Email - What to do (and not to do)...

36 simple rules that can help make the workplace better.

270toWin

Great site takes latest polling data in the US elections and runs monte carlo simulations to predict the outcome based on electoral college votes (270 is the number needed to gain a majority).

Delicious

"Folksonomy" or social tagging software such as Delicious, Technorati and Digg are a great way to manage your bookmarks online and to find relevant articles that others have tagged (and a great way of sharing sources). Try using one for the IS6110 project and I think you will find it far more useful than a google search when looking for relevant (online) sources. Of course, EBSCO, Google Scholar and Science Direct are still important for searching for 'academic' sources. My del.icio.us page is here

The net shapes up to get physical

Interesting article from today's Guardian.

XBRL

Is XBRL the magic bullet that will prevent a repeat of the current crisis in the financial markets? Maybe. Hopefully it's a start.

This article from the Guardian shows that half of the top 12 biggest % daily falls in the FTSE have occurred in 2008. It reminds me of the following analogy from the communist manifesto:

"Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells (Marx and Engels, 1848)".

The End of Web 2.0?

Not sure I would agree with everything in this article but it is interesting nonetheless. Tim O'Reilly's interview in the LA Times where he tells developers to get serious and "stop designing software that lets you throw sheep at your friends" is also worth a look.

Intellipedia - a Wikipedia for the CIA

The CIA are using a wikipedia style site in the for the sharing of intelligence info.

It's an interesting application of a social software platform in a large organisation.

Some Links from 08-10-2008 Lecture

Castro on Clouds: http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/693641

And the original interview with Stallman: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman

Some dangers with Cloud Computing here

23 and Me: https://www.23andme.com/

Chris Anderson on the Long Tail: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html

Article on Dell by John Hagel: http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2008/09/unbundling-dell.html

Wikipedia entry on 'The World is Flat' (Friedman): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_is_Flat

The World is Flat free MP3: http://is.gd/4iw4

Alltop: http://alltop.com/

Time Article on Google: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1158961,00.html

Welcome to 6110

Welcome to the new blog for IS6110 for students in the MBS in EBusiness and the MBS in Information Systems for Business Performance.

I'm going to post some links here that I think might be useful to you during the year.

Feel free to become a follower of the blog, or make a comment about anything you read, find interesting (or boring!) about the course and leave links to sites you like.

Regards,

Jeremy

This site is a personal blog of Jeremy Hayes. A disclaimer applies to this page.