onaswarm - How might Lifestreaming look in your organization?
by Jevon MacDonald
Onaswarm.com got a nice review form Mashable today that says it just might be the service to give FriendFeed a run for its money.
I played around with Onaswarm for the first time in a few months last night and there have been a lot of improvements. It is the only lifestreaming service that addresses many of the concerns I have expressed.
For those of you who aren’t sure what Lifestreaming or NewsFeeds are, they are reverse chronological updates about an individual’s activities. It is a format that was largely brought in to prominence by Facebook.
Tools like Onaswarm give us an idea of how this information flow format might be useful inside the enterprise. As we introduce more and more social, collaborative and intelligence tools, keeping track of activity becomes a practical impossibility, and the dashboard format becomes unwieldy and unreliable.
Onaswarm lets you break down the lifestreams of those you are following in to groups, and it lets larger groups form in to “swarms”. These kind of natural and ad-hoc groupings offer a huge advantage over more rigid and established models.
Could Lifestreams and News Feeds be the next generation of the enterprise dashboard?
