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...
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...
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...
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?...
Sviokla's Context: Eyeballs, Eyeballs Everywhere and Not an Ad to Link!...
YouOS: What is all this?...
Collective X | Stay in the loop with your group...
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...
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...
"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...
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....
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...
The New Community - Presentation by Derek Powazek Company towns and online communities...
"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...
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...
GROOP.US » Master Thesis about Tagging in Social Networks: Summary and Download - Tagging in Social Networks (tags: to_read)...
Tagsystems: performance tests (tags: tagging code)...
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...
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)...
SPARQL: Web 2.0 Meet the Semantic Web about time :) (tags: SemanticWeb Web2.0)...
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)...
Podcast on Enterprise Blogging (via Denham whose hosting the AOK talk at the moment) (tags: blogs organisations podcast)...
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...
roxomatic - Social bookmarks review - 3rd edition (tags: social_bookmarks guides)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
Skype patches critical flaws - Computerworld Ho hum ... patches patches patches ......
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)...
A cognitive analysis of tagging (tags: tags cognitive_cost)...
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...
DMNews.com - Blogs help sales Some measured successes from blogging in business (tags: blogs business marketing measures)...
On Google's new offering for nutty professors
On a new find (for me) and a link between physicians in Germany and the Early Modern Catholic Church.
On a US Military project for improving Knowledge Worker productivity.
Gates on RSS over HTML/Email
A useful list for getting to grips with Personal Information Management
Link: MIT Cog Sci Lecture Notes
