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Journal: Microsoft’s Ozzie Memo Urges ‘Post-PC’ Devices, Services

Methods & Process, Mobile, Real Time

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Microsoft's Ozzie Memo Urges ‘Post-PC' Devices, Services

By: Mark Hachman

PCMAG.COM 10.25.2010

In a memo, Microsoft executive Ray Ozzie warned that the industry is moving to a post-PC world, and warned Microsoft employees that they must either lead or be pushed aside.

The memo, entitled “Dawn of a New Day,” was dated Oct 28 and posted to Ozzie's personal blog. The memo marked five years after Ozzie arrived at the company, where he penned a similar memocharting the need to launch Internet services.

Ozzie said that memo had helped Microsoft on to success in the cloud, with products like Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Windows Live, and a socially-connected Xbox.

“Our products are now more relevant than ever,” Ozzie wrote. “Bing has blossomed and its advertising, social, metadata & real-time analytics capabilities are growing to power every one of our myriad services offerings. Over the years the Windows client expanded its relevance even with the rise of low-cost netbooks. Office expanded its relevance even with a shift toward open data formats & web-based productivity. Our server assets have had greater relevance even with a marked shift toward virtualization & cloud computing.”

Ozzie's latest memo, however, may have much less impact than his previous missive, however. That's because Ozzie said he would step down from his post as chief software architect after an undisclosed amount of of time. Ozzie apparently has no plans after that.

Ozzie's memo acknowledged the reality of “always-on” services like Facebook or Twitter, or Web mail services like Gmail or Hotmail, combined with connected devices like the Boxee Box or Apple TV.

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Reference: How to Think Like Steve Jobs…Explore!

Articles & Chapters, Cultural Intelligence, info-graphics/data-visualization, Methods & Process
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Very interesting……Jobs sees the same things as other leaders, but he perceives them differently.

The key to thinking differently is perceiving things differently. To perceive things differently, you must be exposed to divergent ideas, places and people. This forces your brain to make connections it otherwise might miss. Steve Jobs has done this his entire life. He dropped out of college so he could “drop in” to classes that really interested him, such as calligraphy, whose lessons would come back to him years later when he designed the Mac, the first personal computer with beautiful fonts. Jobs wanted the Apple II to be the first personal computer people used in their homes, so he sought inspiration for it in the kitchen appliance aisle at Macy's. And when he hired musicians, artists, poets and historians on the original Macintosh team, he was again exposing himself to new experiences and novel ways of looking at problems.

Leadership

How To Think Like Steve Jobs

Carmine Gallo, 10.19.10, 04:30 PM EDT

You have to bombard your brain with new and novel experiences.

imageThomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist, recently wrote that America's core competency is its ability to attract, develop and unleash creative talent. He suggested that what America needs if it is to emerge from the Great Recession even stronger than before is more Jobs–Steve Jobs. That sounds good on paper, but how does Steve Jobs do it? How did Apple‘s chief executive pioneer the personal computer, revive the Apple brand in 1997 when it was close to bankruptcy and grow Apple into the most valuable tech company in the world? That's the question I took on in writing my new book, The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs.

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Reference: Reader-to-Leader Framework–Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation

Collective Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), IO Mapping, IO Multinational, Methods & Process, Mobile, Open Government, Standards, Strategy, Tools

The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation

Jennifer Preece, University of Maryland1
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland2

Abstract

Billions of people participate in online social activities. Most users participate as readers of discussion boards, searchers of blog posts, or viewers of photos. A fraction of users become contributors of user-generated content by writing consumer product reviews, uploading travel photos, or expressing political opinions. Some users move beyond such individual efforts to become collaborators, forming tightly connected groups with lively discussions whose outcome might be a Wikipedia article or a carefully edited YouTube video. A small fraction of users becomes leaders, who participate in governance by setting and upholding policies, repairing vandalized materials, or mentoring novices. We analyze these activities and offer the Reader-to-Leader Framework with the goal of helping researchers, designers, and managers understand what motivates technology-mediated social participation. This will enable them to improve interface design and social support for their companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations. These improvements could reduce the number of failed projects, while accelerating the application of social media for national priorities such as healthcare, energy sustainability, emergency response, economic development, education, and more.

