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The CommonCraft Show
Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English
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http://www.commoncraft.com/show
Editis - Film : Possible ou probable... ?
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http://www.editis.com/pages_html/video_possible.htm
Looking to Court Developers? Try Giving Them What They Want
"I have yet to hear any vendor - not one - talk to me about how they help developers design, implement and consume RESTian web services."
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http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/000465.html
Bootstrapping a Corporate Wiki
Some personal notes on the viral introduction of a Wiki into a corporate environment.
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http://www.ldodds.com/blog/archives/000184.html
OpenIntellectualProperty
Open Intellectual Property is a principle that can be enormously rewarding.
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http://martinfowler.com/bliki/OpenIntellectualProperty.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
Small business giveaways?
[It is possible that free business software] will come from business service providers who want you to use their services, and where developers will get paid for their work.
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http://shollersmusings.blogspot.com/2005/05/small-business-giveaways.html
Schwartz: Blogs are essential for leadership
Given that any time executives send an e-mail blast to employees it typically ends up in the public domain, being more direct and transparent is more credible and helps build dialog with ...
communication, demonstration, inclusion, legitimation, qualification, reputation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1531&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Stealth Start-Ups Suck
Some people think that they need to stay in stealth mode as long as possible to protect their exciting new idea. I hate to break the news to you, but unless you're Einstein or Gallileo, y...
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http://www.wingedpig.com/archives/000207.html
JavaOne Scoreboard: who Eclipsed who?
It doesn't matter whether or not a vendor's main plays are its servers or its IDEs, or both: They're all trying to figure out how they'll worm their way to success in an increasingly ope...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1572&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Experience Distinguishes Open-Source Content-Management Launch
Open source is also a great way to get a new product out to the market because users don't have to pay anything to simply kick the tires. Introducing software into the open-source communi...
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http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=FKIUORJWDQGQQQSNDBCSKHSCJUMEKJ...
Software goes free
Software is becoming infrastructure, and that infrastructure is progressively becoming commoditized. [...] While application software vendors still probably have a few years' grace, middl...
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http://www.looselycoupled.com/blog/lc00aa00103.html
More on Tryability: It’s an Attention Thing
In a similar way that “usability” is a measurement of how usable something is, “tryability” is a measurement of the effort involved of trying something new.
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http://bokardo.com/archives/more-on-tryability
Open source on Windows
The game of software development is dominated by the evaluation of available components and the selection of those that best meet needs. To play well you must be able to evaluate and sele...
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/06/28OPstrategic_1.html
"The Myth of Open-Source"
No one is going to work for free. That's the myth of open-source. [New open-source startups are] trying to buy distribution. And maybe they'll succeed, because if you give something away ...
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2005/tc2005078_5465_tc121.htm
Will Professional Open Source become dominant in Middleware?
We (JBOSS) have developed a methodology around Professional Open Source that goes from the development to the community to how we do public roadmaps, to how we market and sell and partner
adoption, captivation, commercialization, cooperation, demonstration, education, participation, perception, promotion, reputation, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/bbickel/?permalink=Will_Professional_Open_Source_become_domi...
No Learning Curve as the Most Important Feature of a Web App
If I can start using an application immediately, and find it useful, then I’m a customer. The fact that I don’t have to install anything is great, but it doesn’t show the value of t...
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http://bokardo.com/archives/no-learning-curve-important-feature
In Defense of Free
Free is a great way to make money. You just have to know how you are going to get paid for being free.
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http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2005/07/in_defense_of_f.html
Web Architecture Roundup
REST and web architecture is just plain misunderstood. There’s a lightbulb moment that’s required to grasp it fully and it just hasn’t went off for a big portion of the business IT ...
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http://lesscode.org/2005/07/23/web-architecture-roundup
Reduce the risk, hire from open source
Open source gives companies a way out of the crap shot. A competitive advantage in picking winners with a much higher rate of success than the guessing, interpolation, and charade of old.
