WhereHows currently stores data about the status of 50,000 datasets, 14,000 comments and 35 million job executions. The company says all of this data
LinkedIn today open-sourced WhereHows, a meta data-centric tool the company has long used internally to make it easier for its employees to discover…
The Org Chart Is Dead
There’s a billion dollar opportunity in giving us what the org chart promised but never delivered. If Facebook is the social graph, we need an…
The Power of Reconnection — How Dormant Ties Can Surprise You
The world of networking continues to expand. For years, people have been encouraged to build a strong, wide personal network to get information and…
What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
The paradox, of course, is that Google’s intense data collection and number crunching have led it to the same conclusions that good managers have…
Your Network’s Structure Matters More than Its Size
When it looks like an idea or action is much more popular than it is, it greatly increases the likelihood that others will adopt it too. In other…
How cybernetics connects computing, counterculture, and design
“Man is always aiming to achieve some goal and he is always looking for new goals.” —Gordon Pask[1]