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Austin Directory, Austin Business, Austin Employment, Austin Texas Guide
DirectoryAustin.com helps the visitors find out local Austin city information & resources related to business, shopping, real estate, computer, technology, education, travel, economy, law...
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http://www.directoryaustin.com
Louisiana Website - Louisiana Business Information, Louisiana Travel Guide, US
ClickLouisiana.com offers comprehensive resource for Louisiana such as Louisiana lodging, real estate, weather, shopping, education, business, law, insurance & entertainment.
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http://www.clicklouisiana.com
Colorado Directory, Colorado Business, Colorado Education Information, Travel to Colorado
Get Colorado State information and services with related categories including art, business, laws, insurance, education, real estate, shopping, health, sports, recreation and more on Clic...
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http://www.clickcolorado.com
British Web Directory, British Directory and Resources
BritishWebDirectory.com is the British directory which contains all links to UK entertainment news, sport, travel, lodging, business, investment, education, computer, art, society, cultur...
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http://www.britishwebdirectory.com
Netherlands Directory, Netherlands Business, Netherlands Travel, Netherlands Information
BestNetherlands.com is a Netherlands directory providing links to Netherlands business, real estate, entertainment, society, culture, education, government, shopping, travel, economy, rec...
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http://www.bestnetherlands.com
Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
Diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality, and the greater the diversity, the more extreme the inequality.
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http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html
Innovation Diffusion
Often indirect advocacy through showcasing the benefits is more effective than preaching about the benefits.
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http://lone-eagles.com/innovation.htm
How to wage - and win - a standards war
Depends on seven key assets: intellectual-property rights; control over an installed base of users; ability to innovate; first-mover advantages; manufacturing abilities; strength in compl...
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http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/6.10/neweconomy.html?pg=5
Change or Die
Mastering the ability to change isn't just a crucial strategy for business. It's a necessity for health. And it's possibly the one thing that's most worth learning.
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http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/94/open_change-or-die.html
Fear, Greed and Social Software
Enterprises are adopting social software out of both fear and greed. Fear is the primary driver for corporate blogging, while greed is driving adoption of social software within the enter...
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http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/05/25/fear_greed_and_social_software.php
Attracting Developers to Your Platform
Some guidelines I wrote up last year for a company looking to attract developers to their platform.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/05/attracting_deve.html
Wikipedia and the social construction of knowledge
Wikipedia's greatest innovation is arguably the framework it provides to mediate the social construction of knowledge, advocate for neutrality, accommodate dispute, and offer a path to it...
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/06/13.html
Syndicating content
It seems to me that all the enthusiasm we are now witnessing is a product of the power of technology evangelism.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7439
Rethinking the Value of OpenSolaris
The community around Linux is what elevated it out of the lab and into the data center, and the same could happen again with OpenSolaris.
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http://www.secretelite.com/michael/2005/08/08/rethinking-the-value-of-opensolaris
Information scent: helping people find the content they want
When presented with a list of options users will choose the option that gives them the clearest indication (or strongest scent) that it will step them closer to the information they require.
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http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_informationscent/index.html
Open Source, Ecosystems, The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and a Random Belgian Mathematician
[The vitally of an ecosystem is primarily determined by] the ability to encourage new infusions of energy from parties outside the system in question.
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http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/000861.html
SUSE opens to yawns
Given the fact that it's a community that drives better in the case of open source, first-mover advantage may actually be more important here than in the commercial world.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=409&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Relationships like atomic nuclei, says physicist
A physicist has built a computer model of the dating world, which he says shows people behave like decaying atomic nuclei, when it comes to finding love.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/17/physics_dating
Blade.org: Standards body or boondoggle?
When IT buyers purchase a BladeCenter-compliant product from a BTLA licensee, they'll still need the chassis and other accoutrements like management modules, fans, and power supplies that...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1727&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Why Microsoft-only development is foolish business logic
By creating a product that only works on Microsoft, you solidify Microsoft more than you compete with them. You may be competing on a product level, but in the long run, you've done Micro...
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http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/08/23/why_microsofton.html
Free Java: Sun Struggles to Come to Terms with Open Source
[By gripping on Java too tightly], the company may eventually lose [all control over Java.] Once a free and complete implementation of Java does exist, its redistribution advantages will ...
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1850616,00.asp
James Governor's MonkChips: Scoop: French Organisations Adopt Eclipse Rich Clients
Microsoft also needs to wake up to a new potential threats/angles of attack. Eclipse RCP could be the next battleground in the European public sector market, and falls right in the heart ...
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http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000917.html
BI BlitzKrieg: Updated
The litmus tests for abusive monopoly power - charging nothing for products in an existing market(BI) knowing full well that the company can make up with sales in a complimentary market (...
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http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php?p=104
AntiTrust Conditions
Microsoft, IBM and Oracle are in a MAD contest to giveaway the biggest possible BI stack for free to sell their underlying databases.
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http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php?p=249
Google aims for Web developers' hearts and minds
It wasn't just the OS that made Microsoft the most profitable company on the planet. Microsoft's vaunted developer-outreach network created a rich "ecosystem" of applications that run on ...
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http://news.com.com/Google%20aims%20for%20Web%20developers%20hearts%20and%20minds/2100-1007_...
