webocracy: matthew domurat

myYearbook’s Chatter Driving 1 Million Updates A Day, 1 Billion...

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:14:00 -0400

myYearbook’s Chatter Driving 1 Million Updates A Day, 1 Billion Page Views A Month

This is quite an accomplishment! Coming soon are the iPhone and Android apps.

Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq Great software to get...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:49:00 -0500

Great software to get wireframes together quickly. Easily replaces or augments paper prototyping with a large library of common controls and objects.

This is a fantastic read on the transformation happening in the...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:14:00 -0500

This is a fantastic read on the transformation happening in the print world. A great view on how the iPad will give context and meaning to content, and improve the consumption of information; a game changer.

“Put very simply, Formless Content is is unaware of the container. Definite Content embraces the container as a canvas. Formless content is usually only text. Definite content usually has some visual elements along with text. (via Books in the Age of the iPad)”

Why You Can’t Work at Work from Jason Friend, the co-founder of...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:24:37 -0500

Why You Can’t Work at Work from Jason Friend, the co-founder of 37signals.

This really hits home as a challenge for today’s corporate environment. The good news is that we have tools and people to overcome it, and the smarter we work, the better the output.

Controlling distractions is paramount for individuals, managers, and for success across the enterprise.

Loic Le Meur Blog: The Corporate Social Networking...

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:14:00 -0500

Loic Le Meur Blog: The Corporate Social Networking Manifesto

Salient points from Loic and just as relevant for your personal business and brand. Scale it to what you can afford.

Cool Infographics - My Digital Life 2.0: A Consumer Gadget Map A...

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:41:00 -0500

Cool Infographics - My Digital Life 2.0: A Consumer Gadget Map

A great example how consumer products are penetrating our lives, and will become assumptions for digital natives. As a Product Manager, mapping your product strategy to the consumer requires a deep level of understanding, beautifully visualized by Randy in this infographic.

I made a simple, similar diagram for my digital life to help visualize my strategy for my home network and devices.

Pleasure and Pain » The UX Design Process for the Boxee Beta

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:38:00 -0500

Pleasure and Pain » The UX Design Process for the Boxee Beta:

Defining the interface from which we manage all of our media is one of the greatest UX challenges facing designers today. The Boxee beta is a great example of understanding the user’s goals, and making a complex task relatively painless.

I think there are still major challenges ahead for the media centers, but Plex, Boxee, and Hulu have a good handle on it, and are innovating.

Social CRM is coming If web 2.0 has taught us anything,...

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:10:00 -0500

Social CRM is coming

If web 2.0 has taught us anything, it’s that the web is the place for social networking. But until there is one place that personal and business information can co-exist safely, it’s hard to keep track of everything that is happening out there on the web. Social CRM is starting to gain momentum.

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others are vying for your data, aka, your biography, friends, and status updates. But there is also a wealth of information in your day-to-day interaction spent in E-Mail, CRM, and on your smartphone.

Enter Gist.com. A tool that is attempting to consolidate the various sources of information on the people & companies that are important to you. It’s in beta stage, but the concept is compelling.

Gist will analyze your Facebook, Salesforce.com, LinkedIn, and Outlook data and more, to give you insight into your contacts. The interface needs to mature, but with so many data sources, it’ll take some time before the dashboard is as simple to navigate as iTunes is for your media collection.

Until then, I’ll keep an eye on Gist.com. This could be an especially important tool for the sales, researcher, human resources, marketing, or others looking for a consolidated view of a person or organization.

More at Brent’s Social CRM blog.

My public Gist profile, which has good privacy controls.

Quicken Online + Mint.com = The Best of Both?

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:39:09 -0500

Quicken Online + Mint.com = The Best of Both?:

I’m excited to see the upcoming outcome of Intuit’s acquisition of Mint.com. Mint is one of the best personal finance tools available on the web, and has a great iPhone app.

Wesabe.com is also a good personal budgeting contender
Let’s not forget about Cake Financial for research and brokerage insight
I’ve yet to make a personal loan Prosper.com, but it looks like personal lending has made great progress
I support Kiva: micro-loans for developing nations - philanthropy 2.0

What tools are you using to keep track of your personal finances? What blogs are giving you the best information for investment and financial management advice?

Thanks Bonnie! bonniejarvie: CNBC Original, Maria Bartiromo...

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:48:41 -0500

Thanks Bonnie!

bonniejarvie:

CNBC Original, Maria Bartiromo takes viewers Inside The Mind of Google for a rare look at the world’s most powerful technology company and its crown jewel, the Google Internet search engine. This is the fascinating story of how two grad students, in barely a decade, took a one-time research project and turned it into a global technology powerhouse…changing the way we interact with information, the Internet, and each other. See how Google came to dominate the search industry and turn it into a profit machine… and see where it’s taking its next step… and how the company plans to address arguably the biggest controversy in today’s digital age: privacy.

I really like how Google Living Stories is leveraging the ‘life’...

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:50:00 -0500

I really like how Google Living Stories is leveraging the ‘life’ of a news story by using the technology and visualizations that work best on the web and give us context.

It’s not just putting print online.

One link for each story that doesn’t change, but aggregates sources
Visual timeline gives you context, navigation
It knows what you read the last time you visited
It continually updates with new, related stories
Weighted summaries
Key Quotations, People,
Subscribe to email updates
All types of media: audio/video/images

Example: “The Politics of Global Warming”.

The project was developed by Google in collaboration The New York Times and The Washington Post. Read more details over at the Google blog.

Google Goggles - Use pictures to search the web We’re...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:00:15 -0500

Google Goggles - Use pictures to search the web

We’re visual creatures; and I love how Google sees the future of search heading toward making visual connections. We’re heading there soon, with fast internet connections and cameras on our mobile devices, this idea will give context and information about the real world.

Imagine snapping a picture of the spider in your bedroom to find out it’s species and threat level. Not sure if that is a pimple on your skin, or the MRSA virus, snap a photo to find out!

In the business card example, our clumsy and complicated interaction with moving information from physical world to digital will disappear.

I’m looking forward to seeing this develop!

OpenDNS Blog » Some thoughts on Google DNS

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:36:05 -0500

OpenDNS Blog » Some thoughts on Google DNS:

I use OpenDNS for my home internet/network. Now that Google has announced a similar DNS offering, David Ulevish from OpenDNS shares some thoughts.

Personally, I think this is good news for OpenDNS. Competition breeds innovation, and as a Deluxe member of OpenDNS, I’m sure the service will continue to add features.

I’m not sure I want Google knowing every site I visit, which I a primary reason for not using the Google Chrome browser.

webocracy is changing

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:09:00 -0500

to the few people who wander this way, i’m moving my blog from wordpress to tumblr. i’m also separating work and personal life, so we’ll see how that goes.

here is the new thinking:

work & work related:

blog.rox.org (you are here)
twitter.com/madwork

personal

stuff.rox.org - my digital scrapbook
twitter.com/mad - my lifecast
last.fm - the soundtrack of my life

thanks for stopping by, and i hope you come back soon.