Pinboard Blog Today, Pinboard has grown to about 1200 active users, and we’re coming up on our two millionth bookmark. We store about a hundred gigabytes of crawled content. From one full-time employee, the site has ballooned to a staff of 1.5. We’ve expanded to fill two servers, one hosting the main site while the other performs certain onerous background tasks. And we’ve added piles and piles of features, including Twitter and Instapaper mirroring, better bulk editing, a mobile site, bookmarking by email, archiving, feeds, an API, and even a version of the site for the five Pinboard users who prefer to browse their bookmarks in Spanish. (categories: bookmarksdeliciousdel.icio.uspinboardentrepreneurshipstartup )
Paul Buchheit: So I finally tried Wave… Excerpt: "They could use MIME multi-part to send both a non-Wave, HTML version of the message, and the Wave version. Wave-enabled mail readers would display the live Wave, while older mailers would show the static version along with a link to the live Wave." Nice little nugget there. Curious: has anyone done anything interesting with MIME multipart and email? (categories: googlewavewavegmailcollaborationinnovationmimeemail )
search-reporting – Project Hosting on Google Code How many of your users are clicking on the first search result? How many refine their search? How many use the Advanced search capabilities? How many click on a cached link? How many have to click the Next page link? How many aren’t finding what they want? (categories: gsaenterprisegooglesearch )
The Value of Sharing: Social Engagement | ShareThis Excerpt: On an aggregate level, sharing is now accounting for as much as one-third of the amount of traffic driven by search, which is most often the top source of traffic for sites. So say a site gets 100,000 unique visitors per month from search, they’re also getting 33,000 from sharing. Now, 33 percent is at the high range of our network, but we’re seeing sites across several verticals (mainstream news, tech, entertainment) achieving these levels. (categories: analyticssocialsoftwaresharingcommunicationuxfacebooktwitteremail )
Some other SharePoint 2010 tidbits – FierceContentManagement Excerpt: "He points out that the path of ECM is littered with failure and that Microsoft’s goal with SharePoint 2010 is to put the end user front and center (while providing more comprehensive back-end administration). The idea, he explains is to get the end user to use the system. If it’s too hard or too restrictive, then end users will always find ways to work around the system to the detriment of the CMS. It will be interesting to see as the SharePoint 2010 beta goes into wider use, and use cases emerge, how well Microsoft has solved this perennial issue." Not really much of an ‘idea’ IMHO. (categories: sharepointenterpriseadoptionuserfocusux )
Archiving and eDiscovery for Collaboration Systems | Messaging News Excerpt: "A wide range of regulations and statutes require organizations to safeguard and manage complete records that document what happened in a business or organization. Financial services companies are subject to SEC and FINRA regulations, life sciences organizations to 21 CFR Part 11, federal government agencies and defense contractors to DoD 5015.2, and companies publicly traded in U.S. markets to Sarbanes-Oxley. Common among these regulations and statutes is the concept that the subject matter determines what needs to be managed, and not the medium used for transmitting or communicating information in the record. This means that business decisions communicated through collaboration systems are just as relevant for records management as a printed contract." (categories: ediscoveryarchivingquickrsharepoint )
Mauro Cardarelli : What If You Throw a Party and Nobody Shows Up Excerpt: "So, here we sit; a few months away from the launch of SharePoint 2010, a framework that offers so much more business functionality and impact. What’s the (potential) problem? SharePoint 2007 has been so widely adopted, across the entire enterprise, that there exists a comfort in the functionality it delivers. Right? SharePoint’s strength has always been in its simplicity. So now we’re going to beef it up… more flexible content management, better workflow, enhanced search and business intelligence. What’s the one word to summarize? … Overwhelming? One of my fellow panelists, an IT Manager, stated it perfectly when he told the crowd that his ability to promote new features in SharePoint is directly dependent on the business users’ ability to withstand the change. Exactly! Change is always risky. Therefore, lots of change brings lots of risk." (categories: sharepointadoptionenterprise )
NewsGator Talks SharePoint, The Future of Social Computing Quote: ":There has been a lot of movement in social computing in the enterprise. As he takes a look back Holston tells us that a year ago the conversation was all about ROI and use cases. Enterprises were still considering and experimenting with social computing… Now, Holston says, the focus has changed to deploying solutions enterprise wide and getting the highest return stories for initial deployments (which are usually one or two elements of social computing like micro-blogging)." (categories: sharepointsocialsoftwaremicrobloggingenterprise )
10 Microsoft Predictions For 2010 Excerpt: For developers, Sharepoint 2007 was complex and non-intuitive. Third-party application integration and workflow tools were unwieldy. But in Sharepoint 2010, Microsoft focused on tooling and project support and, for the first time, made it possible for developers to use Visual Studio to build Sharepoint applications. (categories: sharepointmicrosoftopen )
Microsoft’s New Open Source Web CMS Quote: Oxite is blog software built on the new ASP.NET MVC framework provided by Microsoft. Although they call it a blogging engine, they also say it is able to host everything from a blog to a large website. (categories: cmsmicrosoftbloggingopensourcesharepoint )
neighborhoods and subcultures in social design Excerpt: "… Once you have a stake in the ground around your social object, you need to think about the kinds of activities that would revolve around that activity. What are people already doing? What kinds of activities naturally want to happen? Let the answers to these questions help define the features that you implement. Keep in mind too, that the social object and the kinds of activities that you support will help define the subculture that will emerge on your site. Different activities are going to draw different kinds of people depending on the level of participation required to be involved. (categories: socialsoftwaredesignuxnavigationpatterns )
5 Steps to Building Social Experiences – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design Designing social interfaces is more than just slapping on Twitter-like or Facebook-like features onto your site. Not all features are created equal and sometimes a little bit can go a long way. It’s important to consider your audience, your product—what your users will be rallying around and why they would want to become engaged with it and each other, and that you can approach this in a systematic way, a little bit at a time. (categories: uxsocialsocialsoftwareexperiencesocialdesign )
Semantic Versioning I propose a simple set of rules and requirements that dictate how version numbers are assigned and incremented. For this system to work, you first need to declare a public API. This may consist of documentation or be enforced by the code itself. Regardless, it is important that this API be clear and precise. Once you identify your public API, you communicate changes to it with specific increments to your version number. Consider a version format of X.Y.Z (Major.Minor.Patch). Bug fixes not affecting the API increment the patch version, backwards compatible API additions/changes increment the minor version, and backwards incompatible API changes increment the major version. (categories: developmentsoftwareapispecificationversioning )
The Importance Of What You Say – Forbes.com One potent thread in the fabric of reasons why some ideas take off and others don’t is the ability entrepreneurs have to explain to others why they should care. The bigger the idea, the more explaining the world demands. Yet these skills are constantly trivialized in many organizations, leading to dozens of great ideas being rejected, and their creators wondering why lesser rivals with weaker concepts are able to capture people’s imaginations and pocketbooks. (categories: communicationspeakingideasinnovation )
rc3.org – RSS readers are for professionals If you’re a serious consumer of information from a wide variety of sites, there’s still no substitute for subscribing to feeds in an RSS reader. Twitter is great, but it’s not the same. And I think that’s particularly true if you’re a blogger. If you’re just linking to the stuff that people are all talking about on Twitter or that floats to the top of Hacker News, you may as well give up on your blog, as far as I’m concerned. Everybody already sees that stuff. You have to dig deeper to offer more interesting information, and an RSS reader is the best tool you can use for that purpose. (categories: rssatomfeedsreaderattentionstreamattentionblogging )