Weekly digest

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

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

Browsers

Trends

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.