How many degrees of separation are there between your developers and users?
James Governor of Redmonk shared a great tweet today (he is @monkchips) @dhague: 6 degrees of separation between developers and…
Why is a 15 Year Old’s Insights More Interesting Than a Market Researchers?
There’s a lot of talk online today about an article in the Guardian about how Media execs at Morgan Stanley…
More music to the ears of SOA enthusiasts
A few weeks back, I pointed to an analogy of SOA functioning as an “iTunes” store for enterprise apps. Kudos…
Tweet Tweet
I’m familiar with Twitter, its marketing impact and value to a brand… but I’m far from being a Twunkie (Twitter…
A long look at Stephen Few’s “Now You See It”
Stephen Few gave a snappy name to his new book, Now You See It, and a cover that signals a…
SIGIR: Meet the Who’s Who of Search and Information Retrieval
Matt Cutts. danah boyd. Bruce Croft. Marti Hearst. What do these people have in common? If you’re thinking that they…
Real Business Users and SharePoint
Introducing buzzword-compliant technology like a wiki, or integrated collaboration spaces like SharePoint, will typically go well with a motivated audience…
Change Management and Lance Armstrong in the 2009 Tour de France
Sipping a cold New Belgium Mothership Wit brew, my husband and I watched seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong…
Netbooks and the cloud
Dana Blankenhorn at ZDNet posted an interesting analysis of Google's Chrome OS announcement. The basic premise is that Google as…
Repurposing Your Data Warehouse Platform—Not!
I’ve noticed lately that data warehouse vendors are dusting off the arguments and pitches of days gone by. Don’t buy…