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• Wednesday, August 06, 2008 8:31 AM

  The Shape of Things to Come

  Sorry for the recent low levels of blog activity. In addition to the usual summer doldrums, I've been wrapping up a bunch of projects and tooling up for a busy fall season of writing and speaking. For the past couple of weeks, I have been focused on revising Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Web 2.0, futurism, IT, collaboration and social computing

• Wednesday, July 02, 2008 3:32 PM

  More Handwringing about the Business Value of Social Networks

  Another day, another white paper wondering about all the wasted productivity of workers frittering away productive hours and compromising company information on social networks. This one is called " Networking or Not Working - Social Networks: Brave New Read More... Posted by Rob | 2 Comments Filed under: IT, collaboration and social computing

• Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:44 AM

  Age, Power and Social Computing

  Mike Gotta points to this article by Dennis Howlett called "The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social computing," in which Howlett observes: In the context of ’social’ anything, these are incredibly important concepts because what we’re really talking Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Web 2.0, organizational culture, IT, collaboration and social computing

• Sunday, March 23, 2008 11:59 AM

  New Study on IT Risk and Millennials

  Symantec, the IT security company, recently released a study of IT risks posed by the social computing workstyle of Millennials in the workforce. Obviously Symantec is not a disinterested party, but their findings are very interesting and validate many Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: IT, the book, Millennials, collaboration and social computing

• Monday, March 03, 2008 2:10 PM

  CIO.com: Banning Social Networks a Losing Battle

  There's an interesting article at CIO.com today discussing the ongoing problems that employers are having with (mostly younger) workers accessing their social networking sites at work. CIO points out that, while it is technically possible to ban access Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: organizational culture, IT

• Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:20 AM

  Generational OS

  I was talking to a friend at Microsoft who says the folks in Redmond are finally starting to pay attention to Apple as a competitor on the PC desktop. They are concerned about ways to make Windows a cooler brand. Seems to me that Apple is winning in a Read More... Posted by Rob | 2 Comments Filed under: IT, collaboration and social computing

• Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:23 AM

  The End of Imperfect Capitalism

  Economists despise information asymmetries in markets, because theoretically, "perfect" information leads to optimized pricing. That is, the price of everything reflects the highest amount people are willing to pay, so the allocation of resources best Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: futurism, economics, IT