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I recognize that recommending a TED video is one of the slam-dunks of blogging, up there in taking-the-easy-way-out with pointing a friend to someecards for a laugh. But that’s not going to stop me from linking anyway. After all, I’m sure there are many of you out there who haven’t watched even one TED talk [...]

Dogfish Head (out of Delaware) is one of the few breweries in the country brewing big IPAs that can keep up with the Pacific Coast breweries (particularly those in San Diego!). Plus, they have some awesome new artwork for their 75 Minute IPA bottle label:       Updates in Craft Beer Press Releases | Beernews.org.

Cross-posted from StartupSD.net. What’s a chumby? The quick answer is this: chumby is many things, and the list never stops growing. We last wrote about chumby in April 2008, when they raised $12.5 million in a Series B round in order to “accelerate growth of the company, and expand and broaden the Chumby Network to [...]

Cross-posted from StartupSD.net. In February of 2008, six guys in San Diego decided to fundamentally change the software community for the better. You need only read the first sentence of OpenCandy‘s About us page to learn a telling amount about the new company: one, they carry a grand vision for the impact their product will [...]

From MediaPost.com: Thomson Reuters has partnered with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society to launch the Media Cloud, a set of research tools for tracking online media coverage. The joint effort is meant to bring some clarity to the vast tangle of news and information on the Web, attempting to answer questions about [...]

I’m not talking about hipsters wearing “ironic” John Deere baseball caps. PSFK recently posted (via Edible Brooklyn) about a nascent young farmers movement and its emerging name, Greenhorns. Growing up in Iowa, I was surrounded by farming most of my life. At the same time, I was not raised in a farming family myself. So, [...]

Chris Pirillo interviewed a Microsoft employee about work on a project called “Salsa”. Watch the video and then ask yourself the following questions. Would you consider the research and development Microsoft is doing on the social networking aspects of email communication to be innovative? My answer: Yes. Just from this short video I can tell [...]

I started writing this post with the intention of sharing valuable insight into future innovations in the mobile industry. Then, when I actually started writing, maybe because of the late hour when I began, everything that came to mind was more satirical than serious. UPDATE: This post pokes a bit of fun at Nokia. I [...]

I enjoy the criticism of hipsters beyond any justifiable degree, as I have never been personally wronged by them. However, they do assault my belief in the value of individuality, as they try so hard to be different and end up being the same, so maybe that’s enough. Here are some enjoyable hipster critiques: Hipster: [...]

I have worked across five departments at a Fortune 100 company employing over 90,000 workers distributed around the world. After suffocating in the quicksand of a Lotus Notes inbox full of carbon copies and bloated attachments and wandering across the barren desert of a shared file server, searching hopelessly for the buried treasure of a long lost strategic planning template, the hope and opportunity afforded by modern enterprise collaboration platforms was made painfully obvious.

In response to that personal experience, this paper examines the increasing value of collaboration platforms in the workplace, particularly as used by knowledge workers to support emergent collaboration methods.

Emergent collaboration methods, in turn, are employed to complete unique, dynamic projects across teams, for reducing costs, increasing productivity, and, ultimately, preserving the sanity of millions of hard-working, cubicle-bound employees.

Here are a few questions I will endeavor to answer:

Why are collaboration platforms so useful today?
Is cost-benefit analysis broken when it comes to judging a collaboration platform?
What makes for a successful collaboration platform?

Thank you for reading. Don’t forget to collaborate by leaving your comments at the end!

After all, what kind of story on collaboration would this be if it weren’t result of many revisions built on the input of many contributors?