Mark Scrimshire
About: Web 2.0 Evangelist, Architect and Blogger. Interested in all things Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Mobile and the intersection of Data Portability and the Personal Health Record.
Advocate of OpenID,OAuth and Microformats.
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HealthCamp goes international
--Earlier this year, at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Health 2.0 made the agenda for the Web2Open un-conference track and the Birds of a Feather...
Upping the ante with iTunes to become the family Media Hub
--There is a fascinating discussion in the comments on Paul Beard's blog about capabilities for iTunes. The post was pointed to by the TUAW blog beca...
Friday August 1st - a banner crackdown day
--On Friday August 1st it appears that a group of Twitter advocates inexplicably had their Twitter accounts deleted. My friend, PFAnderson, was one o...
Web 2.0 - An ultra compact definition
--The definition of Web 2.0 has always been the subject of debate. Part of this could well be because there is no short and sweet definition. Tim O'R...
Leap of Exceptional Faith at BarCampRDU
--Jim Meyer spoke about his personal journey that started while working at Dreamworks. The basic question of the session was "How do you be exception...
RSS Tricks at BarCampRDU
--Nathan Gilliatt gave an interesting talk on RSS tricks. The first example was using feed informer to consolidate feeds. AideRSS filters RSS feeds b...
BaarCampRDU - What's happening
--Enterprise 2.0 - What is happening inside the firewall? An excellent session. "In the Flow and above the Flow" You need an influential sponsor. Tip...
VRM and HealthCamp via Health 2.0 at BarCampRDU
--I am writing and posting this from the Carolinian traveling down through Virginia to BarCampRDU in Raleigh, North Carolina. Oh, the wonders of mode...
Health, VRM and Open Source - Coming together at BarCampRDU
--This coming weekend is the third BarCampRDU, which is being held at the Red Hat Campus in Raleigh. I am traveling down to the event to join 250 oth...
HealthCamp - Get involved!
--At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in April there was obvious and intense interest in the implications for the Health Care industry as a result o...
Twitter's business model emerges?
--For some time I have been thinking about Twitter's business model. The best clue came months ago when Twitter started playing with the throttling v...
VRM retrospective - making adoption easy
--The Vendor Relationship Management Workshop at Harvard this week has been an invigorating event. During the event I blogged on a question that was ...
What's next with VRM?
--The Next Vendor Relationship Management Session will be in 3 months. Another possibility is to hold a concentrated Many-To-Many Webinar. A group h...
The future of Car Radio arrives - in the Apple App Store
--Apple may have done it again - without even trying. They may just have turned radio on it's head. More specifically, car radio. AOL was a launch pa...
R-Cards, VRM and the "real world" Personal Store
--An R-Card is a pointer to the data that the user and vendor jointly created. The R-Card is a super-set of the Info-Card. R-Cards provide a pointer ...
VRM and the Personal Address Manager
--This VRM Workshop session covered the concept of the Personal Address Manager. The scene setting points covered: First Assumption - Privacy Dif...
VRM and Higher Education
--I am sitting here at the Harvard Law School for the Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) Workshop and it suddenly struck me. Harvard was where Face...
Rise of the Bookmarklet
--One of the discussions at the VRM workshop got in to the mechanisms around implementing the RelButton One of the suggestions was to implement plug-...
The Next Steps in VRM
--This session looked at the next steps in VRM. What are the Requirements and use cases that could lead to bounties being created for Open Source cod...
VRM Workshop - Day 2
--Doc Searls kicked off Day 2 of the VRM Workshop. There are ten principles that he has outlined for VRM: VRM provides tools for customers to mana...
Where do I put all my VRM stuff?
--Today has been fascinating at the VRM Workshop. I held a session on Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) and Healthcare but wished I could be at so...
VRM and the Medical Home concept
--During the opening remarks to the Workshop Doc Searls asked what areas within organizations might be most receptive to the adoption of Vendor Relat...
