Friday, October 3rd, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg
The timing of this couldn’t be more relevant. I recently reconnected with my good friend Duane Nickull who I worked with in the early stage of my career in the enterprise software business. We worked together on an early web services and e-business standards initiative led by the United Nations CEFACT group and the OASIS standards organization. We co-edited a standard called the ebXML Technical Architecture specification nearly 8 years ago.
Duane just crafted an excellent blog post recapping the challenges we faced, the experiences we had, and the lessons we learned. This is in support of his new O’Reilly book “Web2.0 Patterns“. I highly suggest that anyone responsible for building systems, managing software projects and cross-organizational initiatives check it out:
Long live LICFROG!
Monday, July 21st, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg
After reading this conversation thread on Friendfeed, I started to comment, but did a quick cut and paste into this here blog post. What follows was my original comment (not posted) that I would like to expand upon here. Then I’d like to get your feedback on Friendfeed, Twitter, or whatever stream you like to post your comments to. I really could care less where you reply, just make it findable!
Regarding my use of Linked In -
“I must admit that I have a LI account, but I have not updated it in probably 6 years. I’ve been working with the same team for 8+ years, having weathered 4 M&A events and countless reorgs. I’ve come to ignore Linked In because after having gone through the first M&A event, the only time I would get Linked In email would be when friends are riffed and forced to move on to other new positions in the industry.”
*Expanding on comment here*
This became a recurring pattern after a while, where the only times I’d ever get email updates From Linked In were from people who were let go or less often just quit for other opportunities. I found myself trying to avoid accepting any of the “friend requests” or whatever their term is for adding people to your network, and I just stopped using it altogether.
I haven’t logged into my account in years and if you check out my profile, you’ll see that the last position I posted was “Senior Product Manager”, which was 2 companies and three job title’s ago.
I’m tempted to login to Linked In and update my profile, just so my stuff is accurate, but I have this recurring fear that all those people who tried to “friend” me and all of my CURRENT colleagues are going to come out of the woodwork and start picking my profile apart.
Many of my professional colleagues are not on Twitter, Friendfeed, or most of the other social networking sites I use regularly, and I’m not sure that I want them to “invade” the communities that I participate in outside of my dayjob.
I’m all for transparency, but I’m having a very hard time figuring out the right balance between personal vs my professional uses of these socnets.
What do you think? I’m very curious to hear what other people think and where I’ll find the most valuealbe advice.
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg
A couple hours ago Marshall Kirkpatrick over at RWW posted about Identi.ca, a new open source Twitter clone. Check it out here: http://identi.ca.
My profile is here: http://identi.ca/infinitelymeta
A few first impressions:
- Logged in for first time using OpenID. Worked great. Then had to create “local” account to get new profile/handle, etc setup.
- Adding friends is pretty easy. Basic search and follow.
- Timeline - posts up to 140 characters. View Personal timeline and Everyone timeline.
- RSS - Dave Winer says it sucks. Add /rss to any url and you supposedly get RSS.
- XMPP - I’m just setting this up now. Will see how well it works.
- UPDATED: URLs - No auto-tiny URL (yet). I sent @evan a feature request.
I also downloaded the source code here and am actively picking through it to see how well written it is. Would be great if this were the start to a framework for a microblogging socnet platform that can scale. I could really use such a framework right now for one of my “engines”.
That is all.
UPDATE: There is a “Coming Soon” FAQ here: http://identi.ca/doc/faq
UPDATE #2: Some now thinking it can’t scale due to sql table / schema design. http://identi.ca/notice/4085
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Welcome to the next phase in the exploration of some ideas that I and several others had just over a year ago. This is one of many new sites we will be bringing online in the coming weeks, and hopefully months. Hold on tight, things could get a little crazy again. We’re going to try and build a couple of the engines I’ve so desperately wanted to code up and deploy to the cloud.
Please do keep in mind that I am only able to devote a very limited amount of my precious time to exploring these ideas for now, as I have a full time job in the enterprise software industry where I work as a Senior Systems Engineer for Software AG Inc., and also own/manage Eastlake Associates LLC, a commercial property management business in Seattle, WA.
Major props to @kibmcz, my stealth coding ninja from parts way up north for helping pull this stuff all together so quickly. Be sure to check out KComputer Zone for all the meta. Special thanks to Chris Pirillo for a truly stellar Wordpress theme. Well done! Bravo.
Now that I’ve got this nifty new Wordpress blog, I will be retiring (not deleting) my old blog which I recently changed from http://bdeseattle.blogspot.com to infinitelymeta.blogspot.com. Please also be sure to follow me on Friendfeed and Twitter, as they are where you can figure out all the other socnets I frequent.
And now the fun continues.
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