• louisgray.com: There’s No Way Twitter Is Worth $250 Million Today – Part One of Louis Gray's bipolar analysis of Twitter's value. (you got to give him points for due diligence on both sides of this coin ;o)
• louisgray.com: Twitter Is Worth A Lot More Than $250 Million – Part One of Louis Gray's bipolar analysis of Twitter's value.
• Novel approaches to sequences of learning « John W Lewis – John Lewis with a thoughtful proposal: "We believe that by exploring innovative disclosure sequences, the effectiveness of training can be dramatically improved." I tend to agree – there have been many times when I have re-ordered the design of past-developed courses and found them to be much more effective.

• Eduslide.com – Eduslide offers either a public learning content management system (LCMS) to create, upload and control access to e-learning content, or a download of the open source version.
• Open APIs reach new high water mark as the Web evolves | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion reviews the power of open API's: "Late last week an important milestone for the Internet was quietly reached as the number of available open Web APIs crossed the 1,000 mark, according to the popular API tracking service, Programmable Web."

• Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know [Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog] – Don't enter into the the article lightly, but Dion does a great job of summarizing some of the most salient concepts to consider when building a "Web 2.0" business strategy. Skip the verbose diagram, read the ten points then come back to the diagram and mull it over. (Come back and review it later if you don't have time to mull things over now…)
• Training Method Trends : eLearning Technology – Tony Karrer pulls together the results of a survey done by the eLearningGuild that marks the trends in learning (training) delivery methods. Nothing truly surprising in the results, but a useful gathering of statistics nonethe less.

• All Sites Must Go Social – "Companies are integrating social media applications into their own site to add personalization and create a sense of community." Think of how this can be used to turn any e-learning site into a social learning site!
• Wasps Reveal Clues about the Evolution of Intelligence: Scientific American – Experts have long suspected that complex social interaction drove the evolution of large brains in humans. Now a study in wasps supports and refines that theory: it seems that dominant individuals have larger brain regions responsible for higher-order cog
• Web Strategy: The Three Spheres of Web Strategy (and the skills required) – A great graphic model from Jeremiah Owyang about the balance of community, business, and tech needed for successful websites. Like most three-legged stool models, it can be extrapolated to other things such as biz in general.
• Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp – Applied Trends – I'm greatly looking forward to joining Scott Gavin for the first delivery of the Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp in London on 30 September. If you will be in London that time, please join us for a great day of strategic learning.

These are my links for February 11th:

• Learning 2.1 – This is an updated version of the fun site put together for Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County to teach staff about the world of Web 2.0. It is a great resource for people who want a hands-on guided tour of Web 2.0.
• Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT – Broad and thoughtful article from John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler that pulls together many of the main themes in how the Web is changing the way we learn. Also has a good discussion on learning how to learn.
• Business Models on the Web | Professor Michael Rappa – This is a great summary of Web business models. Focuses on "front door" models and does not discuss API-based revenue, but some of the model classifications could be further interpreted that way.