Jeroen De Miranda

"Long-term, I think that comments are the most crucial interaction point for blogs, and an area that deserves a lot of investment and innovation. Comments really haven’t changed in a decade, and it’s time to spice things up a little" - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

"Wat opvalt is dat iedereen een 5 weken durende training krijgt waarbij echt iedereen start aan de telefonische helpdienst en in de opslag werkt. Na de 5 weken krijg je US$ 2.000 geboden als je niet bij Zappos start. Ze willen er zeker van zijn dat het je niet om het geld gaat. Wat ik dan weer opvallend vond, ze betalen het minimum loon in de opslag (warehouse)." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

"I’ve talked previously about the Innovator’s Dilemma here. As market incumbents grow, they tend to move up-market in terms of functionality in their offerings. What this does is open the door for competitors with new functions that are simpler to use. These new competitors target a niche, and grow slowly upward from there." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

"Present.ly doesn’t require all users to have the same email domain, which is one of the major issues users are complaining about in Yammer." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

"reCAPTCHA combines traditional OCR with an approach similar to Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Every text is analyzed by two different OCR programs and whenever those two program disagree on a word, it is marked as 'suspicious.' Those suspicious words are then fed into reCAPTCHA, which creates a CAPTCHA with both the suspicious word and a known control word. Once a certain number of users have solved the suspicious word with the same result, it becomes a control word itself." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

"The forthcoming version of WordPress, version 2.7, will include some commenting features based on Intense Debate, such as threaded comments. A new Wordpress plugin for Intense Debate is also in the works." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

"By all accounts, Zoho won GE's business in head to head competition with Google. GE wanted to cut cost and enable collaboration, which meant Microsoft was less of a contender. Google was the obvious "you never got fired for choosing" winner. Why did GE choose Zoho? There are two likely reasons: 1. Zoho allowed GE to run the software in their own data centers. GE has the economies of scale to run their own data centers and clearly prize the control that this enables. Zoho specified the hardware, but GE bought it and deployed it. Is a "Zoho Appliance" far behind? 2. Visual Basic Scripts in Spreadsheets. Current tech orthodoxy frowns on VB, but if you have thousands of existing Excel spreadsheets running VB that would be a show-stopper." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

great blogging tips! - Jeroen De Miranda

great article! - Jeroen De Miranda

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"Hashtag CheatSheet * follow #tag: subscribe to all updates tagged with #tag * follow username#tag: subscribe to all updates tagged with #tag from a specific user * leave #tag: unsubscribe to a tag; you will still get updates with this tag from your friends * leave username#tag: unsubscribe to a specific from a specific user * remove #tag: completely remove all incoming posts tagged with #tag, even from your friends * #tag message: creates a status in the #tag channel * #tag !message: creates a status that is only visible to people subscribed to channel tag #tag" - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

"GE, after a vigorous evaluation including Google and Microsoft, selected Zoho. That is 400,000 desktops up for grabs worldwide." - Ratcatcher

Zoho: very interesting emerging competitor in the online office space! - Jeroen De Miranda

"As the internet has become social, you don’t need a PR firm to capture the attention of your niche. Instead of hiring a PR firm, you can promote your business by leveraging personal relationships with the influential social media players in your industry. These people could be bloggers with a lot of traffic, popular forum posters, or influential StumbleUpon users. The key is building relationships with these influencers." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

"I recently suggested that learning how to be effective in working within and directing communities of workers/users/partners to accomplish large-scale outcomes will be a vital skill in the very near future." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

excellent overview article on 2.0 aimed at CxO level. The statement above is a personal driver for me to improve my own 2.0 skills, both technical and managerial - Jeroen De Miranda

"The traditional tools, processes, and skills just aren't there or are just too slow and burdened with unnecessary overhead." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

"Existing management methods and conventional wisdom are a hard barrier to 2.0 strategy and transformation. You don't have to get far into discussions about the Perpetual Beta or Product Development 2.0 before existing management methods seem outdated, inflexible, and ineffective. This is one of the more difficult aspects of adopting 2.0 models and the implications is that we'll have to do a lot of rethinking how we manage businesses driven by 2.0 models, where the boundaries of organizations are less clear, the ownership is much more community-based, and the outcomes are far more diverse and spread out, making them less trackable, controllable, and directed. Overhauling management practices and techniques will be a core activity in a 2.0 transformation and will be hard to achieve quickly enough due to the Innovator's Dilemma." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

made some comments on migration to self hosted blogs in this great post - Jeroen De Miranda

