Every Sunday I scan, collect and organize all my links I ran into the previous week and I send them out to our community of practice in Capgemini that is about SaaS, social collaboration tools, mash up applications and Rich Internet Applications. Since these links are public links there is no reason to not publish them here on our technology blog, especially since publishing them here will give more people the opportunity to read all the information.

Social collaboration tools

• Online Communities are not created equal: A rant from the trenches
• On Twitter, Most People Are Sheep: 80 Percent Of Accounts Have Fewer Than 10 Followers

• World Map of Social Networks | Vincos Blog
  A map of the world, showing the most popular social networks by
  country, according to Alexa & Google Trends for Websites traffic
  data (June 2009).
• Using Twitter to Connect with Audiences
• Twitter is Not a Conversational Platform
• 33 Website Success Metrics Instead of Rankings, Google PageRank and Traffic
  How to measure website success when rankings, Google PageRank and sheer
  traffic have gone the way of “hits”: All these older metrics become
  more and more meaningless in the current web environment.
• 7 Kinds Of Conversations That Always Stimulate Activity
• Everybody’s talking: the Social track at Google I/O
• The 10 Commandments of Social Media
  “What do I need to do engage my company, my products, and myself in
  social media?” The answer is easy: participate. Get out there and get
  involved. If you aren’t in the game, you can’t win. Here’s your Ten
  Commandments or things you need to be doing to get in and win with
  social media.
• Microsoft CRM seamless integration with Twitter
• Reconciling social computing with the enterprise
• HP test mobile social network
  An intelligent, mobile-phone-based social network is being tested by researchers at Hewlett Packard.
• Toward a Pattern Language for Enterprise 2.0

Rich Internet Applications

• How to Easily Create a JavaScript Framework, Part 1
• Google Web Toolkit at Google I/O
• Adobe Flash Builder 4: Data-centric Features for PHP
• Functional Testing for RIAs on the iPhone
• “Not Safe For Work” tag in HTML 5
• Nicholas C. Zakas: Speed Up Your JavaScript
• Google Open Source Blog: Introducing Android Scripting Environment
  The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to
  Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive
  interpreters directly on the Android device.
• Adaptive CSS-Layouts: New Era In Fluid Layouts?
• Multifriend Selection Component
• Fastest Firefox, Part 2: More Speediness
• Why Blocking Ad Blockers Will Fail
• Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series: Suggestions for Better Performance
• Store information on the client side with DOM Storage/Web Storage – plenty of improvements available
• Web development timeline
• HTML5 Storage tests
• IE8 Smart Address bar: What’s new
• What's New and Cool in Flex 4?

Mash up

• Channel 4 to Make its Entire Catalogue of TV Programs Available Online for Free
• Microsoft gives us the no-usage-limits Bing API
• Google I/O: Session videos on building apps using the AJAX and Data APIs
• Watercoolr – Gossip for web applications
  pubsub via webhooks, or “twitter” for your applications
• Translating the world's information with Google Translator Toolkit
• Testing Google Wave: This Thing is Tidal
  Everyone’s been talking about it: Google Wave. Google’s super
  communication tool has been a top trend on Twitter, a focus of media
  speculation, and was even able to knock Microsoft’s Bing from the top
  of the news cycle. But almost all the hype has been based on the demos
  – almost nobody’s actually got to try out Google Wave.
• Microsoft Microphone: Market Research Via Facebook Apps
• How SaaS Changes the Vendor-Customer Relationship
  One of the lingering myths regarding Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
  solutions is that they simply change the way software is packaged and
  delivered to make it easier for customers to purchase and deploy them.
  While these attributes are absolutely true, they are only the most
  obvious advantages of acquiring SaaS solutions rather than legacy,
  on-premise software.
• Google Wave Is Wikis 25 Years Later, Not Email
  Wave picks up the original idea from old-time Smalltalker Ward
  Cunningham and moves it 25 years into the present. Wave is what Ozzie’s
  Groove always wanted to be, but Ozzie missed the Internet, so it found
  a good home with Microsoft. Wave is the Facebook for more closed
  groups, but also the MySpace for all the social stuff you want to share
  with your friends, but may be not with the world.
• UK Government Moves to Put Data on the Web

Tools

• Summary of all new GMail features in Google Labs
• FineTuna: A Handy Collaboration Tool For Designers
• 21 iPhone Apps For Business

General

• What Can You Do With A Web In Your Pocket?
• Is innovation fair?
• Case Study: Publishing STW Thesaurus for Economics as Linked Open Data
  The ZBW German National Library of Economics—Leibniz Information Centre
  for Economics is the world’s largest economics library. It holds more
  than four million media items such as books, articles, journals, grey
  literature and databases. ZBW supports its users with fine-grained
  thematic access to these information resources. For this purpose the
  STW Thesaurus for Economics has been developed and applied since the
  1990s. It provides a high-level taxonomy of subject categories,
  thousands of keywords (“descriptors”) and tens of thousands of both
  synonyms and links between the thesaurus concepts. The media items are
  indexed with descriptors from this thesaurus. They can be retrieved by
  these descriptors through the library catalog ECONIS.
• Book – Collaboration in the Cloud (PDF)
• The Worst Business Model in the World (And What You Can Learn From It)
• Security Research & Defense : Understanding DEP as a mitigation technology part 1
• Google Apps is now an Exchange-replacement; Users can even keep Outlook
• Squarespace: Could It Make Web Designers Redundant?
• Project Natal: Time to throw out your game-controllers
  During the E3 2009 expo, which was held from the 2nd to the 5th of
  June, Microsoft presented Project Natal. The project brings
  human-computer interaction without an electronic input device to the
  masses. By capturing your full body movement and your voice (and being
  able of doing this for several people at the same time) it brings
  gameplay to an entirely new level.
• Why the Smart Grid Won’t Have the Innovations of the Internet Any Time Soon
• Indexing the Web—It’s Not Just Google’s Business
• 16 PHP Frameworks To Consider For Your Next Project
• Usefull MySQL articles and tutorials to improve your skills!
• How The Different Mobile Data Syncing Services Stack Up
• Play Your Cards Right: Run Your First Card Sort
• Impossible to uninstall Safari 4 in Mac OS X – Apple pretty much follows suit with Microsoft
• The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection
• On ambient visualization
  I want visualization to be less a part of a specific application that I
  go to and to be more of a natural extension to the computer itself,
  available from everywhere. I want visualization to an ambient
  experience.

Rick Mans is Information Architect and a social media evangelist within Capgemini. You can follow and connect with him via Twitter or Delicious