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Monthly Archives: January 2007
SecondLife shows Government a new way!
There are moments in life when it seems that a technology becomes mainstream, and they always seem to me, to when something very ordinary is moved to take place using what I have previously thought of as extraordinary technology capabilities. The arrival of an American Congressman in Second Life to give an address to Secondlifers seems just such a moment. Many of you may also share my immediate reaction of ‘oh no, now the politicians …
The device formally known as the mobile phone
If you recognise this title, it is in fact, a term that Motorola have been using to describe the change in the Mobile phone in terms of functionality. Even more important is the change in the use that people are making of the ? Well what should we call it? If we ignore the teleport functionality we are pretty close to the ubiquitous device that all crew members of the Star Ship Enterprise carried on …
Simple Minds and Motorpyscho live. Mashed Up.
Still need to get a better grip on what the new world of Mashup business models really is leading to? Have a look at this new mashup service of Fabchannel: until now ‘just’ an award-winning website which gave its members access to videos of rock concerts in Amsterdam’s famous Paradiso concert hall. Not any more. Today Fabchannel launched a new, unique service which enables music fans to create their own, custom made concert videos and …
Consumer Power
What’s the similarity between an iPod and an enterprise system? On the face of it maybe not much but if we dig a little deeper perhaps there is something that points to an underlying trend in the corporate IT industry – consumer power. And perhaps it’s directly affecting share prices in the corporate IT industry.
The ‘chase of the face’ – the Rich Interfaces of Web 2.0
Do you read the instruction manual for anything these days? Chances are the answer is no, certainly true in my case, when I am only prepared to consult the manual occasionally to find some particularly obscure but desirable feature. On the other hand my late father, also an engineer, would patiently read every page of a manual before he touched the product. Why the change in a generation? More importantly, why does it matter?
iPhone: did we hear a monkey there?
Since we promised to discuss innovation regularly, it is a good time to return to the do’s and don’ts of aping. Earlier, I already established that Microsoft’s Zune is far from a devastating, deeply innovating answer to the domination of Apple’s iPod. To be able to do sort of the same, but obviously not so cool, it is not exactly the market proposition you are looking for. And things can be made worse, for example …
Perfect Project in Perfect World
Admitted, Linden Lab makes all the right moves, bringing the software of Second Life to the open source community. Immediately after the long-anticipated announcement, a splendid wiki is launched, which includes a well-elaborated FAQ section (“How can you prevent malicious programmers from finding flaws in the code to exploit security problems?” and far more important “won’t somebody steal my Linden dollars?”). Also, it features a great portal which links to everything there is to know …
Time Person of the Year is … You??
If you are not familiar with this headline and want to look it up it relates to Time Magazine’s annual competition to find the ‘person of the year’ and the final choice for 2006. See this article for details. The basis of the article is to claim that the theory of ‘Great Men’ changing the collective destiny of the human race took a ‘serious beating’ in 2006 as it became the year when the individuals …
Diamonds are forever!
The puzzle for a while now has been how to provide ‘adaptive’ capabilities internally to support the more frequent changes that the business needs, and in the last few Blogs I have been arguing for this to become augmented by an external factor around ‘awareness’, or the opening of the edge of the business to the people and market beyond. The logical conclusion is that this can only make things worse as now a degree …
ERP where E is the World
The age old challenge with information technology has been machine understanding of information – or rather, the ability to put information about real-world events and content in a model where policies (rules, logic and so on) can act on it. To boil it down to its simplest level, increase the footprint of information that’s in a model so that it can be processed by an application, and you increase your ability to act on it. …
