Recently, I’ve been thinking about how the wave of new enterprise social tools have the potential to change the structure of the businesses that use them. In theory, tools like Yammer , tibbr and present.ly have the potential to flatten an organization’s structure and reduce hierarchy. Adoption. Effects. Best Practices. MORE >>

The escalating unrest in North Africa and other parts of the world continues to make us wonder about the fundamental levers of control of the entire internet, and its uses for mass interactions and broadcasts. Bit.ly, the uniform resource locator (web site url address) shortener widely used by marketers and Twitter users relies on.ly, the MORE >>

The library world is abuzz about Harper Collins changing the terms by which libraries can license their books on Overdrive. If you haven’t read about it already, here’s some background info. find it amusing that some vendors and librarians want to apply the print model to e-books, until that model becomes inconvenient for them. MORE >>

We are at the cusp of a new phase of robotics, where some of what has been promised to us for decades will come to fruition. An example of this is the iCub , a humanoid baby robot that can learn, emulating human cognition and development. Our main goal is to study cognition through the implementation of a humanoid robot the size of a 3.5 MORE >>

Before we go out, my wife will often ask "how are people dressing tonight?" I'm never quite sure how to answer - at least for her. In essence, she's asking me to read the room we'll be in, and then translate the social nuance of that room to her choice of clothing. and "those jeans or these?" Though I will admit to a weakness for shoes.). MORE >>