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Rulers of the Cloud: Google Becomes the Cloud, Search is a Feature
This type of innovation lives on top of all the work the company has done to make the API exist, and to attract individuals who are willing to rethink how it should really work. It's "open" mantra gives the company the ability to see a whole generation into the future of information channel disruption. If working at Google offers this emotional spark to employees, it will gain entirely new efficiencies The shortest way to describe this is that Google is no longer a verb. It's becoming a noun.
ReadWriteWeb - Friday, March 19, 2010
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DARPA's Smart Blimp: Mysterious, Hovering Future of Battlefield Surveillance
According to DARPA's blurb on the beast it'll provide "unsurpassed situational awareness with a surveillance range of 187 miles for individuals on the ground and 373 miles for advanced cruise missiles." When its orbiting in the operational zone it harnesses solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which it then recombines in a fuel cell at night to generate electrical energy. In the future DARPA's ISIS blimp may be hovering above the horizon near to conflict zones, feeding real time radar data to troops and smart weapons from on high. True to its name, it's also
Fast Company - Friday, March 19, 2010
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IBM's SmartBay Cloud-Computing Marine Research Tool Is Not Your Average Buoy
SmartBay is a connected series of buoys that collect data to better cope with, among other things, "pollution, flooding, fishing stock levels, green-energy generation and the That entire sequence happens many times faster than traditional methods of individual tests, manually collected, and it's having great effects on the myriad uses of the bay, as seen in the graphic above. the threats from climate change." It could spark a revolution in water monitoring.
Fast Company - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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  • Are You Fun to Follow on Twitter?
    Individuals who are most skilled at using this peculiar 140-character medium are those who do notice the small details of life, who capture the moments that others of us miss, who slow down to watch and listen while most race on, and who personalize the events they see. Tags: Communication Generational issues Social medi There's an art to tweeting. And, I'm sorry to say, most people just haven't mastered it.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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  • What Does Your Facebook Profile Say About You?
    There's a more general point here: we're moving from a world of stocks to flows , one in which to grow and develop, collectively and individually, we need to constantly refresh our stocks of knowledge by participating in relevant flows of new knowledge. Tags: Generational issues Social media Work life balanc We were talking to the VP for online strategy at a big Silicon Valley company last week. Among other tasks she helps the company's senior executives create a presence on Facebook and Twitter. "Some
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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  • User-generated neologism: "Indigenous content"
    My class in the fall is called “User-generated”, and it looks, among other things, at the tension surrounding that phrase, and in particular its existence as an external and anxiety-ridden label, by traditional media companies, for the way that advertising can be put next to material not created by Trained Professionals™. All right-thinking individuals (by which I basically mean Anil Dash and Heather Champ ) hate that phrase. Now my friend Kio Stark * has come up with what seems like a nice, and more anthropologically correct version: Indigenous Content (which is to say “Created by the natives for themselves.”)
    Many-to-Many - Friday, August 3, 2007
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  • Tips for Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications
    Expo next week in San Francisco on building next-generation Web 2.0 Next generation Web apps are also much more social than in the past with features such as friends lists, activity streams, and aggregation from other social sites as well as using that information to really learn about your customer like Facebook does [Paul Buchheit.] I'm planning to build a Ruby on Rails REST API during the session based on the positive experiences we had a few weeks ago with Rails 2.0. The very latest I've been spending a good amount of time the last several weeks getting ready for the workshop session I'll be giving at Web 2.0
    Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog - Thursday, April 17, 2008
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  • Why Generation X Has the Leaders We Need Now
    William Strauss and Neil Howe, coauthors of Generations , posit that each generation makes a unique bequest to those that follow and generally seeks to correct the excesses of the previous generation. They argue that the Boomer excess is ideology and that the Generation X reaction to that excess involves an emphasis on pragmatism and effectiveness. As many The book I've written based on those conversations, safely in the hands of the publisher and due out in December, includes many of your voices - including quotes from your responses to posts on this site. Through this
    HarvardBusiness.org - Sunday, July 19, 2009
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  • Generations in China
    Many thanks to all who joined the discussion several weeks ago regarding generations in India. Individuals born from about 1928 to 1945 (Traditionalists) This generation learned that affiliating with the "right" people was essential for survival, advice they undoubtedly offered to their children. I hope those of you who grew up in China will share your formative experiences and the resultant conceptual models that influence your view of today's world. Let me offer an initial overview, based on my research.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Saturday, March 28, 2009
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  • Our Generation X President's First Year
    President Obama is arguably the United States' first President who is a member of Generation X. (I Born in 1961, in my view, he's the vanguard of the next generation leaders .) While I don't believe any individual is poster child for the shared traits of a generation, I do think some of President Obama's actions reflect characteristics I've seen in other X'ers I've studied. I say "arguably" since the boundary line between Boomers and X'ers is subject to debate. Even more, as I reflect on his first full year in office, I believe some of the frustrations and celebrations
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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  • Going Beyond User Generated Software: Web 2.0 and the Pragmatic Semantic Web
    In this ways, hundreds of millions of people are adding to what we know every day, even if individuals contributions are often minor. was ostensibly prompted by something I'm seeing as well, well beyond pure play Web mashups we're beginning to witness a number of companies building end-user solutions that can automatically navigate the Internet, weave together tapestries of online information to generate new, useful results. They I was traveling most of last week and so was unable to weigh in on the Web 3.0 mini-tempest that occurred when John Markoff published his
    Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog - Monday, November 20, 2006
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  • Observations from a Student Leadership Summit
    The members of the crucible generation, as Warren Bennis calls them , really do have a more collaborative and less competitive orientation then we ever did. The older generation has a significant contribution to make--in mentoring. Jim Collins , the dinner speaker on the final day of the summit, talked about how each of us needs a personal board of directors. That is particularly true for the crucible generation, Last week I had the opportunity to participate in the Student Leadership Summit , the inaugural event of the Frances Hesselbein Global Academy for Student Leadership and Civic Engagement , at the University of Pittsburgh.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, August 17, 2009
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  • Global Generations: Focus on India
    I'm often asked if generations share common characteristics around the globe. The answer: to some extent, particularly among younger generations whose members were exposed to many of the same events through cable television and the Internet. But among older generations, the shared elements are much less significant and the national characteristics of the generations become increasingly unique. By definition, a generation is a group a people who, based on their age, share not only a chronological location in history but also the experiences that accompany it .
    HarvardBusiness.org - Saturday, February 28, 2009
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