Best Links week 32

History Doesn't Always Repeat Itself ...but It Usually Rhymes (link)
"We fail when we fall in love and believe there is no next step."

Skills
What Will Be the Business Skills of the Future? (link)
According to a new report titled Future Work Skills 2020: Sense-making, Social intelligence, Novel and adaptive thinking, Cross-cultural competency, Computational thinking, New-media literacy, Transdisciplinarity, Design mindset, Cognitive load management and Virtual collaboration.

HBR Big Idea: The Age of Hyperspecialization (link)
"This will force managers to master a new set of skills: dividing work into assignable micro tasks; attracting specialized workers to perform them; ensuring acceptable quality; and integrating many pieces into whole solutions. Firms will learn to rely on a new breed of intermediaries—from small assignment brokers like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to complex problem posers like InnoCentive."

Market
Is Turkey the Next Big Market Opportunity? Kleiner Perkins Is Betting on It (link)
Here's why: 35M internet users, 5th highest Facebook usage, 46M credit cards.

Data
How Big Data Can Offer a Competitive Advantage (link)
"With former LinkedIn colleague DJ Patil‘s appointment as data scientist in residence, Reid Hoffman is taking steps to ensure that Greylock Partners’ portfolio investments maximize the potential of the data that they collect. Hoffman and others recognize that timely and effective analysis of data can offer real competitive advantage, even in mature markets like retail."

Data for Doctors: Big Data Meets a Big Business (link)
"As organizations seek to store, analyze and derive insights from their data, companies are creating software to help them make sense of it all — because it’s not how big the data is, but what you can do with it."

Why Amazon Is About to Become a Force in Online Advertising (link)
"Amazon has more than a decade's worth of sales and consumer shopping data, so it's almost a surprise it took the company this long to capitalize on its data and enter the behavioral-targeting space. It's a great idea that will help marketers find interested consumers, and other retailers are already trying to copy the model. Every online retailer is a media network, even if they don't know it yet, and there's plenty of opportunity for retailers of all sizes to copy Amazon's model."

Startups
What Media Companies Need to Learn From Startups (link)
"Obviously, Dash’s presentation is partly a marketing pitch for Activate’s services, since the company consults with media industry players on strategy. But I think he makes some good points, and one of the most important is about the attitude change that many media companies need to go through in order to truly take advantage of the online and digital worlds, social media and all the other disruptive events that are reshaping the industry."

NYT Labs: Can a Newspaper Think Like a Startup? (link)
"It’s interesting to note that even Google — whose entire culture is based on experimentation in a way that the New York Times‘ isn’t — recently closed down its Google Labs venture, because CEO and co-founder Larry Page said it was diverting the company’s attention away from its core businesses."

How Chartbeat Wants to Help Save the Media Industry (link)
"While Chartbeat shows real-time analytics for a site, Newsbeat has more data that publishers would be interested in, including detailed data about every story on a site as well as social-sharing information. /.../ After ingesting enough of the data about a site, Newsbeat can predict what kind of readership a specific story will get during a day, Haile says, and if there is a sudden spike in readers it can alert an editor, so they can take advantage of that attention."

Payment
Survey: Consumers Don't Trust Google or Apple With Mobile Payments (link)
Study indicating the trust challenges tech companies and mobile payment startups face.

BankSimple Deposits $10m for Banking Overhaul (link)
"BankSimple, the next generation mobile bank start-up, has raised $10 million as it prepares to launch."

HTML5
Looks Like HTML5 Is Gaining Momentum (link)
"In last month or so, we’ve seen some major services re-launch their websites for the iPhone, iPad and other tablets based on HTML5 and are bringing them to the mainstream users."
Related: Knocking Down Apple's Walled Garden: HTML5 vs. iOS Apps

How The BBC Is Quietly, Confidently Shaping The Future Of TV (link)
"You might conclude that with its move to bring iPlayer to the TV itself, the BBC's quietly predicting the future of all of the world's TV content--possibly with the end of traditional channel "broadcasting" and a much more interactive, on-demand delivery system."

Books
Three Authors, Three Examples of the Disruption in Publishing (link)
Self-publishing and connecting with readers.

How Online Bookstores Should Get Social (link)
"Let's say you're searching your preferred .com for books about one of my favorite topics, the New York Yankees. Wouldn't it be cool if part of the screen listed other shoppers currently browsing the online store who have a history of buying books about the Yankees? They'd appear in a frame just like you see with instant messaging apps and you could initiate a quick chat with any of them about a book you're considering."

Social
How Social Search Is Changing the Search Industry (link)
"The key point is that social “signals” — likes, retweets, etc. — are becoming a much more powerful force in determining user behavior online. In a world where many people devote large amounts of their attention to Facebook, Twitter and other services, the movements — including shopping-related activity — of Internet users are being influenced more and more by the recommendations and social signals of their friends."

The Future of Check-ins? It’s Complicated (link)
"Geo-location check-in services such as Foursquare have been hugely popular in tech and new media circles in recent years. But will they catch on enough to make major consumer companies include them in their marketing budgets? A new market research study indicates that the answer may be no."

Natives
The Birth of the Digital Toddler (link)
"The current generation of toddlers is embracing digital technology at an astounding pace. According to a recent survey from BlogHer/Parenting, nearly 25% of toddlers will have used a smartphone by age 2. Not only that, nearly one-third of toddlers will have used a laptop or digital camera by the time they enter pre-school."

Enjoy!

JO