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The fast moving wave that is social computing swept through Davos on Thursday in a session titled “Organizing the Unorganizable: Social Computing and the Enterprise.” The interactive workshop assembled such luminaries as Paulo Coehlo, Jim Schwartz, Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, Jimmy Wales, Matt Cohler, and Reid Hoffman, among others. The…
I remember January 1997. I was 25 living in an apartment in Russia opposite the Kremlin. Guns were routinely checked at the door in my local restaurant. This was before the stock market crash of 1998, before Putin, before $150 oil prices. Communists still marched past the door from time-to-time.…
In a software company, deciding which one of a big pile of conflicting priorities to work on next is one of the hardest things to get right. And it is critical to the business: If your process for doing this works, you end up with products that your customers and…
A couple of months ago I became the proud owner of an Apple Macbook Air. The little geezer immediately transformed my relationship with a laptop in a whole slew of ways. One way that it particularly seduced me was the delightful combination of my Macbook Air with TV Shows downloaded…
Joel Spolsky recently posted another great article where he at great length and in his usual amusing fashion describes the problems the Internet Explorer 8 team faced in deciding whether or not to adopt an idealistic or a pragmatic view of the world.
The bottom line is that…
I’m often asked why I prefer to use Ajax HTML rather than XML or JSON etc. There are multiple reasons I cite, one is it’s easier to maintain but the more important one is that it’s faster and less work (both on the frontend and the backend).
Here’s an interesting…
Back in the early 90’s I was a consultant in a large systems integrator. Moore’s law and de facto and de jure standardisations were breaking proprietary systems’ stranglehold on customers, driving the ambitions of organsations to increase the scope of their IT across the value chain and to get economies of scale of technology ownership, while increasing the end-to-end automation of their enterprises to reduce business operational costs.
I recently discovered Google Reader, and it has changed how I interact with the web in general, and blogs in particular. As it becomes more widely used, I expect it to have even more of an impact.
In principle, the Reader is a simple aggregator of RSS feeds, just…
Allan wrote about Rethinking the Home Page and my response was getting to0 long to be a comment so I’m writing it as a post.
Allan said:
Today, visitors typically visit web sites as a result of a search or a deep link from somewhere…
Back when the web was young, the home page was where most visitors to a web site would start and therefore it got the most attention. Is this still a valid way of thinking today?
Today, visitors typically visit web sites as a result of a search or a deep…
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