Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2008
Amazon.com Tries User-Generated Public Relations - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com. A Web 1.0 pioneer which continues to get the good 2.0 stuff. Crowdsourcing is almost always cheaper and more scalable than traditional methods of production, just harder to seen. zembly. A "Wikipedia for social apps—a wiki for live, editable code beyond trivial widgets" it looks like a pretty compelling way to build SNS apps.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 21, 2008
Google now shows me an option to push things in my search results to the top. It's an interesting choice. Doesn't it seem like it's inviting problems. Basically the only people who will spend time on this is people trying to improve their search rankings. The rest of us signal with lots of other things like links, bookmarking, etc. Not sure I buy this approach from Google.
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2008
Here we go once more! On the road again! This time around on the last business trip from this year. Where to? Rotterdam, The Netherlands. What for? Customer meetings to discuss social software and also presenting at the Dutch Innovation Platform on one of my favourite topics to date.
The Agile Manager
NOVEMBER 26, 2008
This content is derived from a webinar I presented earlier this month titled The Agile PMO: Real-Time Metrics and Visibility. This is the first of a multi-part series. We’ve all seen it: the project that reports “green” status on its stop-and- go light report for months suddenly goes red in the late stages of development. This is nothing new to IT, as projects suddenly crater all the time.
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Ruminations of a Programmer
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Project Euler is one of the forms of exercising one's programming instincts. Last weekend, I happened to come across Problem 18 and 67 , the latter being a variant of the former in the sense that a brute force algorithm may work for Problem 18, but it will never work for 67. Another interesting point regarding this pair of problems is that it has a certain aura of graph theory that will tempt you towards trying out the solution.
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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
NOVEMBER 25, 2008
The hidden cost of Google Apps - Nov. 19, 2008. A decent overview of what the pros and cons are of moving to office productivity apps in the cloud. We use Google Apps for most of what we do now unless it needs exotic formatting. Article cites biggest downsides as identity (account) confusion and user learning curve. The latter is overblown as far as I can tell.
The Programmer's Paradox
NOVEMBER 12, 2008
The unknown quality of code is a simple, yet highly influential problem with existing software. If you have a millions of lines of code, is it fine or does it need serious work? Is it well-written, or is it a huge mess? An objective way to determine the current state of a large code base is necessary. In the past, we've often relied on subjective opinions, but programmers are notoriously jealous of each other's work.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
NOVEMBER 25, 2008
This is a blog post describing what happens when you go to the candy store, errr, I mean, the Apple Store, and you don't come back empty-handed. Oh well. Better luck next time, I suppose. Or, better not!! W00t!
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
NOVEMBER 24, 2008
Netbook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Now we are seeing a wave of personal computer devices designed specifically for cloud computing. The Asus EEE and Dell Mini 9 and others are selling extremely well and are often out of stock. They use Ubuntu or Windows XP and yes, they are yet another device that Web app creators have to optimize for. Millennials Reshaping Work With Social Computing Says Report | SocialComputingMagazine.com.
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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2008
Daring Fireball: Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs. Fascinating analysis of how the new Google Mobile voice command uses undocumented iPhone APIs. It seems like unfair advantage and Google is getting special treatment on the platform. Definitely makes Android seem friendlier for and fairer for app devs, who create most of the value on a platform anyway.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
NOVEMBER 24, 2008
Getting slowly back into the swing of things, here we go with another blog post focusing on the usual weekly progress report on giving up on e-mail, referencing an interview conducted in Spanish, as well as some changes that will be taking place here in this blog as well very soon. Regular blogging activities will resume accordingly, too!
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
NOVEMBER 19, 2008
As I have mentioned in yesterday's blog post , I was planning to put together a number of different entries with the highlights from the superb EventoBlog 2008 that I attended in Seville, over the weekend, to then let you folks know some more of what the experience was like, my impressions, what I learned, some of the folks I have met, the ou.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
NOVEMBER 18, 2008
After a wonderful week on holidays and after having attended the mind-blowing EventoBlog 2008 in Seville this part weekend, here I am, once again, on to my regular blogging activities and this time around picking things up with the weekly progress report on my giving up on e-mail, which for week 39 was rather interesting, since one of the highest number of incoming e-mails was eventually provoked by myself!
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elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
NOVEMBER 6, 2008
What do you think would take for our planet to smarten up against the number of growing dramatic changes we are going through at the moment? I am sure you would be able to come up with a few, but here is one that I feel we should not lose focus on. Right on the money! (Well, not that kind of money!
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
NOVEMBER 5, 2008
After a short break due to holidays, various business trips and the usual catch up, The Sweettt Show is back! Here is a post detailing our (Matt Simpon, my co-host and yours truly!) next podcasting episode where we explore the world of Enterprise social software behind the corporate firewall. Benefits, caveats, experiences, stories, etc. etc.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2008
Here we go, back at it, once again. Here is the weekly progress report from my giving up on e-mail at work, reflecting on an interesting article published by Robert Scoble not long ago, and also with a reflection on something I mentioned as well while I was at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin. Keyword = change!
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
Yes, just that! As simple as it can get. On holidays!
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Ruminations of a Programmer
NOVEMBER 9, 2008
I always thought GOF Design Patterns book achieved it's objective to make us better C++/Java programmers. It taught us how to design polymorphic class hierarchies alongside encouraging delegation over inheritance. In an object oriented language like Java or C++, which does not offer first class higher order functions or closures, the GOF patterns taught us how to implement patterns like Command, Strategy and State through properly encapsulated class structures that would decouple the theme from
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
NOVEMBER 6, 2008
Two of the big themes clearly evident at this week's Web 2.0 Summit is 1) how to effect change successfully today and 2) how to deliver genuine, meaningful value in today's marketplace. The current economic climate combined with this week's seminal change in the current political administration has begun positioning organizations to think about how to not only survive the business environment and apparent recession today, but how to fundamentally transform what they're doing for
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
NOVEMBER 6, 2008
Two of the big themes clearly evident at this week's Web 2.0 Summit is 1) how to effect change successfully today and 2) how to deliver genuine, meaningful value in today's marketplace. The current economic climate combined with this week's seminal change in the current political administration has begun positioning organizations to think about how to not only survive the business environment and apparent recession today, but how to fundamentally transform what they're doing for
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
NOVEMBER 6, 2008
Two of the big themes clearly evident at this week's Web 2.0 Summit is 1) how to effect change successfully today and 2) how to deliver genuine, meaningful value in today's marketplace. The current economic climate combined with this week's seminal change in the current political administration has begun positioning organizations to think about how to not only survive the business environment and apparent recession today, but how to fundamentally transform what they're doing for
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