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New Pew Study Shows High-Income Blackberry Users are StressedSeptember 24

From a Pew Internet study released today:

Checking work e-mail is considered much more important for people making more than $75,000 a year than it is for low earners, just as high earners are more likely to have longer hours. Also those who work for large corporations are much more likely to be checking their e-mail “constantly” at work, compared to those who work for smaller companies.

Participate in a similar Pew Survey here

Cisco Unveils New Product Suite for CollaborationSeptember 24

From ZDNet:

Today Cisco has rolled out a new collaboration portfolio. [Relative to Oracle] Cisco’s effort is a little different, but the goal is the same: Target the $34 billion collaboration market.

…Cisco is also providing various application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow companies to create mashups with external and internal software. Cisco’s mashup comments are another data point in a broad move to adopt more consumer technologies into the enterprise and connect them to internal information.

To see a video of Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby talking about why comapnies choose to deploy collaboration tools internally, please click here.

Video: Clay Shirky on Filter FailureSeptember 23

Clay Shirky video “It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure” from the Web 2.0 Expo, New York. Download Clay’s presentation here

Producteev Launches at TC50, Go Ilan!September 8

Congrats to our friend Ilan who is launching Producteev at TechCrunch50. Looking good!

Facebook Mini-Feed Now Highlighting Status UpdatesAugust 29

Facebook’s redesign has significantly altered the look and feel of the mini-feed. Much of the change is focused on differentiation between types of feed activities (i.e. Photos, Posted Items, etc), as well as a much more pronounced emphasis on Status Updates.

Via AllFacebook:

It’s clear that statuses have become one of the most important components of Facebook and many have called it a Twitter killer. I wouldn’t be surprised to see an increasing emphasis on statuses as Facebook moves forward. One interesting component about this new layout is how the statuses are updated instantaneously whereas the main news feed content is only updated periodically.

This contrasts FriendFeed where every load of the page presents new data among your friends as the site is updated in real-time. Facebook has tried to automatically filter information for users to try to select the most relevant information. It will be interesting to see if Facebook ever shifts this strategy to display more information.

This is a simple change but it most definitely highlights the importance of statuses in Facebook.