Category Archives: Web

Enterprise Architecture – what is it good for?

I was at a meeting with a potential customer once, where we discussed moving forward with a social portal project. Their process – despite having some great people (!!) – compels them to spend months and years discussing how things … Continue reading

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On Lincoln NYTimes offer

The people who sign up for the Lincoln promotion aren’t handing over their credit-card numbers: they won’t automatically start getting billed when the promotion expires in 2012. And they’ll also learn that if you’re not a subscriber, you get shown … Continue reading

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A little about change we inflict on ourselves

I liked the beginning: They gave her The Device when she was only 2 years old. It sent signals along the optic nerve that swiftly transported her brain to an alternate universe—a captivating other world. By the time she was … Continue reading

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Digital Swarm Behavior

Thought this was interesting: Digital Swarm Behavior In general, I keep waiting for a new set of paradigms for “everyone to be talking about” to emerge. The candidates I hear about are: “social graph”, as in “facebook rules the social graph” … Continue reading

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Lost sale – a tale of a forgotten password

“Online interactions should mimic real-life experiences as much as possible” – from a Colleague’s conference abstract With all the talk about customer/user experience, businesses sometimes forget that ALL interactions matter, and that friction built in any phase of the transaction … Continue reading

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Understatement of the morning.

Understatement of the morning for me. Emphasis mine. One issue that I ran into was leveraging Expeditor’s Accounts API. I wanted to use that API, but I kept getting NullPointerExceptions when processing an account update. I think the documentation could … Continue reading

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Job Description – Wish I was qualified

This came my way, and I just like the scale of it. Scale of computer systems has truly changed over the last decade, and I imagine this is one of the job that brings SkyNet a little closer to being… … Continue reading

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Lotus Mashups – Working and Learning

I have had discussions with the [awesome] Lotus Mashups team for a long time. It seems like a product that has lots of uses, and one whose architecture I really like. Recently, I needed to build some demos for a … Continue reading

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[SYNTHETIC-WORLDS] Greenland Open Beta

Always wish I had more time to participate in such activities. Anyone has a chance to try and let me know? Sent to a [SYNTHETIC-WORLDS] mailing list: A main goal of the synthetic worlds initiative at Indiana University is to … Continue reading

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New York City is not exepnsive, and other stories

A few years ago I met people behind many-eyes visualization project from IBM. Today, inspired by other things I have seen in the labs I decided to see what their site (http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com) has been up to. Always consumed by price … Continue reading

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