Microsoft's unique innovation
The structure of development for open source products militates against the establishment of any consistent standard. [...] Microsoft has a financial interest in consistency, and that for...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1497&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Of software ecosystems, symbiosis and co-innovation
The meta-ecosystem going forward will be connecting and recombining services, based on open, non-forking standards, with the platform ecosystems –based on open source or proprietary, or...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1928&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space
What is the role of a library when it no longer needs to be a warehouse of books and when users can obtain information without setting foot in its doors?
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http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub129/contents.html
The click economy
Google is building an extraordinarily sophisticated machine for manipulating consumers - for increasing the odds that you or I will not just view or read but click. The most successful on...
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http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/01/last_april_in_o.php
tech.memeorandum: The Tech Elite's Third Space
Adding this technology into the social network of leading bloggers [...] has immediately and dramatically shifted how I read and write, and has led to an amplification of blog attention a...
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http://www.centralityjournal.com/archives/techmemeorandum_the_tech_elites_third_space.html
New Media Deal, Part II - the We Media Deal
The more transparent the value exchange, the more willing you are to share your data.
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http://onlyonce.blogs.com/onlyonce/2006/01/new_media_deal_.html
Web 3.0: Salesforce.com's 'Business Web'
By getting vendors to standardize on the Salesforce.com user interface, AppExchange is making an outright grab for the lucrative application-layer high ground of the Web 3.0 landscape.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/index.php?p=93
How business pays for university education
the most sensible way for business to pay for education is for the student to make the initial investment, and then charge business for the benefit of his or her knowledge.
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http://badanalysis.com/catallaxy/?p=1634
Productivity Arbitrage
Productivity Arbitrage is a strategy of statistical arbitrage which leverages innovative new technology to deliver solutions at the market price that is based on the historical price/valu...
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http://www.jroller.com/page/obie?entry=productivity_arbitrage
China research and development
China's growth as a global R&D hub faces some constraints. Among them is the country's weak protection of patents and other intellectual-property rights.
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http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2006/03/china-research-and-development.html
What Makes a Design Seem 'Intuitive'?
The current knowledge point and the target knowledge point are separate, but the user is completely unaware the design is helping them bridge the gap.
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http://www.uie.com/articles/design_intuitive
Framing Anti-Foreign Bias
Free debate favors protectionism. If both free-traders and protectionists get to voice their opinions, the public becomes more protectionist than if neither free-traders nor protectionist...
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http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2006/03/framing_antifor.html
Is the Increased Earnings Inequality among Americans Bad?
instead of lamenting the increased earnings gap by education, attention should focus on how to raise the fraction of American youth who complete high school, and then go on for a college ...
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http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2006/04/is_the_increase.html
A Nonlinear Theory of Education
An alternative paradigm for educational inquiry - coalesces around the concept of chaotic dynamics, a concept that throws new light on understanding of interaction, determinism and indete...
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http://www.ceap.wcu.edu/HOUGHTON/ThesisM/chaosthesis.html
Contemporary Education: A General Crisis?
The greatest utility of the concept of attractors is that it can be used to forecast long-term behavior. In our case, it might be employed to forecast the future trends of educational dev...
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http://www.indiana.edu/~isre/NEWSLETTER/vol6no2/crisis.htm
Open Source Everywhere
We are at a convergent moment, when a philosophy, a strategy, and a technology have aligned to unleash great innovation. Open source is powerful because it's an alternative to the status ...
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/opensource.html
The Future of Open Source
People start throwing around terms like "emergent behavior" and "paradigm shift". Over the next few years, Wikipedia (and some of its Wikimedia sister sites) will become comparable to Lin...
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http://wikip.blogspot.com/2005/08/future-of-open-source-5-years-ago.html
The New Classic
As of today, the new equation is that all computers can run Windows, but some, the special ones from Apple, also run Mac OS X. [...] The point is that it recasts Macs from being “diffe...
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http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/windows_the_new_classic
Finding Happiness in the Pursuit
The struggle for a certain achievement may offer a peculiar reward all its own. Although many people seem quite goal-oriented [...] maybe it's not so much having the stuff that people rea...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/business/09instincts.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Progressive Disclosure- the best interaction design technique?
By disclosing information progressively, you reveal only the essentials and help the user manage the complexity of feature-rich sites or applications.
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http://experiencedynamics.blogs.com/site_search_usability/2004/03/progressive_dis.html
engaged, enraged, or Lost?
We still want our teenagers to engage in school -- and to be engaged BY school. Even when their most important examples are modeling something completely different. Houston, we have a pro...
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http://topics.typepad.com/pondering/2006/05/engaged_enraged.html
Coming to terms with Web 2.0
I still think it means everything -- and nothing -- at the same time. But in a weird way this has meant Web 2.0 has become the kind of umbrella term and catch-phrase that people identify ...
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/coming_to_terms.php
Human Capital as an Engine of Growth
Spillovers from human capital can give rise to an engine of growth in which investments in human capital lead to spillovers that raise the rate of return to subsequent investments in huma...
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http://450.aers.psu.edu/human_capital_engine.cfm
One Big Giant Taffy Pull
The common denominator of the blogosphere is conversation, an important first step in solving many of the ills that affect education. But for the most part, that’s all it is-a first step.
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http://www.techlearning.com/blog/main/archives/2006/02/one_big_giant_t.html#more
Outsourcing Education
In very large courses, the opportunity for spontaneous give-and-take in lectures is often limited and sometimes nonexistent. But we still expect professors to give live lectures every yea...
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http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/05/outsourcing-education.html