Weekly digest of week 36 2009

This week the Telelgraph published a list of 50 things that are being killed by the Internet, Gartner published the top 10 strategic technologies, McKinsey published research on how enterprises could benefit from web2.0 and research that showed that Perl developers are almost twice as happy as Visual Basic developers.

Social collaboration tools

Don’t Let Social Media Comments Ruin Discussions On Your Blog
Social Networks Leaking Users Data To Tracking Sites
Many popular social networking sites typically make personal
information available to companies that track users’ browsing habits
and allow them to link anonymous browsing habits to specific people,
according to a new study by the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
10 Sobering Twitter Statistics
Twitter-bird I don’t have to tell you that everyone is talking Twitter.
If you haven’t heard about it from your friends, co-workers, or
favorite social media “guru,” then you’ve certainly heard about it via
CNN, Oprah, The Today Show, USA Today, and countless other media
outlets that are constantly talking about it lately. There are a lot of
great things things about it. I’ve met some wonderful people and value
it for online reputation monitoring and live search purposes, but there
are downfalls that many overlook. Allow me to be the “fun sponge” and
share 10 sobering Twitter statistics found after scouring nearly a
dozen comScore, eMarketer, Nielsen, HubSpot, Pear Analytics, and Alexa
reports :
Is social media worth your marketing dollars?
As social media has reached mainstream consciousness this year,
businesses have been inundated with the message that they must
immediately get on board or risk doom and calamity. The hyperbole (and
the frenzied buzz it creates) is confusing and many businesses could
use a practical guide on how to evaluate social media and how to engage
– if it’s appropriate.
Cisco Readying Collaboration Software Platform
Cisco Systems is developing a collaboration software platform that will
allow enterprises to combine social networking, presence, content and
transactional applications in a single interface.

Enterprise2.0

Enterprise 2.0 is Neither a Crock Nor the Entire Solution
Enterprise 2.0: Finding success on the frontiers of social business
It’s entirely possible something may cause social tools to abruptly
stop their broad movement into the workplace, but history tells us that
it’s just not likely.
Enterprise 2.0 is a Crock: Discuss

Web development

Tools

HTML5

Anonymity

Gotcha! Why Online Anonymity May Be Fading
This idea that you could live your life moving from place to place and
not have your personal history follow with you is a very strange thing.
Now we’re moving towards a time where more of that information does
stick with you, but it’s on the Internet.
De-anonymizing the Internet Using Unreliable IDs (PDF)

Augmented reality

General

Best Customers: Those Who Steal Their Content
Historically, an easy way to stoke the ire of a major media executive
was to start talking about the surge in peer-to-peer file distribution.

Now, we do lots of research at Frank N. Magid Associates to take the
pulse of various media channels for customers, and recently a P2P
company, Vuze, hired us to find out how its users’ media habits compare
with those of the average internet user. When we did, we found that
those media execs may not have cause for all the quaking. (While we
conducted the study on behalf of a client, I assure you we used the
same sound, time-tested methods we use for any of our in-house,
proprietary research.)
Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009
Gartner
defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for
significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors
that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption
to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the
risk of being late to adopt.

These technologies impact the organization’s long-term plans,
programs and initiatives. They may be strategic because they have
matured to broad market use or because they enable strategic advantage
from early adoption.
How SPEAR Identifies Domain Experts within Delicious
Dolores Labs Blog » The Programming Language with the Happiest Users
Which
languages make programmers the happiest? It’s clear that some languages
are more popular than others, and many of us debate long and hard over
the relative merits of Python vs Ruby, C vs Java or Lisp vs everything
else. But what’s the general consensus?
How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0: McKinsey Global Survey Results
Douglas Adams on the internet in 2009
Twitter has become a polarising service. I’m one of the millions of
people who find value in Twitter, mostly because I’ve built a network
of new media and digital journalism professionals, many of whom I am
lucky enough to call friends. As I’ve said before, my network is my
filter, and my Twitter network provides me with an incredibly valuable
filtered feed of content that I have to know as a social media
journalist. It’s better than any single site. I generate an RSS feed
just of the links that friends post in Twitter to keep on top it.
50 things that are being killed by the internet – Telegraph
The internet has wrought huge changes on our lives – both positive and
negative – in the fifteen years since its use became widespread.
Gov 2.0: It’s All About The Platform
Got no friends? Now you can buy them on Facebook
OpenCalais Brings Semantic Metatagging to Oracle Databases
OpenCalais, a semantic web service from Thomson-Reuters, has announced
a deal to integrate OpenCalais into the Oracle Database 11g Release 2,
giving Oracle customers programmatic access to the OpenCalais
metatagging service.
50 things that are being killed by the internet – Telegraph
The internet has wrought huge changes on our lives – both positive and negative – in the fifteen years since its use became widespread.