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Tuesday
May272008

Boomers, Gen X Driven to Distraction as Gen Y Just Copes

AuthorYoung Urban Professional

Over the past several months I have written extensively about The Attention Crash. There are some signs (at least among geeks) that it's worsening.

Robert Scoble is, of course, the poster boy. Mike Elgan talks about curing the "Distraction Virus" and Paul Graham takes up a similar theme today. Even the New York Times is in.

Lord knows I am part of the same club. In fact, my own attention issues have prompted me to re-read the Four Hour Workweek. Tim's tips for trimming one's attention sails are invaluable, even if you remain in a corporate environment - which I certainly plan to do.

However, the more I ponder the issue, the more I think The Attention Crash is entirely generational.

Case in point. I work in an open space with a mix of people. Some are Gen Xers like me but even more are younger - they're Millennials. The Gen Yer's, it seems, do a far better job of coping with massive amounts of information. It's not uncommon for a lot of folks to be running Meebo with a dozen IM windows going at once, Facebooking, emailing and talking on the phone. And they're productive! Those of you who have kids I am sure see the same in your home.

Boomers and Gen Xers in the workplace will soon be outnumbered by Millennials. As this occurs, everyone will need to develop the same kind of coping skills. I don't have the answers, just tips. But our entire career path depends upon it.

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Sunday
May252008

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Friday
May232008

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Friday
May232008

Is Friendfeed the Next Big Thing or are We Just Bored 2.0?

AuthorYoung Urban Professional

Over the last several weeks I have become utterly addicted to Friendfeed. If you're not tracking me there already, you might want to. You can pick up the feed here or just hit this page.

Friendfeed aggregates all of my content, including my Twitter updates and Google Reader shared items. I am also using it to share my favorite YouTube videos and Flickr photos, something I haven't done elsewhere. It's basically the mother of all social networks because it can capture everything from you and your friends - real or imaginary.

While some complain about the noise, I have found that Friendfeed can be very helpful f you keep it confined to a small group of people who help you accomplish what you're trying to do. Part of this lies in hiding certain social sites and taking full advantage of the powerful but simple feature set. In my case, I use it to keep up with my colleagues and people who generally share valuable links.

Still, as great as Friendfeed is, there's a question that keeps gnawing at me: are we looking at the next Twitter or the next Jaiku? What I mean here is Friendfeed going supernova or is that that we are simply bored and looking for the next big thing. Remember, we have a habit of this!

I posed the question over on the site this morning: Is Friendfeed the next big thing or are we just bored? Discuss. Eager to hear your thoughts either here or on Friendfeed (or here or here, or wait, here - yikes too many comments in too many places).

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Wednesday
May212008

iGoogle to Get Ads This Summer, Is Google Reader Next?

AuthorYoung Urban Professional

Google developer Dan Holevoet published the roadmap for the forthcoming changes to the iGoogle personalized home page. You can check out the presentation here.

The site, which anecdotally I can tell you is getting very popular, will get a new canvas view (below) starting in June and social features over the summer. However, what's most notable is that iGoogle is getting ads. They have not shown yet what this will look like visually. However, there is more info posted in an official FAQ.

iGoogle Canvas.jpg

According to the Google deck and FAQ, ads will appear embedded in the widgets themselves and only in the new canvas view - offering developers a way to monetize. In addition, Google will solicit feedback from users as they go. However, I wonder if this is going to add to the clutter of the site. Further, I would be interested if the developers use Open Social features to make the ads as social as the widgets promise to become.

Meanwhile in related news, Google Reader is closing in on Bloglines, according to new data from Hitwise. The site is currently free of ads but with Google's purchase of Feedburner I wonder if a Gmail-like model is in the works for this site too - particularly as its use increases. Ideally this would encourage feed owners to join Feedburner's ad networks and share in the monetization in and Adsense like model.

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