My Obligatory IPad Post

I’ve had my IPad for about a week now. So I thought I’d write some thoughts down based on my initial experiences. Here are my initial take-aways: 1 – Netflix OnDemand – I’m a movie junkie. I’m now more apt to just start a movie as background sound for my workday (I telecommute – so [...]

Web 2.0 + Enterprise (Lists !)

We recently delivered a talk at Parc (no longer Xerox Parc), where we talked about the implications of the web 2.0 trends in the enterprise. We also recently invited two of Parc’s prominent researchers, Stu Card and Pete Pirolli for a brown bag at Oracle, so here is the double reason for the post.The most [...]

What’s the Best Way to Collect Ratings?

Photo by anne.oeldorfhirsch from Flickr used under Creative Commons YouTube published (h/t TechCrunch) an interesting graph of its video ratings earlier in the week. YouTube uses a five-star scale for rating videos, and according to them, rating a video one star means you “loathe” it, while rating a video five stars means you love it. [...]