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