Archive for January, 2007

Microsoft in hot water over Wikipedia edits

Microsoft in hot water over Wikipedia edits - CNN.com

While Wikipedia is known as the encyclopedia that anyone can tweak, founder Jimmy Wales and his cadre of volunteer editors, writers and moderators have blocked public-relations firms, campaign workers and anyone else perceived as having a conflict of interest from posting fluff or slanting entries. So paying for Wikipedia copy is considered a definite no-no.

Ok, here comes another article link I find this one intriguing because it involves MS and Wikipedia. In the past studies have show Wikipedia to be just slightly more “unaccurate” that the established Encyclopedia Brittanica. But this seemed marginal and one would wonder if it was statistically signifcant. Anyway, Wikipedia has become a beloved source of information and this is not the first time someone or something has tried to change its content. MS would have us believe that it was trying to get it right, but who’s right do they consider right? They have a way of seeing them through Redmond glasses and they think they know more than the rest of us (IMHO). One always has to wonder about the objectivity of a MS sponsored report/white paper/correct. Anyway, perhaps you will find this interesting as well.

24 January, 2007 | No comments

Why tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine

Why tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine. - Jan. 22, 2007

The company’s backers include some of the world’s smartest, richest, and most successful tech entrepreneurs. The chairman and first big outside investor is Mitch Kapor, creator of Lotus 1-2-3, the spreadsheet application that helped begin the PC software revolution. Other investors include eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, Amazon (Charts) CEO Jeff Bezos, and Microsoft chief technology architect (and inventor of Lotus Notes) Ray Ozzie - each credited with a seminal networked product of our age.

Well yesterday I posted that I wanted more in-depth posts and less links to articles. But when I saw this one I just could not resist. The ability to create 3D worlds and combine multiple aspects of online socialization with real-world organizations creates opportunities that are amazing. Clearly technology leaders are seeing this as well. If you can leverage this with consoles (Xbox, Wii, PS3) the possibilities are endless. Xbox alone has a huge following of gamers who interact online. With corporations stepping up we are sure to see huge impacts on stakeholder relations.

22 January, 2007 | No comments

Digital Stakeholders 2.0

Over the past few months I have been rethinking Digital Stakeholders. It takes time to keep a blog running and continuing to post. Most of the recent posts have been links to interesting articles and a quick comment or two. But that is not why I created DS in the first place. My primary interest was to help focus my research on the area that is most interesting to me. That is the ways in which technology is changing the relationship between organizations and stakeholders.

So while there will be fewer posts in 2007, it is my hope that the quality of the post will be taken to a higher level. As I said I have been thinking about this for quite some time, but after reading Terry Byrd’s blog it really hit me that this is closer to what DS should be in the future. I do not pretend to be as smart or as articulate as Terry, but it is my hope that DS will improve in the coming year.

The new look is just the beginning. Let’s see what happens.

19 January, 2007 | No comments

Hate Deep Linking? Lock the Door, Dummy!

Hate Deep Linking? Lock the Door, Dummy! - Columns by PC Magazine

You have to wonder exactly how dumb the executives at Google, Yahoo!, and even Microsoft are when a case waltzes through a court in Texas that not only directly affects their respective businesses but has the potential to bankrupt at least two of these companies.

Now this seems silly that in this day and time someone would even attempt this case. But that are and the courts are listening. We assume that people are tech-literate in 2007, but the reality is many still are not. Better watch this one.

16 January, 2007 | No comments