User:Yngveno

My short page
I was born 7th of April 1978, in many ways a good year. However, that makes me 46 years, 94 days old :-s

Currently I work as a solution architect with Intelligent communication AS, whatever that means, and I've spent most of last year at DnB working with their data warehouse.

Among other things I've done some research on safety and security culture, published a book on it, and contributed to a paper published on HKARMS. If you are particularly interested, the book can be downloaded here

To show of my math skills I will prove that women are evil:
We all know woman consumes a lot of time and money, hence:

$$Women = Time * Money$$

We know time is money, hence:

$$Women = Money^2$$

..and as money is the root of all evil:

$$Women = (\sqrt[2]{Evil})^2$$

The square root cancels the square, and finally we get:

$$Women = Evil$$

Anywho - here are some "contributions" I made to wikipedia
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Yngve

My Wiki Assignment
Wikipedia is a fantastic source for all kinds of wisdom, and probably among my top five domains. Wikis have already seen a steady increase of use in many corporate settings, particularly in knowledge intensive, technology savvy businesses. It is easy to set up and can quickly be filled with all kinds of information due to its ease of submissions. Here lies one of its greatest strengths and weaknesses; the need to qualify what is a valuable contribution. Allowing everyone to clutter in whatever they like obsoletes the value, at the same time a continuous improvement of the quality can only be accomplished by allowing everyone to contribute. However, value can only be assessed after submission, thus there is a need for data stewards and processes for revision. My experience is that most of what I read is of quite good quality (particularly considering how information is provided), but at the cost of lots of good contributions being refused and frustrating people who otherwise could add value. How well this process actually works was what surprised me the most, but then again, it has improved a lot from the early years when articles were being hijacked and filled with garbage. To ensure value in a business setting one need incentives to have good people make valuable contributions, learn them where what should be placed, and the same kind of revision regime as is enforced by Wikipedia today. If good information is available and accessible, people will use it.

The most apparent commerce that felt the arrival of Wikipedia was the encyclopedia business. Most people today value an updated, continuously improving wiki far higher than books whose information was obsolete before they went to print. Publishers may have made own online versions, but adopting instead of leading change has yet again proved fatal.

Generally wikis has potential to revolutionize all businesses that live of collecting and providing information. At some point all information will be digital and easily available (as has been proved by digital pirates over the last centuries, Aarrr!), hence ways to structure and adding information will be vital to most businesses, and as they grow aware of the value of availability, we will see even heavier increase in knowledge sharing

Combining wiki-tech with other “fringe” technologies generates lots of new opportunities. Google-wave collaboration together with wiki structure and availability should make a very powerful knowledge sharing network. Adding in facebooks feeling of society and “office2010” wysiwyg – further increases people’s willingness and ability to contribute. As new types of media is being developed and added, and search technology advances, one can predict a network of high quality information where one can phrase natural questions and have answers generated on the fly combining and linking information from all kinds of sources. Of course there are a lot of legal issues that has to be resolved in order for this kind of mash-up to become reality (as was stated in class), but the disruptive impact this will have is almost unimaginable.