Screenr offers a new service to make screen recordings and share them via twitter and other web sites.  It looks easy enough, so I decided to give it a spin with a quick WordPress MU demonstration.  When you launch the recording tool, it lets you set which area of the screen to record.  You push play and you’re off and running, up to 5 minutes in length.  When done you can preview the video and then it gets automatically deployed in web and iPhone versions.  No edits, fancy fade-ins or other effects — but in the video arena and enforced simplicity is probably best.  Do it right the first time, post it and move on (spoken as someone who has spend hours perfecting a 4 minute video!)

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Yammer use took off in our workplace late last year, but since everyone has returned from the Christmas break interest seems to have dropped off somewhat.   Maybe something like TeamBox, with its richer toolset, might be more attractive.  Teambox organizes communication around projects.  Users are members of projects, and a project has communication divided into conversations, task lists, pages and files.  The concept seems to have similarities with Google Wave, but at first glance the user interface seems a lot more familiar.  And TeamBox is open source allowing installation on your own server — so you can own the data.  And can customize the app (built with Ruby on Rails).  Now I just need a project to test it with… Read the rest of this entry »

I recently read Jaron Lanier‘s new book You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto.  It was a gift, and while I hadn’t heard anything about the book, it looked promising.  Lanier is an early internet pioneer counting early work with virtual reality (and coining the term itself) among his accomplishments.  And the basic premise of the book — essentially a contrarian view of the current state of internet culture — is interesting.  A regular practice of challenging common assumptions and examining choices made along the way is healthy.  Unfortunately Mr. Lanier’s arguments are poorly supported, and often based on inconsequential or incorrect assumptions.  I’m not going to recap his whole argument here — check out the linked articles instead.  But here are a couple of points inspired by ideas exposed in the book: Read the rest of this entry »

In checking out a Tweet, I caught a nice feature on Posterous.com.  You can leave a comment identifying yourself via your Facebook or Twitter account.  I don’t actually know if this is through OpenID (more likely it uses their basic APIs) but it is nicely executed, and eases the path-to-participation.

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• RT @museummedia Open social media framework for museums http://bit.ly/5KDds3 — not much on the wiki yet, but an interesting start. 11:23:30

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• Published a new article Join the Yammer: Social media for the workplace @http://zz.gd/54d190 05:36:33

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