Monthly Archives: May 2009

The war of the mobile platforms

A smartphone is a highly sophisticated piece of technology. Besides being highly functional, having a long battery life, these devices also need to make its owner look good. The trouble with smartphones (and al other mobile devices for that matter) is that most of their owners probably aren’t aware of or even appreciate the complexity and sophistication of their phones. But thanks to the OpenMOKO project, which specifies an open source smartphone architecture, we now …

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| Posted on by mnankman in Custom Software Development | 2 Comments

Social networks are boring and suggested users are evil

Face it, when you join a social network (Twitter, Facebook, hi5, MySpace, FriendFeed) these networks are boring. The reason why these networks are boring, is because you do not know anybody who joined this network.

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How the cloud saved my life

After five years of problem-free Mac usage, last week my hard disc crashed. And as you might have guessed, I’m not so much of a backup guy. Luckily I barely lost a thing, because being a cloud computing strategist it is kind of expected to walk the talk, so much of my stuff is in the cloud nowadays. Here’s how you can minimize your damage: Online mail: keeping local email using POP3 is so 1990s. …

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Enterprise2.0: the new face of knowledge management?

Knowledge Management (KM) has a long history behind it, but with the increased use of technology in the late 20th century, has given it a more formalized picture. We all know that knowledge has always been classified into implicit and explicit, and that there are three major dimensions to KM: Process, Technology & People. All that theory is fine; but what is the end objective that any organization expects from a KM practice? IMO the …

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| Posted on by nnulkar in Social Tagged , | | 5 Comments

TOGAF, TOGAF, TOGAF

The 9th version of The Open Group’s Architecture Framework (aka TOGAF 9) was launched in February, after a lengthy 6 year gestation period, to an eagerly waiting audience of architects and wannabes of every description. So I jumped at the opportunity to go on our TOGAF 9 training course, in order to find out just what the fuss is all about.

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| Posted on by Jude Umeh in Architecture Tagged , , , , , , | | 2 Comments

New tech discussion

We will be launching a live photo stream from an event in Stockholm that starts in approximately 1,5 hours. It will be on topics from Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco recently. I think you could like it. We will also live stream it on Bambuser. That you can find here. Or follow in the embedded player below. Hopefully this will work, this is the first time trying this particular kind of streaming media.

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Twitter does not understand discovery

Please Twitter, fix the replies.

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Social Media League

How does one go about evangelizing social media, inside an enterprise or externally? When it comes to inside the boundaries of an enterprise, there are various dimensions which decide the way social media gets adopted. However, IMHO a couple of them need to be focused on, as they play a slightly important role than others. One is the “formal training” of tools & benefits case for each member of the user group and the other …

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Delivering products in agile (Smart) projects

In most cases where a form of agile software development is applied, projects are challenged with difficult issues, such as a swaggering scope, unclear and incomplete requirements, unstable software architecture, are quickly approaching dead lines. Within these strict boundaries projects try to deliver high quality software at high productivity – or velocity. This is not an easy challenge. Delivering just what is needed Therefore, during agile projects there is high pressure on delivering just that …

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| Posted on by Sander Hoogendoorn in Agile, Custom Software Development | Leave a comment

It is an attention economy, not a follower economy

You can make money if you can create awareness and capture one’s attention, you probably make no (or less) money on copies and on vague big numbers such as the number of followers. It just matters of how many time people give to you when you capture their attention.

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| Posted on by Rick Mans in Social, User Experience, Web Tagged , , , | | 5 Comments