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There is a good interview of Tim O'Reilly that validated many of the posts we've made in this blog over the last 5 years. He also published a white paper that goes into more details . The way business value is generated in the future will be changing, as we have the intersection of sensors and...
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I have spent some time this summer fixing computers for various friends and relatives. It is amazing to see how connected today’s students are, whether they have devoted time to learn all the details of their computer and network or they just try things until they work. I guess I take this for...
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A couple days ago, I received a call from a friend asking me a very simple question: "What criteria should I use to decide which applications I should move to the cloud?" Not having a direct answer myself, I searched the web, and to my amazement, I could not find a clear and simple answer to...
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I stumbled across this interesting tool that searches through the Internet and pulls together an illustration of how you are viewed. The Personas project from the MIT Media Lab uses your name and then tries to derive a graph based on predefined context categories of the various posts. Unfortunately,...
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As part of HP's latest press release on its partnership with GS1 Canada, HP is announcing the HP cloud computing ecosystem for manufacturing industries. This is a real exciting development. Let me explain why. In many entries of this blog, I have been talking about the need for companies to increase...
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A shell for Twitter Remember the good old days when you had a terminal screen and you typed ls , cd , and man ? And, if you were a little more advanced, you might have used pushd , popd , cat , head , and tail . Well, there is a very alpha project called tweetsh. Tweetsh is a command-line shell interface...
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I took a sabbatical from blogging for the last 1.5 years. It was not because I was making a statement. It was not because I switched to a flashier tool . It was just because I took a job that was not very conducive to blogging. In essence, I was immersed in a business VP role and there were too many...
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I’ve been an avid facebok user for years. I started using Facebook very soon after they first opened it up to people outside of the .edu domain. I recruited lots of old people into Facebook… long before it was acceptable for old people like me. And, I’ve been thrilled to watch it go...
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Earlier in the year, I was asked to organize a summit for some of our key customers. The objective was to share with them some key thought leadership and start a dialogue around a number of topics including sustainability, cloud computing and innovation. As preparation progressed, so did the enthusiastic...
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As already stated in earlier entries, the Cloud started with Web 2.0 and the Social Networking phenomena. Since, it has taken a life of its own, and is attracting many SMB's (Small and Medium Businesses) allowing them to fully rely on a cloud provider to address their IT needs. The needs of large...
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When mentioning social networking in a business context, I often get a grin or a smile. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube never added any value to the business I am told. And this last fact may be right, but it does not make social networking irrelevant for the business community. Actually a number of business...
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I've been living in Silicon Valley for the last 12 years, and I was in Boston for 10 years before that, but I spent the first 16 years of my life growing up in a small town in western New York called Batavia . According to Google Maps, it would take me 1 day and 16 hours to drive 2717 miles from...
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It seems like there are quite a few people I know who use LinkedIn to communicate across their network, since I still get requests relatively regularly, where most of the other social networking tools have died out. They seem to still be adding capabilities to their product , so they must be doing OK...