If we accept that Gmail has become the de facto future of personal email and is starting to ensnare large numbers of business users (by virtue of being free or near-free, even for domain users), then anything that steps up its game in terms of providing better context for email is a welcome addition. Rapportive [...]
Posts tagged with "social networking"
Facebook privacy & digital NIMBY
The more you ‘live life transparently,’ the more you post to your social networking life stream, the more ‘friends’ and acquaintances you pick up along the way, the more you invite trouble. Well — that may be stating it strongly. But you do attract a small group of social media hecklers, bullies and office chair [...]
Peter Block about community
From my growing interest in community, conversation and how we can harness what we’re learning about online community behaviours in the real world came a renewed pointer to Peter Block (thanks to a post by Mark Kuznicki). I remembered that I’d read The Answer to How is Yes in the past and been impressed by [...]
Brilliant stuff: Read It Later Firefox extension
There are so many applications that facilitate saving and sharing bookmarks that it seems almost trite to mention yet another one. But Read It Later does some clever stuff and meets a very specific need for me, so I thought I’d pay it forward. Read It Later is a Firefox extension that places a little [...]
Why I’m using WordPress
Someone will ask sooner or later, so I’ll just post my reasons for using WordPress here. Quite simply, it’s the best blogging platform for public blogs, period. It’s small, elegant, easy to use and has thousands of quick-to-install, stable plugins to automate everything from metadata, web analytics and Flickr integration to collecting and posting my [...]
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Carsten Knoch
Software and services professional, attentive music listener, vision enabler, instigator, reader of books and the web, vegetarian, affordable audio hobbyist, thinker, writer, blogger, tinkerer, Internet dweller since 1992. Human being since 1970.
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