Little Legends is a newish, free service for parents and carers in the UK. A while ago, my sister and I were discussing how hard it was for her to find anywhere useful and good for mums (schools, late night... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
From Istanbul To Sand Hill Road: Web 2.0 Companies A long, long list of contenders ... beggr.com included. (tags: web_2.0 list companies) Crossing borders: What's the secret sauce in Ruby on Rails? Bruce Tate has come to understand that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
How American are Startups? (plasticbag.org) ... and Tom Coates' thoughts (tags: Tom_Coates startups business) Xtech 2006: Paul Graham - How American are Startups?. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns from the chaos that is the blogosphere. Suw Charman's word for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Jon Udell: Rolling our own OPML mashups Now that we've shared our OPML, will SYO share it back so we can create and contribute our own data mashups?... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Sviokla's Context: Eyeballs, Eyeballs Everywhere and Not an Ad to Link!... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
YouOS: What is all this?... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Collective X | Stay in the loop with your group... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Don’t Mess With The Net "The giant telephone and cable companies are trying to take control of the Internet away from the public." This is important stuff. BBC - Press Office - Mark Thompson RTS Fleming Lecture... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Charlene Li's Blog: Google Calendar creates a platform for "time" applications "Just as the Google Maps API enabled numerous mash-ups like housingmaps.com, the Google Calendar API will create a new ecosystem of applications around schedules." (tags: Google_Calendar API time... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
"Web 2.0 AJAX Power Panel" with Jeremy Geelan @ SYS-CON.TV (tags: webcast web2.0) : : Speak Up > Ye Olde Graphic Designer : : By applying heraldry to logo design, you get "careful symbology applied in, yes, a creative... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Observer | Business | Simon Caulkin: Bosses in love with claptrap and blinded by ideologies "Despite management's obsession with hard numbers, many organisations are a fact-free zone ... Horrifying sums of money are committed on superstition or whim.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The New Wisdom of the Web - Next Frontiers - MSNBC.com "Why is everyone so happy in Silicon Valley again? A new wave of start-ups are cashing in on the next stage of the Internet. And this time, it's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The New Community - Presentation by Derek Powazek Company towns and online communities... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
"G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide" "The designers of these systems [craigslist, flickr, myspace] are engaged in embedded observation. They are living in the culture that they are helping to frame. They are aware of the others... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Entropy Gradient Reversals - The Rise of the Stupid Network "Why the Intelligent Network was once a good idea, but isn't anymore. One telephone company nerd's odd perspective on the changing value proposition" - David Isenberg (tags: networks telecoms... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
GROOP.US » Master Thesis about Tagging in Social Networks: Summary and Download - Tagging in Social Networks (tags: to_read)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tagsystems: performance tests (tags: tagging code)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript YourGMap technogoggles: Objects, Networks and Sociality » Yellowikis - A Case Study of a Web 2.0 Business, Part 1 | Web 2.0 Explorer | ZDNet.com... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Connectedness: Benefits of name dropping: David Krackhardt, Valdis Krebs, Kate Ehrlich, Martin Kilduff, Steve Borgatti Bruce Hoppe makes some interesting points about what gets people to sites - names, not concepts. (tags: network name_drop Bruce_Hoppe Google_Analytics reputation traffic)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
SPARQL: Web 2.0 Meet the Semantic Web about time :) (tags: SemanticWeb Web2.0)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
evhead: Ten Rules for Web Startups from Evan Williams, one of Blogger's co-founders (tags: rules start-ups business) IBM Enemies of innovation: What they look like, and how not to become one - Executive technology report (tags: IBM innovation)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Podcast on Enterprise Blogging (via Denham whose hosting the AOK talk at the moment) (tags: blogs organisations podcast)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
BabsonKnowledge.org: Knowledge Work, Management & Productivity with Tom Davenport & Larry Prusak Davenport and Prusak are blogging (via Jack Vinson) (tags: People blog Tom_Davenport Larry_Prusak) How to Save the World - PKM Revisited Dave Pollard with an exceptional piece... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
roxomatic - Social bookmarks review - 3rd edition (tags: social_bookmarks guides)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Alex Barnett blog : Recording Skype calls, II (tags: skype instructions audio.recording tools) Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder (tags: audio mp3 tools) Innovation creators thrive in an environment that encourages dialogue "in order for an organization to be... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Dialog on Leadership: Professor Eleanor Rosch Interview "My basic idea, in its most general form, was that concepts and categories form to mirror real-world structure rather than logic" (tags: eleanor_rosch classification philosophy interview) Trends in the Living Networks Ross... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
RSS 1.0 Modules: Taxonomy The taxonomy module is a RSS 1.0 module and a RDF application enabling the identification of topics covered by a RSS channel or item. (tags: RSS ontology rdf taxonomy) Peer Pressure » Your Attention, Please... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
EconoMeta » Blog Archive » Rankings: never a bell curve, not always a power law "If you consider ranked histograms, it’s easy to see power laws everywhere. But in many cases it may be that fitting another curve would... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Uncool Cities - Prospect article by Joel Kotkin [via 3 quarks] "rather than address serious issues like housing, schools, transport, jobs and security, mayors and policy gurus from Berlin and London to Sydney and San Francisco have adopted what... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Creativity That Goes Deep - Businessweek Embracing design-shop approaches to problem solving means having to shed some key characteristics of how traditional companies work (tags: design_thinking) Tag Ontology Writeup The goal of this ontology is to model the relationship... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Apparently...: Put your head back in the clouds Phil Edwards on why the long tail doesn't exist ... refreshing and interesting stuff (tags: long_tail networks)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Skype patches critical flaws - Computerworld Ho hum ... patches patches patches ...... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
IBM's Management Makeover As its world changes, IBM is studying its top-performing leaders. What do they do differently, and can everyone do it? (tags: IBM Leadership) visualcomplexity.com - A visual exploration on mapping complex networks (tags: Networks maps visualization)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
A cognitive analysis of tagging (tags: tags cognitive_cost)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Metrics - Weighting the Metrics (tags: metrics) Metrics - Soft Metrics (tags: Metrics) Metrics - Hard Metrics (tags: Metrics) Metrics - Introduction Tristan's series on metrics, which he hopes will stir up some discussion on what Web 2.0 means... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
DMNews.com - Blogs help sales Some measured successes from blogging in business (tags: blogs business marketing measures)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Fun blog about London $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On Google's new offering for nutty professors $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On a new find (for me) and a link between physicians in Germany and the Early Modern Catholic Church. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
On a US Military project for improving Knowledge Worker productivity. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Gates on RSS over HTML/Email $MTEntryExcerpt$>
A useful list for getting to grips with Personal Information Management $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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