OpenID and OAuth in the Medical Records world
--Adrian Gropper of MedCommons presented this session: "The Enemy of Good is Better" The realization is that the barriers to on-line medical records ...
VRM Agenda Making
--Be Prepared to be Surprised. The Workshop is being based on Open Space principles. This is similar to the AgileCoachCamp I attended recently and th...
Project VRM
--For the next two days I am attending the Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) Workshop at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Soci...
SharePoint and shifting the Culture
--Like it or not Microsoft is tightly embedded in many corporations and the freely licensed Windows Sharepoint Server (WSS) makes the Sharepoint coll...
Enterprise 2.0 concerns
--Andrew McAfee wrote recently about the Questions he has been asked about Enterprise 2.0. As I scanned the list there was one question I have been a...
The HealthCamp Message is resonating
--HealthCampMd took place with the intent of stimulating the conversation around Health 2.0 - The question at hand being "How can we transform the He...
The Doc is Right
--Doc Searls is one of the leading thinkers in the Internet space. He was one of the authors of the cluetrain manifesto, a publication that is as rel...
Individual productivity or team productivity.
--We live in an interconnected world. When I look at the web sites I frequent there is an increasingly tight web of connections between them. Twitter...
HealthCampMd - a recap
--Last weekend HealthCampMd took place in Owings Mills. The event was sponsored by Near-Time - The Enterprise 2.0 On Demand platform. Thanks to eve...
I wish I Had SocialCalc
--Last week I wrote about SocialText's new SocialCalc functionality. This week I have had a real life example hit me like a hammer to the side of the...
I have been tag clouded
--Wordle is a great site for creating tag clouds. One of their out of the box capabilities is to generate a tag cloud from your delicious tags. Here ...
Thoughts from HealthCampMd
--Information Prescription - A fascinating concept. Something extra to get from your Doctor. SNPedia.com - A wiki for helping you map your DNA. Tha...
HealthCampMd Goes Live
--Join us at HealthCampMd, June 14 2008! We are going to try an experiment today with Stickam We will try to broadcast live from HealthCampMd If y...
Health 2.0 - Pile on the great
--Ted Eytan has produced a great (make that The great) definition of Health 2.0. I have always believed that Health 2.0 was about empowering our own ...
Collaboration over function
--This week ZDNet's David Greenfield reviewed SocialText's new SocialCalc product which integrates spreadsheet's in to the Wiki. The coverage prompte...
HealthCampMd is this Saturday June 14th
--This weekend is HealthCampMd at Villa Julie College in Owings Mills, MD. You can still sign up by clicking on the link below: Join us at HealthCam...
Managing a Web 2.0 World
--I have been trading emails with Sue Bushell. She writes for CIO Magazine in Australia. A few days ago she sent out a message on LinkedIn. Here it i...
Twitter list keeps growing
--My list of Twitter applications and services keeps on growing. I keep stumbling across new services on a regular basis. Despite on going reliabilit...
What if the iPhone was just an experiment?
--The hype continues to grow in the run up to Apple's World Wide Developers Conference and the expected launch of the 3G iPhone. As an iPhone user fo...
AgileCoachCamp - Unleash the power of community with Twitter
--At AgileCoachCamp today I gave a lightning Talk about Twitter. The only technical aspect discussed was the 140 character limit on messages. I have ...
AgileCoachCamp - The enterprise adoption challenge
--Three sessions addressed the issue of enterprise adoption of Agile from different perspectives. Martin Van Vleet of Pillar Technologies led a sessi...
AgileCoachCamp - Effective Listening
--The second session I attended at AgileCoachCamp was led by Deb Hartmann. It covered the three levels of listening: The summary of the 3 levels of l...
AgileCoachCamp - high energy learning
--After a round of fascinating Lightning Talks last night we kicked off this morning to decide the agenda. The Agile Manifesto is a tremendous docume...
