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| 1. |  | Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies from Your Coach in a Box Price: $19.79 Customer Review:  The social media, whether in the world of consumer reviews or within guarded corporate walled gardens, is undoubtedly a growing phenomena. And this book helped me in understanding that it all starts to grow a social community needs to begin with the objective in mind - think about and visualize... |
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| 2. |  | Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World HC from McGraw-Hill Price: $18.45 Customer Review:  As always, I've read the other reviews so as not to be redundant. The general concensus: it's not a great business book. My observation: I'm not sure Tapscott intends it to be. This is a book by a well-informed netgen parent trying to explain to boomer and genXer parents why they don't... |
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| 3. |  | Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy from Penguin Press HC, The Price: $16.35 Customer Review: The amazing thing about this book is that Lessig is getting at something bigger than just the parental worries of children sharing music and videos through the internet. He is pointing out the very serious question of where our culture is now heading toward. The World Wide Web and digital... |
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| 4. |  | Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better from Wiley Price: $19.79 Customer Review: I'll keep this review short and sweet: I love this book. I loved its predecessor, "Lifehacker", and love this one more. It taught me things about what Windows, Office, and Firefox can do that I would have had no idea about before - and I thought I was reasonably astute! It also points you in... |
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| 5. |  | Internet Riches: The Simple Money-Making Secrets of Online Millionaires from amacom Price: $12.21 Customer Review: This is the very first book I've ever wanted to take the time to review. My expectations were low looking at the title. The yield was quite different. Scott Fox very simply details EVERYTHING that you need to get an e-business up and running. I'm not a business person at all and the book was an... |
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| 6. | [no image] | Psycho-Cybernetics from Bantam Customer Review: The immediate decades after World War II saw tremendous advancements in the field of science and psychology. The researches carried out in the the military sector was transferred to the civilian sector in the peace era that followed the war. Consequently, the invention-spree in every discipline... |
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| 7. |  | The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google from W.W. Norton & Co. Price: $11.53 Customer Review: This book starts off well, but it could make its point well with about 100 less pages. |
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| 8. |  | Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder from Holt Paperbacks Price: $10.20 Customer Review:  This book speaks to the aching sense of futility experienced by all you organizational freaks. The reason your office or computer desktop folders are never perfect, and as a result you are not perfectly organized, is that you have not had perfect tools. Alas, the world does not fit into nested... |
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| 9. |  | Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide: Business thinking and strategies behind successful Web 2.0 implementations. from O'Reilly Media, Inc. Price: $16.49 Customer Review:  A desperate miasma of buzzwords pervades the entire book. The best part of the book is its list of references, but here again, quantity trumps quality. The really good references are buried among the more than 280 references. Sample this profligate plethora of acronyms and hypewords: Long tail.... |
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| 10. |  | YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts from O'Reilly Media, Inc. Price: $19.79 Customer Review: Indie Filmmaker and new media expert Michael W. Dean delivers with another happening "how to" book. Excellent advice for young filmmkaers and old goats trying to navigate the on-line film game. It's chock full of good info and a fun read. Pick it up for yourself or an aspiring filmmaker friend... |
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| 11. |  | The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security from Wiley Price: $11.53 Customer Review: Definitive discussion of "social engineering" or deceptive practices to gain access to a company's data. Typically information security discussions center on technology (antivirus, firewall, intrusion detection), but this book makes clear that the weakest link in most security chains are the people... |
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| 12. |  | Digital Photography for Dummies from John Wiley & Sons Inc Customer Review: I like the book but is a little more advanced than I was hoping for. After having just purchased a digital camera for my mom (her first), I thought this book may be just what she needed to accompany it. Don't get me wrong, it will help but is more detailed than the digital photo 101 book I was... |
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| 13. |  | Linked: The New Science of Networks from Basic Books Customer Review: This book's author explores networks that exist in everything from Hollywood actors to cellular proteins and lets us into the private (and unexpectedly exciting and humorous) world of mathematicians and physics professors. The 80/20 rule is described as it applies to monetary success by people, web... |
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| 14. |  | Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives from Basic Books Price: $17.13 Customer Review: MySpace, FaceBook, Bebo, StudiVZ (Germany), Mixi (Japan) are popular social websites that young people (digital natives, or DG) can't wait to get on. They put their pictures, connect with their friends, relatives, having a good time. Content creators and marketing firms, in the mean time, gather all... |
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| 15. |  | Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities (3rd Edition) from Addison Wesley Price: $88.74 Customer Review: Avoid this book if at all possible. (Bad information) The writer "Lawrence Snyder" (probably a Macintosh user) likes to make claims that Macintosh computers are completely immune against spyware and viruses in contrast to PCs. This is an example one of many false, and dangerous,... |
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| 16. |  | The West in the World, Volume I: To 1715 from McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Price: $69.86 | |
| 17. |  | The West in the World, Volume II: From 1600 from McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Price: $80.00 | |
| 18. |  | A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing and the Internet (3rd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $67.50 Customer Review: This is an ethics book of course, so I will keep the writing short: This book is written very well, and is suitable for someone whose never taken an ethics course before--which wasn't me, but I changed majors and info-tech ethics was required. The exercises are the most valuable part of the... |
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| 19. | [no image] | The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It from Yale University Press Price: $11.56 Customer Review: The field of cyberlaw, or the law of the Internet -- a field I helped birth (Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0) has suffered because people like me have spent too much time cheerleading, and not enough time focusing the world on the real problems and threats that the Internet has... |
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| 20. |  | The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage from Pocket Price: $10.46 Customer Review: all sorts of new stuff was going on with computers in the 1980s. It offered new opportunities for spies to steal military accounting and inventory records. Fortunately most people are incapable of deciphering military accounting and inventory records anyways. Clifford Stoll interjects just enough of... |
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