Tools and Tool Support

Seesmic is a new concept : a mix of a video microblogging & open free tv platform where users can interact by sending each other on the spot videos linked to a discussion topic.

It may be very useful to initiate sustainable energy debates through video posting and have colleagues & peers answering to it.

The way we may use it is to post an introductive video stating our point of view or opening questions about a specific topic and then invite our peers to add a response through a video commenting…

The comments/answers possibility can be opened during a specific time frame : one week, one month and then archived. It is fully compatible with Youtube publishing.

It is a very lively & fresh way to create interaction through a website and its visitors.

And we are lucky enough : ) to have an invitation code for Leonardo ENERGY team.

Please let me know and I will mail you the access information.

A tool which appears interesting and productive, but of which I’m still not sure whether I’ll be using it in one month is spock.com.

In the internet, where we interact with unknown strangers with unconfirmed identities, the issue of identification & trust is important. Spock addresses this by tagging users, and letting other users vote on these tags. This results in an intuitive and highly productive tool, once you figured out what it is about.

Another interesting twist is that spock.com also has a robot that scrolls the internet, and adds people it finds. You can then add these people to your network, vote on their tags, …

Anybody can tag anybody, and anybody can vote on any tag. So Spock is a tool true to the current web generation, but may be frightening to some.

Tags appear promising to find users on specific topics. But specific tag searches do not produce good results. Moreover, once finding a user, there appears to be no mechanism to contact through Spock.

Currently, I’m just doing some casual experimentation. Nothing too serious. Possibly to be continued.