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Scientists have opened up their research, removing patents and relying on the crowd to help modify their data. The practice isn't new. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been crowdsourcing a distributed network of computers since the mid-90's to scan the skies for alien life. Today science is doing more than just using distributed computing, they are relying on a distributed network of citizen scientists to collect data and help refine their work. Article Key links: The Open Science Project
Biology Goes Open Source by Forbes magazine. |
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Social Networking at British Telecom |
BT Design CIO: JP Rangaswami:BT's business transformation In a CIO Sessions interview, JP Rangaswami, managing director of BT Design talks to ZDNet editor-in-chief, Dan Farber about transformation and convergence at one of the world’s largest telecommunication companies. He also discusses his visionary thoughts on enabling new technologies inside the enterprise such as social networking, SaaS and open-source. JP Rangaswami, managing director at BT Design describes how social networking tools like Facebook are changing the workplace environment by helping workers be more collaborative. Video |
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Associated Press; Portals, Local Content—‘The Mother of all Battles’ |
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In a speech last month, AP CEO Tom Curley declared that news is a growth industry and that it was high time to kick ‘despair’ to the curb. At the same time, he seemingly despaired about the balance of power that exists online, between the portals and the creators of original content. The solution: fairer deals to ensure that creators aren’t giving away the house, along with a willingness to adapt to the changing ways readers consume the news. Still he’s pragmatic, knowing that nobody will simply start handing the AP money. Even if breaking news is growing more valuable all the time, the game is to adapt and capture that value: “I think there are a couple of clear trends. One is that you really have to embrace the web 2.0 free distribution that goes beyond a site; I’ve been saying that for years. The other aspect is that everybody’s business model is in a different place… and there needs to be a lot of experimentation and a lot of innovation on these business models… pretty clearly, ad targeting and CPM (cost per thousand) revenue streams around behavioral advertising have a lot of appeal… when you’re an AP without any footprint in the advertising world, we need to get some tools or some associations. Where I’m coming from is that we must go forward with Web 2.0—all aspects of it—which is that our content should float. It should go where people want it, and we should get compensated for it and the way to [get] compensation is different than the way it’s been for 162 years.” Article |
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Fostering Conversations in the Workplace |
Collaboration Cancels the Cubicle Culture "It's a competitive world," said John Scouffas, principal and designer for Gensler, the San Francisco-based architectural firm that's been redesigning workplaces in valley companies, including Cisco's. "Collaboration has been shown to spark innovation and speed product to market." Intel, which helped popularize the cube culture in Silicon Valley -- even leader Andy Grove had one -- also is having second thoughts about its gray, maze-like work space. And its practicality. On any given day, said Neil Tunmore, Intel's director of corporate services, 60 percent of the company's cubes are empty because people are visiting customers, telecommuting, vacationing or in meetings. Employees work in their assigned buildings only three days a week on average and spend 20 percent of their work hours telecommuting. "People are just working differently these days," Tunmore said. Productivity also is up, said Larry Matarazzi, Cisco's senior director of workplace resources. Ted Baumuller, a senior manager in Cisco's information technology department, agrees. He said the time it takes to make decisions has been cut by 25 to 30 percent because it's easier to round up the team, and collegial relationships have improved by working in a more open environment. Baumuller believes he is much more accessible now that he no longer has a door. His office is wherever he wants it to be -- from a couch to a chair by the window, known as a touch-down site. Workers need only look across the floor to find him."People feel much more comfortable coming up to me. It's more of a friendly atmosphere," he said. "I hope I never have to go back to cubes." Article
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