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. This week I added two new headers: ‘augmented reality’ and ‘business
models’, mainly because the content below the header ‘general’ was too
much that it deserved to be split up in several subjects. If you have
any other suggestions for input, please let me know.

Social collaboration tools

• The revolution will be twittered
  Mock not. As the regime shut down other forms of communication, Twitter
  survived. With some remarkable results. Those rooftop chants that were
  becoming deafening in Tehran? A few hours ago, this concept of
  resistance was spread by a twitter message.
• On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog
• Why 1.5 Is Greater Than 2.0
• What Social Media Isn’t
  Social media is everywhere and for a lot of businesses they approach it
  likes it’s the magic wand that’s going to be the savior to their
  business. When you begin to talk to them, usually the conversation
  starts like this. “Can you help us with that Twitter thing and that
  Facebook thing, not to mention it’s vital if you can produce for us one
  of those viral videos. Second, this has to help our business look hip
  and cool and last but not least, we don’t have the time to really be
  involved in any conversations.”
• Twitter as a News Gathering Tool
• The future of enterprise collaboration
• Citizentube: Watching video change our world
• Humans prefer cockiness to expertise – life – 10 June 2009 – New Scientist
  EVER wondered why the pundits who failed to predict the current
  economic crisis are still being paid for their opinions? It’s a
  consequence of the way human psychology works in a free market,
  according to a study of how people’s self-confidence affects the way
  others respond to their advice.
• TEDTalks : Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history – Clay Shirky (2009)
• Tim O’Reilly: What Twitter has taught me
• Iran protests meet the social Web: What we’ve learned
• Chapter 1 of Enterprise 2
• Semantic Enterprise 2.0 – Enabling Semantic Web technologies in Enterprise 2.0 environment
• A twitterable Twitter policy
• 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009
  “Social media” was the term du jour in 2008. Consumers, companies, and
  marketers were all talking about it. We have social media gurus, social
  media startups, social media books, and social media firms. It is now
  common practice among corporations to hire social media strategists,
  assign community managers, and launch social media campaigns, all
  designed to tap into the power of social media.

  But social
  media today is a pure mess: it has become a collection of countless
  features, tools, and applications fighting for a piece of the pie.

• Can Enterprise 2.0 Afford to be Boring?
• Web 2.0 Architectures–New from O'Reilly: What Entrepreneurs and Information Architects Need to Know
• SocialSafe offers Facebook ‘backup’ solution
• To
  Join or Not to Join: The Illusion of Privacy in Social Networks with
  Mixed Public and Private User Profiles – WWW2009 EPrints
  In
  order to address privacy concerns, many social media websites allow
  users to hide their personal profiles from the public. In this work, we
  show how an adversary can exploit an online social network with a
  mixture of public and private user profiles to predict the private
  attributes of users. We map this problem to a relational classification
  problem and we propose practical models that use friendship and group
  membership information (which is often not hidden) to infer sensitive
  attributes. The key novel idea is that in addition to friendship links,
  groups can be carriers of significant information. We show that on
  several well-known social media sites, we can easily and accurately
  recover the information of private-profile users. To the best of our
  knowledge, this is the first work that uses link-based and group-based
  classification to study privacy implications in social networks with
  mixed public and private user profiles.
• Cisco Releasing Sophisticated Collaboration Framework to Accelerate Your Business Value
• Semantic & Social Web – What’s In It For You?
• Personal Democracy Forum: Politics in the Web 2.0 Era
• Web 3.0: ‘Vague, but Exciting’
  When computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee first submitted his 1989 paper,
  “Information Management: A Proposal,” his boss, Mike Sendall, wrote
  “vague, but exciting” on it by way of endorsing what was the blueprint
  for the World Wide Web.

  Two decades later, Berners-Lee and
  others are formulating what can be called the third generation of the
  Web, the “semantic Web,” or “Web 3.0.” I know, I know, most of us are
  still trying to deal with Web 2.0 as part of a very confusing marketing
  landscape.

Rich Internet Applications

• 15 Resources To Get You Started With jQuery From Scratch – Nettuts+
  Maybe you’re a seasoned jQuery pro. Heck, maybe you’re John Resig. On
  the other hand, maybe you read words like “Prototype”, “jQuery”, and
  “Mootools” and think to yourself, “What the heck are these?” Now is the
  time to learn.
• Opinion: Arrogance is Limiting Framework Adoption
• Thoughts on Microsoft’s move to ship Windows 7 without Internet Explorer in Europe
• Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3
• First Look: Object Oriented CSS
• SkyFire Mobile Browser 1.0 and the Flash User Experience
• XHR progress and rich file upload feedback at hacks.mozilla.org
  A common limitation on the web today has been a rich file upload widget
  for web applications. Many sites use Flash or a desktop helper
  applications to improve the experience of uploading files.  

