I wrote the following article a month or so back and it gained a lot of appreciative remarks. It’s a follow-on from my post entitled ‘Mind the Gap and the Accidental Technologists’, in which I highlighted the difference between the way a...
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Mind the Gap and the Accidental Technologists
I have just had a colleague call me to say that he spent an hour and half with some IT folks to get a point across, and in the next meeting with the business team, it only took five minutes. This is not unusual at the moment, but it’s the very...
Read moreTime to return to the Semantic Web again!
I honestly thought that the terms ‘Semantic Web’, and ‘Web 3.0’ had disappeared for good as concepts that belonged to an earlier phase of the development of the web. It wasn’t - and isn’t - that I don’t agree with the objectives of...
Read moreWeb 2.0 + Clouds = Business Network Transformation?
I wrote a blog post entitled ‘we want web 2.0, whatever that is’ a couple of years back, which drew attention to the challenge of hype with new technologies and their capabilities as laid out by Tim O’Reilly in his original definition of web...
Read moreGoogle's Chrome OS kills Quality Time
No point in adding yet another platitude to the ocean of comments on Google’s announcement of Chrome OS. Guess we saw it coming. And it was hardly rocket science, I might add. It is however worrying that Google envisions an operating system that...
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