Updated Twittering More Ways Post
--Update: May 30th - Qwitter, SugarStats, FoodFeed, MDConsult, MadStatter, TweetShirts and ReTweet The "Twittering More Ways" post got updated today ...
Can Project Challenges Be Met Through Agility?
--This weekend I am attending AgileCoachCamp. The event kicks off with "Lightning Talks." The purpose of these to give some insight in to the positio...
Twitter Application List Update
--I am updating the Twitter application list in the blog post "Twittering more ways" just as Twitter sends out an "Over Capacity" message. That's new...
More Twitter resources
--The "Twittering More Ways" post got updated today with two new entries. Mail2Twitter - Send an email to post@mail2twitter.com. The downside with...
Twitter Applications List keeps growing
--The Twitter ecosystem is alive and well despite the trials and tribulations of scalability and reliability. The list of Twitter Applications covere...
Data Portability and Open Standards
--As a Twitter user I am interested in the quest for stability. It was the discussion around dealing with scalability that led me to Eran Hammer-Laha...
Architecture and Speedy Software Development
--This evening I attended the Maryland Agile Project Leadership Network meeting. George Dinwiddie was presenting "There Must Be 50 Ways to Speed Up S...
OpenID and Single Sign On across sites
--I have been reading up about OpenID and SSO as I try to work out how OpenID can enable federated Single Sign On. There is an interesting page post...
Innovation and Not Invented Here Syndrome
--It appears that IBM's Lotus Connections Software Evangelist is moving on. Gia Lyons has accepted a Social Software Evangelist position with Jive So...
More for Twitter
--The "Twittering More Ways" post got updated today with four new entries. There was also a great post from ReadWriteWeb covered the top 5 twitter ap...
Oh Dear, Did I dis the Twitter?
--Yesterday evening I couldn't get on to Twitter via their web site or via hahlo. When it finally came back I posted a tongue in cheek message. Am I ...
100 Million is a lot of extra clicks
--Microsoft is claiming great market penetration with Microsoft Sharepoint. According to CIO Magazine, and other sources, Microsoft has sold over 100...
Data Portability and the Web Relational File System
--Yowzaa! My brain is still spinning from reading two great posts. The first was Chris Messina talking about Data Portability in his FactoryCity Blog...
Twittering more ways
--Update: June 7th - ttytter, MoodBlast, selfreferential, TwitterPark, Feedtweeter , DoesFollow This was originally posted in April as "Twitter: A Tw...
Health 2.0 and HealthCamp - Going beyond throwing sheep
--Having attended SocialDevCamp East last Saturday I have been thinking about the possible themes for HealthCampMd that I am organizing on June 14th...
Perspectives on Gartner's Portal and Collaboration Conference
--In late March I attended the Gartner Portal and Collaboration Conference in Baltimore. I blogged throughout the conference and had plenty of feedba...
New Logo designed for HealthCampMd
--I have been thinking about printing t-shirts for the HealthCampMd that is taking place at Villa Julie College on Saturday June 14th. If we are goin...
Getting a Power Up at Social Dev Camp East
--, originally uploaded by Jeff Kubina.Saturday May 10th was Social Dev Camp East held at the University of Baltimore. It was a day of stimulating t...
Health Care and Data Portability at SocialDevCampEast
--About 75 people have turned up at SocialDevCamp in Baltimore. There is a lot of fascinating conversation going on. This morning I participated in a...
More Twittering
--The world seems to be all a Twitter. Even though Twitter has some of the worst downtime of all our must have services. How much downtime will it ta...
Heading to SocialDevCampEast
--There is a great event on this weekend in Baltmore. SocialDevCampEast is meeting there at the Uiversity of Baltimore. This is the Unconference for ...
Unified communications from a Microsoft Perspective
--I just spent the better part of two days in a design meeting with Microsoft. The topic up for discussion was a Unified Messaging Infrastructure des...
