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7Sungook Hong, Wireless: From Marconi’s Black-Box to the Audion (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) MIT Press, 2001, (Cambridge, MA).
8Ibid.
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16U.S. Patent Number 7,082,306, granted to the author: “Apparatus and method for merging wireless telephone service with existing wired telephone equipment in a facility, allowing instantaneous connection with credit card companies, banks and other payers from a cell phone at the point of sale.”
17Jared Bernstein “Good Reception: Using Cell Phones to Predict Behavior.” EContent 28(10): 8, http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/News/News-Feature/Good-Reception-Using-Cell-Phones-to-Predict-Behavior-14183.htm, retrieved October 29, 2008.
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21http://blackplanet.com, http://migente.com, http://geni.com.
22http://linkedin.com, http://plaxo.com.
23John F. Gantz, Christopher Chute, Alex Manfrediz, Stephen Minton, David Reinsel, Wolfgang Schlichting, and Anna Toncheva, “The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe, An Updated Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2011,” IDC, March 2008, http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/diverse-exploding-digital-universe.pdf, page 2.
24Ibid.
25Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.,The Mythical Man-Month (Essays on Software Engineering) (Boston: Addison-Wesley Longman, Inc., 1995), 292.
26YouTube.com, Shift Happens, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q, retrieved February 24, 2009.
27Ibid.
28Elizabeth Haas Edersheim and Peter Ferdinand Drucker, The Definitive Drucker: The Final Word from the Father of Modern Management (New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2007), 97.
1IBM Corporation, Expanding the Innovation Horizon: The IBM Global CEO Study 2006, http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/html/bcs_ceostudy2006.html?re=ceo, p. 22.
2Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005), 36.
3Interviewed January 9, 2009, by IBM employee Michael Roche.
4Wikipedia, “Service-oriented Architecture,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture, retrieved February 27, 2009.
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6Ibid.
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8Malcolm Gladwell, in The Tipping Point, How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2000), 38 and 41, defines Connectors as people who, “link us up with the world...people with a truly extraordinary knack of making friends and acquaintances.”
9Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2000).
10M. Granovetter, “The Strength of Weak Ties," American Journal of Sociology 78(6): 1360-1380.
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3Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, op. cit.
1Ed Brill, Interview by IBM employee Laurisa Rodriguez by telephone.
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3Malcolm Gladwell, in The Tipping Point, How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2000), 34, 62, 64-71, quoting Linda Price, marketing professor at the University of Nebraska: “A Maven is a person who has information on a lot of different products or prices or places...they like to be helpers in the marketplace.”
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6Luis Suarez Rodriguez, interviewed by the author on December 10, 2008.
8Reed Cartwright (ed.) Bora Zivkivic (series ed.) The Open Laboratory: The Best Science Writing on Blogs 2007 (Lulu.com 2008).
9http://lulu.com/en/about/index.php.
12Luis Benitez, interviewed by the author, December 12, 2008.
13Wikipedia, “RSS,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format), retrieved February 27, 2009.
14Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson popularized the term “long-tail” in an article he wrote for Wired in October 2004. Chris treated this subject to an extended analysis in a book of the same name. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html.
15http://wordpress.com, http://blogger.com, http://typepad.com.
16http://twitter.com, http://flickr.com.
17http://codingrobots.com/blogjet/.
19http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/.
20http://livejournal.com/, http://typepad.com.
23http://blogger.com, http://livejournal.com, http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/.
24http://wordpress.org, http://drupal.org/.
25Wikipedia, “Software as a Service,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_Service, retrieved March 2, 2009.
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2Wikipedia, “List of social networking websites,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites, retrieved March 5, 2009.
3T. J. Allen, Managing the Flow of Technology. Cambridge, MA: (MIT Press, 1977). See also a discussion of the “Allen Curve” on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_curve.
4Marc Strohlein, “Enterprise Search Gets Lost,” BusinessWeek, May 15, 2006, http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2006/tc20060515_393086.htm?chan=technology_ceo+guide+to+technology_executive+guide+to+search.
