13 month ago
Linkorama : The World Beyond the LAN: Trust and Human Resources - He just smiled and said: “If you trust your employees you don’t need DRM.”
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Richard Rutter : Control the movie - Absolutely must see film of Ian Curtis’s life in Joy Division, directed by Anton Corbijn with music from New Order.
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17 month ago
Linkorama : Enterprise 2.0 - is missing something? - But I think the enterprise is more complex than a group of social individuals in control of their own destiny.
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Linkorama : Enterprises Can Get Web 2.0 On Their Terms - "It's become a control problem," Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource, told internetnews.com. "A lot of companies are surprised to find out how many Web 2.0 applications are being used by their employees." Hmm
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20 month ago
Linkorama : Enterprise 2.0 & Netgens - "...the 80 million Net generation young adults coming into the workplace will want to be part of an engage and collaborate model rather than command and control." according to tapscott's research
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21 month ago
Linkorama : Sharing for Profit - "Even our most negative point estimate implies that a one-standard-deviation increase in file sharing reduces an album's weekly sales by a mere 368 copies, an effect that is too small to be statistically distinguishable from zero."
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22 month ago
Linkorama : Linkslaver on open licensing - As Cory Doctorow says, 99.9% of those who haven't paid you have never heard of you. Because you haven't released your code nobody knows about it and you aren't in demand as a famous C++ guru.
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27 month ago
Linkorama : Share Control to Create Value - guest post at the Telegraph
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Architectures of Control in Design - "How products increasingly control and restrict your behaviour" - weblog by Dan Lockton. Really interesting.
joshua : Architectures of Control in Design
veen : Architectures of Control in Design - "Increasingly, many products are being designed with features that intentionally restrict the way the user can behave, or enforce certain modes of behaviour."
Nelson Minar : Architecture of Control - Blog about design that intentionally makes things difficult (via HotLinks)
jkottke : A weblog about "architectures of control in design", an ongoing exploration of products "designed with features that intentionally restrict the way the user can behave, or enforce certain modes of behaviour" - A weblog about "architectures of control in design", an ongoing exploration of products "designed with features that intentionally restrict the way the user can behave, or enforce certain modes of behaviour".
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30 month ago
Linkorama : unwiki - un_wiki gets quotes from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia's Deletion Log
Rod Begbie : unwiki - Watch and see what's getting deleted from Wikipedia. Fun to see just who thought they were important enough to justify adding a vanity page. [via] #
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31 month ago
jcgregorio : Mark Shuttleworth » Call for testing bzr 0.8 - "no optimisation and is written in Python with no C extensions."
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32 month ago
jcgregorio : Version-Control and SCMs for Linux - I had no idea there were so many.
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32 month ago
Linkorama : The Emergent vs. Deliberate Debate - The upheavals and outcome of all this is as unclear as it is significant because enterprises are primarily organized around central control and focused innovation, two things easily disrupted by this shift of control.
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32 month ago
Linkorama : Points of Failure - Fear Not - leave it up to the people (i.e. The communities) to decide what they would want to question or not. I bet that in most cases they would be making the right choice.
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32 month ago
Linkorama : Content Technology Meets Web 2.0 - The key takeaway from Ross’ talk is that “Sharing Control Creates Valueâ€. It’s extremely difficult to share control, particularly for premium content providers, but virtually every successful Web 2.0 application has that at the
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38 month ago
Linkorama : IP Meets Communications - We're moving from the conceit of owning information to the conceit of owning the public internet itself – or, in other words, the conceit of owning flows of information."
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38 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : Give up control - A-frickin'-men.
factoryjoe : Give up control, by Jeffrey Veen - All of these things are probably true of the work you do online: * Your web site is a tiny piece of a much larger experience. * Nobody sees your web site the way you expected. Few use your content the way you intended. * Everything you
Linkorama : Give up control - The Web’s lesson is that we have to let go, to exert as little control as necessary. What are the fewest necessary rules that we can provide to shape the experience? Where do people, tools, and content come together? How do we let go in a way that’s m
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49 month ago
Andy Baio : Blendie, the scream-controlled blender - also: ScreamBody, the wearable scream recorder [via] [via]
plasticbag : Kelly Dobson's Blendie - as mentioned in Tim O'Reilly's keynote at ETech 2006 - The Blender's speed and power is controlled by the pitch of the noise you make at it. The woman's noises sound a lot like my colleague Simon Willison when he's in a funny mood.
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