inCommunicado - eric eggertson

With the announcement today that Flickr is being purchased by Yahoo!, the creativity and stamina of the Flickr team will continue to be tested. Up until now, it’s been a struggle to find resources, keep the thing moving forward, and handle all the dozens of things that come at you every day when you’re a […]

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The more I wander blogland (sorry, I refuse to refer to it as the blogosphere unless I’m mocking someone), the more homogenized the place looks. Which is weird, since there are millions of blogs out there.
So last week I took a Six Degrees of Separation tour through various blogs and sites. I didn’t get a […]

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About 1,100 phototgraphers from around the world will take their cameras with them on Monday.
Some of them will take a few pictures of something they see in the parking lot, the view from their cubicle, and maybe some images from their neighbourhood. Others will spend the day taking hundreds of images that say something about […]

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Finally, some functionality for PDAs that takes advantage of the knowledge and opinions of a community of people.
Earthcomber allows the user to download a map of an area, with comments about points on the map. The possible applications? Well, a neighbourhood with multiple retail outlets would be a good candidate. The locals could provide their […]

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Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. But don’t ignore it, either.
Adrants writes about BuzzMetrics, a research company specializing in analysis of all the marketing information on the Internet, including the online conversations taking place about products, brands, companies, and more:
Because of the pervasiveness of the Internet, the use
of chat rooms, IM, forums, […]

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Jeremy Wright muses out loud (well, silently, but in public) that there are many qualities about corporate communication that don’t lend themselves to blogging:
Corporate communication is a box. It is predefined:
- Who can say things
- What they can say
- Who they can say it to
- When they can say it
- Where they can say it
- […]

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There are few things as engaging and disarming as a swift, heartfelt apology.
Technorati employee Niall Kennedy found himself inadvertantly drawing criticism about his company the other day for something he posted.  His response was quick, clear, unequivocal and sincere.
Which brings me to my four qualities of a real apology (as opposed to a forced apology, […]

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After the first blush of excitement at playing around on 43 Things and sharing aspirations with other people, concern about sharing intimate details with the site’s investor Amazon is spreading. Is this all part of a conspiracy to mine people’s dreams for the evil purposes of selling them Amazon merchandise?
Well, selling merchandise has been the […]

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Here’s a blog that was started today and has one entry in it, but it’s an interesting entry.
Social Informatics is described as "A Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog … for monitoring social informatics resources and sites on
the World Wide Web and available over the Internet."
It lists several sites I hadn’t heard of before, but misses one […]

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  FlickrGraph Eric’s Contacts    Originally uploaded by Mutually Inclusive.
There’s a new tool making the rounds at www.flickr.com that creates a visual representation of you, your photos and the people within Flickr who are your contacts.
The social and visual experiment continues at this interesting web site/community/service.
To take a look at the […]

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  Day in the Life Screenshot    Originally uploaded by Eric E.
The ways in which you can have a virtual life just keep expanding.
I first thought Flickr was just a neat way to store your photos online and invite family and friends to see them. Not unlike what a lot of […]

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