links for 2008-02-27
27 February, 2008
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Although the method is somewhat theoratical, the research presented here is pretty interesting. Fully connected social networks are able to simple problems better than ’small world’ networks, which in turn were better at complex problems.
links for 2008-02-26
26 February, 2008
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Not so surprising: the web is changing our information foraging techniques. The part that I’m missing is what the context is of the proposed behaviour. It seems like people turn into shallow information gatherers, but do they really never go deep? I do!
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In an (internet) world where everything is becoming free (that is Kelly’s assumption), he poses eight reasons of why we would pay for things: immediacy, personalisation, interpretation, authenticity, accessibility, emodiment, patronage and findability.
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Having looked at some demo’s of this technology, it seems a lot simpler than other mashup platforms like yahoo pipes. Could this be a breakthrough for corporate mashups?
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Seen it before: geeks using the scansnap to scan all their paper and moving digital. This is not for the faint of heart (yet). Just like I believe that digital photography is going to be a disaster as nobody has back-up strategies.
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This article makes a similar point as the Myths of Innovation (book by Scott Berkun). Slowly I start to understand that this really is the case (am I innovating myself?). Having worked on a project for two years the innovations (not inventions) come now.
links for 2008-02-22
22 February, 2008
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Amazing story about a school which banned Lego from the classroom to teach their kids something about power, ownership, collectivity and consensus. It’s interesting to see how the kids were taken on a journey from an oligarchy to a democracy.
links for 2008-02-19
19 February, 2008
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Business smart…
links for 2008-02-15
15 February, 2008
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Short but thorough comparison of popfly (Microsoft) and pipes (Yahoo) as mash-up creators. My choice goes for pipes, as it is more part of ‘the cloud’ as Jon Udell calls it. With Pipes it’s RSS ‘all the way down’…
links for 2008-02-14
14 February, 2008
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Interesting article about the history of HDR in science and art. Normally a lot of pictures that claim to be HDR are just horrible renderings that have nothing to do with HDR. This article gives some clear explanation of what HDR is.
links for 2008-02-13
13 February, 2008
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In the latest war in Iraq the US made use of a high-tech network supporting the troops. However, as it turned out social networks are a major part of the equation in winning this war. Succes is only possible by understanding the locals and their customs.
links for 2008-02-12
12 February, 2008
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For anyone that would like to do an MBA, but hasn’t the money or time, this might be an option. It’s an MBA course designed to do in your own time. A number of relevant books are listed and a forum is set up to meet other students. You just pay the books.
links for 2008-02-11
11 February, 2008
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It is clear that in a knowledge economy the (customer) service level is very important. However, in an economy based on knowledge the population will have be more empowered, therefor demanding higher (quality) level services.
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The Firefox plugin mentioned earlier is from this company. They offer different solutions for a number of vertical markets. Their technology consists of tagging, extraction and analytics.
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Amazing stories about two AI researchers that have had a similar idea about computer learning and then commit suicide in a similar way. Scary. It reads like a short story.
links for 2008-02-04
4 February, 2008
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Some nice tips if you process a lot of information from the web. I like the idea of mapping out the information that I find.
