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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Wave! You are live and online!
There only seems to be one point of consensus regarding Google Wave at the moment, which is: it’s different! The reason is that it’s supposed to be, but while I understand the logic for its development, it’s hard to rate it when your mind is struggling to relate it to what you already know. One blogger wrote: ‘I changed my definition of Google Wave three times in thirty minutes’ and he was at a Googleplex …
New Game Changers for the Internet; Opinions differ on value!
A few weeks back, my normal channels of information were full of news about a revolutionary new web software that was, and I quote; ‘An invention that could change the Internet for ever’. If you haven’t heard, Wolfram|Alpha (and yes the troublesome vertical bar is in the name, but fortunately not in the url – www.wolframalpha.com), is the revolution. The description from the site of its ‘goals’ or capabilities is pretty formidable: Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal …
Do Turkeys vote for Slow IT?
Metaphors are dangerous. A talented thinker once even stated that “using a metaphor is like carrying water in a bucket with a hole in it; there is a limit to where it will take you”. But anyway, the link between my earlier pleas for a more careful approach to technology (‘Slow IT’) and Slow Food is stronger than just a metaphor. After all, the Slow Food movement started in Italy as a reaction to a …
The Internet of Things just got a little closer
I was recently asked by a journalist: ‘what exactly does the often-used phrase “the internet of things” mean to you?’ It was a good and sensible question, as we use a number of such terms as useful concepts to avoid being overly specific. My reply did not do me much credit. I said I saw the term as a convenient way to avoid having to specify the many different things rapidly becoming connected to the …
The Washington Template
I just might be repeating myself a little bit. But clearly, the Obama administration is setting a worldwide example of how to change a business through technology 2009 style. It went through my mind again when preparing for a panel on Tech Transformation, next week at the Forbes CEO Forum in Scotland. You see, it is one thing to get inspired by new technologies and understand how they can radically change business models – which …
Secure ID – gets a work around with support from key vendors
A secure ID is one of the key underlying systems for most in-house IT systems, but as we move into a Web 2.0 world, does this go far enough? We really need a federated ID that is still secure for in-house systems, but also enables the IT department to contemplate Web 2.0-style interactions which are increasingly driving a lot of the new business value. Of course there is nothing new about this, but it’s a …
The Ideality of the Cloud
Genrich Altshuller, the father of systematic innovation, already concluded it more than 50 years ago: the best possible solution to a problem has all the benefits and none of the harm and costs of the original problem. This is what he calls the Ideal Final Result or Ideality. Altshuller should know. Or at least, he had plenty of time to think about it. Way back in the 50’s, he was a lieutenant at the patent …
Situational Software – The ‘Killer Application’ for Enterprise 2.0?
Ever since the spreadsheet was identified as the ‘killer application’ that justified the purchase of PCs for business use, the search has been on for the next killer application. Nowhere has this been more true than in the case of the Internet and the Web. Personally I reckon if there ever was a killer app for business it was the browser, which justified having an Internet connection. For me, the term Killer Application implies that …
