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Understanding Social Business - Webcast
The term, "Social Business" has been gaining currency over the past year among influential thinkers such as Stowe Boyd, Peter Kim, Jeff Dachis and Jeremiah Owyang. I am excited to announce that I will be moderating an O'Reilly panel discussion with this group on January 14 to discuss Social Business and how it can impact strategy, design, technology and customer experience. I would love to hear about any questions you would like to see addressed during this upcoming webcast. Read more.

Pew Research asks questions about the Internet in 2020

Will Google Make Us Stupid? Will we live in the cloud or the desktop?

 
Pew Research asks questions about the Internet in 2020
Pew Research, which seems to be interested in just about everything, conducts a "future of the Internet" survey every few years in which they throw outrageously open-ended and provocative questions at a chosen collection of observers in the areas of technology and society. I took the exercise as a chance to hammer home my own choices of issues, like: Will Google make us stupid? and Will we live in the cloud or the desktop? Read more.

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A Box's Life
I bet any parent can acknowledge that the wrapping paper and boxes the toys come in are often more exciting and inspire more imagination than the toys themselves. What kind of imagination can we apply to ensuring that boxes (and resources in general) are not overlooked for their usefulness? What extended life can we give to those things we create and what can we conserve in their creation?" Read more.

Four short links: 8 January 2010

Healthcare Data, GNU Econometrics Library, Visualizing Changes, View Source Under Attack

 
View Source is Good? Discuss (Alex Russell) -- fantastic post, mandatory reading. View-source was necessary (but not sufficient) to make HTML the dominant application platform of our times. I also hold that it is under attack -- not least of all from within -- and that losing view-source poses a significant danger to the overall health of the web. This and more in today's Four Short Links. Read more.

Looking for experts

Astoria, ADO.NET Data Services Framework, WCF Data Services

 
Hi. I'm Russell Jones, formerly Executive Editor at DevX.com. It's good to be at O'Reilly where I'll be working to publish developer-focused titles. I'm looking for information about the rapidly name-changing project Astoria, aka ADO.NET Data Services Framework, now WCF Data Services. If you're an expert in this technology, or if you know someone who is, I'd like to start a conversation. Read more.
Intellectual property wars are fiercer than ever, although the institutions most affected (including the media) prefer not to talk about them. But we may be in for a pendulum shift. I recently put out a tweet on this topic and was asked to expand on it. The issues are too big and complex for me to give them a proper... Read more.

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Millions of Plastic Guitars Can't Be Wrong
If you make a process easy enough, you can change the world. In 1995, two MIT graduates set out to make music-making easy. Now millions of people play their product, and the inventors are releasing the developer tools for free. Read more.

Upcoming Webcasts: 2010 Schedule

DRBD and MySQL, Cloud Security, IT and Sustainable Business, Entity Framework 4, and Social Media Marketing

 

Upcoming Webcasts: 2010 Schedule
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Windows 7, Snow Leopard, or iPhone Questions?

How to Become a Power User of Your New Gadgets

 

Windows 7, Snow Leopard, or iPhone Questions?
Getting a new gadget or computer is one thing. Learning how to unleash its full potential is another. So if you've got questions about Windows 7, Snow Leopard, iPhone, iPod, netbook, or digital camera, get them answered with an up-to-date, clearly-written book or ebook. And don't forget you can Buy 2 and Get 1 Free by using code OPC10 in our shopping cart.

What's New in O'Reilly Answers

iPhone repair, Best to-do apps, Getting started on a book, and more!

 

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