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The Future Of Online Collaboration: Interview with Howard Rheingold
The future of online collaboration seen through the eyes of SmartMobs author, Howard Rheingold, focuses on the ways in which we can leverage the use of these powerful new communication tools to our service and benefit. Howard Rheingold, which I first met two years ago here in Rome, and then later visited in his inspiring artist home immersed in the green Marin Valley north of San Francisco, is a true...
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-September 1, 2006

The Future Of Online Collaboration: Interview with Jay Cross
"Informal learning is all around us: it happens all the time, everywhere, because it is the most natural way we all learn. Informal learning is the both the most valuable and the least talked about asset an organization has today to match the knowledge demands imposed by the increasingly rapid pace of change. Unless a company can facilitate unrestricted exchange, promote visual communication, while encouraging open confrontation through the growth...
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-August 17, 2006

The Future of Online Collaboration: Interview with Stuart Henshall
Recorded over a year ago, together with a small group of high-profile thought leaders in the field of online collaboration (Stuart Henshall, Chris Pirillo, Howard Rheingold, Jay Cross) this is the first good conversation of this new series I am starting to publish today around the topic of the future of collaboration online. After the hyperhyped web conferencing buzz distatefully born by marketing departments after 9-11, and the series of...
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-July 6, 2006

3D Collaboration Spaces: What Future Ahead?
3D immersive virtual reality spaces in which people can meet, talk, present, and exchange documents and files have been around for over two years now. But this virtual reality approach to online collaboration has yet not taken root, nor have the potential marketplaces materialized in front of the still limited offerings that have become available online. What are then the limitations preventing 3D collaboration spaces from taking off and...
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-April 12, 2006

SMS Text Messaging + Social Networking = Swarming
Changes in technology have affected the way we socialize. Instead of the slow pace of wagons and trains, we have cars and jets. Instead of snail mail, we have email and cell phones that help us share common experiences with those far away. But it still isn't always easy to keep in touch, especially when we're trying to get together with lots of our friends all at once. M.C. Escher...
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-March 21, 2006

Instant Messengers Future As NewsBots
The Netherlands is somewhat of a test market for services around Instant Messenger, Microsoft's chat client. With 4 million active IM users in a country of 15 million, IM is incredibly popular, and becoming a mass medium in its own right. Microsoft is now starting to give out licenses for commercial "chatbots" that users can add to their buddy list. Dutch banks already have started to use the service: Postbank...
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-November 29, 2005

The Future is Voice Messaging
The future is voice messaging, not voice mail. Voice messaging only comes into its own when matched with "presence" applications like Skype. It's an important distinction, for voice messaging will be used differently. Links in the forums and some recent press comment around Skype have included reference to voice mail. It's probably a natural reference as we talk about "left a" and "getting voice mail" all the time. However in...
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-January 13, 2005

Time-Extended Events Are Coming: X-Events
New media technologies - communication, collaboration, presentation, content delivery and distribution platforms - provide powerful ways to dramatically extend the reach, duration and interaction possibilities of both online and offline events. Photo credit: Ingrid Peek Up until now, we have tended to be constrained by time and space when putting on an event. So, events have been hosted at a particular location with a finite set of speakers and participants...
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-January 12, 2005

Home-Shoring: Like-Minded Networked Homeworkers May Be Next Powerful Online Interconnected Workforce
"The Guardian earlier this week published an interesting article about a Scottish entrepreneur who hopes to persuade major UK companies that offshoring jobs overseas is not the only way to save money. Michael Wolff Michael Wolff is convinced that companies can save costs and keep jobs in Britain by outsourcing work to a network of highly skilled homeworkers." "Mr Wolff believes the internet, and particularly the increasing availability of broadband,...
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-January 1, 2005

Web And Video Conferencing Systems Requiring IE To Work: Time For Strategy Review
As I have been reporting for several months now Internet Explorer will likely not be anymore the Web browser of choice for the majority of Internet users soon. Internet Explorer has been rapidly loosing market share since the beginning of 2004 and in just the last 12 months it has left on the table over 20% of its previous loyal users. The trend, now that FireFox has released its final...
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-December 31, 2004