Thank god it's so easy to be social and do good. See e.g the "Pringo Powering Social Network From Yokohama" on TechCrunch.
VP For Water And Gas
In Twilight of the CIO (seen through David Berlind) Nicholas Carr writes:
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In this world, a company trumpeting the appointment of a new chief information officer will seem as anachronistic as a company today naming a new vice president for water and gas.
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Social As A Service
Everything is 'aaS' (see Phil Wainewright). Why not combine it with the other big buzz?
It's The People
Michael Krigsman blogs about "Stopping failure in its tracks":
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1. Understand the source of the problem.
2. Decide how to fix it.
[...]
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Unfortunately sometimes (i.e. often) it's not so easy because "people make projects" (the motto of the IT company I work for).
How To Protect The iPhone Against The Evil
Apple tries to protecte the iPhone against the evil resellers (see TechCrunch or Engadget - seen through Techmeme).
This is my humble suggestion how to manage this.
Complexity
Simplicity is key (see Michael Krigsman).
AJAX not necessarily (see Joe McKendrick).
The History Of Utility Outages
Google is becoming a utility (see Nicholas Carr).
How The Greenhouse Effect Affects Fun Sports
BP has been fined to pay a lot of money (see Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy).
A good day for the start of our small series about global warming and fun sports.
The Triumph Of The "Social"
Sorry for this lame joke.
But after reading TechCrunchs social site ranking I just could not resist.
Too Bad The Telcos Did Not Build Everything
Larry Dignan asks: "Will your phone ever be free?"
Community 0.0 Vs Community 2.0
Nicholas Carr posts about the "illusion of privacy" (unfortinately not a quote from one of the Jaiki founders).
Maybe the major community releases do not differ so much.
Sometimes You Just Don't Wanna Know
See David Greenfield about calculating ROI of enterprise 2.0 systems.
The 2.0 Price Building Process
See Nicholas Carr about the casino economy.
A Real Community
See TechCrunch about networks around residential buildings.
The Final Questions
Lots of discussion about the Google Reader stats. See e.g. Crunchnotes and Techmeme.
The Podnoses - Episode 24 - The Old And The New Distribution Model
Nicholas Carr is - as always - sarcastic about the new model of content distribution. He writes about some thoughts from Ray Kurzweil.
"The means of creativity have now been democratized. For example, anyone with an inexpensive high-definition video camera and a personal computer can create a high-quality, full-length motion picture."
"Yep. Just as the invention of the pencil made it possible for anyone to write a high-quality novel. And just as that power saw down in my cellar makes it possible for me to build a high-quality chest of drawers."
Nicholas, you're right. A pencil does not make a novelist. But there may be quite a few really good novelists out there. And now they have a good chance to get read.
In the new model you have just to be good to be heard.
In the old model you had to be lucky and/or to know the right person.
One Year In A IT Project - Day 6
Just a small reminescence to the Java Posse. See e.g. episode 145 with a small discussion about the right way to indent.
(Part 1 is here)
One Day In 1970
I've just read David Grober's post about 1970's machines.
My Blogging Principle
Just a humble principle
of my (quite short) blogging life.
