Well, I certainly expected that, by now, online tools for conversation, work, collaboration and discourse would have become far more useful, sophisticated and effective than they currently are.
Dave Winer's experiments with URL shortening also expand the 140-character window for filtering, but new interfaces will need to be released to harness these tools for conversations.
Like most who do ratings, we use a 1-10 scand, and the volume of responses they produce shows these posts are both popular and a great tool for sparking conversation.
The Gates Foundation has a good reputation for getting the mix right and tailoring it to individual circumstances".The risk with any metric is that people will come to see it as a description of reality, rather than a tool for a conversation about that reality," says Rowena Young of the Skoll Foundation.
CoComment is a popular browser tool for tracking conversations in the comments sections of blogs.
The price tag was shocking at the time, but now that WhatsApp has expanded beyond a messaging app to a fully loaded communication tool for phone conversations, it makes sense.
Twitter has become an essential tool for initiating conversations about the industry so that my firm can learn more about what people are looking for in a financial advisor, but more importantly it keeps me informed on what people are talking about.
Again, this could be used as a scheduling tool for personal conversations — basically, instead of missing call after call, or going through the trouble of actually scheduling a call, you can get alerted when the person you're trying to reach is free to talk.
Now launching Bnter, tool for immortalizing digital conversations.
The tool also serves as a tracking and monitoring tool for mentions and conversations about a brand taking place on Twitter.
