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I still have one more post from the Intranet Conference ( Congres Intranet ) for you! Martin White closed the conference with a talk about The 2015 Intranet - Anywhen, Anywhere. White's talk can be easily summarized: Mobile First. The internet is moving to mobile, the intranet is as well. White has been researching this topic and has interesting (upcoming) reports about this topic. The number of users with mobile web access is astounding (refer to picture). White also doesn't not believe in a future for mobile apps. He says develop for the mobile web, not apps. It's way too expensive to develop apps for all the different platforms. The real value of mobile intranet will be in the area of business intelligence, says White. Mobile intranet supports the real-time enterprise. IT needs to address this trend. Also with respect to security (lots of devices are left behind/lost). Usability and mobile: speech, typing. Don't push you're whole intranet through the mobile. Yo...

This talk by Lee Bryant is about data and how it can lead to and improve social business intelligence. The industrial age model is getting less and less productive. It's still being masked by financials. We also see the limits of the carrot and stick management methods and extrinsic motivation as a way of orchestrating work. Process is an embedded responsive to prior stupidity (Shirky). It's the opposite of human endeavor which is about pattern matching, sense making, etc. Social Business is becoming the new mainstream. You can see this happening on the streets (shops saying "follow us on Twitter"). Data should/can drive evolutionary improvement. Social business data and intelligence can create the conditions for businesses to evolve. API's are the sex organs of business evolution then data is the DNA. Companies are sitting on loads of data. Of which just a small bit should remain confidential. This is the starting point for social CRM. Eventually it will be just...

Wired has a thought-provoking and interesting article by Chris Anderson, titled "The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete" . This article has spurred a lot of discussion on the internet. I'm still thinking it over. But I'll put my two cents in: I wonder if Anderson's take is true for all of science. If so, everything is data and can be described by data. I know that lots of people think this is true (e.g. singularity theory). However I think reality can not only be described by data. For instance, can someones soul be described by data? And, doesn't Anderson's article itself show we always (or often?) need theory (hypothesis, believe, convictions) to say something about practice? Anyway, large parts of reality can be described by data. And for this Anderson's theory is very interesting indeed, just ponder on the examples that he gives. Some highlights from the article: About the Petabyte Age: "It forces us to view...

Nicolas Carr has written another fascinating article you can chew on. It's titled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" . It relates well to posts about changes in reading behavior that I've been pointing to recently . The central thought of the article is: "Media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought." This is an interesting statement. However after reading this article I don't understand how this works, although I see it in practice. Does anyone no where I can find more info on this topic? The conclusion of the article seems to be: get used to less-deep-reading and more skimming. But is this really inevitable trend or we will people revolt every now and then? Just like with philosophical trends move between subjectivism and objectivism. --- Here are some key citations from the article: "It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional ...

This summer I wrote shortly about the Darpa Challenge . (More specifically on the Google Tech Talk on the Darpa Challenge 2006.) The finals for the this year's challenge, the Darpa Urban Challenge are coming up. I'm really curious who's going to win this year! And if the contestants will be able to ride the whole route. Last year the autonomous vehicles had to drive over a route with no everyday obstacles (but that was difficult enough). This year the vehicles will have to move through a mock urban area, with regular streets, cars parked along the way, crossroads, etc. The finals will be on Nov. 3 and you can follow it via a live webcast.

National Geographic had an interesting article on Swarm Intelligence some time ago . Now they have one on memory . There's also an interesting 3D animation that lets you move brains around and it tells you which part of the brains is used for what kind of processing. My interest for articles on these kinds of topics is because they touch the way humans process information.