Hinchcliffe | Learn to Adapt

Aug 22

Learn to Adapt Links for August 22nd

by Jeff Kelly

Web 2.0 Continues As Most Used New Internet Term [Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog] - Dion Hinchcliffe's latest musing on the state of "Web 2.0"
Free Will vs. the Programmed Brain: Scientific American - More thoughts on the existence of free will: "If our actions are determined by prior events, then do we have a choice about anything—or any responsibility for what we do?"

Aug 05

by Jeff Kelly

OUseful Info: Education 2.0 Business Models - Though it does not directly address "Education 2.0" business models, this page provides a nice summary of different resources on the monetization aspect of Web 2.0.
Taking social networks abroad - Why MySpace and Facebook are failing in Japan - Great post on the importance of "society" in social networking from Serkan Toto at TechCrunch
Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com - Dion weighs in on the current state of cloud computing. A great summary article on the topic!
Six Degrees of Wikipedia - An interesting page put together by Stephen Dolan does an analysis relationships between articles in of Wikipedia. Try out the "find shortest path" section - interesting. Google recently announced that there are actually an average of 6.6 degrees of separation between the billions of pages they index on the Web. It is indeed a small world (wide web).

Jun 16

by Jeff Kelly

Enterprise 2.0: Lively conversations driving change | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com - Dion's latest reflection on Enterprise 2.0
Average teenager’s iPod has 800 illegal music tracks - Times Online - What will happen to intellectual property when copyright no longer works? As all media goes digital, all media can span infinite copies. This is just the beginning of a major shift in our culture and how we attach value to art.

May 21

by Jeff Kelly

The Growth of Open APIs: More Evidence That Web Services Drive Network Effects [Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog] - Dion extrapolates the growth of Amazon Web Services to the Web as a whole. The question remains how to monetize this usage. Without the scale or intrinsic financial incentive of Amazon, how do other companies leverage APIs successfully?
The Science of Irrationality: Why We Humans Behave So Strangely: Scientific American - MIT's Dan Ariely discusses his research in behavioral economics and explains how to deal with our brain's flawed decision-making process.

Apr 15

by Jeff Kelly

These are my links for April 14th through April 15th:

WatchingTV Online - Blog I just discovered tracking the move of television to the Web. If their theme is correct, this will be a "threat to big media". No saying how the convergence game will play out, but converge we will!
The Mobile Web Was Born Only Yesterday - I agree wholeheartedly with Michael: "So I disagree that The Mobile Web is dead. For many of us it is just coming alive." Just look at the use of mobil outside the US. The future of the Web is a mobile one.
Social Aggregators Emerge To Manage Digital Lifestyles [Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog] - Dion's wonderfully brief post about the rise of social aggregation. This HAD to happen as social fatigue sets in. These will be a model for the future of managing one of our auxillary brains (our social graph(s))