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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Davos, Leadership, Social Networking and Obama, the BlackBerry President
This year Davos will focus on ‘Leadership’ as an important issue, worthy of attention from the great and the good who will be meeting at this annual event of global significance. Presumably this theme was chosen for the no-doubt important role it will play in the world’s recovery from the credit crunch, downturn, recession, or any other name that is invoked for the current crisis. Interestingly this follows last year’s theme of Collaboration, which was …
What does externalisation really mean?
There’s a famous Douglas Adams quote along the lines of ‘Technology’s a word that describes something that doesn’t quite work yet’. For me, it’s been one of those quotes that was nice and gentle on the mind at first and then has proceeded to burrow its way slowly into the deep recesses, where it’s now made itself and home and is starting to throw up some interesting perspectives. Perhaps it’s taken a leaf from Adams’ …
Twitter the new ‘black swan’, or is it what it tells us about how we work?
There has been a lot of comment about Twitter over the last few months with, as ever, opinions sharply split. On the negative side it has been described as a passing fad, something for school kinds, etc, whilst on the positive side there has been speculation that it is the new ‘black swan’, meaning the next Google. What strikes me is the lack of context to most of this; i.e. it’s going to fail because, …
We have Ataris and we are not afraid to use them
What happens when graduates come into their first jobs and find that the IT facilities at the office are an anachronism? What do you get when business users know exactly what innovative technologies can deliver and still get a ‘no’ from the IT department? Probably the same as what happened yesterday at the White House when Obama’s new iPodified staff entered its new offices for the first time. Quite a reality check, to crash into …
.tel – the new Web domain that changes the rules
Back in August 2008 I posted a blog post about IPv6 entitled of ‘the fallacy of separating Web development from IPv6’ pointing out that we needed the capabilities of IPv6 in other ways than just because we were apparently running out of IPv4 addresses. The post contained the following paragraph; The first point is that there is such a thing as IPv6 native applications, and a good example is to consider the use of IPv6 …
You’ve Got Mail. Almost.
I have been arguing before why I think now is exactly the right time for a more careful, considerate approach to information technology. There are many arguments, many pros and cons, lots of blog-items to write. But every now and then, you bump into a devastating demonstration that renders all discussion obsolete. Fed up with e-mail overflow? Blaming e-mail for managing a 1000 issues in that same, shallow way? Using a tone in your e-mails …
CES and MacWorld are unexciting, or is that the real point?
Bit of a strange piece, based on disappointment rather than reflective realisation of maybe this is a turning point. Two big shows in the same week; the Consumer Electronics Show, CES, in Las Vegas and MacWorld in San Francisco should have brought something revolutionary to the market, and yet if there was something I couldn’t see it. What I could see was evolutionary, take any of the technologies from Blu-ray to media centres, WiFi to …
Innovation is dead; long live cost cutting!
A stupid headline, if for no other reason than innovation also applies to cost cutting, but unfortunately it is the kind of statement that is around currently as we once again face a recession. I say again because the current conditions are remarkably similar to 1990, and the period up to 1996, when there was an equally severe recession. Okay the causes for the two recessions are different, and I, like everybody else, has little …