Rules to Tweet By
--I am just catching up on blogs after a crazy week. Yes, a really crazy week. I met Susan Mernit at the Web 2.0 Expo where she led the panel on how ...
HealthCampMd Change of Date
--Yesterday we thought we had a date locked down for HealthCampMD. Alas, a change is needed. The good news is that it is going to happen sooner. Yes,...
HealthCampMD names the date
--In yesterday's post (HealthCampMD in the works) I wrote about a Health 2.0 Bar Camp event that is being organized in Owings Mills, Maryland. It loo...
HealthCampMD in the works
--At the Web 2.0 Expo there was a lot of interest in the subject of Health 2.0. Over 40 people got involved on various impromptu sessions on the subj...
Twitter: A Twit Twit here and a Tweet Tweet there...
--Last Updated - Follow updates in the post: Twittering More Ways Twitter was the talk of the recent Web 2.0 Conference. Mashups were using Twitte...
The Anime Club at the Japanese Cherry Blossom Parade
--While I was in San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Expo I saw the Japanese Cherry Blossom Parade. This was a big parade from the Civic Center to the Japa...
How brain dead is AT&T?
--I have to ask this question. At the Web 2.0 Expo the iPhone was everywhere. However The iPhone on AT&T has a dirty little secret. As an iPhone ...
Out and About at the Web 2.0 Expo
--Once again at the Web 2.0 Expo Twitter was where it was at. If you wanted to meet people or check out sessions the information was circulating on T...
Social Networking for Security
--Ross Mayfield connects some fascinating threads on his blog where he is discussing "Secure what people do, because information doesn't do." Ross' t...
And Finally....
--The final session to attend at the Web 2.0 Expo will be:"How to Create Successful Unconferences, BarCamps, and Meetups for Almost No $$"I am guessi...
Cross site authorization with OAuth
--Scott Fleckenstein a developer at GetSatisfaction.com gave a talk on the "How of OAuth" at the Web 2.0 Expo. OAuth is a community-developed, open ...
Who knows what...
--What Dash knows:Crowd sourcing worksPeople like to search at least twice per day from their carsThe top subscriptions like Gas prices, movie listi...
Fake Steve Jobs
--Happy to be here at the peak of the Web 2.0 Bubble. Chris Heuer took some flack for founding the Social Media Club. Gee - He is absolutely cracking...
The Network is the Computer
--Sun get a bad wrap a lot of the time but they have had the belief that "the network is the computer" Jonathan Schwartz is one of the best known CE...
Creativity v. Control in the Enterprise
--At the Web 2.0 Expo Anant Jhingraan and Lauren Cooney of IBM and Stephen O'Grady of Redmonk led a session on "Creativity vs. Control: The Debate Co...
Testing Web Applications - More Art than Science
--Gregg Pollock, of Rails Envy, gave a session on "The Art of Texting Web Applications" The talk was based on the Model View Controller framework. Vi...
Open Yahoo
--Ari Bologh looked at the Openness of Yahoo. Yahoo are in the process of creating a development platform - Y! OS. Yahoo is creating a social fabric ...
The Mobile Web
--Mitchell Baker is talking about "Opening the Mobile Web" "There is only one web" The mobile web is not a separate entity. There are fewer constrain...
Stopping the Internet
--This keynote session is by Jonathan Zittrain. "The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop it" 250 Million PCs are infected "awaiting further inst...
Andreessen insights
--Marc Andreessen is on the couch at Web 2.0 talking with John Batelle. On competing with Microsoft... Marc is still amused by the fact that Microsof...
Web 2.0 is all about Us
--Just like last year the Web 2.0 Expo has been a real buzz. There is a lot going on. Web 2.0 is a very social phenomenon and the show proves it. Th...
What AIM knows by being Open
--Edwin Aoki of AOL presented on "What AIM Knows" 12B status messages and 2B messages are sent per day. There are currently 14M simultaneous users on...
