November 2009 Newsletter

Here’s the November 2009 selection of links plucked from everything shared during the month via Google Reader, Delicious and Twitter. Organised into the usual suspects of Systems and their bits and pieces: People, Information and Technology. No big theme this month. Augmented Reality dominates the technology links but in part due to us having an R&D project running in this space at the moment.

Systems

• ‘Normal Times’ – wanting a system to be normal usually means abnormal
• The Clues From a Firm’s Reception Area – 7 tips from Nicholas Bate
• What’s on the mind of Chief Marketing Officers – Forbes CMO Summit
• European Goverments can ignore social media… or not? – they can try
• Lubricating the wheels of social media – some things never change
• What the web will look like in 5 years time – Google’s Eric Schmidt’s opinions
• Volunteers log off as Wikipedia ages – the inevitable rise from network to hierarchy
• What is ultimately possible in physics? – And with the virtual, does possible matter?

People

• Dunbar’s number isn’t just a number, it’s the law – the magic 150 boundary for effective social networks (business and social)
• How to create advocates for your business – creating an engaged passionate group of people
• Technology isn’t killing our ability to write, it’s reviving it – our brains aren’t dead yet
• The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life – how a 1959 book offers lessons for today
• Social networking discipline – you need it
• Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photos – organisations getting savvy with social media
• Genies still stuck in bottles – the computing difference at home vs work

Information

• The Future: Embedding Data in the Everyday
• Business Intelligence and Process Analysis hot topics at IBM Information on Demand Conference
• Managing online information flows – Email + CRM + LinkedIn + Twitter…
• Infotention – video series by Howard Rheingold (Smart Mobs) on attending information
• The unclicking 84% – would you advertise a right-handed product to a left-handed audience?
• Interview with Google Analytics Evangelist and Customer Insight guru
• Color: The next limited resource – limited by what our eyes can see

Technology

• Cloud Computing: Where to next? – Good write-up including Gartner hype curve
• Web 2.0 and your vendor relationships – Interesting landscape
• Five interesting things about Microsoft’s Office Mobile 2010 – Microsoft Watch’s take
• 10 things about Microsoft’s PDC 09 – good, bad and ugly from Microsoft’s developer conference
• The complete guide to Google Wave – ping me if you want an invite
• There is no ‘Osborne Effect’ in web services – secrecy vs transparency in product development
• Your Augmented Future: Notes from the recent International AR Symposium
• Augmented Reality – hype or potential? Mixed views
• Augmented Reality: not that real yet – BusinessWeek weighs in on the act

And finally a bit of fun… During November, Hugh MacLeod of Gaping Void made a great comment:

“The web has made kicking ass easier to achieve, and mediocrity harder to sustain. Mediocrity now howls in protest.” @gapingvoid

And here is an example – an amateur animated film that trumps many professional efforts (took over 5 years to create a 6-minute film)