Archive for the ‘Social Networking’ Category

How social networks get politics to push data protection technology

In recent months we have been reading a lot about social network sites like facebook, XING and other portals making profitable use of the user data they are storing.

Politics usually react by designing legal structures which are not going to help the development of the internet. Where borders seam to evaporate, national laws are reduced to barking dogs.  With the current situation Ministers have learned their lesson and are using the social media as a tool to force social media to rethink their policies. (more…)

2010-06-23 10:13:37 | Christian Bartsch | Others, Social Networking | No Comments »

Google Wave: E-mail is soo 2009

Last year September Google released their newest innovation on the web: Google Wave. After a lot of media exposure they sent out the First 100.000 invites for their newest product. The two brothers Rasmussen, who also invented Google Maps, describes Google Wave as:  “How would e-mail look like if it was invented nowadays?”.

The answer of this question is an online real time communication platform which combines the power of e-mail, instant messaging, chat, wiki, social networks and project management. The browser based tool is still an early beta, but more and more people are starting to use it.

Google Wave operates completely in the browser and is using a lot of JavaScript and HTML5. It’s not strange that the older versions of Internet Explorer are not officially supported by Google. To experience Google Wave in full glory it’s best to (more…)

2010-02-23 21:46:12 | Reinier Maarschall | Social Networking, Web Development | 3 Comments »

Social Media in 2010

Social Media

2009 has been quite the eventful year: There were plane crashes in Holland and on the Hudson River, Michal Jackson died, everybody was freaked out by Swine Flu, Lance Armstrong returned to the Tour de France, there was a climate summit in Copenhagen, America got its first Black President that gave new meaning to the sentence “YES we can!”, there were the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there were elections in Iran, there were tensions between the West and euhm.. well.. everyone else. AND of course the mother of all newsitems in 2009 there was the big CC, the Credit Crunch…. oooooh the Credit Crunch

If you are an average news-follower you will for sure recognize all these events, because they have been in the news at the time and in pretty much every news-year-review program towards the end of the year. But the careful observer will notice that all of these events have something in common……. see it yet??….. yeaaaah there you go…. all these events have had something to do with Social Media. (more…)

2010-01-21 17:41:33 | Peter Doesburg | Social Networking | 1 Comment »

REMEMBER REMEMBER……

first mobile phone

Remember when mobile phones were introduced?? This goes as far back as 1973 (yes really! that long ago!). Remember people saying: “That’s not for me” and “That will never catch on”??

Remember when the fist PC was introduced? This was back in 1981. Remember people saying: ”That’s not for me” and “That will never catch on”??

Remember when the internet first came around? Actually already invented in the 1960′s, but introduced to the general public in 1991 when the World Wide Web became available. Remember people saying: “That’s not for me” and “That will never catch on”?? Including big corporate giant Microsoft, who only at the very last minute took the decision to adopt the Web and the Internet into their strategy.

Remember, walkmans, Google, laptops, Tetris, mp3 players, Windows, Scientology, Atkinson diet, lava lamps and smartphones?? “Wasn’t for people and it would never catch on”

The fact of the matter is: all these things have entered our lives and somehow managed to cling on. And as a result, we can’t live without them anymore. Well… apart from the Scientology maybe :-)

Recently “people” have been talking about Social Media, and guess what they have been saying……. And guess what is happening….. (more…)

2009-12-11 19:21:39 | Peter Doesburg | Social Networking | 2 Comments »

Is ‘open’ the new organizational principle?

open

The past months I have intensely observed the ‘open’ movement in various forms. At Bridge we do a lot with open source. We organize open coffee. And we are an open company with open people.  I wonder whether in the future ‘open’ will become a new economic/organizational principle.


Open source software is known to many people in the IT industry. It exists since Linus torvald initiated Linux in 1991. The past few years, open source technology starts becoming popular in domains where previously only closed source software vendors were active (Business Intelligence, CRM, ERP). Today’s wisdom says that open source software brings many advantages to companies, among which: better quality software, no licensing costs, no vendor lock-in and higher speed of developments. One might predict that in the software industry, open source will become the dominant way of developing and distributing software. (more…)

2009-11-20 18:15:16 | HugoMesser | Open Source, Social Networking | 4 Comments »

Bridge getting socially networked

social networking-bridgeThe whole idea of social networking, and Bridge getting actively involved , makes one wonder , what we have in store there.
I see it as an apt place to share our company’s mission, our vision for the future and our personal values as employees of Bridge. In short it’s a great platform to show the world what we are and what we do. The concept is a far cry from the drab, closed business structure of yesteryears. Our level of involvement shows the liveliness and openness of our work atmosphere.
Social networking sites can also be seen as a treasure grove of technical articles. These articles help us imbibe (more…)

2009-08-07 11:09:12 | Lekha | Social Networking | No Comments »