I have experienced a number of occasions over the last few months where it’s clear there is confusion over terminology. Not overly surprising in our complex industry, but in these cases it has been around what I will call the fundamental building...
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User Expectations are being formed outside the Enterprise
Microsoft has announced, and I quote, ‘the World’s first stay at home server’, together with a free 120 day trial. I haven’t done a detailed specification analysis against the Apple ‘Time Capsule’, but superficially both units seem to...
Read moreInnovation Brief
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. This issue: Has Apple helped create the real Web 2.0? [psfk] Is Apple breaking away from...
Read moreOlympics 2.0, Miss Bikini and the end of Operating Systems
There’s nothing like a catchy blog title. And some days the inspiration is – well - right there in your face. As we approach the end of the Olympic games, I am quite sure that many employees return to their offices as spoiled consumers of a...
Read moreGartner and the Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies
I could not really fail to highlight the release of this report! It’s one of those reports that you know you just have to read though you equally know that you really want to read it to argue your own opinion on at least some of the topics! It’s...
Read moreModel the power to influence. The new generation of CIOs: ‘Walk in the Shoes’ of the Leaders that Drive Change and Business Growth!
I am always fascinated to get a better insight into what makes one manager better than another – if for no other reason than in the hope that it will help me to do better! My colleague Kat has a complicated role description – see below – but...
Read moreForaging for Information versus Marketing
If you are reading this then you are an ‘Informavore’ according to Jakob Nielsen who is a ‘usability expert’ with the idea that we are all now into ‘information foraging’. His explanation is that in the early days when site response times...
Read moreThe Fallacy of separating Web development from IPv6
IBv6 has been the coming thing for quite a few years now, but like many things you start taking notice when some big bodies decide on adoption. The US Government is allegedly the largest technology infrastructure operator so its move to mandate all...
Read moreCuil bursts onto the semantic search scene
By guest blogger, John Furneaux John Furneaux is a colleague at Capgemini, who I’ve recently started to converse with on Socio-technical thinking. John kindly offered to write a guest post on an interesting – and more to the point potentially...
Read moreiPhone 3G, and Mozilla show user adoption to new levels of Power
It was almost compulsory to make mention of the amazing success of the iPhone 3G launch with more than one million units sold in the first three days. It took the original iPhone two and a half months to reach this point in contrast. However it’s...
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