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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Pearltrees
Pearltrees is a collaborative project enabling Internet users to become editors of the Web, i.e. to visualize, organize and share their navigation. By building their own Web, they collectively build a living map of the entire Web
IT department: from solutions provider to solutions enabler
How many of you are using the microblogging tool Yammer in the company? I see more and more companies that are adopting it and the funny thing is: it gets more quickly adoption than their existing company enforced tools and it’s not controlled by their internal IT department. Honestly it’s kind of a nightmare for many CIOs. Yammer is only the top of the iceberg. How many of you are using (of have developed it …
New security risks by new services?
The last few weeks I have see a remarkable increase of claims that some services are increasing potential security risks for its users. The security risks aren’t online issues, but things that can happen in real life, like for example stalking, burglary, theft and other not very nice things that can happen to you.
iPods could soon become the latest toys for our sales soldiers
Earlier this week when I was having dinner with one of my colleagues (@ksiripurapu), he shared this interesting piece of news from CIO. iPod Touch: The iPod of War, an article on CIO.com which talks about the recent item from Newsweek’s report about the U.S. military giving out the iPod Touch to soldiers in war zones in the Middle East. My first reaction was “wow” and next “but what would the soldiers do with iPods?” …
Having success with social media: correlation or causality?
It’s very popular to blame violent movies, internet sites and games for violent behavior of violent youngsters (hmm where did that come from “youngsters”? think I’m getting old.) When there is a shooting in a school, some politicians or other activists think they can score easily by jumping on the barricades and yelling that we need to protect our children from all the violence in the media. But do violent movies and games cause violent …
How about a World Copyright Summit?
Judging from the recent brouhaha around piracy, (no – not the real kind), e.g. the Pirate Bay Trial / Verdict, anyone would be forgiven for thinking that copyright lawyers are probably the only ones making a killing out of this particular global crisis. It seems that the world’s copyright system, which served (some of) us so well in the past, may have become fatally compromised by the digital revolution, and emerging consumer predilection for free digital content (i.e. free as in beer).
Don’t focus too much on costs, cloud computing is about business agility
The whole blogosphere and Twitterverse seem to be buzzing about the McKinsey slide deck “Clearing the air on cloud computing” with little positive feedback. Will Forrest tries to address the following in the report: While it has great potential, many of the claims being made about cloud computing have lead some to the point of “irrational exuberance” and unrealistic expectations. The purpose of this report is to focus the nascent cloud industry and its consumers …
The Next Web: Start ups
One of the great things during the Next Web was the Rising Sun Startup challenge. Every start up has five minutes to pitch itself and there are quite some start ups that might even be around for the next two or three years.
The iteration cycle of an agile Smart project
Smart is an easy to implement agile process, that is essentially smart use cases driven. Although Smart mixes very well with other agile processes and techniques, such as Scrum, XP and FDD, the process that takes a project through a little more ceremony than you might expect from a number of other agile processes. For instance, Smart suggests a number of products to add to the backlog, that deal with managing the project environment, such …
Oracle buys the sun
Yesterday Oracle shocked the world by announcing it will acquire SUN Microsystems. Now, the day after it’s a good moment to take a look at what hit us… As we all know Oracle has been buying a lot of companies in the last couple of years. Although this is not the largest purchase (e.g. BEA and Peoplesoft were larger) and not the smallest (Hyperion wasn’t that big) to my opinion this is one which is …
Winner IT industry blogger of the Year
