Links last week – 080504

The following links were collected last week (28 Apr to 04 May), shared via Google Reader, added to FriendFeed or posted on Twitter. They have been organised by Library category: Systems and the elements – People, Information and Technology (including SharePoint)

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Systems

• Best summary of MS-Yahoo not happening – http://tinyurl.com/62ja92
• Louis Vitton gets brand-jacked, how not to handle collateral damage – http://snurl.com/2766w
• The real threat to Google? Not a recession but the mobile phone – Business Week http://snurl.com/267vm
• The future home – from 1979! http://snurl.com/271sj (image)
• Top 5 suggestions for entrepreneurs from IDEO – http://snurl.com/2767y
• Larry Page on how to change the world – Fortune http://snurl.com/27680
• Gartner Hype Cycle for High-Performance Workplace – http://snurl.com/2768z
• The 1,000 True Fans debate – Wikinomics http://snurl.com/2769p
• The first rule of B2B selling – http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/05/the-first-rule.html

People

• The rise of alter egos in everybody’s space – Washington Post http://snurl.com/26x4r
• Friends may be the best guide through the noise – New York Times http://snurl.com/271rw
• The cognitive age: why the skills revolution matters more than globalisation – New York Times http://snurl.com/26x0b
• Top 10 memory hacks (I live by no. 7) – http://tinyurl.com/4j39kp
• Rise of the light worker – http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/04/rise-of-the-lightworker/
• The triumph of experience – Kevin Kelly http://www.kk.org/2008/04/the-triumph-of-experience.php
• The shrinking head illusion – http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/04/28/the-shrinking-head-illusion/
• On managing a community – http://www.chrisbrogan.com/on-managing-a-community/
• Dr Edward de Bono on creative thinking – Presentation Zen http://snurl.com/2769l

Information

• Can we trust The National Archives? Forgeries discovered – Financial Times http://snurl.com/273mz
• The challenge with designing user interfaces – http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/03/05/simplicity/
• Open XML explained – http://openxmldeveloper.org/articles/1970.aspx
• Content Management – UK vs US – http://snurl.com/2767s
• Why should engineers and scientists care about colour and design – http://snurl.com/2768e
• A Google Prototype for a Precision Image Search – http://snurl.com/2768w

Technology

• Confessions of a (former) IT scoundrel – Business Week http://snurl.com/26xu4
• Open sources is not the same as freeware – Cognitive Edge http://snurl.com/2766p
• Twistori – Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Feel and Wish on Twitter – http://twistori.com/
• Dancing with gorillas: the new web era – RWW http://snurl.com/2768o

Artificial Intelligence

• Pursuing the next level of Artificial Intelligence – New York Times http://snurl.com/26y70
• The old ‘Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc.’ article pops up again – http://snurl.com/26g0z
• Singularity and AI objections –
  http://www.singinst.org/blog/2007/12/27/sotala-mccabes-singularity-objections/

Office Apps

• Google Grapes aren’t MS Grapefruit (about Office streaming or not) –http://snurl.com/27684
• Is Office the new Netscape? – http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/05/one_of_the_corn.php
• Zoho adds VB macros and pivot tables –
  http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9929979-2.html

SharePoint

• What the ‘colleagues’ feature is about on – http://snurl.com/26sda
• Example of implementing a tag-driven IA using MOSS 2007 – http://snurl.com/26gcz
• SharePoint Server and Search Server: Scale and Performance Guide –http://snurl.com/27678
• Announcing first release of SharePoint Administration Toolkit – http://snurl.com/27689

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