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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Location based Social Networking by Smart Phone
There are moments when you really realise the difference in technology generations, and I had one of those moments over ‘Jaiku’. Jonathan, my eldest son, has the same feeling about Smart Phones that I had when I first met up with PCs, and started trying to figure out what they could do. You can find Jaiku by using a PC, and think it’s just another social networking site, but look more carefully, to discover it’s …
The Rustling Trees of Tafiti
Tired of all these years of using the Back-button? Being haunted by Cookies? Bored with the so-so user interfaces of mediocre web applications? Want to experience that Vista Feeling but don’t have the courage to buy the product for at least two years (if anybody wants to sell it to you in the first place)? We may have a nice link for you. Almost sneakily, Microsoft has put a new search application online. It’s obviously …
Web 2.0; Build your own or take it integrated?
Interesting question, and the first reaction to it will be around traditional applications and suites, but that’s not the issue here as that part of the topic is well understood. It’s the moves by IBM through Lotus Connections contrasting with those by Yahoo, Google and others that interests me. Three days separated the announcement by IBM on their integrated approach to what they head lined as the business case for moving social computing into the …
CIOs are gaining influence and responsibility says…
…Information Week back in June, (been meaning to comment on this for some time), but the source seems to be CIOs themselves. That’s interesting because over the last year or so it has seemed that CIOs themselves were pessimistic about their role and prospects. More interesting is why this change has come about? After all the last five years has seen an increasing move to have the CIOs route to the management board blocked off …
Discovering the 3rd dimension
Two questions have always fascinated me. First, how best can the business express its desired outcomes in an IT meaningful way, and second, how best can IT express solutions in a business meaningful way? So, I followed Andy’s recent post (Enterprise Architects versus Business Architects) with interest. It resonated deeply with me and seemed to have a currency about it… We often talk about Business and IT as simply just that – two dimensions. We …
Do You Want to Solve your Problem, and get paid?
If you read the Henry Chesbrough article on Open Innovation in the winter 2006/7 MIT Sloan business school review then you can’t help, but think he identified the problem for the IT industry. The basic premise was that in the golden past internal development costs for a new product were low, and the life cycle for the product was long with the resulting good profitability for those who got it right. The current situation is …
Second Life Big Bang
Let’s be honest, it’s not even fun anymore to make fun of Second Life. That would be like, stating the obvious. Well, ok, one for the road then. I think this little YouTube video clearly makes the point. We’re in the mid of summer and I’m currently between two short holidays abroad. My hometown seems to be completely deserted, nobody is on the streets, the roads are empty and nothing interesting is for sale in …
