LinkedIn has been adding features, and a new one has popped up that seems like it might be worthwhile: You can now Break Connections yourself, rather than sending email to customer service.
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LinkedIn has been adding features, and a new one has popped up that seems like it might be worthwhile: You can now Break Connections yourself, rather than sending email to customer service.
Steve Barth's last "Personal Toolkit" column, "Mapping the mind's eye," in the May 2006 KM World discusses two items in my toolbox, MindManager and PersonalBrain.
The May 2006 issue of ACM Queue has some fun with the idea of artificial Artificial Intelligence, "Will artificial AI create a new class of intelligent applications?" The article talks about the design of Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
James Robertson has posted another of his CM Briefings, this time on "The real cost of email in organisations."
CNet has an interview with John McCarthy, who is credited with coining the term Artificial Intelligence: "Getting machines to think like us" with Jonathan Skillings.
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Information (knowledge?) is the currency of business today, so making it available and making available the tools needed to manipulate that information is a critical task. Jeffrey Phillips has some interesting thoughts about IT blocking this need.
KMWorld Magazine has a nice overview of electronic lab notebooks in the June 2006 issue from David Raths, "Scientists take a closer look at ELNs." Nice to see this in KMWorld.
TechCrunch had a guest author, Frank Gruber, write about the The State of Online Feed Readers. Being TechCrunch, the review was primarily focused on features and technology of these aggregators
Knowledge@Wharton has an interview with Helen Greiner of iRobot, maker of the Roomba and the new Scooba. Greiner clearly has a vision for the future of robots-as-appliances.
Okay, so I'm sitting here with my mother, who is attempting to learn how to deal with GMail, and I am flabbergasted at how unintuitive some of the interface is with it.
I stumbled upon Beth Shankle's piece on Google's reputation system. I'm not so interested in Google or disembodied reputation systems, but I have to mention the surprise I had when Quicken started asking me to rate the people in my checkbook register.
An entertaining manifesto from by Tony Dratz, "Technologist Manifesto..., or Things Everyone in IT Should Know." He lists a dozen items that are either "to do" or "not to do" with respect to IT projects.
Merlin Mann has "2 ways to make RSS readers smarter:" 1. Per-feed expirations and 2. Smarter Dinosaurs. The readers are getting there.
George Siemens makes an interesting comment in Wikis at Work. "The baggage of existing thinking is a great inhibitor to blogs, podcasts, wikis, and social bookmarks."
Rant on: Does anyone actually like voice-recognition based "interactive" voice response (IVR) systems?
James Robertson's latest CM Briefing includes "Search should work like magic." I like that the suggestions he provides in terms of where IT should focus their energies.
Does spell-checking software need a warning label? The answer is, "yes." I've known this for a long time, but then I've also made the errors this article talks about. Based on their survey of undergraduate and graduate students, people put much more confidence in grammar- and spell-checking software than they should.
John Tropea has posted some thoughts on more advanced mechanisms to get recommendations, based on what you read and write. My best recommendation engine is the people I am already reading, can recommendation engines take advantage of that?