Meat the Tweet

Add to the charisma by showing some skin

It's bound to be scrutinized even back when people adopted the term micro-blogging to differentiate the short post from the regular blog posts. It wasn't such a force then but it's different now!

Brian Solis writes about it and it and the stats for me do make sense. And now I have a good excuse for slacking off the posts. :)

Anyway, I finally have the nerve to marry my tweets into the posts directly for the first time as long as I feel there's something I'd like to add - like meat to the bone (or forever hold my breath).


A Macbook Air replica for cheapskates like me :)

Recession innovations? This one sure is simple (and tugs at the heart). Beth Israel finds a team solution.

Haven't written much or showcased Ruby on Rails for some time but good to find our team in this honor list! 50+ Ruby-related Blogs to Read

Buddhist enlightenment? Throw some tweets my way cause I do love to meditate - cause I'm way too stressed!

Under the Radar looks really interesting for companies that are sort of similar to our own - Cloud Computing, PaaS and SaaS mostly. Hope we can participate, too.

And a Plug for ApacheCon 2009 Europe via my colleagues post on our very own Carlos Sanchez!

The World's Largest Datacenter (Twit-ductivity in Real Time)

RT: @friarminor Now it's everyone, anywhere & real time!

For about a while now (okay, much longer), Google had been quite the useful and resourceful friend that helps point you to the information you need. It also introduced the importance of using keywords that allow you to dig up and refine whatever it is the results that you are looking for. You know that something has 'arrived' when a proper noun is being used as a verb.

Yet, for all it's search brilliance and vastness of information under its disposal, there exists albeit for a few, a belief that there's room for improvement (though I was not one of them). The use of wikis provided us with a glimpse of what crowd-sourcing can do yet pooling all the resource within a specific time frame seemed a task that appeared insurmountable.

Yet, if there was value in crowd wisdom, it seemed that it was taken for granted and left to the wikis. Consider if each person was a resource, then social networks would sensibly hold the largest information and computational infrastructure aided by the ubiquity of web access. However, networks stopped short of this realization and instead focused and rejoiced on the value of being 'social'.

And like great discoveries of the past, we now have accidentally tripped, err twipped, over this great feature made valuable by social networks. Designed initially as a simple (almost) real-time communication app, it has now transcended it's original purpose and has continued to do so. (Thank you Open API!)

In what way, you might ask that it delivers something that Google algorithmically tries to do - provide real time responses and results - which would prove the difference between exact pertinent information vs timely pertinent information. Think Twitter Search, MicroPlaza and Twitterfall. Try them and be amazed in real time!

Related:
10 Twitter Tools to Help You Work Smarter
The Top 21 Twitter Apps (according to Compete)
The *Real* Top 20 Twitter Apps

Being Amazon In A Seemingly Google Web World

Oh, to be Amazon is to be the most Innovative - without the web necessarily putting your face in the front cover all the time. (Mapping innovation across the globe) But being Google isn't too bad, not a bit - except when you have a need to build social sites. (Likaholix and the ex-Googlers angle to building social networks)


Possibly Related:
Hot off SXSW is MobyPicture. Phone pics to all sites, err almost all. Plus the great list of Web Awards finalist here. Still not finished checking each one

Again, Tracking Twitter by Topic. Useful. Check out Omniture, Twitter Analytics that raise the bar (Article from Mashable)

LaidOffCamp: Getting laid-off workers a reason to smile about

WebWork 101: A Summary of Apps You Need & Starter Web Apps for Small Business, too.

Google Health is about sharing online records (instead of clamming up and giving the privacy argument)

Both photos from Liam Hodgeon's A Lot of Effort is Put in Making Things Look Effortless courtesy of that hell of a site called Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far

Twitter Takes Social and Info-Crave to New Heights

It's happening .... And like some alien find, it will be examined, re-examined, poked, made fun off, ignored, left on its own, celebrated, worshiped and ta dun, subjected to metrics and analytics cause we're really smart, you know and we do care about our precious time ...

