Tag: socialnetworks

Bundling Web 2.0

Intel will announce SuiteTwo today, a product that brings together a number of Enterprise 2.0 apps into an integrated suite. The 4 products that are included in the release are MovableType, SocialText, Simplefeed and Newsgator. The suite will allow companies to easily install, setup and integrate these products and will be available in both a self-hosted form and also as a hosted service. With these products this suite includes a blogging platform, a wiki and apps to both subscribe to and publish feeds – giving it a real web 2.0 focus.

i am very skeptical about the chances of a such a cobbled-together “suite” against sharepoint.

Scientific Genealogy

As an aside, there seems to be lots of academic genealogy projects. Of particular note is the neuroscience family tree. That computer scientists through mathematicians can lead their ancestry back to Leibniz isn’t that strange. But many neuroscientists also tie into the above network. Eric Kandel has Otto Mencke in his background, and Herman von Helmholtz has neuroscience and psychology descendants beside his physics and philosophy descendants.

It would be fun to actually merge all these academic graphs to see the big picture, but I will likely need a better layout program to handle it. The philosophers are <8000 and yEd handles them well, but the philosopher graph is just 8% of the mathematician graph.

see also Genealogy of Influence a visualization of the connections between the most influential writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians of Western culture

Myspace Acquisition Fraud

  • Intermix specifically chose not to initiate an auction or shopping process as mandated by the law (Revlon Duties)
  • Rosenblatt, Andrew Sheehan, News Corp., and both banking firm’s, collusion against Viacom’s efforts to give Intermix a bid including misinforming Viacom of the timing for making a bid, directing Thomas Weisel to stop facilitating Viacom’s bid, and hiding from Morgan Stanley, Viacom’s banker, as Intermix and News Corp. rushed to sign the deal.
  • Intermix CEO Richard Rosenblatt’s $12 per share sale price for Myspace was not based on an outside valuation from the investment banking community. In May 2005 Deutsche Bank outlined for Intermix executives that taking Myspace public could provide value in the $1- $1.7b range.
  • Rosenblatt knew Myspace was on track to become a $20b property and purposely withheld this information from shareholders to accelerate the transaction as well as 60% of his stock options at closing for a personal gain of $20m.

juicy if true

De-Centralized Intelligence Agency

putting the intelligence back into CIA

The agency perhaps has the greatest to gain from adopting social software, but also has the greatest hard coded structural barriers (need to know) and a culture that reprimands against participation. Nevertheless, an Intellipedia and blogging at all levels in the organization is burgeoning. There is a shared understanding that these tools, with the right practices and change in culture could transform intelligence from a manufacturing model that delivers reports to a complex adaptive system where intelligence is a conversation with decision makers, an inherently counter spin.

Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community

We must transform the Intelligence Community into a community that dynamically reinvents itself by continuously learning and adapting as the national security environment changes. These changes include allowing our officers more autonomy in the context of improved tradecraft and information sharing. In addition, several new technologies will facilitate this transformation. 2 examples are self-organizing knowledge websites, known as Wikis, and information sharing websites known as Blogs.