Newsletter - June 2009
A selection of news and links captured during June 2009, organised under the usual headings of systems and what makes them: people, information and technology
Systems
- A good definition of a network... ...success can easily compound into runaway growth (and vice versa...)
- Power curves - what natural and economic disasters have in common
- The digital panoptican - raising questions about the mass adoption of social technologies
- 35+ examples of corporate social media in action
- Digital Britain report published - taxing landlines to pay for high-speed net
- Waiting for the tipping point means you're too late - why retailers ignored TV shopping channels and Steve Ballmer ignored search...
- High court refuses to protect anonymity of blogger - social media clashes with the legal system
- IBM launches social network for partners after successful tests
- Inside IDEO - how does the process of designing a better product work?
People
- The not-so-hidden politics of class online - excellent essay by Danah Boyd
- When do your beliefs become knowledge? And what is the impact on learning
- Amplified 09 - nLab event on amplified individuals and business resilience
- Three failures of management - nice straightforward article on how to improve decisions and actions
- Would you be a solvent or a glue? on Will Wright's team
- On the taming of comment trolls - navigating the moderation waters
- The politics of attention and microblogging governance
Information
- Triumph of the default - when something works by doing nothing
- 20 visualisations to understand crime - compare and contrast the effectiveness of different methods
- Google Fusion Tables - help you visualise and manage your data
- The fable of the dragon tyrant - setting context for questions
Technology
- How cloud computing will change business - Business Week special feature
- Google vs Microsoft on cloud computing infrastructure (ignore the title, it's a useful article on different approaches to the same solution)
- Google Wave - first impressions from ReadWriteWeb
- Exploring virtual worlds - blog post
- Some lessons out of ECM vendor demo hell
And finally, the usual bit of fun. This time, it appears the Microsoft Office 2010 team forgot to take their meds again :-)
For a more grounded perspective of the potential within Office 2010 :-) watch this space. Joining Dots is participating on the tech preview and will be posting findings here later this year.
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