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http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000505.html
Open source and the end of traditional sales and marketing
The Open Source model turns the marketing problem on its head. Customers can look at, evaluate and review software without contacting the company that will sell it to them.
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http://blog.softtechvc.com/2005/11/open_source_and.html
On fresh pc's, Google is the new AOL
The last company that could offer hundreds of millions of dollars for desktop space on new PCs was AOL, in order to acquire customers for it's dial-up access services. Now it's Google, o...
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http://mp.blogs.com/mp/2006/02/on_new_pcs_goog.html
The new way to launch your product or company
take advantage of the new approaches to exposing your beta product on the web, and engage the blog community for early feedback and promotion. It only takes one or two A-List bloggers to ...
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http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/02/the_new_way_to_.html
The Latest French Riots
The youth unemployment rate is largely an artefact of French law. If employers were free to fire employees without cause, they would be much more willing to take a chance on hiring worker...
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http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2006/03/the_latest_fren.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
Does Web 2.0 guarantee Enterprise 2.0?
It's very reasonable to believe that most busy professionals are only going to blog if it helps them get their job done. But it's also pretty reasonable to conclude that blogging will d...
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http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/index.php/faculty_amcafee_v3/does_web_20_guarantee_enter...
The Mechanisms of Online Emergence
Once people do finally comprehend and get comfortable with the new generation of tools it becomes very difficult to stop them. [These ratchet technologies are] not intuitive to those of ...
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http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/index.php/faculty_amcafee_v3/the_mechanisms_of_online_em...
Self as creator vs Self as worker
in order to teach you have to be the person you want your students to be. [...] Turn these words on teachers and does the image fit: 'successful learners', 'effective contributors', 'conf...
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http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2006/06/self_as_creator.html
How to effect change in teaching and learning
it is down to us to provide examples of where things work and why, and when they don't work and why. [...] We need to provide models and advice, as we are the ones doing it - not the inst...
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http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2006/06/how_to_effect_c.html
Eight Things Leaders Never Do
Great leaders are few and far between. This has nothing to do with genetics. Rather, most people just don’t know how to be leaders. The good news is that it’s relatively easy to learn...
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http://www.jtse.com/blog/2006/04/12/eight-things-leaders-never-do
Change - Start a Ripple
For new ideas to really be valuable they need to have some level of transference. [...] Try something you are passionate about. If it works, and works consistently others will be drawn to...
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http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=95
E-Knowledge & I-Knowledge
Informal learning is the pathway to I-knowledge. I-knowledge is what you decide upon after dumping odds and ends into your brain's blender. Demonstration of performance is the only viable...
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http://internettime.com/wordpress/?p=638
The relevance of the learning profession
Enabling learning is no longer about disseminating good content. Enabling learning is about being a learner yourself, sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm and then taking a back seat.
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http://www.jarche.com/?p=795
On Literacies being multiple
There won’t be widespread adoption in educational settings until there are demonstrable benefits and a critical mass of users who can promote the new literacies as normal and even neces...
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http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/06/20/on-literacies-being-multiple
Plenty Magazine - Environmental News and Commentary
“People’s perceptions of themselves are often driven by their behavior,” McKenzie-Mohr explains. That new self-concept can then spur further pro-environment behaviors.
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http://www.plentymag.com/magazine/monkeying_with_the_message_1.php
Edge: SOCIAL NETWORKS ARE LIKE THE EYE: A Talk with Nicholas A. Christakis
All kinds of things, many of them quite unexpected, can flow through social networks, and this process obeys certain rules we are seeking to discover.
2008, altruism, article, behavior, christakis, complexity, contagion, culture, demonstration, experimentation, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/christakis08/christakis08_index.html
Hundratals gripna i antikrigsprotester i USA — Arbetaren
143 personer greps i San Fransisco i onsdags när de protesterade mot kriget mot Irak som inleddes för fem år sedan, liknande protester genomfördes runt om i USA. Samtidigt hävdade p...
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http://www.arbetaren.se/articles/utrikes20080320