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A World Transformed: What Are the Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years? - Knowledge@Wharton
10 Web Tech Innovations That Have Improved Our Lives
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"Social Awareness" To Replace Social Networking | InventorSpot
this bears no relation to how people interact and is scarily inhuman. the fact ASTRA is a centralised platform doesn't improve matters but it's the lack of understanding of what social is that is staggering here.
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The researchers developed their approach based on the so-called focus-nimbus model to determine what information is shared and what is received by different people in a social network. A Psych Central report states that "in this context, a person’s nimbus consists of the type, amount and detail of information they want to share with others, while their focus contains the type and amount of information they choose to receive from others, including their reaction to the person’s nimbus."
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet | Politics and Law - CNET News
not good
Why corporate IT should unchain our office computers. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
amen to that.
JOHO - August 18, 2009
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Second,
the original version is caught up in a swell of techno-determinism. We assumed —
although I think "hoped" is the more accurate term — that the Net
would have an inevitable effect all by itself. Nope. The Net doesn't
route around all attempts to block it or censor speech, and it doesn't
by itself lead to an open world of sharing carers. -
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I am not so hot on the topic of authenticity any more. I agree with
Chris
Locke that it's just about impossible to apply that term to a
company,
because a company doesn't have an innerness that can accord with its
outerness. Besides, if a company is authentically rapacious because
it's in touch with its inner greedy child, I'd rather deal with a different business
that's treating me well inauthentically.- it's not about authenticity but 'humanity' which manifests itself in relationship. current structure of companies, i.e. hierarchy, really do not lend themselves to 'authenticity' or relationship. until that changes, there is not much hope in better 'relationship' with company. - on 2009-08-25
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Are our heads in the cloud? - Times Online
one of the crapiest pieces of journalism I have seen for a while.
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Add Sticky NoteFor a big idea, the cloud is — fortunately — remarkably simple.
It means that the electronic information we want is stored and processed on
computers somewhere else — in the cloud — and delivered to us where, when
and how we need it.- actually, that's not the big idea. The big idea is separating computing tasks and processes from particular machine and hijacking the term cloud (i.e. the internet) for marketing purpose for the corporate owned 'cloud computing'. Oh well. - on 2009-08-12
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Add Sticky NoteThe
cloud reverses that model. Cloud-based devices create and store nothing.
They are merely connecting devices that draw down the information we need.
Computing best illustrates the shift. In the cloud, the internet becomes our
operating system. We use online software that runs in our browser to create
the files we need. The files are stored in remote data centres.- another slightly muddled bit of thinking. cloud-based devices - what are they? they create and store nothing - so what are they for? I use my camera to take a picture, that's creation. I use my laptop to pen a blog post, that's creation. and the whole thing about the internet as operating system - well, non-geeks should stay away from that meme. Files stored in remote data centres - possibly or possibly not. Remote data center doesn't a cloud computing make! - on 2009-08-12
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McKinsey: What Matters: Using technology to turbocharge innovation in a downturn
weak understanding of what innovation is. the 2nd comment on the article sums it up well
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The history of recession is also the story of technology advances that overturned the existing competitive order. Digital computers were born during the Great Depression, the Ethernet during the 1970s oil crisis, the IBM personal computer in the early 1980s recession, and the World Wide Web, which emerged from the recession of the early 1990s. And it was during the last recession, in the early 2000s, that innovative companies began staking out new leadership positions via the Internet.
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Add Sticky NoteHowever, a significant and growing number use this technology to connect professionally with other individuals, share knowledge, and collaborate on work projects. At the same time, new digital platforms are multiplying throughout this digital firmament, establishing new locales for this online collaboration. Think of them as “digital workplaces”—or even “factories”—where individuals and organizations can gather to co-create content, products, and services.
- they just cannot stop thinking processes and systems. sigh - on 2009-08-10
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BBC NEWS | Magazine | The internet's conscientious objectors
not surprising there are people not wanting to use new tech. bet it was the same when cars came around, old drivers missed the connection with the horse and the sense of skill it takes to ride it or the slower pace that gives you time to drink in the sights and world around you... yadi-yadi-da. :) there is also the issue of having information filtered, approved, certified and the networked chaos of the internet would be alien to people used to authoritative filtering. Too much information is the usual complaint! What them mean is not enough guidance on what to pay attention to and believe!
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Add Sticky NoteAlan Newell, professor at the Dundee university school of computing, points out the typical computer tends "to be designed by young male computer scientists and they tend not to understand the challenges it provides for groups of people they never meet".
- Ain't that the truth! - on 2009-08-07
The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real - Anil Dash
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Pushbutton systems rely on the web's fundamental HTTP protocol for communication between these component parts. The architecture of Pushbutton message delivery is also simple to understand. Before Pushbutton, in today's systems, when you create a message (a blog post, tweet or other update) that's published in your RSS or Atom feed, every application or site that wants updates from you has to repeatedly request your feed to know when it's updated.
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That's because Pushbutton-enabled applications will improve upon the current state of affairs by proactively delivering not just the notification that there's a new message, but the content of the message itself.
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SpinVox - Blog
good response. seems some people don't understand why disclosing the % of human processes voicemails is sensitive information.
The rigors of life unplugged - Los Angeles Times
fascinating, even though hardly surprising. I think we are still looking for balance after giving in to the explosion of technological innovation. The answer is not to turn back or ignore it, but to find ways of subdueing it to other priorities.
YouTube - 2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year
interesting numbers. mindblowing juxtapositions. still, it comes down to individual effort, emotional nature of which doesn't change much, even if technology makes it a lot easier.
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