article thumbnail

Social networks and engineering serendipity in the workplace

Trends in the Living Networks

and Google are doing in the space, the article continues: As Yahoo and Google see it, serendipity is largely a byproduct of social networks. was that employees who ate at cafeteria tables designed for 12 were more productive than those at tables for four, thanks to more chance conversations and larger social networks.

Social 165
article thumbnail

Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Permalink | View blog reactions | Comments (2) Categories : Social trends Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us | Share on Facebook 2 Comments Keith De La Rue said: Interesting read. And of course, please don’t take this too seriously :-). Glad to see that you recognise the global importance of Philip K.

Trends 167
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Launching the Web 2.0 Framework - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

companies and applications are mapped out across two major dimensions: Content Sharing to Recommendations/ Filtering ; and Web Application to Social Network. Recently commented on The Future of Sales is Social (the rise of social CRM) (3) Brian Vellmure (@CRMStrategies) wrote:Ross,Good stuff as always.

Trends 159
article thumbnail

Reflections on the early days of social networking as LinkedIn reaches 100 million users

Trends in the Living Networks

While I closely followed the social networking space at the time, I didn’t join many. When I was writing Living Networks in 2002 there were no true social networking applications in existence. The basic principle was inviting friends to connect, and using that to find the quickest social path to people you wanted to meet.

Social 111
article thumbnail

Eight steps to thriving on information overload - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

How long you should spend reading each day will vary tremendously for each individual, though most directors would benefit enormously from spending at least two hours each day learning more about developments in their industry and the broad social, economic and business environment. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

Trends 158
article thumbnail

The state of social networking software for the enterprise - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Yet social networking is not just about friends and personal networks. Applying social networks in the enterprise is a sweet spot that has massive potential value. Spoke had a unique model at the time, providing both social networking applications inside the enterprise, as well as a public version of their application.

Network 74
article thumbnail

Openness, network effects, and competition in social networks - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

From the very beginning of the social networking space, with the launch of sixdegrees.com in 2000 (which gave up the ghost in January 2002), the fundamental underlying issue was whether social networks would be entirely exclusive and competitive, or whether they would in some way integrate to create a global social networking space.

Network 68