Well I guess the announcement by Microsoft on 21st February of a change of policy and attitude towards being ‘open’ and using ‘standards’ could be taken as a sign that a very fundamental shift in the software industry has taken place. You can...
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Government 2.0: leading the way to Enterprise 2.0?
It's really starting to look like government is going to make good use of Web 2.0 to transform the way it can ‘do business with’ its citizens, and most importantly to start to address some of the regulatory issues that Industry could do with some...
Read moreChange me
I have a theory. It seems that most people learn something in their early to mid 20s, and then spend the rest of their career happily doing the same thing over and over again. This might be anything ranging from developing a certain type of software...
Read moreEffortlessly Complex
I have to admit, at first glance I was pleasantly surprised. Somebody pointed me to a recent article of two professors at the New York university in which they argue that Java is an unsuitable language to learn how to program. Instant...
Read more3G World in Barcelona; Phone, Internet, Services, or is it GPS and Femtocells?
3G World or Mobile World Congress as it is officially called, has continued the growing excitement that the Mobile or Cellular Industry is a key industry in a changing social and technology conscious society as some 50,000 people descended on...
Read moreWait and they will come, but don’t stop them first!
I got some interesting feedback on my post ‘Imagination in the use of Web 2.0 thrives’, of which one point was about the need to work differently when using Web 2.0. This pretty well crossed with two other events; the first was a really funny...
Read moreObituary – ‘IT Industry Version 1.0’
Feb 11th, 2038 Reporter: Your global news network software agent Not without a little fondness, and after a long and gallant struggle, the IT Industry Version 1.0 passed away in the night at 02:00 GMT, Feb 11th 2038, when the final operational IT...
Read moreSystem corrupted?
When you think of the word ‘system’, what comes to mind? If we turn to the dictionary, we get something like ‘an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.’ One of...
Read moreMashups; Everywhere or Nowhere? – The Conundrum
It’s been a real MashUp month back since the beginning of December with new MashUp events appearing right across the world, and seems like a good time to review progress, which is considerable, if you know where to look. And that’s my first...
Read moreOpen Source or View the Source Code
Sometimes it seems really quite big news gets ‘slipped out’ almost as though the large corporation concerned really doesn’t want to let on formally. Maybe it's because there has been so much work done to construct a public position for some...
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