Newsletter – July 2009

Welcome to the July 2009 Newsletter. As usual, a selection of links gathered during the month, organised into Systems and the dots that create them: People, Information and Technology. So much for keeping the selection short, quite a pile this month. Key themes across the web: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Internet, Real-time Systems (those two are somewhat related and likely to get interesting over the next year), Twitter (one of those real-tiem systems) and how Social Media is affecting and affected by us (if we’re not careful, we’ll become the artificial intelligence)

Systems

• It’s a Hits game for everyone – in a network economy, winner-takes-all becomes the norm
• How to measure the value of collaboration – an Enterprise 2.0 approach
• Measuring collaboration – lessons from Shane Battier and the NBA
• Microsoft’s long slow decline – the risk of focusing on price (or lack of)
• Did Yahoo just fall on its sword? – aggression and innovation usually trump partnerships
• UK government encourages officials to use Twitter – online guide to using social media
• Twitter – shrinking the emotinal distance for business – another guide
• The real lessons from Twitter – if people use it it’s valuable. If not…
• Complexity in government – when transforming, best practices usually fail
• The government we deserve – US focused but replace republicans and democrats with tories and labour in the UK
• A teacher’s view on the education crisis – technology still lagging in the classroom
• Educators take Web 2.0 to school – technology does not need to lag in the classroom
• Tweetraising – the potential for charities on Twitter
• How HP integrated digital and social media – following IBM’s lead
• Was Moore’s Law inevitable? – or just part of human evolution
• Innovative marketing – to launch a car, create a font
• The Cluetrain Manifesto – 10 years on, a conversation with some of the authors
• The diminishing returns of collaboration – applying the Tipping Point to Twitter
• With the commercialization of the cloud, it’s deja vu – some aspects of systems don’t change

People

• Grey Suit vs Hawaiian Shirt – different social networks behave differently
• The accuracy of first impressions – amazing old study on emotional expression
• Virtual training trumps teacher-led – blog post, trusted sources versus professionals
• The impact of virtual collaboration – including environmental value
• Games for good – the role game playing may play in determining our future
• Media will be a hobby not a job – maybe not entirely correct but a healthy dose of reality
• Sing an airline tune – a disgruntled passenger posts a song about lost luggage on YouTube, 3 million views and 10% stock price drop for airline in question
• 700m new Internet users by 2013 – Forrester Research report
• In this social newtorked world, you don’t have to be friends with everyone – powerful personal story
• Debunking the myths of social media – effort is involved
• The fan chasm – how big is the gap between die-hard fan and mainstream customers
• Painting mediocre gadgets pink does not mean women will buy it
• Teenagers switch to streaming music instead of illegal downloads – there’s usually always a solution to an industry problem, but incumbents will rarely spot it
• How teenagers consumer media – Morgan Stanley report
• Teens aren’t using Twitter, it doesn’t feel safe – more savvy than adults give them credit for
• 6 new personality disorders caused by the Internet – some will sound familiar
• Why foot in mouth is quite normal – now I have an official excuse 🙂
• A formula for changing math(s) education – TED Talk
• Teaching life lessons through tinkering – TED Talk
• The Ghost in the machine – electronic brain implants, coming to a head near you soon? May recoil but how far away from optical and audio improvements that we consider normal

Information

• Does Search Matter? – Joining Dots blog post exploring the evolution of search
• What is real-time search? – Definitions and players
• Microsoft’s search page segmentation patent reappears
• Review of Free – Chris Anderson’s latest book
• How the New York Times Home Page gets made – by the New York Observer
• Explore world data – using Factbook Explorer from OECD
• Strategic information warfare – a new face of war, white paper by RAND
• Big data and the real-time web – made for each other and will change how decisions are made
• Real-time conversations hasten social CRM – CRM still struggling to be relevant and valuable but the potential is there
• Real-time graphics show international data interchange – data across the globe
• Context: 6 things about the mobile web – marketing is going mobile
• Corporate sites and social nets start to connect – integration inevitable?
• The power of emotional contagion – context can heavily influence how we interpret data
• Create an outstanding resume with adobe photoshop – novel idea and how to be different

Technology

• The Web at 20 and follow-up thoughts – BBC reports on visions of the future for the Internet
• Artificial Intelligence arrives – the virtual receptionist (MS Research via Discovery channel)
• Designing Emergent AI – part one, philosophy
• Memristor minds – the future for artificial intellgence?
• IBM and the Internet of things – get ready for ambient devices…
• What is this real-time thing and where is it going – technology speeds up what we do
• Designing useful mobile services for Africa – what’s Google up to now
• Web-based email overtaking its desktop counterpart – our changing habits
• The hidden risks of cloud computing – Lifehacker notes
• The future of the Internet looks highly mobile – stats
• Desigining mobile services for Africa – what’s Google up to now
• Location-based services – not quite arrived in 2009 but expect to see more in 2010
• New Directions gadget from Google Maps – help customers find their way via your web site
• Bryn Oh, IBM and the Rabbicorn – creating immersive interfaces within virtual worlds
• SharePoint 2010 sneak peek – first looks from Microsoft including a new pie
• The first complete guide to 2010 – posted by TechCrunch
• Microsoft’s new Enterprise Social Computing web site – aka how SharePoint does it
• Microsoft Office Head talks Google and more – CNet interview
• A summary of principles for user interface design (and business…)
• Human-centred Design Toolkit – from IDEO
• Patterns for Enterprise 2.0 – highlighting the differences with 1.0 use of the Internet
• A brief history of OSes – referencing Snow Crash
• Introducing the Chrome OS – Google finally confirms the rumours of the decade (and TechCrunch’s subtle opinion)

And finally, finishing with the usual bit of fun: It’s not clever to add your manager as a friend on Facebook and then use Facebook to bitch about your job… (warning: includes a fair bit of swearing)

Found via: iamhilarious.com