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Monthly Archives: June 2007
Google and Green
Corporate Social Responsibility – and specifically green IT – is one of those terms lots of people are talking about but still seems to be 101 of 100 on the real to-do list of the CIO. But let’s just go with this for a moment especially in light of Ron’s recent blog. It’s not just about switching the PC off at night of course – the end-end environmental cost through design, production, use and de-commission …
The 100 Best Web Apps are …and you voted for them!
Well it’s a kind of alternative build on my colleague Ron’s blog piece on what the CIO, or CTO, should try out on as a personal use before recommending wider adoption in their enterprise. Out there is a site that found the 100 best web applications based on votes from 489,467 people. This started with an initial exercise in open nomination providing a list with an incredible 5000 nominations, too big to be sensible, and …
IT Specialist, eBay Style
Is it just the usual, cyclical phenomenon or are we actually dealing with a true revolution? One thing is for sure: more and more IT specialists leave the bigger corporations. They establish their own specialized bureau or become self-employed. Nothing clever there: in the current, red-hot market you don’t need to be a reckless entrepreneur to take the plunge. From the outside, you might tend to see shifts like this as something temporary. With the …
Google and SalesForce.com speculate on the future – together
So the rumours are true, the marriage has happened, or maybe at this stage it’s less of a marriage and more of an engagement. Actually I suspect it’s more like an apartment share between two people who seem to be compatible, and are looking forward to widening each others outlook by seeing more of each others interests. In this case the living space is the Internet, and the shared interest is in a new approach …
The CIO Dog Food Wikinomics Experience
They say that dogs eventually start to look like their masters. Would this pertain to CIO’s too? You tend to think so. More than ever, the CIO is reporting to the Chief Financial Officer again. Shocked by the economic downturn and the increasing pressure of regulatory compliance, management seemed to have good reasons for that. I wouldn’t dare to stigmatise anybody, but we can safely assume that CFO’s have not been selected for their uncontrolled, …
We have the mass for lift off – OpenID just got 63 million users
63 million people just joined OpenID, and gained all the benefits that this can bring, without knowing it because AOL had just enrolled them. Anyone with an AOL account just got enrolled and gained this benefit automatically without even being asked. Not that I think this was a bad thing, because it’s a pretty significant step forward in transportable identities and solves the limitations of Microsoft’s .net passport scheme which was neither ‘open’ nor widely …
Chinese produce a copy of Second Life
Well, not really, but it’s a hard headline to resist when you hear that the Chinese Government has given its blessing to the establishment of a ‘virtual economy’. However it is obvious that by establishing this as a ‘new’ world, on the Entopia Universe ‘Calypso’ planet, rather than building the planned economy in SecondLife that this will be a rival. As with most things in China the scale is awesome, the planned development will target …
Web 2.0 = Enterprise 2.0 maybe Real World 2.0
There are multiple ideas about how consumer and business will develop using people centric technologies. In the most recent batch of comments and ideas is a very thoughtful, and thought provoking, market report from three market analysts at Citigroup called; A New Era Dawns’ and it looks at Software as a Service, SaaS, and Web 2.0 becoming the next disruptor in the market. Key amongst the comments is the development of a people centric enterprise …
Development Idol
For almost ten years now, I have been a jury member of the annual RAD (Rapid Application Design) Race. This is a nation-wide programming contest in the Benelux (here’s the link, a good opportunity to work a bit on your Dutch) in which teams of two developers have to create a working solution within 48 hours, using the tools set of their choice. A few years ago, the organizing committee decided to rename the contest …
