Office Jotter - Blog Archive for January (2011)

There were 11 blog postings during January (2011):

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Orkut, and Quora
Quora: What did Marissa Mayer mean when she said that Orkut failed because of “infrastructure issues” This is a follow-up question to Why haven’t major companies like Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo succeeded at social...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 2nd January '11

Follow-up to On the ball and dropping the ball
I wrote recently about my experiences when registering for four online social networking services. As you may recall, Company D did not impress. The sales manager of one of the company’s trading partners has since made contact. When I...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 6th January '11

Still more curating, and its limits
Mashable: 4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web As the volume of content swirling around the web continues to grow [waffle snipped]… The solution on the horizon is curation. You can either choose to be a curator —...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 6th January '11

A rant (not mine) about poor computer journalism
Steve Yelvington: Things I wish tech journalists would learn This item caught my eye. so I thought I’d repeat it here while I’m working on a couple of longer pieces. I agree with what Mr Yelvington says; not so sure about some of the...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 11th January '11

Socialised shopping (part 1 of 2)
In the sense that it’s a characteristic of human society, shopping is by definition a social activity. It’s a long-lived one, too. There are well-documented remains of shops and markets from ancient Egypt, Greece, China and...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 13th January '11

Zynga + Flock = Zock? Flynga?
Mashable: Zynga Buys Social Web Browser Flock Rounding out a list of eight acquisitions in the past seven months, Zynga has purchased “social web browser” Flock… With the purchase, Zynga hopes to further the spread of its social...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 17th January '11

Jive Software SBS 4.5
In our market update last year, Carl Potter and I described Jive Social Business Software (SBS) as: “A good set of tools in a range of packagings…[with] some large installations, mainly in North America and Europe”. Conversations...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 20th January '11

Facebook is like living with your mother, says John Dvorak
PCMag.com: Why I Don’t Use Facebook John Dvorak doesn’t think much of Facebook and reckons it presents users with a similar dead-end to that AOL placed its customers in a decade or more ago. Facebook is like living with your mother. She...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 16th January '11

Two follow-ons to Facebook is like living with your mother
So soon? Well, these were too relevant to pass over. Recent posting, “Facebook is like living with your mother”, looked at John Dvorak’s PC Magazine article comparing Facebook to AOL. He thought both pandered to the masses, while...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 24th January '11

Have you Tungled your Drupal lately? A rumination on names
Have you noticed how often social software companies, products and services in English-speaking countries are being given names that aren’t proper words and that offer no clue what they’re for? Take the two in the title, for instance. If...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 26th January '11

An update on OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice
I mentioned these products in my recent posting, “Oracle Open Office goes vaporous”. Both have now moved to version 3.3. OpenOffice.org (OOo) 3.3 was released this week after five months of beta testing. There’s a review of it at...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 29th January '11