Today, on Twitter, I introduced a simple mechanism for asserting equivalence between tags -- making them explicitly synonyms -- using the equal sign '='. For example: #web2expo = #w2e This has the immediate impact of informing people following one tag...

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Nielsen reports that Twitter users drop out in high numbers: [from Twitter users not sticking around: Nielsen by AFP: Yahoo! Tech] More than 60 percent of Twitter users have stopped using the micro-blogging service a month after joining, according to...

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In recent weeks, my work on the Open Enterprise 2009 study has led to many conversations where practitioners and other researchers have mentioned the movement away from email culture to more open models of interaction. Here's one way to characterize...

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Following my recent post about the transition from the inbox to the stream (see From Email Culture To Stream Culture: Out Of The Inbox), I got a comment from someone called 's' which actually made me laugh. Among other things,...

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I was interviewed by the guys from T3N Magazine in Hamburg, at the Next09 conference. Honestly I ramble a bit too much at the start -- I had just gotten off the podium from my talk -- but around 4...

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