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My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 020510February 6

From the home office in Washington D.C., where I’m dreaming of global warming in the little cave I’ve built in the snow…

#1: RT @webtechman Social CRM: Ground zero for Enterprise 2.0 in 2010 http://bit.ly/amD0bJ by @dHinchcliffe Social Strategy for Business #e20

#2: How to Find Enterprise 2.0 Champions http://bit.ly/aRfoEn by Socialtext’s @michaelIdo #e20

#3: RT @Gartner_inc #Gartner: Five Social Software Predictions for 2010 and Beyond http://bit.ly/aRpo3i

#4: RT @jowyang Matrix: Companies Should Factor ‘Social Influence’ into Total Customer Value http://is.gd/7ChFa


Apple iPad and the Radical Innovation of MeaningFebruary 2

Ultimately, the iPad is a large iPod touch: a great device to draw your inspiration from, but perhaps not the seismic shift in technology that we were expecting.

Claudine Beaumont, Apple iPad review, The Telegraph

The much anticipated announcement of Apple’s iPad tablet was met with a resounding…”ho hum” or worse from much of the technology crowd. The biggest criticisms were its lack of key features (no Adobe Flash, lack of USB ports, where’s the camera?, etc.). Apple iPad as a technology innovation disappointment.

But with Apple, and Steve Jobs, that’s not really the point now, is it?

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Sure, Apple has had plenty of technological innovations along the way. But


My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 012910January 30

From the home office at the annual retreat of Republican members of the House of Representatives in Baltimore, where I’m taking questions on my blog care plan…

#1: RT @cbneese My coworker: “Hey everyone I got the iPad, only I got the smaller, more portable version, with internet, a camera, and a phone.”

#2: RT @dhinchcliffe The PC officially died today: http://bit.ly/aATwBS Nick Carr probably does the best sum-up of the week.

#3: RT@ jbrewer RT @fchimero: Headline: “Tech nerds everywhere pissed Apple made a product for someone other than them.”

#4: Cisco’s I-Prize – the Next Wave of Open Innovation (via Spigit blog) http://bit.ly/bKq9vI #innovation #openinnovation

#5: RT @IdeaSandbox Don’t Demolish Your Own Innovation


In the Future We’ll All Have Online Reputation ScoresJanuary 26

In a recent interview with EMC’s Stu Miniman about the future of the web, I predicted that in 20 years, we’ll all have online reputation scores. Little badges, numbers that communicate our level of authority, this sort of thing. And these reputations will have tangible impact.

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Three different trends come together at some point in the future to make this happen. These trends have been underway for a while, but come together at some tipping point in the years ahead. Here’s a visualization of the trends:


My Ten Favorite Tweets – Week Ending 012210January 23

From the home office in Massachusetts, where I’m saying, “Kennedy who?”

#1: the six types of ideas http://bit.ly/6pKGGZ #innovation

#2: RT @InfoWeekSMB Spigit Introduces ‘Idea Management’ for SMBs http://bit.ly/6CGhWO

#3: RT @johnt Systems that eliminate failure, eliminate innovation by @snowded http://icio.us/xoupma

#4: This is really cool: @tyler_thompson decided to redesign airline boarding passes: http://bit.ly/75OWtU What do you think?

#5: RT @markfidelman My new Post: Hutch Carpenter on the Innovation X Factor http://tinyurl.com/y9hfvrq

#6: RT @stu: New Blog Po