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Monthly Archives: July 2009
The fundamental design flaw in Twitter and Friendfeed
Why would you want to keep your updates protected for a person if you follow that person?
ICANN (But U Can’t, Yet)
Starting spring of 2010, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will begin taking applications for additional generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) that could see an expansion of up to 500 new domain suffixes (such as: .food, .drink, .books, etc.). So what are the implications for established online brands, Internet Governance, and Cyber-crime?
Weekly digest of week 30 2009
A weekly digest offered by Capgemini
The only good thing you can do with e-mail
Posterous is a service that distributes its content in a way that seems to be uncool at first sight. Simple: sending e-mail is not something the cool kids do, everybody is sending e-mail on a daily basis. Therefore my first feelings about Posterous were that it was totally not cool or useful. We are struggling with an immense amount of e-mails (with only a small percentage that is really useful) and then there is Posterous, a new service that seems to be e-mail centric.
Jericho Forum Collaboration Oriented Architecture Position Paper
I have written a paper describing the concepts required for a Jericho Forum style collaboration oriented architecture. It’s too long to include here, so here’s a link. I would welcome any comments.
Using swarm intelligence to make your corporate social network fly
At one of my clients, they don’t have a cashier in the corporate restaurant. No, they just rely on the honesty of the employees and let everyone input the food they’ve chosen on a touch display. Actually that’s not completely true, I suspect that they rather rely on the social control than the pure honesty of the individual. The system seems to work pretty well because there are always people standing next to you who …
Unleashing the potential of Augmented Reality – a guest post
This is a guest post from a good friend of mine: Niels van der Zeyst (follow him on Twitter @zeyst), who is a thought leader on business technology and managing innovation in companies. He has set up the bottom-up innovation approach at Capgemini called Managed Innovation. These past weeks I’ve been inspired and amazed by a number of real-life examples of augmented reality (AR) such as BMW, Mini and Playstation Portable. One of the finer …
Weekly digest of week 29 2009
A weekly digest offered by Capgemini
Weekly digest of week 28 2009
A weekly digest offered by Capgemini
Now: Web Squared; Next: Infinite Web?
In a webinar couple of weeks back, Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle discussed their vision and structure of the web of the future. The Web2.0 Summit is scheduled for October this year and O’Reilly & Battelle expressed why they have considered “Web Squared” as the theme for it. You can read the entire article along with the whitepaper and the webcast on the Web2.0 Summit Website. It is an interesting read and I am glad …





