http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2007/05/01/interview-with-steve-collins-of-thoughtglue/ Andrew Boyd reviews life, design, and Shiraz Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:53:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2007/05/01/interview-with-steve-collins-of-thoughtglue/#comment-118 Connectors and Sneezers at Facibus Reviews Sat, 05 May 2007 05:58:08 +0000 http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2007/05/01/interview-with-steve-collins-of-thoughtglue/#comment-118 [...] Steve Collins is a friend of mine and is an enthusiastic evangelist of the business uses of Web 2.0. He’s now guest-blogging over at Web Worker Daily. His first guest spot is on Web 2.0 social networking applications. In it, Steve talks about the connector concept discussed in Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping Point as follows:  The critical mass of connectedness is closely related to Malcolm Gladwell’s notion of the tipping point. As the number of users and their activity grows, social applications get better, often exponentially so. Ideally the early users of a social application are Gladwell’s “connectorsâ€?, and they “yawnâ€? a lot. These people drive uptake and encourage others to join in, increasing connectedness. Soon, the volume of users and the connections between them reaches a point where real value is offered. [...] […] Steve Collins is a friend of mine and is an enthusiastic evangelist of the business uses of Web 2.0. He’s now guest-blogging over at Web Worker Daily. His first guest spot is on Web 2.0 social networking applications. In it, Steve talks about the connector concept discussed in Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping Point as follows:  The critical mass of connectedness is closely related to Malcolm Gladwell’s notion of the tipping point. As the number of users and their activity grows, social applications get better, often exponentially so. Ideally the early users of a social application are Gladwell’s “connectorsâ€?, and they “yawnâ€? a lot. These people drive uptake and encourage others to join in, increasing connectedness. Soon, the volume of users and the connections between them reaches a point where real value is offered. […]

]]> http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2007/05/01/interview-with-steve-collins-of-thoughtglue/#comment-117 Interviewed at Facibus Reviews at acidlabs Tue, 01 May 2007 08:19:55 +0000 http://facibusreviews.com/blog/2007/05/01/interview-with-steve-collins-of-thoughtglue/#comment-117 [...] been interviewed by Andrew Boyd over at Facibus Reviews on my new site, thoughtglue. Drop on over and read the story. I think I [...] […] been interviewed by Andrew Boyd over at Facibus Reviews on my new site, thoughtglue. Drop on over and read the story. I think I […]

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