Here Comes Everybody
--Clay Shirky's key note was entertaining. The lubricant of the 20th century was the SitCom.... We panicked because we had to deal with free time. Th...
Weaving a Mesh
--Amit Mital of Microsoft talks about the Mesh. Using the magic of software to tie together internet connected devices.Unified data Unified feedsAppl...
Context and Content - Sliding together
--Slide is very metric driven. For the interview with Max Levchin of Slide check out the mashable live blog. Max Levchin has had success with multipl...
Deep Trends in Web 2.0
--Tim O'Reilly gave the Web 2.0 Keynote. We are changing the way the world works. 1. Web 2.0 in the Enterprise - Web 2.0 is about turning themselve...
Data Portability, OpenID, OAuth and the Enterprise
--This session was led by Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb.The panel included: David Recordon Artur Bergman Joseph SmarrDanny Kolke. OpenID is a...
For those with short attention spans...
--The packed session of the afternoon was the one on micro-blogging and micro-media. "Short Attention Span Theater: The Birth of Microblogging & ...
Data Portability and Privacy on the emerging Social Web
--This session was given by Joseph Smarr, Chief Platform Architect of Plaxo. Plaxo is a great address management service, one that I use on a daily b...
The Social Side of Business
--The session "Creating a Coherent Social Strategy for Business"was given by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research. The presentation was...
Enterprise Mashups - Moving from Hype to Reality
--This session was given by John Musser of Programmable Web.What is an Enterprise Mashup?:Lightweight applicationDeveloped inside the enterpriseCreat...
Building the next big thing
--I decided to drop out of Scott Berkun's Innovation session to catch the second half of Dion Hinchcliffe's session on "Building Next Generation Web ...
Timely Innovation
--Okay, let's give the session on "How To Innovate on Time" by Scott Berkun a try.Innovation is relative and is relative to the audience. Being Good...
Doing Web 2.0 Right
--Today is the kick-off to the Web 2.0 Expo. It looks to be another outstanding event, if the pre-session meet-ups are any indication. I will be li...
Putting a Web 2.0 flavor in your application
--There is a question that is a leading indicator that Enterprises are waking up to Web 2.0. That question is along the lines of:"What do I need to d...
Three Types of Twitterers
--Yesterday I wrote about Twitter and the Art of Accidental Discovery. In that post I identified two types of Twitter user:The Self-PublicistThe Conv...
Twitter and the Art of Accidental Discovery
--Last year I wrote a post for AOL's Developer Network on Accidental Discovery. It is one of the joys of the Social Web that is Web 2.0. I got to thi...
Next Generation SOA
--Yesterday, while waiting for a plane I managed to catch the audio portion of Dion Hinchcliffe's Webinar on "The Future of SOA: How Web-Oriented Arc...
MacBook Pro as Thinkpad upgrade - thanks to Techshell
--I recently had to upgrade my laptop. I have been using a PowerBook G4 for the last 4+ years and it has done me proud but I was running out of disk ...
Health 2.0 - Healthcare and the data portability challenge
--Recently I was asked to put together a keynote address for a TiE-DC event. Tie-DC is the DC Chapter of an organization of Entrepreneurs and innovat...
The case for OpenSocial
--I have said on numerous occasions - whether you love or loathe the Scobleizer, Robert Scoble always manages to move the conversation along. The Sco...
Heist some great software
--For the Mac users amongst us MacHeist has just announced their latest package. I bought the last MacHeist bundle. For $49 you get a tremendous arra...
Where did the Semantic Wiki go?
--Last week I looked at Atomization of applications to enable the construction of new processes. Atomization is the de-construction of applications i...
A Refreshing Mint
--I have been a Quicken user for many years, starting off in the days of DOS way back in the 1990's. When Microsoft got in to the Personal Finance so...
To Succeed: Atomize
--In the height of tax season it seems appropriate to revisit a blog post I first wrote while at AOL in July last year. I have been thinking about Ap...