Recommended Citation

Preece, Jennifer and Shneiderman, Ben (2009) “The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation,” AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (1) 1, pp. 13-32
Available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol1/iss1/5

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Journal: Cyber-Peace and Cyber-Fraud

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Cyberscams, malware, spam, Methods & Process

POLICE have served an intervention order via social networking site Facebook banning an accused cyber-stalker from bullying, threatening and harassing another user.

Tip of the Hat to Philip Golan at LinkedIn

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Journal: CIA Officer Blew Off Warning in Jordon Weeks in Advance of Jordanian Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan that Killed Seven

08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, Government, Methods & Process, Officers Call
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C.I.A. Was Told About Bomber of Afghan Base, Inquiry Finds

By MARK MAZZETTI

The New York Times  Published: October 19, 2010

WASHINGTON — Three weeks before a Jordanian double agent set off a bomb at a remote Central Intelligence Agency base in eastern Afghanistan last December, a C.I.A. officer in Jordan received warnings that the man might be working for Al Qaeda, according to an investigation into the deadly attack.

But the C.I.A. officer did not tell his bosses of the suspicions — brought to the Americans by a Jordanian intelligence officer — that the man might try to lure Americans into a trap, according to the recently completed investigation by the agency.

The internal investigation documents a litany of breakdowns leading up to the attack at the Khost base that killed seven C.I.A. employees, the deadliest day for the spy agency since the 1983 bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut. Besides the failure to pass on warnings about the bomber, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the C.I.A. investigation chronicled major security lapses at the base in Afghanistan, a lack of war zone experience among the agency’s personnel at the base, insufficient vetting of the Jordanian, and a murky chain of command with different branches of the intelligence agency competing for control over the operation.

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See Also:

Journal: The Truth on Khost Kathy

Journal: CIA Leads the “Walking Dead” in USA (With RECAP Links)

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Journal: Deja Vu on FBI Ignoring Advance Warnings

03 India, 09 Justice, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, Cultural Intelligence, Law Enforcement, Methods & Process, Officers Call
NYT on FBI Failure (Again)

Years before 26/11, Headley wives told US of his LeT links (Indian Express)

FBI ignored Headley wife's warning on LeT (Times of India)

U.S. Had Warnings on Plotter of Mumbai Attack (New York Times)

FBI knew Headley had LeT links in 2005 (Hindustani Times)

Phi Beta Iota: The FBI has two walk-ins on 9/11 in advance of the event, one in Newark, NJ and the other in Orlando, FL.  In both instances, because the FBI did not recognize any of the names being reported, it blew off the walk-in.  Something similar appears to have happened here, BUT there is also yet another instance of a US person being in the employ of the US Government (similar to the botched car bomb attack on the World Trade Center) and their activities being a) sanctioned by one US agency and b) not being reported to other US agencies or to allies.  The US secret world is HOSED strategically, operationally, tactically, and technically….. it is cultural “unfit for duty.”   We continue to believe that an Open Source Agency and a Multinational Decision-Support Centre with reach-back to at least 90 countries is the way to kick-off 21st Century Intelligence.  See the Virtual Cabinet series at the Huffington Post for the larger context within which we believe US intelligence must be reinvented.

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Journal: CrowdSourcing Big Time–Games for Dollars

03 Economy, 11 Society, Collective Intelligence, Methods & Process

UPDATE of 16 October 2010: CrowdSourcing Conference Papers Online

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Is Microtask the Future of Work?

GigaOm By Liz Gannes Oct. 8, 2010

Crowdsourcing is often used for fairly menial tasks: correcting databases, screening offensive images, transcribing audio. But what if you could make those little bits of human labor even more menial, discrete and interchangeable? That’s what the Finnish company Microtask does. I met with Microtask CEO Wili Miettinen and CTO Otto Chrons earlier this week while they were in town for CrowdConf, the first major gathering for the crowdsourcing industry.

The World's First Conference on the Future of Distributed Work

Crowdsourcing is the act of engaging distributed groups of people to complete microtasks or generate information. It represents an expanding sphere of innovation, organization, data collection, and creativity.

Crowdsourcing raises complex questions about the future of work; the technical and organizational infrastructure used to complete large-scale tasks; and the relationships between computers, people, and the networks that connect us.

Conference happened on 4 October, visit conference site.

Phi Beta Iota: What we consider important about this is the clear profit incentive to integrate games and work.  This is huge.  It opens a number of almost infinitely scalable options that connect dots and people and money.