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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Privacy vs. Mobility
This appears to be a worrying trend whereby mobile devices are playing an increasing role in the erosion of personal privacy. Why does privacy not translate very well for mobile technology?
Throwing mud at wall and Social CRM
Few days back I got an SMS from a leading airlines’ training academy in India congratulating me on them short listing me for a career in airlines and hotels. I found it rather funny as after a decade in IT, neither do I have any interest in changing my profession nor I have applied for any such training. What was baffling to me was that I use the airlines quite often for my domestic travels …
Do you Like me, Will you be my Friend?
It seems that some words have taken on a new meaning thanks to Social Networks. Our “Friends” are not necessarily “people you know well and regard with affection and trust”
Integrated Multi Channel Retail
Since Steven Petersen had to do an internship for in the third year year of his study Small Business and Retail Management that is active in the retail sector, he chose for an internship at Capgemini Nederland. This blog is one of the ways in which he sharing his findings for his research done during his internship. On the 2nd of June Retailnews declared that the E-commerce approach of retailers is not the best approach. …
Web 2.0 for home and work
Web 2.0 is now firmly adopted by the mainstream. The read/write web has been here for more than 6 years or so now and is found in both our work and personal life. It is an interesting observation that adoption appears to have coincided with a shift in culture regarding the amount and type of data people are willing to share with each other. Not to mention the increasing popularity of social networks, blogs and …
Weekly digest of week 29 2010
A weekly digest provided by Capgemini
Sales are down
Information sharing can be good but also extremely bad. Use restraint!
Diaspora: by far not the ultimate social network (yet)
The way Facebook handles privacy (or not handles privacy) is a well known topic. Maybe less well known is Diaspora, which is positioning itself as an alternative for Facebook. Diaspora is, as they say: the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network.
Why companies should not invest in online monitoring
If advertising is the price companies pay for being un-original, web monitoring is the price companies pay for not engaging.
How Facebook Will Get To 1 Billion members
Some might wonder if Facebook will ever reach 1 billion users, however Mark Zuckerberg is confident about it. And I think he is right, Facebook is the platform that can grow to this number an even finance its growth.





