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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Cloud Computing; the Invisible Infostructure
Just as Web 2.0 seems to be falling into place in terms of the collection of technologies and how to use them, up pops the next ‘big thing’; Cloud Computing, complete with all the hype. Actually there is a certain linkage going on here and it’s reasonable to say that just as there is a relationship between SOA as an enterprise enabler for ‘Services’ then there is a relationship to Cloud Computing as the enabling …
Innovation Brief
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. This issue: IT vs. initiative: The Internet age comes to the battlefield [The Industry Standard] Innovation is not always a good thing. Some ideas have unintended consequences when moved to a new context. The Myth of Multitasking [The New Atlantis] Multitasking makes us more productive? Doesn’t it? Lazy Eyes: How we read online [Slate] Some …
Intel CEO Summit sets some technology directions
I need to start with a word of explanation; Intel has been a pretty large Venture Capital provider supporting technology start ups for a good few years now. Most importantly it has been very good at creating clusters of technology companies to ensure all the necessary elements for a commercial deployment are present together. Think how quickly WiFi caught on because Intel didn’t only bring out the Centrino PC chipset but made sure all the …
Breed a better dinosaur?
Last week, Manchester, UK saw the 60th anniversary celebrations of BABY – the first stored program machine – or in plain English the first example of the type of computer in everyday use today. It’s an interesting time for reflection about how much has really changed, and perhaps more interestingly how much really hasn’t. In a rough comparison with the first machine, the machine I am typing this blog post on, an ordinary laptop, has: …
W3C proposes new working group for the mobile internet
My interest in the convergence of the mobile device (smart phone style) and the fixed device (PC style) was reawakened by the announcement of the W3C that they are looking to establish a new group called ‘The Mobile Web for Social Development’ or MW4D. Before I got to read what this was about in detail it seemed to me to be just what we could do with to sort out details and speed up the …
Why Google may not win the Social war – Guest piece by Vinesh Kurup, Managing Consultant, Capgemini
I was very interested by the views of a younger colleague – who therefore is more representative of the mainstream social networking – and I asked him if he would write a guest Blog piece. This is the result and I think it ought to encourage some really good responses. Here it is: In the past few weeks, I have been spending most of my time reading, debating and challenging some popular wisdom around the …
Innovation Brief
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. This issue: How Crocs rakes in the revenue from ugly shoes [Business Pundit] Sometimes your core product is not what it appears to be. Step back, look around, peer ahead [Business Week] Technology can be a driver of innovation, but technology is no end game in and of itself. Rather, thinking about technology’s impact on …
Enterprise Widgets join Enterprise MashUps
It is reported that the CEO of IBM after the second world war stated that the market for computers would be five, whilst the CEO of Digital Equipment Company, (once the second largest computer manufacturer), stated he could see no reason for anyone needing a PC. With these errors in mind I have always tried to be rather careful about any predictions, or other statements that could come back and bite, but I have to …
EU looks at the future of Government in a Web world
As is often the way, or so it seems in the connected world we live in today, a string of threads joined up last week. Across the Blogsphere I got to see some really interesting stuff under the heading of ‘Government 2.0; The Government as a Platform’ which espouses a radical approach to the Government in the future. Should we try to improve on the current use of Web sites by Government departments? Not in …
Building ‘Services’ etc to Enterprise Quality
What exactly does the term ‘enterprise quality’ mean in this context? Moving past the obvious answer of reliability to manageability then clearly this is an attribute that is required, but in our new world of personalisation and frequent change then what are we trying to manage? Well, obviously quite a few things, but lets assume we are making wider use of ‘cloud computing’ for these new environments. The whole point would be that we should …
