{"id":46948,"date":"2014-11-19T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T04:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_technology_groups_in_a_war_to_dominate_the_world_of_work\/"},"modified":"2014-11-19T04:00:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T04:00:47","slug":"ft_technology_groups_in_a_war_to_dominate_the_world_of_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46948","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Technology groups in a war to dominate the world of work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The war between the giants of the technology industry for the attention of the world\u2019s office workers look like it is about to take an unexpected turn.<\/p>\n<p>Fundamental changes in the daily lives of millions of so-called \u201cinformation workers\u201d\u009d have already triggered a corresponding upheaval in the technology tools on which they rely. Staples such as email and Microsoft\u2019s Office suite of products still hold sway, but they are increasingly being supplemented by services like group chat, internal social networks and shared online document editing.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Facebook\u2019s ambition to create a version of its social network for the office, first reported in the Financial Times this week, promises a new twist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/1dcb18fc-6f3e-11e4-8d86-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz3JT1kMm6m\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war between the giants of the technology industry for the attention of the world\u2019s office workers look like it is about to take an unexpected turn. Fundamental changes in the daily lives of millions of so-called \u201cinformation workers\u201d\u009d have<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46948\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,433,175,94,582,589,149,168,597,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-social-networking","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}