Oct 18

PerformancePoint – A brief history

A few years ago, I published an infographic showing the history of SharePoint, to help decypher the different twists, turns and acquisitions that influenced what went into (and out of) SharePoint. (May get round to doing an update on that sometime…) A related product has also had a few twists and turns of its own [...]


Jun 03

Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web

I’ve got mixed feelings about the viability of the semantic web but this video is a great compilation of the challenges facing information discovery and possible options. It’s become way easier to create information than to manage it…


Mar 05

Do Search and Social Networks Mix?

…All these issues affect how you want your information to be visible from one network to the next and over time. Are all these factors taken into consideration when Google decides to share your network? Behaviours emerge from networks, they are not predicted or calculated in advance…


Mar 01

Social Media judges the Olympics

Techcrunch has an interesting article: How We Hate NBC’s Olympic Coverage: A Statistical Breakdown.

NBC Olympics Sentiment Analysis

The statistics are coming from a couple of different ‘Sentiment Analysis’ services that track what people are saying about brands online. What’s interesting is how easy it has been for these services to gather the data…


Jan 27

Analyse and Act on Social Media Trends

Microsoft has a proof of concept built on SharePoint – Looking Glass – exploring how to analyse and act on social media trends that may be of interest to anyone in a communications role, internal or external:

Wafting the smoke aside and stepping around the mirrors, the concept is sound…


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