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Normative issues in the Cocoon strategy

I talked yesterday about using a product set like Apache cocoon to centralize document management in big organizations in order to efficiently deliver organization wide document integration services of the kind possible via the Microsoft Office VBA/OLE and related ecosystem components. Implicit in this is the idea that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Apache Cocoon, Cocoon world

Blog posts 2006-04-21

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Can you go without gadgets for a week?

From the BBC: Teenagers in Los Angeles in the US have been taking part in an experiment to find how how they would cope without their electronic gadgets for a week. The 15 and 16-year-olds gave up their mobile phones, mp3 players, TV, radio and other electronic luxuries, and...

Tags: Food, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Wall Street fallout likely to chill innovation

Usually Silicon Valley floats along inside its own world. You can call it a cocoon or a bubble but its economy is usually separated from the wider world. Obviously, the dotcom dotbomb had a massive effect on Silicon Valley and it took the best part of...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Innovation, Financial Services Sector, IPO, Venture Capital, Sales Strategy, Real Estate, Investment, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Sales, Business Operations, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-09-17

10 essential gadgets for students

I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...

Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?

Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?Why can't you have a five eprson team iplement UK health recordIf you design UK, Canada, or any centralized health system country's health record system, you will have to insure access to tens of millions of persons worth of records on a 24/7 basis...

Tags: Government, E-health, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, bureaucracy, open source

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Stepping out of the frame

According to Parks Associates, 12 million LCD picture frames will be sold in 2010, up from 700,000 in 2005. They attribute this explosive projected growth to falling hardware costs and people's increased comfort with digital imaging technology.So What?For some years now, Accenture Technology Labs has maintained a Home Lab in...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-05-19

A meritless lawsuit that's not worth the ink (real or electronic) used to report it

A meritless lawsuit that's not worth the ink real or electronic used to report itBarratry?From the sounds of the quote, isn't this barratry? IANALThis case is a keeperIf I were Matt Graves, I would have said: "You're trying to sue us into being your customers? Not even Sony was that...

Tags: Now Let, lawsuit

Discussion threads 2007-05-11

Fear and anger erupt over $3 Microsoft Suite

Fear and anger erupt over $3 Microsoft SuiteSome remarks1. It's also seen as price dumping when you sell significantly below the price you ask your customers in your own company. This might be the case in this instance.2. Open source isn't the only competitor seeking to obtain entrance to this...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice, development tool, smell, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, hardware, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-20

Violent video games often not properly labeled

Violent video games often not properly labeledGOOD!!!There is WAY too much censoring and hand holding nowadays involving kids. And then we wonder why kids can't read, write, properly blow a fart, etc.We **ALL** were exposed to things which were questionable, nasty, violent, pornographic, etc. when we were kids. WHY can't...

Tags: game

Discussion threads 2006-04-03

Less Wikipedia will be more

This, the third installment of my commentary [see previous installment] about how to improve Wikipedia, was guaranteed by me to offend just about everyone. I'm not aiming to offend, but contradictory perspectives and experience often come off as condescending to those eager to think they know everything after gaining...

Tags: Wikipedia

Blog posts 2006-01-11

New for back-to-school: 'clickers'

New for back-to-school: 'clickers'Sounds goodOn the surface this looks like an good thing. Instant attendance and quiz grading could be double edged swords (lend your clicker to the class brain fo the quiz . . .). This looks like technology in the beginning stage, wait until the social engineers get...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, clicker

Discussion threads 2005-08-05

A word from Rob Pike

A word from Rob PikeUnstructured dataI can see that this is an end-users point of view. If you can find your data, who cares where its located? Well, system architects and administrators do! File systems are TIED to storage (unless you virtualize it - my latest project!), and therefore there...

Tags: Storage, Databases, Programming languages, XML, Microsoft Corp., file system, relational model, data management

Discussion threads 2005-07-08

A word from Rob Pike

The world of text processing in the sense of search and interpretation is very broadly split into two camps: people who want to structure the document database according to content prior to searching, and those who want to impose that structure as part of each search. Yahoo, for example, seeks...

Tags: classification, file system, tool

Blog posts 2005-07-08

Jini, meet RFID, meet wish list

In the human world people move around, interact, and move on. The interaction protocols: on the surface language, commonalities, and purpose, aren't well understood but the interactions work. You and I could meet tomorrow, exchange some information, and move on with both of us marginally enriched by the experience. Eventually...

Tags: RFID, XML, JXTA

Blog posts 2005-07-06

Money, and the other 99 schools

Money, and the other 99 schoolsThen why hasn't it happened.I meqn if open source is this supposed great liberator, where are the world class applications, other than copies of what's already out there?OptionsI myself hit the Freshmeat garden every morning. I also track some of the development of...

Tags: Marketing research, open source, WORLD-CLASS

Discussion threads 2005-05-23