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- Metaphor
- The derivation of metaphor means "to carry over." Thus the "desktop metaphor" as so often described means that the office desktop has been brought over and simulated on computers.
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- Not Constantinople. Again!
- I love it when cyber crime is linked however remotely to Istanbul. While there is absolutely no pattern here it is still fun to pile up all the incidents. I have written (my 24th post!) how I first learned of the criminal use of keystroke loggers to...
- Tags: Istanbul, Metaphor, Trojan Horse, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Is MySpace's widget policy upsetting users?
- Is MySpace's widget policy upsetting users?Note to editor...."...and could pimp out their profiles at will..."Please refrain from use of sex-related metaphors. Frankly, some of us adults don't appreciate their filtering into everything we read. And adults aren't the only ones who might read tech news. I don't...
- Tags: INTERNET, metaphor, MySpace
- Discussion threads 2007-03-20
- Digital ID World recap: final thoughts
- Its now almost a full month since Digital ID World is over and done, and my thoughts about what happened are finally starting to coalesce. "Starting" - I said, and this post I hope reflects that beginning. The primary "big move" that Im coming away with is the idea that...
- Tags: metaphor, identity
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- Catalyst: Day 2 begins
- The morning of day two of Catalyst began with an early morning meeting of the Identity Gang. The majority of the meeting discussed the semantics of metaphors -- by that I mean, the use of "cards" as a metaphor for identity (see Microsoft's CardSpace). The metaphor of course has its...
- Tags: Cisco Catalyst, metaphor, Identity Commons, identity
- Blog posts 2006-06-15
- Security is like love
- Symantec threw its hat in the identity ring yesterday, when CEO John Thompson told the audience at their annual Vision conference that identity management was a "critical part of the stack" and an "area of great interest to the company." All of this follows Thompson's earlier comments about Symantec not...
- Tags: metaphor, security
- Blog posts 2006-05-09
- Metaphor Conversation Manager (zip)
- Metaphor is speech application development toolset for both speech novices and experts. .NET developers can now use C# and Visual Studio for building high quality speech applications at the level of the call flow and business process. The IDE hides the low level complexities of building speech applications but has...
- Tags: Metaphor, Metaphor Solutions, C#, Software Development, .Net, Operational Planning, Development Tools, Microsoft Development Tools, Middleware, Programming Languages, Software/Web Development, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2005-09-27
- Metaphor war
- It's interesting to hear arguments about the future of high-tech played out in the realm of metaphor. After all, it is the "utility" metaphor that has proved a strong foundation for the folks behind the "on-demand" movement. Heck, they even got Nick "IT Doesn't Matter" Carr to embrace this metaphor....
- Tags: on-demand, metaphor
- Blog posts 2005-05-11
- Metaphor watch: Super-saturated solution
- Metaphor watch: Super-saturated solutionUntil Solid?Pretty sure super-saturated is accurate for solutions that currently have more saturant than they normally hold. This does not make them solid. An example is taking water - heating it - and adding sugar to the point where it will no longer dissolve. ...
- Tags: metaphor
- Discussion threads 2005-04-25
- Metaphor watch: Super-saturated solution
- Think like a chemist. Imagine pouring a powder into a liquid until it becomes a solid. That's what you call -- in experimental terms -- a "super-saturated solution." It's the metaphor that Miko Matsumura, vice president of marketing for Infravio, uses to describe the state of the current SOA field...
- Tags: SOA, Miko Matsumura
- Blog posts 2005-04-25
- Microsoft Metaphors
- I am metaphorically challenged. One of the best ways to communicate difficult concepts quickly and succinctly is in the form of a metaphor. Four years as an industry analyst did little to help me overcome my inability to generate metaphors on the fly. I have to think about...
- Tags: metaphor, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-02-17
- Metaphor Watch II: City Planning
- Recognizing the need to continue clarifying the meaning of Web services so that business people can more readily understand and capitalize on the concept, here's another metaphor that has found the light of day: city planning. As this piece from CNET explains, "SOA is not a product per se, but...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2004-11-08
- Metaphor Watch
- As Joenoted in a previous post, one of the most significant challenges hampering theadvance of Web Services today is the opaque and abstruseway we speakof it.We are still very focused on tech talk and standards concerns; we have yet to really paint a vision that will grab the attention of...
- Tags: LEGO Co.
- Blog posts 2004-11-04
- Adult and Distance Education Management: An Application of the Metaphor "Organizations as Organisms"
- This paper discusses the metaphor "organizations as organisms" as conceived of by Garith Morgan in the books Images of Organization and Images of Organization: The Executive Edition. It applies the metaphor to adult and in particular distance education management and organizations in an attempt to conceptualize the incredibly complex reality...
- Tags: Distance Education, Metaphor, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as Pope
- Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as PopeThat's what I thoughtThe ad was about nothing except of course Bill. It is unclear why this ad was made.Who in the world is this "journalist"?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Ratcliffe"I see you baby ...... shakin that ass -shakin that ass."http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/digital/article/548871/publicis-dialog-puns-ass-shaking-new-renault-viral/RE: Microsoft builds $300M...
- Tags: Wiki, Blogging, ass, Jerry Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., Wikipedia, Bill Gates, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureOverbroadYou wrote:[The appliance computing culture’s interactive] applications model drives almost everything, from processor and OS evolution to appropriate management structure - and even the conflicts with traditional business systems experts whose internal model of “automatic data processing” is broadly unrelated to the needs and...
- Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Processors, business systems expert, appliance computing culture, mainframe, best practice, Windows PC
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Seinfeld-Gates TV commercial ... vague, baffling and unfunny, but highly riffable!
- Seinfeld-Gates TV commercial ... vague, baffling and unfunny, but highly riffable!It was OKThe ID made me laugh. Not being a Seinfeld fan, I'll assume there were other jokes that I just didn't get.The Apple ads tell you as much about OSX as this did about Windows, but this ad...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Seinfeld-Gates TV commercial, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?
- Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?Microsoft is also airing the Mojave experiment ads. nt.RE: Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?That add is really stupid . . . but, if you're totally incapable of building a quality operating system, why not try comedy?Best marketing for...
- Tags: Operating systems, Branding, Microsoft Windows, advertisement, Windows Gurus, Windows brand, Microsoft Corp., brand, Seinfeld
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Could Google's Chrome be death blow to Firefox?
- No doubt, Google's forthcoming open source browser -- known as Chrome -- is going to challenge other open source browsers, most notably Firefox. It could be a devastating blow to Firefox, which has amassed and taken roughly 18 percent of browser market share away from Internet Explorer in a short...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Web Application, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Chrome, V8 Javascript Virtual Machine, Web Browsers, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Internet, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- ROFLthing 2008
- Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing...
- Tags: Humor, Rickroll, Chuck Norris, Internet, Strategy, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Seinfeld and Gates vs. Apple
- Seinfeld and Gates vs. AppleIn other wordsThey were successful enough to retire early.Any attempts to potshot these guys may go over well in the ABM community, but the general public will see it as sour grapes. Which means this could actually do what MS wants.Seinfeld? WHO?Oh yeah he had...
- Tags: Construction, Desktops, Apple Inc., Seinfeld
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
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