Diana Soares

(just bought by Google…)

Popularity: 5% [?]

Aconselho a leitura:

You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss

A few days ago I was sitting in a cafe in Palo Alto and a group of programmers came in on some kind of scavenger hunt. It was obviously one of those corporate “team-building” exercises.

They looked familiar. I spend nearly all my time working with programmers in their twenties and early thirties. But something seemed wrong about these. There was something missing.

And yet the company they worked for is considered a good one, and from what I overheard of their conversation, they seemed smart enough. In fact, they seemed to be from one of the more prestigious groups within the company.

So why did it seem there was something odd about them?

…

I was in Africa last year and saw a lot of animals in the wild that I’d only seen in zoos before. It was remarkable how different they seemed. Particularly lions. Lions in the wild seem about ten times more alive. They’re like different animals. And seeing those guys on their scavenger hunt was like seeing lions in a zoo after spending several years watching them in the wild.

…

Popularity: 21% [?]

Mais um vídeo, na linha dos vídeos anteriores sobre RSS e Wikis.

O del.icio.us é uma rede social de bookmarking (favoritos) que uso há bastante tempo. Aliás, foi das primeiras redes sociais que comecei a usar “a sério”, após cansar-me de ter bookmarks espalhados pelos vários computadores e diversos browsers que vou usando, já para não falar na dor de cabeça em manter uma organização decente…

Social Bookmarking Explained

A boa disposiçao não falha!

Na minha opinião, faltava ainda uma coisinha neste vídeo: mencionar também a possibilidade de partilha de bookmarks de uma forma mais directa: basta etiquetar com a sintaxe for:utilizador_x para que a referência web seja partilhada directamente com o utilizador com a conta utilizador_x do del.icio.us (na sua página Links for you).E claro, podemos agora juntar as duas “tecnologias”: Social Bookmarking e RSS… É só somar as vantagens!Update: por falar em social bookmarking, ei-los: Social Bookmarking: 50+ Social Bookmarking Sites (via Mashable).

Popularity: 6% [?]