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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Are eBay – changing their game?
When one of the companies seen as a founder of the ‘web for people’ movement starts to change its stance then it creates a lot of interest, and a lot of comments. After all this time, and building certainly one of the world’s largest community sites, eBay is changing its fees and rules in such a way that there has been an outcry that this now favours businesses, and will dismantle the ‘individual and ‘trust’ …
What is the definition of Middleware these days?
I have been listening to presentations by some of the big vendors on their ‘Middleware’ strategies, products, and capabilities over the last month and I no longer think I understand the term Middleware in quite the absolute way that I did. What I can’t decide is if there is a generic redefinition that we should all be updating our understanding to grasp, or not. The old definition was pretty clear and linked to the technology …
Extract, Transform and Load – now available for MashUps
As more and more enterprises move to adopt MashUps the question of what content, and from where is it coming, is being asked more and more often. I guess it’s part of the move we are all taking part in from using structured data, created by our own computers, to an increasing use of unstructured data, which could be described as created, and used by, people with the resulting ‘inconsistencies’. Users are increasingly recognising the …
My Laptop, Your Laptop
It’s something I particularly like to do when speaking at Open Source conferences, where the sentiments every now and then just tend a bit too much towards the politically correct. Open Source is Free, Green, Saving the World and – most importantly – helps us to battle the dominance of the You-Know-Who guys. Yeah. Right. In these cases, it always seems appropriate to dedicate a few minutes to the important work of the Bill & …
Exit Yahoo – an early end to technology innovation?
I am pretty sure like everyone else you have been following the Yahoo saga, starting with the shock of the bid with Microsoft, through all the twists and turns. I am not going to comment on the commercials of this; not sure anyone needs more on this given all the coverage I have seen to date in the Press and online! What interests me is the early stage potential consolidation of what I would describe …
The Semantic Web may be becoming more likely with RDF
In recent posts I have touched on the challenges of too much content, too little context, together with the further challenge of the sheer number and types of devices that will create and use data http://www.capgemini.com/ctoblog/2008/03/communications_convergence_or.php. I was even pretty provocative about whether master data has become an IT department distraction that is slowing down business requirements for ‘better’ and ‘faster’ decision making by using content in a more personal manner http://www.capgemini.com/ctoblog/2008/03/master_data_has_it_become_a_ba.php. So I think …
Demonstrating for Freedom 2.0
For some reason, I continue to bump into demonstrations. Last weekend I visited London and many roads were blocked due to the Olympic flame passing through. And a few days ago I returned from keynoting the Go Open conference in Oslo – a very well organized event which attracted a solid audience of 600, all interested in open source and open standards – and it resolved into a demonstration too. Although the happening in Oslo …
Seduced by the Apple: not so invisible infostructure
Did I ever tell you that I am sort of a hardcore Apple fan? Nah, probably not. The thing is, the way they package technology into solutions that touch the heart of their clients is simply unmatched. And the rest of the IT industry can learn from it. Take for example the new Time Capsule product: when I was in London last weekend (unexpectedly enjoying snow and some things happening around a torch) I witnessed …
An Ocean of Calm
Yesterday I had the great opportunity to facilitate a round table discussion with some retail ‘captains of industry’, as part of the annual What’s Going On In Retailing conference. The topic for the discussion was Innovation, and I felt I should briefly share two interesting insights. First of all, some of the successfully innovating retailers pointed out that innovation can only flourish on a foundation that is stable, effective and rationalised. As one of the …
Social Networks think again about business models
Some time back I commented on the fact that advertising cannot be the revenue earning business model for every activity, and in particular I wondered if Social Networks really had yet found the answer to this question, especially after FaceBook got hit for its ‘novel’ approach to ‘understanding’ and promoting its members’ interests to advertisers. It really does seem that the old model of dog years to mark Internet progress has re asserted itself as …