Is Sharepoint a collaboration platform or not?
--Of late I have been working a lot with Sharepoint 2003 and Wikis. Amongst all this what has been pre-occupying my thought has been the question of ...
Encouraging more disqus..ion
--I am taking my lead from the esteemed visionary Steve Jobs and finally ditching the blogger comments system to adopt DISQUS. If you have anything t...
Go with the flow
--Twitter is a wonderful service. Feel free to follow me. I will probably add you to the flow by following you. There are some great services that ha...
Corporate Web 2.0
--Gartner analysts Tom Austin and Anthony Bradley presented on "Enterprise 2.0: The Business Side of Web 2.0" at the Gartner Portal and Collaboration...
Pan-Enterprise Search
--Gary Szukalski of Autonomy presented on "Pan-Enterprise Search Platforms: Moving Beyond Single-Application Search" at the Gartner Portal and Collab...
Does Strategic mean slow?
--Nikos Drakos is presenting at the Gartner Portals and Collaboration Conference on "Wikis, Social Networks, Content Mashups and the Next Generation ...
The Underwhelming Success of SOA
--Sitting at the Gartner Conference I read the ZDNet article on "The best way to sell SOA? Try Web 2.0 techniques."My comment on that post is reprodu...
Document Manipulation and Sharepoint
--Sean Lemon of Universal Forest Products (UFP) presented a user case study on "How to Link Process Workers to Document Management, Imaging and Workf...
On Demand meets the Enterprise Portal
--Mike Minelli of Compuware Covisint. Rooted in the auotmotive industry Covisint provides hosted portals, messaging and trusted identity frameworks t...
Portals and Mashups - Putting the Powr of SOA in our hands
--Ray Valdes presented a session on Portals and Mashups at the Gartner conference in Baltimore.Portals bring the personalization in the presentation ...
The Power of Collective Decision Making
--I nearly entitled this "the Powr of Collective Decision Making" because it is what we call Web 2.0 that has empowered collective activity. Steven ...
Everything you might not want to know about Sharepoint
--Gartner's Karen Shegda reviewed Microsoft's swiss army knife product which is Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007.The new features are ...
Opportunity and the Enterprise Portal
--IBM presented at the Gartner conference. It was probably just an excuse to get more mileage out of "Buzzword Bingo."IBM did present Lotus Mashups -...
Portals going beyond Web 2.0 - Really?
--David Gootzit talking about the Portal's future and beyond Web 2.0.What is a portal? Web software that provides relevant access to web assets in a ...
Social is about People not products
--Nikos Drakos on Zero-Spending Projects. People not Products.Here I am at the Gartner Summit on Collaboratin and I would rather be spending time lea...
Bringing Facebook, Wikipedia and Del.icio.us in-house
--Jeffrey Mann of Gartner presented this session and the issue is how to present the benefits to executives.Consumer software can solve tactical issu...
Portals, Content and Collaboration
--Gartner is hosting a summit event in Baltimore: Portals, Content and CollaborationI am going to try to blog the sessions I attend. Let's see how it...
Healthcare - Am I off base?
--In my last post I noted that Health 2.0 was hitting the radar at SXSW. Today I was reading a Gartner paper that basically states that (forgive me f...
Health gets on the Interactive Radar
--I wish I had made it to SXSW - and not just for the parties!It seems that Health is hitting the radar of the thought leaders in the Web community. ...
Airport Express ... one more thing
--In my last post I wrote about some of the ways that Apple's Airport Express can be used. There is one little tip for the road warrior that helps to...
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OutTwit - Use Twitter directly from Outlook.
DoxPara Research
DNS Vulnerability
Marking your Twitter feed (or any imported feed) - tumblrist
cool twitter feed integration in tumble
Finkker - Sign up
Finance tracking with Twitter
Swimtrek | Training Tours & Coaching
interesting vacation - swim the greek islands
Twellow.com :: Listing for health
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