Corporate Social Responsibility – and specifically green IT – is one of those terms lots of people are talking about but still seems to be 101 of 100 on the real to-do list of the CIO. But let’s just go with this for a moment especially in...
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The 100 Best Web Apps are …and you voted for them!
Well it’s a kind of alternative build on my colleague Ron’s blog piece on what the CIO, or CTO, should try out on as a personal use before recommending wider adoption in their enterprise. Out there is a site that found the 100 best web...
Read moreIT Specialist, eBay Style
Is it just the usual, cyclical phenomenon or are we actually dealing with a true revolution? One thing is for sure: more and more IT specialists leave the bigger corporations. They establish their own specialized bureau or become self-employed....
Read moreGoogle and SalesForce.com speculate on the future – together
So the rumours are true, the marriage has happened, or maybe at this stage it’s less of a marriage and more of an engagement. Actually I suspect it’s more like an apartment share between two people who seem to be compatible, and are looking...
Read moreThe CIO Dog Food Wikinomics Experience
They say that dogs eventually start to look like their masters. Would this pertain to CIO’s too? You tend to think so. More than ever, the CIO is reporting to the Chief Financial Officer again. Shocked by the economic downturn and the increasing...
Read moreWe have the mass for lift off – OpenID just got 63 million users
63 million people just joined OpenID, and gained all the benefits that this can bring, without knowing it because AOL had just enrolled them. Anyone with an AOL account just got enrolled and gained this benefit automatically without even being asked....
Read moreChinese produce a copy of Second Life
Well, not really, but it’s a hard headline to resist when you hear that the Chinese Government has given its blessing to the establishment of a ‘virtual economy’. However it is obvious that by establishing this as a ‘new’ world, on the...
Read moreWeb 2.0 = Enterprise 2.0 maybe Real World 2.0
There are multiple ideas about how consumer and business will develop using people centric technologies. In the most recent batch of comments and ideas is a very thoughtful, and thought provoking, market report from three market analysts at Citigroup...
Read moreDevelopment Idol
For almost ten years now, I have been a jury member of the annual RAD (Rapid Application Design) Race. This is a nation-wide programming contest in the Benelux (here’s the link, a good opportunity to work a bit on your Dutch) in which teams of two...
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