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