Just about every organization in the world is involved in some type “selling.” The product could be a widget, a service, donations, or content, and in every case, it has to be “sold” to someone. I happened to start my career in 1980 and in the first few years I [...]
The announcement of the Google Wave platform and all the early descriptions of the role it could play in building Web based applications has me thinking about the power of platforms in general. I think an important concept for us all to think about is the trend we are seeing [...]
I want to draw your attention to some technology developed by the impressive Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT's Media Labs. They have built a working model of what could be described as the 3rd generation in personal data assistants. You wear the device around your neck, it is comprised of [...]
The Internet is generally thought of as a tool that is used by organizations to transact business, or by individuals to communicate, research or get entertained. For those of us that are concerned about the sustainability of the Earths resources, and our ability to support billions of people at the [...]
We hear about the 'Cloud' at every turn lately, but the cloud has been coming for a long time, in many varied ways. The well known players are all household names: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun and more; but their ideas are closer than they would like [...]
At a developers conference last week, Microsoft rolled out a mind bending set of new ideas (products?) that leverage the concept of cloud computing. This makes a lot of sense because as companies figure out that they can rent software, storage and servers from big name providers like IBM, Amazon, [...]
One thing that easy to forget is that we actually have the next version of the Internet in operation at the moment. It is called the Internet2, and is a very clear picture as to where the commodity Internet we all use will go. If you are not aware of the [...]
Apple may not be known as an enterprise commodity, in fact, unless you are in marketing or creative you most likely don't have a Mac on your desktop, but on one front adoption might be about to grow. A few days ago Apple announced that the iPhone is ready to [...]
I have to start this off by admitting that I have been working with PC's since 1981. Sadly, that is longer than some of the developers that work for me have been alive. Having hung around the technology world for 27 years or so, I have been blessed to watch [...]
Amazon made an interesting announcement of a new service called SimpleDB. (Click here to see the website.) The service allows an organization to rent a database online for transaction fees that are measured in pennies per gigabyte. This extends Amazons concept of providing Web based software tools so that developers [...]