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David Carter spent 11 years at Microsoft, and watched the Internet evolve into the social/business network it is today. During his time at Microsoft, David worked as product manager for products like Windows 95, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft's Internet Server Platform. Prior to leaving he was the Internet Strategy Manager at Microsoft Canada. If there has been a common thread in his roles in the last 10 years it's been driving "participation" on the internet. "Content comes from people. People need to be able to participate easily in order to make the best most relevant content available.", says Carter
November 23, 2006
I really enjoy reading Poynter to get the publishing industries perspective on citizen journalism and issues around that. Amy Gahran writes a great article titled: Online Publishers Off the Hook for Libelous Comments, Court Says . It sounds like allowing comments won't be as risky for publishers and some might have thought.
August 9, 2006
Data Management
I just finised our pipeline review (a review of new business about to close). It struck me how many new customers are creating private research portals for their sales teams.
July 20, 2006
Data Management
Some interesting data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project in a report called Bloggers A portrait of the internet's new storytellers .
July 19, 2006
Data Management
I had a great lunch with Jeffrey Treem of Edelman. We shared some client stories about corporate blogging and it was particularly good to hear the same problems from someone else's perspective.
May 17, 2006
Data Management
Mesh, Toronto's first Web 2.0 conference is over and all-in-all I'd have to declare it a success. Some of the debates that I thought were behind us, were revisited but lots of local folks got to chime in on the topic.
April 11, 2006
Data Management
My optometrist was chatting while examining my eyes and of course I worked in some blogging conversation. She confessed to not using the internet much or liking it, except her parents had recently called from a computer while on a trip. I told her that was VOIP. I realized all of our recent technology names sound really stupid. WIKI, BLOG, VOIP. Of course the words sound silly enough when you are ...