6Dogear was an enterprise social bookmarking service created by Jonathan Fienberg of IBM Research; it has been incorporated into the Lotus Connection product Suite.
7David R. Millen, Jonathan Feinberg, and Bernard Kerr, “Dogear: Social bookmarking in the Enterprise,” pp. 111-120; Rebecca E. Grinter, Tom Rodden, Paul M. Aoki, Edward Cutrell, Robin Jeffries, and Gary M. Olson (ed.), Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006), ACM Press, Montréal, Canada, April 2006, 1-59593-372-7.
8Stephen Farrell, Tessa Lau, Stefan Nusser, Eric Wilcox, and Michael Muller, “Socially augmenting employee profiles with people-tagging,” pp. 91-100, Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (ACM 2007) ACM New York (ISBN:978-1-59593-679-2).
9See Harvard Business School professor Andrew McAfee’s blog post on Serena Software’s use of Facebook as an intranet: http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/index.php/faculty_amcafee_v3/facebook_on_the_intranet_no_facebook_as_the_intranet/.
11IBM Research.
1Wikipedia, “Cloud Computing,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing, retrieved March 2, 2009.
2Irving Wladawsky-Berger, telephone interview with the author, November 25, 2008.
3http://www.Google.com, http://www.Yahoo.com, http://www.apple.com/mobileme/, http://YouTube.com, http://Skype.com, http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/, http://public.Soonr.com, http://Mosso.com.
4Creating Energy-Efficient Data Centers, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Industrial Technologies Program, Paul Scheihing, May 18, 2007.
5Ibid.
6Creating Energy-Efficient Data Centers, U.S. Department of Energy, May 18, 2007.
10"IT Doesn’t Matter,” http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/articles/matter.html, originally published in the Harvard Business Review, May 2003.
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13Creating Energy-Efficient Data Centers, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Industrial Technologies Program, Paul Scheihing, May 18, 2007.
2Peter Lunn, Basic Instincts—Human Nature and the New Economics (New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2008).
3http://edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/new-zealand-herald-it-sellers-talk-up-social-links.
4Interview of IBM employee Andy Piper by IBM employee Laurisa Rodriguez, on December 30, 2008.
5Wikipedia, “Facebook,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook.
6Malcolm Gladwell, Tipping Point, How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2000).
7http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA.
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9Wikipedia, “Tay Zonday,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Zonday, retrieved February 6, 2009.
10IBM Marketing Research.
11Interview of IBM employee Adam Christensen by IBM employee Laurisa Rodriguez, on December 23, 2008.
12Keith Brooks interview by IBM employee Laurisa Rodriguez, on December 18, 2008.
13http://mibancoblog.popular.com/.
1Wikipedia, “Standing on the shoulders of giants,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants, retrieved February 6, 2009.
2Elias Torres, telephone interview by the author, February 3, 2009.
3Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall, and Werner Vogels, “Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store,” SOSP, October 14–17, 2007, Amazon.com, Stevenson, WA.
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5http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/global_brand_2008/.
6Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, “MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters,” Google, Inc., 2004.
7Wikipedia, “Hadoop,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadoop, retrieved March 1, 2009.
8Interviewed on August 14, 2006, by IBM employee Brian Goodman.
9Ibid.
10Ibid.
11Ibid.
12http://www-01.ibm.com/software/webservers/httpservers/, http://drupal.org/, http://www.sun.com/software/products/mysql/.
13http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/.
15Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Longman, Inc., 1995).
1“Expanding the Innovation Horizon: Global CEO Study 2006,” IBM Corp., http://www-935.ibm.com/services/au/bcs_ceostudy2006.html.
2Scienceblogs.com, “Exorcising animal spirits,” Category: History of neuroscience, Posted on: July 10, 2007, by Mo; http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/07/exorcizing_animal_spirits.php.
3Mary Bellis, “Magnetic Resonance Imaging MRI—Raymond Damadian—MRI Scanner,” Paul Lauterbur, Peter Mansfield, About.com; http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/MRI.htm.
