This week Nielsen presented results that teens are actually quite normal regarding media usage. YouTube drops support for IE6, Adobe released Wave and Google’s Wave is available from September and had an early release to build your own Wave.

Social collaboration tools

• Does mobile and social technology breed narcissism?
  But enough about cultural trends; Let’s talk about ME! A look at how
  Twitter, Facebook, cell phones, and online social networks are changing
  the human race
• How to Use Interns In Your Social Programs
• Social Media Done Right Means No More Social Media “Experts”
• IT blocks users from social networking in 71% of organizations
• Enterprise: List of 40 Social Media Staff Guidelines
  Managing staff who participate in social networks.
  This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies,
  enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff
  engagement in online communities, and so on

Social Media Cases

• Social Media Case Study: Dairy Queen
  It’s no surprise that in this digital age corporations are actively
  engaging their customer base through social media. I can list hundreds
  of companies who successfully quote on quote “get it“. I thought I
  would focus on one, Dairy Queen.
• Social Media Brand Engagement Report
• Wells Fargo’s Joel Nathanson: Social media engagement during a crisis
• Does social media really correlate with the bottom line? Color me skeptical
  A study has found that revenue, gross margins and profits correlate
  nicely with companies that are the most engaged with social media.
  Should you build a portfolio around these highly engaged social media
  friendly brands? Probably not.
• Teens More “Normal” Than You Think Regarding Media Usage | Nielsen Wire
  It’s 2009: Do you know where your kids are?

  They might be on the Internet, or gaming or texting… but they could
  also be be watching live TV, listening to the radio or reading a
  newspaper. At the annual What Teens Want conference in New York, The
  Nielsen Company presented How Teens Use Media, which argues once you
  look past the hype – American teens are not as alien in their media
  usage as you might expect. Sure, it might sound hip and trendy to
  suggest they’re too busy texting, Twittering or LOL-ing to be engaged
  with traditional media, but ultimately, the research proves otherwise.

Rich Internet Applications

• YouTube to Drop Support for IE6
• 50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design
• Computing with JavaScript Web Workers
• BBC Glow – a New JavaScript Library
• HEY-IT – We want to get rid of IE6!
  Wake up IT, guerrilla-style! And finally get your browser upgraded!

HTML5

• Web fonts, HTML 5 roundup
• Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series: Autogrowing Textareas

Adobe

• Adobe launches Wave
• Adobe Releases Beta Text Layout Framework
• Adobe Unveils New Open Source Initiatives Targeted Towards Media Companies

Tools

• Quality Assurance tools for HTML5
• Testing Multiple IE Versions, VPC’s and Super Preview
• 13 Firefox Add-ons For Web Development

Web3.0

• Web 3.0 Is Coming — Are CIOs Ready?
• Linked Data and the Public Domain
• The upcoming Internet pandemic: data addiction
• When Information is NOT the Answer

Google Wave

• Surf on Google Wave from September
• Google Wave – First Impressions
• Google releases 20k+ lines of Wave Protocol code and Instructions. First step towards your own version of Wave.

General

• Estimation
• How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck – Visual Economics
• A Crowd-Sourced National Communications Census
• Forrester: 2.2 billion people online globally by 2013 (43% in Asia)
• If today is an average workday, you could lose about an hour of time trying to get something done
  But you won’t be able to accomplish the task because you can’t find the
  right information, access the right tool or reach the right person due
  to inefficient processes. Employees spend 25% of their time just
  looking for information. Every week, 42% of people use the wrong
  information to make decisions, requiring rework. And with the economic
  downturn, there is an even greater urgency to improve business
  productivity.
• ARtisan
  ARtisan is the fastest and easiest way from point A to point B in
  browser based augmented reality. With ARtisan, the developer needs no
  knowledge of the inner workings of augmented reality to create
  in-depth, interactive AR experiences.
• The Future of Search: Social Relevancy Rank
  What we are about to get is a Social Relevancy Rank. Whenever you
  search streams of activity, the results will be ordered not
  chronologically but by how relevant each is to you based on your social
  graph. That is, people who matter more to you will bubble up. How does
  this work? Well, there will be a formula, just as there is a formula
  for Page Rank.
• End the SOAP: this is how simple it should be
• Why Standards Fail

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