In recent days (well actually months) I have spent many hours thinking about the impact of non-proprietary business models in the Telco business. Obviously the announcement of Google's operating system Android a year back fueled mine and many others...
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Social software: inside our outside the firewall?
At Capgemini we are experimenting a lot with social software and one of the big discussions we have internally is whether it should be inside our outside the firewall. The main product that is causing this discussion now is what we consider as micro...
Read moreI just removed my office suite
I just removed my office suite since all traditional office suites are time absorbing monsters that reduce productivity to the max. That shouldn't be news for you, but here is a kind reminder. If you prefer to do less work in more time, please...
Read moreTwitter, Mindfarts and greenhouse effect reduction
There was a program on Dutch National Television on Internet addiction. In that program one of the platforms positioned as addictive was Twitter. Ridiculed as a platform to throw brain farts around, the mostly older generation talking heads...
Read morePick Your Fight: Browser War versus ISP “3 Strikes” Battle
It’s like a tale of two conflicts, where one tale concerns the renewed fight for browser supremacy (brought on by yet another brand new mega-hyped challenger); and the other deals with the never-ending tussle between music labels and illegal...
Read moreSaaS for the masses
As I wrote before, the distinction between a desktop application and a web application has become a fuzzy blur, and it is widening too. Desktop applications, traditionally belonging to the offline zone, go online to, for example, allowing you to...
Read moreHypertext Markup Love 5
I think it was at least 10 years ago that I bought a book concerning HTML. The thing I remember most of this little book was that is contained a warning concerning the use frames in websites. Not a warning that you are probably completely clueless...
Read moreFiddling about in The Platform, part I: "browser anatomy"
As a little boy, I was already fascinated with "how things work" and "what things are made of". Screwdrivers were kept where I couldn't reach them, because I wanted to have a look inside anything electrical. I guess geeky-ness is something you are...
Read moreSemantics and balanced needs
In my first article, I outlined the challenge of semantics and interpretation of information presented to managers in 3 different situations. In this article, I will give examples of how information quality differs between various industries because...
Read moreThe browser wars are on again! Boo yah!
“Keep Internet Explorer 8 from adding any sites you visit to Browsing History with InPrivate Browsing. Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won't accidentally find out.” While Microsoft is preparing to put...
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