4Tan Le interviewed by the author, March 18, 2009.
5Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, www.nationalgeographic.com/genographic.
6http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/.
7Adrianne Fox, “The Brain at Work,” HR Magazine, March 2008.
8Thomas R. Insel and Russell D. Fernald, “How the Brain Process Social Information: Searching for the Social Brain,” Annual Review of Neuroscience 27: 697–722.
9Adrianne Fox, op. cit.
10http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorphins.
11James Surowiecki, Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, 2004, ISBN 978-0385503860.
12http://www.innocentive.com/.
1IBM CIO Insight Survey on Emerging Technology, April 2008.
2Clay Shirky, New York University professor, was the first to refer to “situational applications” in his publication “Networks, Economics, and Culture,” March 30, 2004.
32008 IBM Global Human Capital Study, http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/html/2008ghcs.html?sa_campaign=message/laft2/all/hcstud.
4Sacha Chua, Enterprise 2.0 Evangelist, IBM Global Business Services, Canada.
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6D. Comin and B. Hohijn, “Cross-Country Technological Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts.” Journal of Monetary Economics, January 2004, pp. 39–83.
7Business School, Nottingham University, England.
8D. Comin, B. Hobijn, and E. Rovito, “World Technology Usage Lags,” version 2, April 2007, JEL-codes: O33, O47, O57.
9Jackie Fen and Mark Raskino, Mastering the Hype Cycle—How to Choose the Right Innovation at the Right Time (Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2008) (ISBN 978-1-4221-2110-8).
10Measuring the Information Society: The ICT Development Index. International Telecommunication Union, 2009, pp. 108. (ISBN 9261128319). http://www.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/idi/2009/material/IDI2009_w5.pdf.
11Geoffrey A. Moore, Crossing the Chasm—Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers (New York: Harper Business, 1997) (ISBN 0-06662-002-3).
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4Mobile Broadband Evolution to 4G, Intel® Corporation.
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6Mobile Networks Forecasts: Future Mobile Traffic, Base Station & Revenue, Informa Telecoms & Media, June 2008.
7Figure Predicted Traffic Distribution by WPB Applications from 2010 to 2020, Telecompetition Group, September 2007.
8See http://www.pong-story.com/1952.htm.
9See http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NLI0425.pdf.
10Adel Hendaoui, Moez Limayem, and Craig W. Thompson. IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING. Published by the IEEE Computer Society, 1089-7801/08.
11Mobichange.com.
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13“When you meet someone for the first time, ...your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions.” http://www.gladwell.com/blink/index.html.
14See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom.
15Wonderland, Virtual Adultery and Cyberspace Love, aired January 2008, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008vrht.
16Paul R. Messinger, School of Business, University of Alberta; Xin Ge, School of Business, University of Northern British Columbia; Eleni Stroulia, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta; Kelly Lyons, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto; Kristen Smirnov and Michael Bone, School of Business, University of Alberta; “On the Relationship between My Avatar and Myself,” https://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/article/view/352/263.
17Ambient Social TV: Drawing People into a Shared Experience, http://web.mit.edu/bentley/www/papers/chi1227-harboe.pdf.
18Social Network Methods and Measures for Examining E-learning, http://www.wun.ac.uk/elearning/seminars/seminars/seminar_two/papers/haythornthwaite.pdf.
19http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/photo/20820.wss.
20Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts, and How They Get You Through the Day (New York: Marlowe, 1997).
21See “Real Life Brands in Second Life,” 1st Quarter 2007, by Market Truths Limited.
22See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myqwxc0YKwo&mode=related&search=.
23See “Fiat 500 Wants You,” http://www.fiat500.com/.
24“The word haptic, from the Greek (haptikos), means pertaining to the sense of touch and comes from the Greek verb (haptesthai) meaning to ‘contact’ or ‘touch.’” (“Haptic technology,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic_technology, retrieved March 30, 2009).
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