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Why do we need offices anyway?

What resources can an office bring to software developers, designers, sysadmins, phone support managers, or sales people that they could only get in an office, rather than at home, in their local coffee shop, or even on the road?

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Wikipedia – an unplanned miracle

Every day since its birth 10 years ago, Wikipedia has got better. Yet it’s amazing it even exists.

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Why “Delivering Happiness” is a must read

Linda Stone explains why everyone should buy Zappos CEO Tony Hsie’s book “Delivering Happiness”.

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The Interoperability of Social Networks

Chris Dixon on why Google can afford to be “open” while Facebook can’t and what that might mean for a new social network from Google.

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35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute to YouTube

YouTube users are uploading 35 hours of video per minute! That breaks out to 2,100 hours uploaded every 60 minutes, or 50,400 hours uploaded to YouTube every day.

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Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook

Danah Boyd on a possible new trend among teens on Facebook: Disabling your account between logins or deleting all comments as a way to keep Facebook non-persistent.

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Map of Online Communities

XKCD’s map of online communities is a bit inside baseball but it’s quite fascinating to see the relative size of a number of online communities. Look at the size of Facebook! And did you realize that the simple Facebook game Farmville is the world’s second-largest browser based online community? Be sure to click on the picture to see the large version.

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Malcolm Gladwell Is #Wrong

Maria Popova argues that Malcolm Gladwell is mistaken when he claims that “the revolution will not be tweeted“, that social media can’t support progressive activism.

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Lawrence Lessig Reviews ‘The Social Network’

And drops a few pearls of wisdom about the Internet, innovation and the meaning of network neutrality along the way.

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ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Engine

Very exciting tool for analyzing our social media efforts.

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