There are moments when you really realise the difference in technology generations, and I had one of those moments over ‘Jaiku’. Jonathan, my eldest son, has the same feeling about Smart Phones that I had when I first met up with PCs, and started...
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The Rustling Trees of Tafiti
Tired of all these years of using the Back-button? Being haunted by Cookies? Bored with the so-so user interfaces of mediocre web applications? Want to experience that Vista Feeling but don’t have the courage to buy the product for at least two...
Read moreWeb 2.0; Build your own or take it integrated?
Interesting question, and the first reaction to it will be around traditional applications and suites, but that’s not the issue here as that part of the topic is well understood. It’s the moves by IBM through Lotus Connections contrasting with...
Read moreCIOs are gaining influence and responsibility says...
…Information Week back in June, (been meaning to comment on this for some time), but the source seems to be CIOs themselves. That’s interesting because over the last year or so it has seemed that CIOs themselves were pessimistic about their role...
Read moreDiscovering the 3rd dimension
Two questions have always fascinated me. First, how best can the business express its desired outcomes in an IT meaningful way, and second, how best can IT express solutions in a business meaningful way? So, I followed Andy’s recent post...
Read moreDo You Want to Solve your Problem, and get paid?
If you read the Henry Chesbrough article on Open Innovation in the winter 2006/7 MIT Sloan business school review then you can’t help, but think he identified the problem for the IT industry. The basic premise was that in the golden past internal...
Read moreSecond Life Big Bang
Let’s be honest, it’s not even fun anymore to make fun of Second Life. That would be like, stating the obvious. Well, ok, one for the road then. I think this little YouTube video clearly makes the point. We’re in the mid of summer and I’m...
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