Spent a pleasureful evening in Vienna’s Porgy&Bess to listen to Al Di Meola, who showed up 30 years after his first gig: download the 3 minute video - as always rather rough. He is fantastic and somehow completes my musical nostalghia for 2006. I’d been to a Tuxedomoon and a John McLaughlin performance.

Tomorrow I’m heading to Kopenhagen for reboot8 (t d f).

Just back home from the conference. Social Software (t d f) seems to be a real hot buzzword these days. Social Software equals collaboration (t d f) for the majority of attendees I dare to claim. That means you’ll miss 80% of the concept I’d say.
But back to the slides. Here they areSocialSkills_Tagging.pdf.

Irving Wladawsky-Berger [IBM] meanders around the apparent (?) oxymoron of collaboration in the market (with the outside world) and the accumulation of intellectual property aka patents at IBM and in the business world in general. His main interest lies - as it seems to me - in the care for attracting and maintening the best workforce.

I did a brief study on the usage patterns of our platform in terms of tagging. Some very interesting facts (!?) emerged: see the video below.

The internal narrow folksonomy - author tagging - shows very similar patterns to broad folksonomies in the open. The power-law rules everything. Thus ample space for ideas to make sense out of that.