Springnote was selected as the redOrbit's Site of the Day! Awesome!! :)
We came across redOrbit and learned this is such a cool site. It's a community site for those who are interested in science, tech, space, heatlh and stuff. I'm sure Springnote could be of a great use for anybody who has passion for gaining more knowledge.
Go check out the site. Maybe a better description of Springnote might've been nice? :)
This shot was taken from the video played during our Web 2.0 Expo session in April. The picture is from a real meeting by a company named pureM.
Since they learned about Springnote, this has been basically all they do. Instead of sending documents back and forth to each other through email, they update their own portion of the meeting agenda on shared Springnote pages. When they actually get together physically, they project the Springnote pages to the wall and modify the content during the meeting. Obviously, it's updated on everyone's page right away, getting rid of the hassle of updating and bulk-emailing the documents.
Now, this is what we call "wiki-based" collatoration. It just makes it so much easier for everybody. Pure productivity and efficiency boost! Of course, Springnote isn't the only application with this feature; we've got tons of Web Office suites and even more wiki applications out there. However, again from the beginning, Springnote has been all about "making it easy for the everyday person", which is why it's gaining such wide adoption in Korea.
How is Springnote helping everyone at work? More details can be found in the video below. Ok, have a great weekend, folks!
Not quite striking as the Yahoo-MS rumors, but Springnote did team up with Yahoo! Korea. In short, you can find Springnote on the Yahoo! Korea frontpage. Here's a link to the Springnote on Yahoo page.
Korea's Internet landscape is still mainly dominated by portals, such as Naver, Daum and Yahoo! Korea, so it's a common practice to build partnerships with major portals for smaller standalone services like Springnote. That's the ecosystem that's been built around Korea. I think it's good for both large and small Internet companies in that portals get to introduce many great services, which they themselves can't often develop and the small ones get more chances to meet more people.
Another thing is that Yahoo! Korea is mainly a media site while Springnote is a tool service. So, does this mean the Yahoo placement will bring the best out of Springnote to the media consumers? We're more dying to see what happens.
So, if you find a Korean friend you wants to find Springnote, pointing that friend to Yahoo! Korea now is another good start as well :)
Yes, we do have the "about" page, but if you wanna learn more about Springnote, including its history, the company stories, and how it came about, and etc., where can you find better organized pages than on Wikipedia?
So we went on to create an entry on Springnote. Here, you can pretty much find everything about Springnote.
Don't forget that Wikipedia is open to everyone! If there's anything you'd like to add or modify, we invite you all to participate. Of course, we probably would love to see warm and fuzzy comments than mean ones :)
There are also entries on Openmaru and NCsoft. In short, Openmaru is a studio which has developed Sprignote and it's also a division within NCsoft, one of the largest indepedent online game publishing comopanies in the world. If you've heard of the legendary MMORPGs Lineage and Lineage II and Guild Wars, you already know NCsoft.
Springnote is currently going through some big changes, only for better. Keep your eye on this blog as we're planning to bring you some great stuff next few weeks.
Have a great weekend, folks!
We always love to embrace the Springnote community with us. As part of our effort, we invited several bloggers to come to the Expo and write some insightful entries on some of the sessions they attended. Here's the first of the series. Hopefully, you'll get some helpful insight from this post as we did! :)
Blog, blogger, blogosphere, and social network.
Although these words are very popular now, I actually had never heard such words when I was in the same place that I am today, attending the 2008 Web 2.0 Expo at the Moscone Center here in San Francisco on the same week in April, five years ago. If I remember correctly, I was here then attending a conference hosted by Microsoft.
I remember an article I read at that time. It anticipated a type of social media that is created by a person or a small group, and it predicted it would be the future trend on the Internet. Although I don’t remember who wrote it, the author was right. Lots of things in the Internet have changed dramatically during the last five years. Google suddenly showed up as a giant in the Internet field and a lot of other companies started their new business based on Web technology.
This workshop is all about blogs. It was advertised that it would cover the fundamentals of blogging, social media marketing, and community evangelism along with several relevant techniques. The coverage sounded very interesting, so I came to attend this workshop at the cost of not attending other workshops that dealt with other hot topics such as semantic mashups and mobile 2.0.It was hosted by three speakers, Nick Gonzalez (SocialMedia), Eric Eldon (VentureBeat) and Trisha Okubo. The first two speakers gave a presentation on the fundamentals of blogging for an hour, and the last speaker, Trisha, presented a case study with her own blog for a half hour, and then there was time for people to evaluate and give feedback to each other’s blogs for the remaining time.
The first half of the seminar was general in its content. It covered how to find appropriate/good content, what makes good content, and how to make people visit a blog.
The speakers introduced several tips in maintaining a good blog listed below.
Trisha, a disruptive innovator at eBay, has her own blog, Omiru.com, which provides information on fashion trends, street style, etc. She emphasized "passion" during her presentation as the most important thing that bloggers must have. I mostly agree with Trisha except the point on how to monetize blogs. Her presentation showed how passionate she is about her job and her life.
As shown in the statistics, 60 to 80 percent of blogs are left unattended every month. She emphasized the importance of a blogger’s passion in making a successful blog. She said time and energy is required to maintain a successful blog; in other words, insufficient time and energy is responsible in failure of maintaining a blog. At this point, I assume a different approach to locating the reason why only one third of the bloggers are surviving. It could be the lack of the blogger’s passion or unexpected low traffic when starting their blog.
A couple of attendees had a chance to show their blogs and got feedback from a panel. All people seemed enthusiastic about their roles in managing their own blogs regardless of whether their blog looked great or not. Why don’t you visit some of their blogs (listed below).
www.thenextweb.org
www.goaltribe.com
www.perkettprsuasion.com
This is the official blog of Springnote, an online notebook application.
Wanna learn more about it? Why don't you come and join? :)
