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 used a shorter format to not overwhelm you with 100+ links. The category Augmented Reality I added last week, also returns this week, besides that there are three other new categories: Web3.0, browsers and Trends:

• Social collaboration tools
  
• Rich Internet Applications
  
• Mash up
  
• Tools
  
• Augmented Reality
  
• Browsers
  
• Trends
  
• Web3.0
  
• General
  

Social collaboration tools

• Is Privacy An Illusion? Facebook ‘Fans’ Claim Hack Exposes Private Profile Information (Update)
• Experts: Don't clamp down on social media
  The use of Twitter to spread information about the unrest in Iran can teach businesses valuable lessons about the flow of information in their organizations, according to leading lights of the IT security world.
• How to Build Collaborative Software That People Will Actually Use
  
• Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment
  Okay, question time: Imagine you’re a major national newspaper whose crosstown archrival has somehow obtained two million pages of explosive documents that outed your country’s biggest political scandal of the decade. They’ve had a team of professional journalists on the job for a month, slamming out a string of blockbuster stories as they find them in their huge stack of secrets.
• Killer Facebook Fan Pages: 5 Inspiring Case Studies
  When Facebook re-launched its fan pages earlier this year, companies were thrilled. At last, there was a solid way to have a presence on Facebook (Facebook), and users were actually responding positively. Within a couple of weeks it seemed as though every major brand had put up a page. However, very few are using them well.

Rich Internet Applications

• Bing and Google Agree: Slow Pages Lose Users
  
• Bespin » Code in the Cloud
  Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology.
• The Billion Dollar HTML Tag
  Can a single HTML tag really make a difference on a corporation’s financial results? It can at Google, according to Marissa Mayer, who says web page loading speed translates directly to the bottom line.
• Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series : Cache Pattern For Offline HTML5 Web Applications
  
• 35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design
  

Mash up

• Introducing the Virtual Keyboard API
• Smash the Silos, Mash the SOA, Share the Mashups…
  

Tools

• Adobe BrowserLab: Cross Browser Testing Still Teething…
  
• 18 Free Text Editors To Clean Up Your Code
• Dojo ShrinkSafe — the safe way to make your JS sprightly
  ShrinkSafe is a JavaScript "compression" system. It can typically reduce the size of your scripts by a third or more, depending on your programming style.

  
  

  Many other tools also shrink JavaScript files, but ShrinkSafe is different. Instead of relying on brittle regular expressions, ShrinkSafe is based on Rhino, a JavaScript interpreter. This allows ShrinkSafe to transform the source of a file with much more confidence that the resulting script will function identically to the file you uploaded.

• Web-Based Productivity Suite Zoho Now Integrated With Microsoft SharePoint
  
• IBM adds Lotus social networking to SaaS – Mass High Tech Business News
  At the Enterprise 2.0 conference today in Boston, IBM Corp. announced LotusLive Connections, adding the Lotus Connections layer of social networking tools to its LotusLive software-as-a-service offering.

Augmented reality 

• Zugara’s Augmented Reality Dressing Room Is Great If You Don’t Care How Your Clothes Fit
• Mobile Data: IBM Tags Wimbledon With Seer Android
  
• Mobile Devices are Finally Making Augmented Reality…a Reality. But there’s so much more to come…
  
• TEDTalks : Chris Hughes: Augmented reality made easy – Chris Hughes (2009)
• Layar: First Augmented Reality Browser
  

Browsers

• Opera Unite – some questions and answers
  
• Internet Explorer Extinct by 2013? 2009 Update
  

Trends

• Post-Crisis Trends You Have to Watch
  
• Thought Leadership: Anticipating Internet Growth in Africa: Identifying Market Opportunities
• Ubertrends Map (PDF)
  

Web3.0

• Robot RoboCrunch Official Six-Fold Definition of Web 3.0
• What is the Semantic Web really all about?
  The Semantic Web is based on the relatively straightforward idea that to be able to integrate (link) data on the Web we must have some mechanism for knowing what relationships hold among the data, and how that relates to some “real world” context. The following is a lot of detail that comes from this simple idea.

General

• How Companies Increase Innovation
  When companies try to come up with new ideas, they too often look only where they always look. That won’t get them anywhere.
• Email patterns can predict impending doom – tech – 22 June 2009 – New Scientist
  EMAIL logs can provide advance warning of an organisation reaching crisis point. That's the tantalising suggestion to emerge from the pattern of messages exchanged by Enron employees.
• Triumph of the Default
  
• David Chappell – The Microsoft Application Platform: A perspective
  What is an application platform? Why is it important? And how should we think about application platforms in a world of cloud computing? In this session, David Chappell looks at all of these topics, providing a general model for both on-premises and cloud platforms. He then uses this model to examine several important issues in this area, including the competition between .NET and Java, why SOA is failing, and how the Microsoft platform compares with its on-premises and cloud competitors.

• The Web Collapses Under The Weight Of Michael Jackson’s Death
• A Good Way to Change a Corporate Culture
• Sour Outlook
• Should some requirements be called out as “architectural” requirements?
• Software Architecture Visualizations – a set on Flickr
• How Michael Jackson Became a Brand Icon

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