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Saturday, October 28, 2006

THE NEXT BIG THING| Forces are coalescing that will produce a shift comparable at least to the spread of broadband. This change will have enormous financial, cultural and political repercussions, and the most interesting aspect of the coming transformation is that it will not be some new and unexpected thing. Rather, the Web for many will become the cliched 3D virtual reality that has been so overused as a literary and cinematic device that most of us have forgotten how compelling that vision was when it first appeared. |Del.icio.us|

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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

THE BATTLE FOR BRAINPOWER| In a speech at Harvard University in 1943 Winston Churchill observed that "the empires of the future will be empires of the mind." He might have added that the battles of the future will be battles for talent. To be sure, the old battles for natural resources are still with us. But they are being supplemented by new ones for talent-not just among companies (which are competing for "human resources") but also among countries (which fret about the "balance of brains" as well as the "balance of power").

The war for talent is at its fiercest in high-tech industries. The arrival of an aggressive new superpower-Google-has made it bloodier still. The company has assembled a formidable hiring machine to help it find the people it needs. It has also experimented with clever new recruiting tools, such as billboards featuring complicated mathematical problems. Other tech giants have responded by supercharging their own talent machines (Yahoo! has hired a constellation of academic stars) and suing people who suddenly leave.|Economist|

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Sunday, October 15, 2006

THE CLASS OF THE NEW| Netizens, elancers, cognitarians, swarm-capitalists, hackers, produsumers, knowledge workers, pro-ams... these are just a few of the monikers that have been applied to the new social class emerging from the networked workplace.

In this short book, Richard Barbrook presents a collection of quotations from authors who in different ways attempt to identify an innovative element within society: 'the class of the new'. Announcing a new economic and social paradigm, this class constitutes a 'social prophecy' of the shape of work to come. From Adam Smith's 'Philosophers' of the late 18th century, down to the 'Creative Class' celebrated by sociologist Richard Florida today, the class of the new represents the future of production within and beyond capitalism. |del.icio.us|

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Thursday, October 12, 2006

PHONE BLOGGING WITH PHEEDER| Phone blogging is just one call away, says Pheeder's CEO John Geraci.|Forbes|

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Saturday, October 07, 2006

DESIGNING FOR INTERACTION SEMINAR| Based on Dan Saffer's book Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices, this workshop on interaction design will feature activities and seminars that take participants from the discipline's prehistoric roots to its future. Saffer will cover the four approaches to interaction design; design research techniques; traditional documentation and new ways of documenting applications; designing for multitasking, adaptation, and hackability; service design; and the future of interaction design. The Maritime Hotel in NYC - October 25, 2006. |Adaptive Path|

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VIRTUAL ONLINE WORLDS: LIVING A SECOND LIFE| A Californian firm has built a virtual online world like no other. Its population is growing and its economy is thriving. Now politicians and advertisers are visiting.|Economist|

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