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 there was the introduction of the term Web Squared and the release of the long awaited new version of Firefox. Besides those two big events quite some buzz about HTML5, Government2.0, Michael Jackson in relation to the Internet and Augmented Reality.

Social collaboration tools

• Real-time systems hurting long-term knowledge?
• Guest Post – Notes from Enterprise 2.0: Still looking for End User Adoption
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Online Community Management
  Community managers are human and imperfect. Here are the Seven Deadly Sins that community managers are sometimes guilty of:
• Debunking Social Media Myths
• Deloitte CrowdIN: Social Media Strategy & Delivery

Rich Internet Applications

• Tibco PageBus: an event framework for JavaScript
• The evolution of client-side scripting
• In the past years browser makers have been working very hard to improve their scripting engines and add new DOM APIs. There are currently so many projects going on that it sometimes starts dazzling me and I have a hard time to keep track of which feature belongs to what project or has been included in which browser. This article attempts to give an overview of all the major innovations that have recently arrived or will hopefully come our way soon.
• Web Video Codecs
• Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series: Using Timers Effectively

Mash up

• ReST + Context For Killer Apple iPhone Apps in the Enterprise: WE 2.0
• Unified Cloud Interface Project (UCI)
  The unified cloud interface (UCI) or cloud broker will be composed of a semantic specification and an ontology also referred to as “Semantic Cloud Abstraction”. The ontology provides the actual model descriptions, while the specification defines the details for integration with other management models.

Tools

• PictureSlides 2.0 – highly customizable option to create JavaScript slideshows
• How to Pick the Perfect Programming Editor

Augmented Reality

• Pachube :: blog: Pachube augmented reality demo, with Dennou Coil-style chalk-drawn space-hack
  We’re developing Pachube as a platform that helps people to build applications that bridge physical and networked worlds. To that end, we are going to be releasing demo apps more frequently, and where possible all necessary code for building your own, to show off the kind of things that you can do once your data is Pachube-connected.
• 35 Awesome Augmented Reality Examples
  Augmented Reality!? That’s so 2008
  Has AR jumped the shark? Well if Virtual Magicians are using it I think that’s your answer. For me the best application of this is in store and also with kids toys. Both applications have far more useful applications than a fun web toy.
• See This New Augmented Reality App for the Apple iPhone

Web Squared

• The Evolving Web In 2009: Web Squared Emerges To Refine Web 2.0
  It’s been five years now that we’ve begun to understand what Web 2.0 is, starting way back in 2003. It’s been a fairly impressive if winding road as a new online generation was born. But far from getting long in the tooth, along the way Web 2.0 became vitally important — even central in some cases — to the very future of global culture and business. Oh certainly, sometimes we get tired of the term itself, and admittedly it doesn’t describe something necessarily new anymore, but what we just do these days. But the concepts identified as Web 2.0 have proved to be highly insightful, even prescient, and are used around the world daily to guide everything from product development to the future of government.
• Web Squared: Web 2.0′s Successor?

Browsers

• How Can Google Chrome Become More Popular?
• IE Compatibility List Pruning
• Firefox 3.5 for developers – MDC
• Mozilla Pushes the Web Forward With Firefox 3DOT5
  Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is the culmination of nearly a year-long quest to build a browser for the next version of the web. And while it’s not perfect, it comes very, very close.

Government2.0

• Can Open Government Be Gamed?
• Radical Transparency: The New Federal IT Dashboard
• Everyblock’s Code is Open-Sourced
• Lessons from U.S. federal IT dashboard: Transparency and accountability

General

• 5 Lessons in Youth Marketing: Gen Z, Brands and Advertising
  It’s time to move on from Gen Y. Gen Z are the new breed of consumers. They are in their teens, digital natives, lovers of advertising and most importantly, they know you are trying to sell them something.
• InfoQ: Twitter, an Evolving Architecture
  Evan Weaver, Lead Engineer in the Services Team at Twitter, who’s primarily job is optimization and scalability, talked about Twitter’s architecture and especially the optimizations performed over the last year to improve the web site during QCon London 2009.
• Michael Jackson and the Zombieconomy
• Introducing The Open Web Education Alliance
• How to Value the Advertising-Supported Internet
• Blogging Is Still the Foundation In A World of Streams
• Kid Swaps iPod For Sony Walkman, Gets A Culture Shock
• Google’s approach to software won’t work for enterprise or mobile
• Cisco CEO: ‘Video is the killer app’
• Vendor Managed Infrastructure – Are clouds just a VMI solution?

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