Link Review – January 2009

After failing miserably to keep up with the weekly link sharing posts, I have decided in 2009 to switch to a monthly format. If nothing else, it will make me review the longevity of the content in the link. Here is a sample of links collected during January 2009. As always, the full set can be found at my FriendFeed profile.

Systems

• The Economics of Giving It Away: How do you make a business model out of nothing? – Chris Anderson in the WSJ
• Why expecting IT projects to come in on time and budget is unreasonable – Harvard Business Review
• Revolution, Facebook-style – NYT
• Sales of Monty Python DVDs rise 23,000% after posted on YouTube
• The MIT Blackjack team perspective on the financial crisis
• Actions to survive a recession – Harvard Business Review
• An economic recovery plan – Philip Greenspun
• The trick in a volunteer economy is less to keep a superstar from quitting than to make sure that plenty want to take his/her place – Will work for praise, Business Week
• Secrets of Success from Google co-founder Larry Page
• The short squeeze – how Porsche made a killing

People

• Who’s online and what are they doing? Teens using email has dropped from 89% to 73% in past 5 years – ReadWriteWeb review of the latest Pew Internet survey
• Valley Girls: Esther Dyson – on a life falling into the Net (BBC News)
• Interview with Alan Kay – still waiting for the revolution, from 2003
• Self awareness: the last frontier
• Open plan offices make workers sick
• Touch screen gadgets alienate the blind
• McKinsey’s most popular interviews of 2008

Information

• Data Analysts captivated by R – data mining tool
• The future for media – according to Clay Shirky
• Hyperlinking the real world – the MOBVIS project

Technology

• How technology matures – in 100 years, photos go from being magical to being an afterthought
• Comparing Web 2.0 and Web 1.0 business models
• Solutions don’t have to be complicated
• SOA is dead, long live services – ouch, caused a stir this one did
• Microsoft Online Services guide – where they’re heading next…

…and finally, for a bit of fun. Dilbert’s approach to Web 2.0:

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