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Hutch Carpenter

Entrepreneurship as Signal: Quitting Facebook to Tackle Enterprise 2.0
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
In a recent post, Fred Wilson had this to say about Enterprise 2.0: This is one of the reasons we’ve struggled so hard to invest in “enterprise 2.0″ at Union Square Ventures. We have tried pretty hard to find companies that we can invest in that bring the new web technologies to the enterprise, readmore
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Facebook Is Starting to Get My Attention Again
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Fri, 03 Oct. 2008
Facebook recently made its new design permanent, de readmore
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Tim O’Reilly Course Corrects the Definition of Web 2.0
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Wed, 01 Oct. 2008
eBay was Web 2.0 before Web 2.0 was cool. Tim O’Reilly wrote a nice piece the other day Why Dell.com (was) More Enterprise 2.0 Than Dell IdeaStorm. In the post, he re-asserted the proper definition of Web 2.0. Here’s a quote: I readmore
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Don’t Be Boring, Don’t Sweat Page Views: Ten Company Blogs Analyzed
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
Courtesy of user twob on Flickr I read an amusing and insightful post by B.L. Ochman, readmore
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Microsoft Is Getting Much More from Its Investment in Facebook
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Thu, 25 Sep. 2008
When Microsoft invested readmore
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WordPress Acquires Intense Debate. Disqus Just Got Big Competition.
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Tue, 23 Sep. 2008
VentureBeat reports that Automattic, provider of WordPress blogs, has acquired social commenting application Intense Debate. As a blogger on WordPress.com, I welcome this. I’ve seen the power of Disqus for other blogs, and I’ve wanted it here. But there wasn’t a way to add Disqus t readmore
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“What’s the Difference Between IM and Yammer?”
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Tue, 23 Sep. 2008
It’s been a couple weeks since Yammer launched at TechCrunch50, and I assume Yammer is getting a road test out there in the workplace. One thing I saw after the launch was people wondering if Yammer was really just a copy of instant messaging. Here’s a representative tweet: What’s cool about it? What readmore
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Using Social Media In Hollywood - An Interview with MADtv’s Chris Kula
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Mon, 22 Sep. 2008
Chris Kula is a comedy writer living in Los Angeles. He currently writes for MADtv, seen Saturday nights on the Fox Network. I learned about Chris through an unusual connection - a link on my blog. A few months back I wrote readmore
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How to Mess with Bloggers’ Heads Using FriendFeed Lists
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Thu, 18 Sep. 2008
Steven Hodson, blogger extraordinaire at Winextra, posted this on FriendFeed: “Okay this is cool .. someone has setup a Curmudgeons list and I’m apparently part of the list ROFL” readmore
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Business Week Launches Info Sharing Social Network - Will It Float?
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Wed, 17 Sep. 2008
Business Week Magazine has entered the social networking world with readmore
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Yammer Gets Bronx Cheers from the Blogosphere. Why?
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Mon, 15 Sep. 2008
Yammer, as much of the free world seems to now know, won “best of show” at TechCrunch50. Yammer is an enterprise 2.0 company. The blogosphere had a fairly negative opinion about this. I read a numb readmore
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I’m Doubling Down My Subscriptions Because of FriendFeed Lists
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Thu, 11 Sep. 2008
As discussed here before, FriendFeed’s beta version includes the ability to tag users, putting them in different Lists you create. You can create your own prog readmore
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Yelp Is Putting Zagat into the “Innovator’s Dilemma” Headlock
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Wed, 10 Sep. 2008
In The Innovator’s Dilemma, author readmore
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Riding Coach: A Day in the TechCrunch50 DemoPit
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Tue, 09 Sep. 2008
I spent a day in the DemoPit of the readmore
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Use FriendFeed Lists and Rooms As Your Platform for Information Flow
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Mon, 08 Sep. 2008
Fred Wilson readmore
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Toluu Rolls Out Tagging {cool} {powerful} {discovery} {easy}
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
Toluu, everyone’s favorite blog recommendation application, has readmore
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How Enterprise 2.0 Fosters Innovation: Stop Groupthink
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
I’ve had a chance to read some interesting research about innovation. In this case, whether more quality ideas emerge… When people are in group sessions; or Thinking independently The background of this research ties into a well-known corporate activity: group meetings. I imagine most of us go through the ritual team meetings. Team meetings are readmore
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FriendFeed Lets You Tag Users: Now Expertise Finds You
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Fri, 29 Aug. 2008
FriendFeed’s new beta version is out. There are a number of new features there, which are well described by Bret Taylor on the readmore
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How Would Social Media Help You in Your Job?
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
I’m having a ball with social media out in the consumer web. Blogging, FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook. I’m learning so much about technology, new companies and people’s attitude readmore
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Tag Clouds for Our Lifestreams
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
We are marching down the lifestreaming road. There are a proliferation of lifestream apps, such as FriendFeed, SocialThing, Strands, Swurl and others. Lifestreaming is getting hotter, and there’s some thought that readmore
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