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Monthly Archives: September 2008
The disruptiveness of the open walled telecom garden
In recent days (well actually months) I have spent many hours thinking about the impact of non-proprietary business models in the Telco business. Obviously the announcement of Google’s operating system Android a year back fueled mine and many others thought on this topic even though other solutions existed before. The release of the “Google phone”, G1 last week further intensified my thinking around this topic. I will not dwell deep into the somewhat spectacular features …
Social software: inside our outside the firewall?
At Capgemini we are experimenting a lot with social software and one of the big discussions we have internally is whether it should be inside our outside the firewall. The main product that is causing this discussion now is what we consider as micro blogging, like Twitter. You have now versions that you can host on your own servers or that you can rent as a hosted service but the big question with that is… …
I just removed my office suite
You are wasting your time using Office suites and endless review sessions. Use the right tool for the right job and you will save a lot of time.
Twitter, Mindfarts and greenhouse effect reduction
There was a program on Dutch National Television on Internet addiction. In that program one of the platforms positioned as addictive was Twitter. Ridiculed as a platform to throw brain farts around, the mostly older generation talking heads completely failed to see the bigger picture of tools like twitter. There obviously is a real downside to these messaging tools, as they can contribute to Internet Addiction as described by Jerald J. Block, M.D. in Psychiatry …
Pick Your Fight: Browser War versus ISP “3 Strikes” Battle
It’s like a tale of two conflicts, where one tale concerns the renewed fight for browser supremacy (brought on by yet another brand new mega-hyped challenger); and the other deals with the never-ending tussle between music labels and illegal file-sharers (with Internet Service Providers, or ISPs, caught smack in the middle). It remains to be seen which battle will eventually come to be perceived as the good fight, but for now, which of the main protagonists would you rather be: the music label, the ISP or the web browser maker?
SaaS for the masses
As I wrote before, the distinction between a desktop application and a web application has become a fuzzy blur, and it is widening too. Desktop applications, traditionally belonging to the offline zone, go online to, for example, allowing you to collaborate on documents with your right shore colleagues. But that is only a small shift compared to the one made by Web applications. Their UIs have become indistinguishable from desktop applications, and web applications have …
Hypertext Markup Love 5
Currently my markup loves revives since HTML5 is being specified. HTML5 does contain so much good elements, functionalities and other technologies that were missing since the introduction of HTML4 (almost 10 years ago in December 1999). I will give you five good reasons why you too should be in love with HTML5 and why you should use it
Fiddling about in The Platform, part I: “browser anatomy”
As a little boy, I was already fascinated with “how things work” and “what things are made of”. Screwdrivers were kept where I couldn’t reach them, because I wanted to have a look inside anything electrical. I guess geeky-ness is something you are born with… I still have a strong urge to “look inside” things that intrigue me. My latest fancy is this platform everybody is talking about. I mean “platform” as in “the web …
Semantics and balanced needs
In my first article, I outlined the challenge of semantics and interpretation of information presented to managers in 3 different situations. In this article, I will give examples of how information quality differs between various industries because of the challenge of agreeing the semantics of information. However, before I start, I must mention a very interesting book called “The Black Swan” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, an ex-quant trader who writes on how “Black Swan” events …
The browser wars are on again! Boo yah!
“Keep Internet Explorer 8 from adding any sites you visit to Browsing History with InPrivate Browsing. Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won’t accidentally find out.” While Microsoft is preparing to put the world upside down with the imminent (?) release of Internet Explorer 8 with one of the most awaited features for 99 % of the internet browsing crowd (also known as “porn mode”, I’m one of …
Winner IT industry blogger of the Year
