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Some time ago I read Andrew McAfee’s article “The Ties that Find” where he cites a really good article created in 1973 by Mark S. Granovetter called “The Strength of Weak Ties“. I didn’t have the chance at that time to read the article but, some weeks ago I decided to read it and I have to say that now I understand more clearly the real impact that the current social software makes in all aspects of our day to day activities, and more importantly for us knowledge workers who depend on finding the right people at the right time to be able to solve whatever the problem we’re faced with.

Definitely a good read; and by the looks of it, seems that there are a few other interesting papers in there, hope to have time later to check them out.

The other day, in the Business Administration class, the professor mentioned Wireless Electricity, don’t remember what was the topic about at the moment but I just wanted to document here the couple of sources I found about it.

On my feed reader, the first reference I have about Wireless Electricity is the Power to the People post on patrickWeb, that dates back to December 18, 2006. Then we have this article in Slashdot that points us to the Boston Globe article MIT discovery could unplug your iPod forever (they had to use the word iPod in here, right?), to the Wireless energy promise powers up in the BBC News, and finally to the article Goodbye wires… in the MIT News.

Another interesting topic I remembered when WiTricity was mentioned is the one about levitation, here’s an article I had stored in my del.icio.us bookmarks: Physicists have ’solved’ mystery of levitation. And yet another thing I just remembered right now is the control of computers with the brain, see this reference.

Almost all of the links stored on del.icio.us.