Link Review - January 2009
After failing miserably to keep up with the weekly link sharing posts, I have decided in 2009 to switch to a monthly format. If nothing else, it will make me review the longevity of the content in the link. Here is a sample of links collected during January 2009. As always, the full set can be found at my FriendFeed profile.
Systems
- The Economics of Giving It Away: How do you make a business model out of nothing? - Chris Anderson in the WSJ
- Why expecting IT projects to come in on time and budget is unreasonable - Harvard Business Review
- Revolution, Facebook-style - NYT
- Sales of Monty Python DVDs rise 23,000% after posted on YouTube
- The MIT Blackjack team perspective on the financial crisis
- Actions to survive a recession - Harvard Business Review
- An economic recovery plan - Philip Greenspun
- The trick in a volunteer economy is less to keep a superstar from quitting than to make sure that plenty want to take his/her place - Will work for praise, Business Week
- Secrets of Success from Google co-founder Larry Page
- The short squeeze - how Porsche made a killing
People
- Who's online and what are they doing? Teens using email has dropped from 89% to 73% in past 5 years - ReadWriteWeb review of the latest Pew Internet survey
- Valley Girls: Esther Dyson - on a life falling into the Net (BBC News)
- Interview with Alan Kay - still waiting for the revolution, from 2003
- Self awareness: the last frontier
- Open plan offices make workers sick
- Touch screen gadgets alienate the blind
- McKinsey's most popular interviews of 2008
Information
- Data Analysts captivated by R - data mining tool
- The future for media - according to Clay Shirky
- Hyperlinking the real world - the MOBVIS project
Technology
- How technology matures - in 100 years, photos go from being magical to being an afterthought
- Comparing Web 2.0 and Web 1.0 business models
- Solutions don't have to be complicated
- SOA is dead, long live services - ouch, caused a stir this one did
- Microsoft Online Services guide - where they're heading next...
...and finally, for a bit of fun. Dilbert's approach to Web 2.0:
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