Watch:Twitter Frenzy - Old Man Stewart

Related and some that are possibly, too:
* Tom Foremski on 140 characters ...
* ReTweetability Index. Here comes the analytics... and extracting a bit more info about the tweets and re-tweets from MicroPlaza
* Skittles New Site - What it tells the rest of us about being online and social.
* Too much social? Escaping crowd mentality by thinking. Real individual thinking.
* Yes, there's Summize but this one feels 'geekier'. Real-time Twitter Search results on Google

Just received an email that this will be part of an upcoming 'special spread' on Businessweek. Says something about cloud computing and business, eh. Cloud Slam 09

SAP Discovers Proof That They're Human

Really felt that despite what happened, Coghead's fall isn't entirely surprising given the number of startups faltering (even the biggies) amidst this dire economic situation. It is true that they've put their customers through pain as a result but it is not as though their service fell and dissolved into the cloud.

On the contrary, it is still a cloud! Just that there's new wind behind it - called SAP. And to just tell the customers that al they wanted is the intellectual property, not the customers, doesn't sound 'humane'. Not entirely blameless, I reckon.

Seems like they felt it, too and are now forming a team to help with SaaS integration concerns.

Spare dime? Maybe but kudos for the effort!

UnRelated:

Unsung cloud flyers. Figure out whose concept EC2 is - here.
IBM deal with Amazon: Is that an anointment?
Evernote is worth remembering. A few others on online notebooks such as Springpad.
Six Steps to Company-Wide Adoption. Practical tips we could all use to go company social.
Another one down. Rocky Mountain News Demise.
Failing grades in class. Must be the lectures' fault. Try the podcasts!
Award for most creative extension for Firefox? Must be Pencil.

Coghead: Business Model Exposes PaaS Risk & other tales

The need to be vigilant ...

If there is a way to get a message across, do it with money, more particularly, the loss of it.

Look at how events at Wall Street just shook things up to get people to figure out that there's something wrong with the system so we need to re-examine things.

In the world of tech hype, cloud computing, PaaS and SaaS, having the same scenario, albeit unfortunate especially for startups, illustrates points more clearly far better what hundreds of crowd analysts can in multiple blog posts. (OK, no stopping me from sharing my thoughts here - Lock in and/or Locked- out)

Will Platform as a Service and Software as a Service be better for it after Coghead? In the short-term, I think not as doubts will again cloud the talk-o-sphere when understanding of it isn't even clear for most, let alone, companies.

But then again, to pause and reflect, has always been a good idea to get a handle on things. Hopefully, people will be able to put the lessons to work in no time and be able to figure out how cloud computing solutions can work to their benefit.

Related:
SAP is cold-blooded. No customer service for non-customers!

Event:
Future of Web Apps (FOWA) is happening!
Watchmen. Sneaky, non-spoiler post from Wil 'f#cking awesome' Wheaton!

Others:
Google App Engine has a pricing plan. They are in need of money, still?
Surrender to P2P, says Norwegian Minister. (Silent snicker..)
You're missing a lot if you haven't tried the Adobe Air Apps Now, video recording for Tweetdeck, too!
Amazon Kindle 2 bought me to tears cause I haven't got one.
Wired goes to the Oscars. Ringmaster Wolverine passed his test, I think.

Ooops, Hoops: Best Stories of 2009 (for me, so far).

Just found probably the two best stories for the year and it's no coincidence that it involves basketball - which because I can't play then the news, I just follow. But this isn't about the usual fare about the superstars and team wins and losses. This is about the meaningful things which I believe all sports stories can teach us. Amen to these men and the sports journalists for devoting themselves to write about these!

Shane Battier: The No-Stats All-Star [Michael Lewis for NYTimes]. Team play, the value of metrics as well as intangibles.

Amid the Grieving, Rare Act of Sportsmanship. A touching story.

Related:
What HR Analysts can Learn from Basketball [Tom Davenport, Harvard Business Publishing].