This 'n That

Personal blog for DebK.

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[springwiseintelligence]

Immersive 360° video lets viewers choose which characters to follow

The in-built accelerometers in tablets and smartphones offer increasingly unusual ways for users to interact with multimedia content. We recently wrote about Device6, a playable novel that relies on manipulation of the iPad to give a sense of space. Now a project from Switzerland called IDNA – Spatial Storytelling has produced a 360-degree video narrative for handheld devices that reveals different elements of the story depending on the way viewers choose to angle their tablet. READ MORE…

[debk]

Research: Cubicles Are the Absolute Worst Sarah Green, hbr.org

My work station is an invading overlord. Belongings march across the long desk I share with several other editors, spilling out of my space and incurring into the neutral zones abutting my colleagues’ work areas. To the east, legions of books,…

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[pewresearch]

New: Nearly one-in-ten U.S. adults (8%) get news through Twitter. 

[fastcodesign]

The term “selfie” first appeared on Flickr in 2004, but it took nearly a decade to become part of the popular lexicon, according to a new infographic, The Selfie Phenomenon.

See the full infographic here: Co.Create

[fastcompany]

"[The challenge] is getting communities and getting companies to truly keep pace with every single individual because this"—she waved her iPhone—"is enabling them," she said. "If you want to keep the next generation and if you want them to be united, you have to see this is how they live. You have to blow up all your existing policies—everything!—and rebuild them around this."

This summer, we asked Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts about her company’s greatest challenge. That her first thought was to compare Burberry’s hurdles with that of Apple’s is telling.  Today, Apple named Ahrendts as the company’s new senior vice president of retail.

[futuramb]

Stowe Boyd, gigaom.com

I saw a link to a 2009 Har­vard Busi­ness Review piece by Gary Hamel, the well-known man­age­ment the­o­rist, in which he calls for a new era of man­age­ment think­ing:

Gary Hamel, Moon Shots for ManagementEquipping organizations to tackle the…

Really important point by Stowe Boyd! Hamel et al are underestimating the depth and the fundamental nature of the current transformation of the society. When changing the way people are communicating with each other, from a one-to-many to a many-to-many structure, everything is going to change. We must understand that we are on our way to rewire humanity as a whole, which means fundamental changes in e g how we organize and create value. To take the stand in one of the groups that have grown up from the historic way of organizing things, like the management category, is futile and will not provide a standpoint from which the current development can be understood.

[debk]

The Sharing Economy meets the Internet of Things davidllewelynjones, wordpress.com

Noise over what has been called Collaborative Consumption – and elsewhere The Sharing Economy – has been increasing in volume for some months now. Kickstarter, a crowdfunding business that exists to let people from anywhere in the world don…

"If every product has its own IP address, then it means that every product is a lot more easy to track, and necessarily a lot more easy to lend to others. For, if a device is unique and ‘intelligent’, it should hypothetically recognise your own needs when you need it, and another’s when someone else has need of it"

[omacademy]

60% of businesses are integrating mobile into wider marketing activities: report

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Six out of 10 businesses have a strategy for integrating mobile into their broader marketing campaigns, according to a new report into cross-channel marketing.

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[fastcompany]

Want To Be Happier At Work? Try "job crafting."

“It was not just that they were taking the same job and feeling better about it, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and whistling. It was that they were DOING a different job … one said ‘I’m a healer. I create sterile spaces in the hospital. My role here is to do everything I can to promote the healing of the patients.’” A Yale professor interviewed a group of hospital janitors about their job. Many of the workers griped about their responsibilities, but another group described the same job in completely different, completely positive terms. Amy Wrzesniewski calls this “job crafting”: Creating the work you want to do out of the work you’re assigned to do 

[debk]

Hashtag popularity and social network strength.

Twitter analysis shows that hashtags with well-connected or highly disconnected early adopters are more likely to become popular than those in between. If early adopters of the hashtag are disconnected, the hashtag is likely related to a celebrity or popular topic outside of Twitter.

(via On the Interplay between Social and Topical Structure | Follow the Crowd)

[debk]

Real-time data for mobile devices moves to expanded IBM SmartCloud

IBM announced that Flow, Inc., will stream its real-time data analytics to SoftLayer, newly acquired by IBM.

Flow, a New York City-based company with Fortune 500 partnerships, transforms the way companies process, publish and consume real-time information. It streams all types of data specifically designed to be accessed and viewed from mobile devices.

This streamed, integrated real-time data will enable clients to send and receive data from any mobile device that is integrated with enterprise data, thereby enabling the collaboration essential to a Social Business.

IBM clients will gain the ability to intelligently connect, process and route real-time data to and from any number of enterprise applications, analytics and mobile services. Real-time information dashboards and mobile apps can be deployed in minutes without any IT support.

[debk]

(via The Ferry That Tweets - Tech Europe - WSJ)

[thinkvr]

Do people read what they tweet? Don’t assume they have looked any further than the headline and lead . A study correlated how far people scrolled through an article with the number of tweets from the article. The relationship proved to be fairly weak.

(via How people read online: Why you won’t finish this article. - Slate Magazine)

[forwardthinkingeducation]

There are huge implications here for the classroom. I’m shocked at the “fake reading" and the correlation to tweeting. So, most people are reading less than 60% and then “bouncing." I want to see how this impacts analog reading.

Cheers.

[debk]

[theatlantic]

What children probably need to hear most from us adults is that they can talk with us about anything, and that we will do all that we can to keep them safe in any scary time.

Mr. Rogers, on talking with children about tragic events in the news. (via theatlantic)

[debk]

A blast from the past. These are idealistic children songs from the 50s.