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I am now officially bored with web 2.0 and so on.  The hype over the past year has been ridiculous. But the whole area of social computing, including social media and social networking will continue to grow. However, it is likely that the economic crisis will precipitate a focus

Just came across this old post from Bob Sutton (well known anti-asshole activist) is worth noting - in summary according to a study in the Journal of Applied Psychology: "Witnessing the harassment or uncivil treatment of women at work is bad not only for female employees, but for the

There was a tale in the news in 2008 of a disgruntled city IT worker who effectively blocked all access to the city network. Apparently the network continued to function  but he refused to hand over the passwords to management so they could administer it.  The story first first came

Back in November 2008, before the real seriousness of the global financial situation had become apparent, I attended a Retail Financial Services Panel Discussion & Luncheon in Sydney.   The topics proposed for the panel includes: * Competition and customer acquisition amid the credit crisis * Group strategy post-credit crisis - what will

Here in this TED talk Kevin Kelly talks about the evolution of technology.  Kevin is one of my favourite thinkers about technology and our relationship to us.  Here he asks "what does technology want from us?" http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf http://w.sharethis.