000 new users signing on at once.

All that said, I'd be overjoyed if Wave replaced email and IM. Being able to use this type of tool at work would be *killer*.

Re: louisgray.com: I Don't Want To Hear About Distributed Conversations Any More

dpritchett — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:06:58 -0000

Sorffed?