Alistair Croll
Promiscuous online culture and the vetting process
Social networks have forever changed hiring and background checks
Social networks, and the big data to analyze them, will forever change how we vet candidates, whether for security clearance, employment, or political office. Technology can help employers check candidates' backgrounds, monitor their behavior once hired, and protect their online reputations. But using the social tracks we share — and what we omit — has important ethical and legal consequences.
Web operators are brain surgeons
Our increased reliance on web-based intelligence makes speed and reliability even more important.
As we become more dependent on our collective consciousness, web operators will be much more involved in end-user experience measurement, from application design to real user monitoring. We're in the century of the distributed nervous system, and web operators are its brain surgeons.