Chief Experience Officer, CXO

After CIO (Chief Information Officer) came CTO (Chief Technology Officer), the province of one-man startups when they start to commercialise. Now comes CXO (Chief Experience Officer) to look after the user experience. As an advocate for many years of the importance of human-computer interaction (now referred to as user experience)  I am very glad to [...]

Surprise, Surprise it’s Socialprise

Well Enterprise 2.0 is getting almost long in the tooth in Internet years. So a change in terminology is overdue. Sarah Perez from Mashable has put forward socialprise with the simple formula:
social tools + enterprise = socialprise

No doubt this is easily memorable but pronouncing the word is a struggle.
With a new term comes the need [...]

Going with Groundswell

In his inimitable way Jerry O is carrying forward the wave of groundswell. Jerry defines this:
A Groundswell [is] a social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions.

Jerry goes on to give us cogent examples of groundswell in action that include readers becoming [...]

Aspire to be a Journablogger?

According to a post from Fred Wilson a journablogger ‘has his or her own blog or works in a blog network like paid content, techcrunch, gigaom, alley insider, read write web, mashable, venturebeat, etc, etc’.
I like the word but it is difficult to pronounce. For the record I don’t yet aspire to be a journablogger, [...]

Web 2.0 in a Nutshell

Although the post from Sean McClowry is about a lofty framework for Sustainability 2.0 it incorporates very concise and accurate synopses of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0:
What is Web 2.0?
It’s and attitude, not only a technology

Share, Participate, Be transparent, Honest voice

It’s about people

Communities of trust

The web as a platform

Capacity to use the web as an [...]

Type a novel on your mobile

I am intrigued to discover the phenomenon of mobile novels or keitai shousetsu in their native Japan where they have become a new publishing media. These novels are not only downloaded at a cost of about $15 to a mobile phone for reading, the authors also use their SMS keyboarding skills to write the novels [...]

Reflections on Mix on Campus at QUT

I attended the first Mix on Campus event at QUT on Tuesday. For Microsoft this was the first event of its kind aimed at students and staff to introduce innovations taking place in web design and implementation. An old acquaintance of mine, Simon Kaplan, now Dean of the Faculty of IT at QUT provided the [...]

Definitely not a blessay

Along with 0.3 M other readers that initially took his blog server down for a few days I have become a fan of Stephen Fry’s foray into blogging. Of course I am long a fan of his TV and movie performances.
Going further, I particularly like his new word ‘blessay’. It perfectly describes his long blog [...]

Bring Home the Bacn

New words from the Internet are getting stranger by the month. Now we have ‘bacn’ the descriptor for non-spam, but low priority email messages. At the ‘official’ bacn site they expand the definition:
Bacn is email you receive that isn’t spam… And isn’t personal mail. It’s the middle class of email. It’s notifications of a new [...]

A Father of the word Weblog?

Updated: 18 August 2007 at 15:35 and 20 february 2008
In a surprising development I was alerted today by our Vice-Chancellor, Robert Stable, of a blog entry by Duncan Riley from March 2005. Duncan’s entry is entitled ‘A Short History of Blogging‘ and when talking about the word weblog states:
The first use of the term weblog [...]