Fantastic post Chris. Thank you for taking the time to compile this. - Mike Fruchter

the post now appears at the top of RSSmeme: http://www.rssmeme.com/ - Jeroen De Miranda

I would also add another way to take your blog to the next level is to value your blog comments. They can provide more than just feedback about a particular post. Here are some tips here to use for making the most of your blog comments www.problogger.net/archives/2008/03/23/how-to-breathe-life-back-into-your-blog/ - dee

interesting point of view in this article: 'Increasingly people will be hired as much for their networks as their own expertise! They want to actively develop their own corporate networks in the quest for career development opportunities rather than wait to be found.' - within enterprises, employees increasing use platforms such as LinkedIn for this purpose; internal systems with similar functionality might increasingly be deployed and used. - Jeroen De Miranda

RealDVD is interesting. I wish Apple could sort this out so that it is super easy to rip a dvd onto itunes and ipod. until that is the case ipod will be music only for me. - Alex Gawley

Have you tried Handbrake? - Brian Newman

UsableLogin looks promising! Will be available early 2009 - perhaps a good alternative to OpenId. - Jeroen De Miranda

yes, Usable Login sounds great.. the rest - I'm not overly excited about. - Tim Hoeck

agree; this new Twirl integration makes rollout of twitter&laconi.ca within the enterprise much more feasible. Ease of use is essential for a successful rollout - Jeroen De Miranda

Nice analysis, but I'd like to know if Twhirl is customizable when deployed. Will have to look into Twitter for the workplace phenom on manageability. - Eric @ CS Techcast

And essentially, my point wasn't as much the twhirl as the twhirl+laconi.ca . But still, Twhirl is really making strides to stay relevant in a crowd. - Chris Brogan

"SAP Twitter Services - I found this to be my favorite of the releases. This is a customer service capability that can be embedded in SAP CRM 2007 that goes out to Twitter can find customer service issues, do a "sentiment analysis" (a linguistics mining engine that SAP inherited with their Business Objects acquisition) so that they are able to see how serious a problem there is. Based on the analysis of the problem, business rules are acted upon and workflow triggered to make sure that the appropriate parties in the company are notified and actions are taken." - interesting to see mainstream enterprise software interest in Twitter emerging! - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

"Those who have already subscribed to your blog, who read your stuff every day, who leave comments, who get your newsletter…. these people are already sold on your site. As a result they make great evangelists for you. Give them a nudge and the tools and some suggestions on how to ’sell your blog’ to their existing networks and you can potentially unleash something quite significant." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

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"@William Azaroff cracked the code after reading this post, of how to get Twellow to re-index you after you change your Twitter bio. Once you’ve changed your Twitter bio, go to the Twellow page Get Listed, and submit your twitter username. Twellow will give you an error message, saying that the name is already indexed. However, within a couple of minutes, Twellow will re-index your profile and get the latest information available from twitter, including latest tweet and bio. Within five minutes, your changed bio will be reflected in Twellow’s search results. Feel free to mix, experiment and optimize how you want to be found on Twellow." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

"Having a blog that shows your business potential beats having a resume. Even as great as LinkedIn is, it’s never as fresh and reinforcing as writing great blog posts that give people a better sense of what you offer." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

"Make sure the About page speaks about you from the perspective of the capabilities you possess and that you’d like to share with prospective business colleagues. Meaning, don’t just write about who you are, where you’re from, and who lives at your house with you. Make sure it gives people the following three things: 1. What you’ve done as it relates to what you hope to do for them. 2. Some measure of your social proof. 3. What you intend to do going forward." - will have a second look on my own about page, using this perspective. - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

"LinkedIn Q&A - LinkedIn has a great Question and Answer feature that is fantastic for gathering the opinions and ideas of those within your network. I’ve used it on occasions to generate some great discussions which could then be used to add depth to blog posts." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet

I have used LinkedIn Q&A several times as basis for some popular blog posts - Jeroen De Miranda