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Do you think enterprises and other organizations can significantly benefit from using Linked Data?  The answer is a clear YES. 

This Cambridge study suggests that predicting "friends" based on actual places that people visit, could supplement existing friend prediction systems in social networks.

"There's been a lot of discussion lately about Google+ and why it will render Twitter obsolete.". This article presents the opposite side of the coin.

"The results, she says, support a growing belief that people are using the Internet as a personal memory bank: the so-called Google effect. What surprised Sparrow most was not people's reliance on nonmemorized information but their ability to find it."

Marketers will spend over $350 billion advertising on the web this year "betting" that they will reach the intended market of buyers. Advertisers create slick campaigns "betting" that they will get the markets attention to their offering. Betting is a game, sometimes you win and most of the time you lose.

Another example of the increasing focus on content intelligence - salsaDev - http://bit.ly/riy5BV

In 2008, the number of devices that connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people. That number continues to rise, thanks to a growing number of connected devices and gizmos, ranging from televisions to soda machines. Folks at Cisco have put together this infographic to showcase the growth of the Internet of things.

Tech predictions focusing only on technology miss a key component: people.

A new article reports that the British Library has announced "a significant contribution to the development, application, and sharing of bibliographic data using Linked Data techniques and technologies...

A new language, S3QL has been published for controlled semantic integration of life sciences data.

A lot can go wrong during the development and release of a mobile application, from poor project planning to faulty APIs. Often, the biggest mistakes happen before the first lines of code are ever written.

3D printers, sensor networks, virtual humans and other technologies under development now will drastically change our world in the decade to come, according to Cisco chief futurist Dave Evans

Interesting academic site around Collective Intelligence

"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." - Chinese Proverb One of the most persistent suggestions for curing what ails American education at all levels is to help students develop "critical thinking." Everywhere, you find people complaining that college graduates don't know how to think critically. Neither do younger students.

We assign blame for our overconsumption in odd ways. Gulp down one too many cupcakes and that's 100% on you. Yet, if you're overwhelmed by the fire hose/deluge/tsunami of information, blame must be placed elsewhere: on those glutton-minded information sources or the overall degradation of society or ... anywhere really, as long as it doesn't reflect back on your own lack of control. Information overload seems to always be someone else's fault.

What is creativity? Where does it come from? The workings of the creative mind have been subjected to intense scrutiny over the past 25 years by an army of researchers in psychology, sociology, anthropology and neuroscience. But no one has a better overview of this mysterious mental process than Washington University psychologist R. Keith Sawyer, author of the new book Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation (Oxford; 336 pages). He's working on a version for the lay reader, due out in 2007 from Basic Books. In an interview with Francine Russo, Sawyer shares some of his findings and suggests ways in which we can enhance our creativity not just in art, science or business but in everyday life.

In the world of technology companies, the "labs" concept and nomenclature found a friendly home. Microsoft Research has FUSE Labs, there's HP Labs, and Mozilla Labs, and let's not forget the once-mighty Google Labs (R.I.P.), among many others. Digging into the history of big tech "labs" would be the subject worthy of a book, of course, but in the context of this narrow post, it's worth briefly noting that for those that make things and are builders, every big company needed to have something like this for branding, recruiting, and to keep the innovation engine humming as their corporate parents grew larger and more bureaucratic.  Perhaps each one wasn't referred to as a "lab" explicitly in name, as Amazon has A9 and Google now has Google X. No matter the name, there's something powerful in the word that reminds us of the old chem lab and that spirit of experimentation.

What is it that drives decisions at the exact moment of choice and action? - even in the most mundane, everyday action? If the choice-point itself is a true moment of chaos - a point where literally anything is possible - then what is it that guides us through each of those infinitesimal yet ubiquitous moments?

Gamification isn't just about badges and trophies. Experts weigh in on what you need to make next-generation customer rewards really work for your business.

Ontologies are to the Open Semantic Framework what humans were to the Mechanical Turk. The hidden human in the Mechanical Turk was orchestrating all and every chess move. However, to the observers, the automated chess machine was looking just like it: a new kind of intelligent machine. We were in 1770.