My daily readings 04/07/2008

李开复：谷歌创新遇到“官本位”文化_互联网_科技时代_新浪网  Annotated

tags: innovation, startup, china

　　《中国企业家》：在中国，这种自下而上的创新更难？

　　李开复：放权给员工，在Google中国碰到一些问题。第一，员工不见得相信，怎么可能？老板有权利不要，放权给我。第二，就算你放权给我，我如果做得不好怎么办？你说不惩罚我，我不见得相信。第三，员工会觉得还是要靠大老板指出方向。

　　碰到这些种种的怀疑，可能就会让这样的一个系统跑不起来。一种做法是一进来就强制地去做。一种做法是去说服每一个人，然后以身作则证明这是真的，我觉得我做了一部分这个工作。还有一种做法是可以把期望值稍微修改一下，刚开始的时候可能80%-90%是自上而下的创新，过一阵也许有50%是自下而上的创新，再过一阵达到70%的自下而上的创新。

Comcast, Twitter And The Chicken (trust me, I have a point)

tags: twitter, customer, service

Diigo monitor twitter well

Software Engineering for Internet Applications

tags: web, engineering, book

Why I don’t like Friendfeed as much as I wanted, it lacks intention « Alexander van Elsas’s Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior  Annotated

tags: friendfeed

I have had a few good times on Friendfeed, but these times were characterized by the interaction that took place over there. People commenting on something and replying to each others comments. Interaction is what I like most in any kind of service. I like Twitter for just that reason. While Twitter was made for people to answer the question “what are you doing?”, I like Twitter much better when an uncontrolled , unexpected, funny and often surprising @conversation starts (that is, people actually addressing each other on Twitter instead of addressing the whole world). It’s interaction and it makes the service work for me.

By now each Friendfeed user probably has imported 10-20 RSS feeds and isn’t even remotely aware of all the stuff he is sharing automatically. Because of this lack of intention most of the shared stuff is worthless. If I see something that I know my friend really likes and then share it intentionally with him, it provides us both with value. But if I spill my guts to the world without thinking about what I’m sharing it makes most of the things I share pretty worthless.

A Smarter Web  Annotated

tags: semantic, web

The Semantic Web will also be a richer, more customizable Web. Imagine running your cursor over the name of the hotel and being informed that 15 percent of the people who’ve voted on its quality say it’s excellent. If you happen to know that the hotel is a dump, you can instruct your browser to assign those people a trust level of zero. (The polling information would be saved on a third-party “annotation server” that your Web browser accessed automatically.) By assigning high levels of trust to people who match your tastes and interests, and “bozo-filtering” the people who don’t, the Web will start looking more like your Web.

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