Workplace Learning in the Digital Age
Dr. Donna Murdoch
“Anticipatory shipping may be closest that retail can come to a crystal ball. Amazon, which now has a patent for the algorithm-based system, could conceivably use the system to ship products before you even place an order.”
Mashable explains Amazon’s newest patent. I’m not sure how this will work – for as long as I can remember I’ve filled up shopping carts and purposefully never bought them. How will they know if I really want to buy?
From my feed (Mashable) “The RSS feed — or as we now know it, “the feed” — organizes the world into a series of neat, clickable, constantly updating bits of information. But it\’s a relatively new concept — just 10 short years ago, there was no way to know what a public figure such as Justin Bieber was thinking in real time.
The feed now dominates online content consumption, from the news we read on our mobile devices to the social networks we check constantly throughout the day, as well as the ads that integrate onto those platforms.”
Choosing the right mobile devices for salespeople is not so much of an issue now that HTML5 has matured to a point where it is perfectly acceptable for most business apps. It\’s the app that matters, not the device. From ReadWrite.
via How To Manage A Sales Team In The Era Of Bring Your Own Everything – ReadWrite.
“If you are a social marketer still citing Facebook as a hangout for teenagers, it’s time to get a grip on reality. A new analysis shows that millions of teenagers have abandoned that now-venerable social watering hole over the last few years.”
Those of us who’ve been around since AOL knew we would be here one day….
via Teens abandoning Facebook, yet the world survives | VentureBeat | Social | by Barry Levine.
“Much like television is experiencing a diversity of new and niche content thanks to the change in distribution wrought by broadband, the enterprise is experiencing a similar explosion of software.”
Software and collaboration in the workplace, and new versions of well legacy software products via SaaS, for organizations. The network effect in the enterprise, explained by Gigaom.
From The Verge.
The wrong words.
That was the overwhelming message delivered to the FCC by the DC Circuit yesterday when it ruled to vacate the agency’s net neutrality rules. The FCC had tried to impose so-called “common carrier” regulations on broadband providers without officially classifying them as utilities subject to those types of rules, and the court rejected that sleight of hand. Most observers saw the decision coming months, if not years, ago; Cardozo Law School’s Susan Crawford called the FCC’s position a “house of cards.”
via The wrong words: how the FCC lost net neutrality and could kill the internet | The Verge.
Private messaging has captured the attention of the most popular public social networks in the last two months and, surprisingly, this push among tech companies may have a very non-technical driving force. From Mashable.
Friendster is a social network that was founded in 2002, a year before Myspace and two years before Facebook. Consequently, it is often thought of as the grand-daddy of social networks. At its peak, the network had well over 100 million users, many in south east Asia.In July 2009, following some technical problems and a redesign, the site experienced a catastrophic decline in traffic as users fled to other networks such as Facebook. Friendster, as social network, simply curled up and died.
via Best of 2013: An Autopsy of a Dead Social Network | MIT Technology Review.
From Wired – The Rift is the brainchild of a 19-year-old tinkerer and VR enthusiast named Palmer Luckey. A collector of old VR headsets, Luckey was all too familiar with the shortcomings every system had faced—small fields of vision, unwieldy form factors, horrific resolution. He was also uniquely suited to do something about it: Years of modding videogame consoles and refurbishing iPhones for fun and profit had given him enough fine-soldering skills to start Frankensteining pieces from his existing headset collection.
via Oculus Primed: Meet the Geniuses Who Finally Mastered Virtual Reality | Game|Life | Wired.com.
GigaOm: Virtual supermarkets? Consumer-designed products? The distinction between physical and digital is becoming a thing of the past, as digital-physical innovation becomes the key to enterprise success.
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