Archive for March, 2010
What’s most important in enterprise IT?
Mar 31st
What is the most important thing in enterprise IT? Some may say, budget. Others, the timely adoption of new technologies. Not really. The best technologies may fail and the lushest budget be wasted by human efforts gone astray. Imagine several new college graduates hired by a big company, as software developers. They can all write [...]
Ford: Socially Enabled
Mar 30th
Is Facebook a viable channel for advertising and for building customer loyalty? To answer this question, we look to a brief case study on Ford Motor Company.
Cloudy Day on the Cloud Front
Mar 28th
We’ve been asking “what is the definition of a cloud” for several years now. Possibly there’s a large group of you that think its already well-defined. I remember blogging about the security of clouds in BlogIdol 1. So I looked to see if there were standards being developed, and guess what, there are! The following [...]
The Importance of Being “XML”
Mar 28th
Have you avoided XML because it is a new unproved technology? Have you avoided XML because there seems to be hundreds of variants making it to hard to understand? Are you still printing invoices? Maybe it is time to check out the Universal Business Language (UBL).
Digital Photography Photoshop Evolution
Mar 28th
Adobe is developing an update to its photography software to be content-aware. Watch the video to see how easy it is to remove things from a photo.
Situational Blogging
Mar 28th
As important as blogging has become over time, in most cases it is little more than quickly informed opinions or content rehash. One of the technology enablers however that is slowly changing this is situational blogging. In some ways, Twitter is the epitome of this. Twitter was originally designed around the concept of SMS messaging. [...]
What If Pepys Were A Blogger
Mar 27th
I started blogging about technologies that while outdated are still the best of class and in that way cool. I was going to call it quits after the first two blog post. However, I was watching “The Empire of the Word” on Knowledge, BC’s public supported televisions. I was reminded of the impermanence of the [...]
I’ll be “being” you.
Mar 26th
A note from the Singularity University crossed my screen, which led to write ups on uCorder – a kewl little device from a Toronto firm. It is basically a camcorder, with enough memory space to record up to 7 continuous hours. It’s main feature is that is light, small, and designed to be worn. You [...]
Redbooks
Mar 26th
Every once in a while a staff member will ask me one of those questions where at one point in my life I might have remembered the answer, but for some reason today I just can’t. Sure I could do a few Google queries and give them an answer, but sometimes being a good coach [...]
Climbing the pageview mountains
Mar 26th
Hey all. We are working on getting some new contestants and should have some newcomers joining the fray shortly. In the meantime I thought I’d share some insight into the websites traffic so far. Yesterday was our biggest day so far with 620 pageviews. Not exactly staggering but the site does show a good growth [...]
Linux vs Windows 7 in the Enterprise
Mar 25th
The support for Windows XP is ending. Is it time to look at Linux?
Reducing the Cost of IT
Mar 24th
The past few weeks I’ve been busy trying to identify ways to reduce IT costs, especially for software. You may ask: why worry about something that isn’t the largest budget item, or you may say we don’t need to because we’re over the recession hump. But people are still looking for ways to reduce costs [...]
I Knew I was out-of-date when…
Mar 24th
Even musicians will feel the sting of technology progress: how iPhone is everywhere.
Should we get out of the infrastructure business?
Mar 24th
Brian Madden posed an interesting question on his blog. Five years from now, will a 200-person company need any servers on site?
This is an interesting debate, but I would like to look one step further. In a world where we can literally have everything in the cloud, do we really need to keep investing in our basic IT infrastructure? Is IT still a competitive differentiator?
