A "Summary Preview" from www.meansbusiness.com

http://www.meansbusiness.com/summary_p.asp?FID=A1F9079E2FC211D48336D9070F6F143C

An Excellent Summary from Harvard University Press

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/products/press/books/seely_brown.html

Review in IT Times, the UCD IET Newspaper

http://ittimes.ucdavis.edu/sept2000/review.html

A review from "Complete Review," with links to other reviews

http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/hbsp/slofinfo.htm

The Review in Salon from March, 2000

http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2000/03/09/social_information/

Review in The Standard in which Brown and Duguid’s ideas are compared to those of Bill Gates

http://www.thestandard.com/article/article_print/0,1153,13704,00.html

A short review in Slashdot, followed by scores of marginally relevant comments

http://slashdot.org/books/00/06/12/1528236.shtml

Chapter One of The Social Life of Information: Limits to Information

http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_4/brown_chapter1.html

Chapter Five of The Social Life of Information: Learning — In Theory and in Practice

http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.The.Social.Life.of.I.html

A short review of Telecosm with helpful quotations

http://www.tbook.com/engineering/e/Electronics/Telecosm_How_Infinite_Bandwidth_Will_Revolutionize_Our_World_0684809303.htm

A Short Introduction to Telecosm with Table of Contents / Chapter Titles

http://www.ashbrook.org/books/gilder.html

Review of Telecosm in Commentary Magazine

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/0010/bk.fukuyama.html

Comment on the difference between growth in computing power and growth in bandwidth

http://www.gildertech.com/public/paradigm.html

A review of Telecosm by Richard Kew

http://www.thekewfiles.net/telecosmreview.htm

Chapter One of Telecosm

http://www.gildertech.com/public/TelecosmText.htm

The book’s home page, housed at Nielsen’s www.useit.com. This page links to many reviews and also presents the book’s table of contents.

http://www.useit.com/jakob/webusability/

This site by WebReference.Com offers a brief summary of the book’s first five chapters

http://www.webreference.com/new/nielsenbook.html

Jakob Nielsen’s Website offers substantive permanent content and frequent updates of his seminars and new (bi-weekly) columns.

http://www.useit.com/

"Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design" (1996) is probably Nielsen’s most famous document. It continues to be viewed about 17,000 times a month.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

Nielsen updated that 1996 article in May, 1999.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990502.html

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