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12.18.10What Does Yahoo!'s Delicious Decision Mean for the Social Web?Quick, before you read another word: go back up your Delicious bookmarks. You know Delicious; it's the social bookmarking service that you should have been using for the past few years. At least, that's what I would have told you before yesterday, when the rumor emerged that Delicious will soon be shut down by Yahoo!, which bought the company from its founder in 2005. Given the source and Yahoo's decision to refrain from comment, the rumor is now widely taken as fact. And it's a fact that should trouble every user of the social web. On the face of it, Yahoo! ...
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12.18.10What Does Yahoo!'s Delicious Decision Mean for the Social Web?Quick, before you read another word: go back up your Delicious bookmarks. You know Delicious; it's the social bookmarking service that you should have been using for the past few years. At least, that's what I would have told you before yesterday, when the rumor emerged that Delicious will soon be shut down by Yahoo!, which bought the company from its founder in 2005. Given the source and Yahoo's decision to refrain from comment, the rumor is now widely taken as fact. And it's a fact that should trouble every user of the social web. On the face of it, Yahoo! ...
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08.18.10Why Network Neutrality Is Good for BusinessEditor's note: For an opposing viewpoint on this topic, see Robert E. Litan's and Hal J. Singer's entry "Why Business Should Oppose Net Neutrality." In business school, where I teach, students are often predisposed to see legal concepts as impenetrable and foreign. I watch the lightbulbs go on as they see that Microsoft's antitrust woes, RIM's $600 million patent infringement settlement, and Galleon's downfall due to insider trading say as much about strategic judgment and application of analytical tools as the cases that they study in marketing, management or accounting. The most successful businesses understand the non-market environment in which they ...
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08.18.10Why Network Neutrality Is Good for BusinessEditor's note: For an opposing viewpoint on this topic, see Robert E. Litan's and Hal J. Singer's entry "Why Business Should Oppose Net Neutrality." In business school, where I teach, students are often predisposed to see legal concepts as impenetrable and foreign. I watch the lightbulbs go on as they see that Microsoft's antitrust woes, RIM's $600 million patent infringement settlement, and Galleon's downfall due to insider trading say as much about strategic judgment and application of analytical tools as the cases that they study in marketing, management or accounting. The most successful businesses understand the non-market environment in which they ...
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08.13.10No, Google Is Not Making You StupidNick Carr is right — or is he? Of course, Google and the Web have changed our reading habits and affected our attention spans. The changing nature of technology is driving us to consume a greater number of ideas today in less depth. Throughout history, societies have evolved around new technologies — the plow, the printing press, the telephone. And as our societies have changed, so have we. We adapt to our surroundings. We evolve to fit the world just as we endeavor to keep changing it. That's the virtuous circle of human evolution. My 11-year-old daughter spends half her ...
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07.20.10How Semantic Clustering Helps Analyze Consumer AttitudesCan algorithms suss out how people feel about big issues like the recession? Maybe. In a study last year my colleagues and I at the Global Attitudes Project analyzed attitudes toward the recession and recovery using an emerging process called semantic clustering. Crudely, semantic clustering is a software technique that allows computers to understand sentences and their meaning. It groups similar text across many, many documents, and creates a statistical profile of the frequency and proximity (or co-occurrence) of all the themes in those documents. Under the hood, it looks like this: first, we create a lexicon of terms relevant to an ...
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05.07.10On Twitter, Followers Don’t Equal InfluenceIt could be that Twitter research is popular because Twitter data is free and so accessible. That's okay. Gift horses are just as good for riding. The best, latest entry in Twitter research is the handiwork of Meeyoung Cha from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany. (Co-authors are: Hamed Haddadi, Royal Veterinary College, University of London; Fabricio Benevenuto, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and Krishna P. Gummadi, also from Max Planck Institute.) Cha called her paper, "The Million Follower Fallacy," a term that comes from work by Adi Avnit. Avnit posited that the number of followers of ...
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02.17.10Knowledge and the Need for SpeedIn 1903, the Stanley Steamer set the world wide speed record for the mile at the Daytona Beach Road Course. I have a particular fondness for the Stanley Steamer because my house, and the house next door, were built in 1896 by the twin Stanley brothers who invented the Stanley Steamer car and the founded the eponymous company. Today, what the interstate highway system was to physical productivity, fast internet is to knowledge work — it an essential infrastructure that creates value for everyone. Think of the Internet as the highway of the mind. Speed matters: Are you chugging along ...
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10.28.09“The Future Internet: Service Web 3.0″ [video]“Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.” William Pollard. I agree and I’m sure that most of you do as well! Take a look at the following video; my analysis will follow right after. After viewing the video and reading the quote above , I am only inclined to think about the following issues with rather serious concerns and heavy hesitations: Is it wise to push for information to be handled solely by machines speaking to each other ...
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10.14.09Google Wave Attempts to Modernize EmailGoogle Wave is a new communication tool that the search giant bills as "what email would look like if it were invented today." While the plan to modernize email is laudable and ambitious, Google Wave's whiz-bang features can feel confusing and chaotic to new users. However, if regular people can make the leap that Wave does from email's message-based system to conversations as co-editing a single document, Wave could revolutionize the way we communicate and collaborate online. Email's problems Relative to the lifespan of most technology, email is ancient. Invented over 40 years ago, email predates the internet and the World Wide ...
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About Me
CIO at Shine Lawyers
Non-exec Director of Ozmota
Non-exec Director of Queensland Kids
Ex CIO/CTO of Ozmota, Benefon and Voxson.Education
Executive MBA from QUT
High Distinction average
Singapore Airlines International Business Award
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Computer Science from QUT
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