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Every team and office includes people with potentially conflicting personalities and working styles. By applying the right relationship management techniques, you can calm tension, communicate more easily, and run your projects more efficiently. Keith LaFerriere shows us how.  Hide Your Shame: The…

Yesterday a select group of fifteen or so industry luminaries attended a highly confidential meeting at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View to discuss the company’s upcoming plans to address the “Facebook issue.” The meeting was so secret that all attendees had to sign confidentiality…

At the Social Graphing conference on Tuesday our industry went in full-blown madness. A panel filled with Facebook fans (and some investors) got so worked up they claimed--among other things--that: a) Facebook was worth $100 billion dollars b) Facebook would crush Google c) Facebook…

Big trend coming out of TechCrunch40: data normalization services like Mint, Cake, TripIt, and Clickable. DMS is a new category (I think I just named it) in which companies pull in data from 3rd parties, normalize (clean) it, and then leverage it. In Cake's case they suck in people's trading…

Most, hogy új üdvöskéje van a hazai webnek a - mutasd.be-, újra előkerült a hálózatépítés kérédése és hogy mennyi bőrt lehet még lehúzni a területről. Nekem az a bajom az egész üggyel, függetlenül attól, hogy szépen összerakott szolgáltatásról van szó, hogy továbbra…

Akkor biztosan elgondolkodnék a következő dolgon. A Microsoft egyik stratégiát meghatározó emberével beszélgettem sokadmagammal ma este, írok majd erről is, de még vár rá némi emésztés, előbb a következő gondolatot fejteném ki részletesebben, ami a beszélgetés alatt jutott…

There's been a lot of chatter about the entire concept of social graphing. I have no idea if there is validity here or not. And certainly people smarter than I am are talking about the potential viability of the entire concept. However, what I do know is that a lot of us are increasingly…

Even though Google offers many web applications that could replace traditional software, the integration between them is barely visible. The closest thing to an online desktop that displays your favorite applications is iGoogle, where you can set up themed tabs like this one.To switch from Gmail to…

Google Blogscoped got their hands on an internal video created by the Google Reader team where they discuss future plans for their popular service. There’s a pile of interesting information; highlights include Google developing a new way for publishers to notify Google of updates, plans to…

This week I want to try something a little different and attempt a debate here at ProBlogger. The idea is simple - I’ve chosen two people who I think have experience around a debated blogging topic to argue the case for either side of it. These two opinions will act as the first speaker for each…

Ahh, TechCrunch gets after linkblogs and warns Google not to turn on more features in Google Reader. As publisher of the biggest linkblog on the Internet, with about 300,000 items collected over the past year, you might be right to sense that I don’t agree. But you’d be wrong. Content producers…

There's been a lot of chatter about the entire concept of social graphing. I have no idea if there is validity here or not. And certainly people smarter than I am are talking about the potential viability of the entire concept. However, what I do know is that a lot of us are increasingly…

I'm sure there's a whole team of UI designers, programmers, and testers who worked very hard on the OFF button in Windows Vista, but seriously, is this the best you could come up with? Every time you want to leave your computer, you have to choose between nine, count them, nine options: two icons…

Google has just quietly launched a new social link sharing service called Google Shared Stuff. According to this help file, you can add links to your “shared stuff page” by adding a bookmarklet to your web browser’s “Links” or “Bookmarks” bar or by clicking this button, which…

Walking barefoot over a cobblestone path is possible, and no step in particular will injure your feet. But the overall experience isn’t nice. It’s the same when a website has minor usability problems piling up: none of the issues taken on its own is disastrous at all, but taken together, the…

See Jason Calacanis about the official defintion of Web 3.0 and difference between it and Web 2.0.

Social networking is twice as popular with young women as young men, but adult men are more likely to use social networks than adult women. Young women use Facebook to keep in touch with friends, share pictures and communicate. Adult men tend use it to network and communicate professionally. But…

Since the re-rollout of Office in 1996, it's been really clear why Microsoft was so hell-bent at first owning and then suffocating the web browser, along with the web. Tim Berners-Lee understood, before there was a Mozilla and a Netscape, he said the web was inherently a two-way medium. We…

On Friday evening I wrote a piece about integrating images, audio and perhaps other types with Twitter. There's been a bit of reaction, not too much, I think because most of the people who are adversarial about this kind of stuff either don't use Twitter, or because it's the weekend. Most of the…

Back in 2001, I wrote a document called Payloads for RSS that explained how you could attach something to a RSS item. I didn't explain how a RSS app would display or play one of these things, that would come later. Today, we may be at a similar place with Twitter. Sometimes I want to answer…

TechMeme really likes Friday evening's Monkey piece, it's been #1 for almost 24 hours. Even if people still use the Social Graph term, it may have done some good by asking the question -- what's the difference between a network and a graph? In math there is no difference, a network is a graph and…

Dan Farber was on the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 07 and posts about it.It seems that in the future social networks are woven into our life.

See Tom Foremski about the value of journalism in the ages of meme tracker.

Disclaimer: This blog post does not reflect future product announcements, technical strategy or advice from my employer. Disregard this disclaimer at your own risk. In my previous post Some Thoughts on Open Social Networks, I gave my perspective on various definitions of…