  Firefox 3.5 bridges one of these gaps allowing a better progress
  indicator to be built. Many developers don’t realize that they can use
  Firefox’s File object (nsIDOMFile) and XMLHttpRequest together to
  accomplish file uploads. This demo will feature an upload widget that
  gives the kind of rich progress feedback that users have come to
  expect, as well as fast and easy multiple simultaneous file uploads.

• YouTube – What is a Browser?
• State of the Browsers –  IE edition
• 10 Ways To Make Your Site Accessible Using Web Standards
• Geolocating Your iPhone Users via the Browser
• New JavaScript features with native JSON support and JavaScript 1.8.1 additions
• YUI 3: Lighter, Faster, Easier to Use
• Compatibility View and “Smart Defaults”
• Five Reasons Architecture Matters

Mash up

• Google Wave Questions and Answers – Google Wave Preview
• Mash-ups are so last year…
  Mash-ups are cool – ever since Ordnance Survey, Google, Yahoo! and
  Microsoft launched there various mapping APIs we’ve seen quite a few of
  them.
• Hemlock: An Open-Source Real-Time Web Platform
  Hemlock, a new open-source framework for building real time web apps in
  Flash with an XMPP back-end has been released by MintDigital, a
  development shop in London and New York. Real time apps that use
  efficient methods of communicating information between the browser and
  the server are all the rage these days. Now Flash developers will have
  an easy way to get in the game.
• SeeClickFix: Time for an Open 311 API
  311 is a non-emergency number (like 911 is the emergency number)
• uberVU brands its API as ContextVoice – launches a free and a paid service

Tools

• 40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design Patterns
• 40 Essential iPhone Applications For Web Designers
• Quick video example of Firebug
• Aviary Launches Falcon, A Browser Based Image Editor
• Open Source Testing Tool Smackdown for REST Web Services
• Pictaculous: Color-Pickingly Delicious!

Business models

• Focus shift in Innovation: from Technology to Business Model towards Value Networks
• Does Microsoft need to go cross-platform to save Office?
• Chris Anderson’s Counterintuitive Rules For Charging For Media Online
• Enough with the Appstore model

Augmented Reality

• Augmented reality: top ten campaigns (so far)
  No longer the stuff of science fiction, augmented reality is fast
  catching on with forward-thinking brands. Zed Media’s Alex Smith lists
  the best examples to date of AR as part of wider brand-building
  activity.
• David Polinchock Explains Augmented Reality
• ARhrrrr! : Augmented Reality Zombie and Helicopter Game

General

• Backbars: Turn Headlines of Social Link Sites into Ambient Bar Charts
• 25 Best Programmer WebComic Strips
• The Privacy Jungle: On the Market for Data Protection in Social Networks
  The Privacy Jungle: On the Market for Data Protection in Social Networks
• ‘It’s Everybody’s Business’: Microsoft launches reality show
  What makes good television? How about a bunch of people sitting around
  a conference table talking business strategy? Sounds like your exciting
  10:30 meeting, huh. Well, Microsoft thinks it’s a good idea, and with
  creative editing “It’s Everybody’s Business with Jack & Suzy Welch”
  – a new online reality show on MSN.com – could build a following.
• More Talk, Less Chalk: Lexically Sparse Slides Improve Recall of Taught Material
  Classroom use of presentation software, whereby information is
  simultaneously delivered verbally and visually, risks overloading
  students’ working memory and impairing learning. We compared
  traditional and lexically-sparse slide presentations, using
  multiple-choice and short essay answers to assess learning;
  participants exposed to traditional slides performed significantly
  worse on their essay answers.
• The latest version of Opera turns your browser into a web server.
• What Geeks Love – Part 1
• IE6 denial message for Momentile.com
• The Four Pillars of an Open Civic System
• Measuring The Big Shift
• Why Wolfram Alpha is Important
  In the new Bing-enabled world, search is hotter than ever. Your entire
  Search Insider lineup has been trading quips and forecasts about the
  future of search. Aaron Goldman thinks Hunch may be the answer to my
  call for an iPhone of search. Today, I want to talk about why
  Wolfram|Alpha is very, very important to watch. It’s not an iPhone, but
  it is changing the rules of search in a very significant way.

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