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Backblog January 2008
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Sports 2.0: The Next Level of Fan? January 30, 2008 By Andrew Rideout Categories: General After a lengthy period of due diligence and assorted financial wrangling, me and 27,000 of my closest friends have just become the first online social network in history to purchase a controlling stake in a professional sports team. MyFootballClub, based in the UK, is an extremely unique venture... The Coming of the Cloud, Networked Knowledge Work and New Business Logic January 28, 2008 By Jon Husband Categories: General Here below is an excerpt from and a link to a report just published by the recent Aspen Institute’s Communications and Society program. In a previous post I mentioned a growing awareness of the impact of the interconnected digital infrastructure and digital natives on the Enterprise 2.0 market. The... Will Enterprise 2.0 Drive Management Innovation? January 24, 2008 By Jon Husband Categories: General Gary Hamel has called for fundamental management innovation in his recently-published book The Future of Management. This call to exploration, exploration and action is concomitant with the emergence of the much-debated arena of what has been called Enterprise 2.0. Here’s a key excerpt: .. "This may... Check out Dashwire January 17, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: General I have long been a proponent of PDAs (Treos, BlackBerrys, etc.) and, to a lesser extent, high-end cellphones like the Samsung BlackJack. These give you on-the-go access to e-mail and calendar functionality and to other productivity applications. These units started as standalone devices that synced... Tech hiring at 26-year high January 15, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: IT Staffing Solutions Backbone launched just as the tech bubble was deflating, and few observers had much faith in our long-term prospects. The technology sector had grown too big and its new smaller size was only right. Right? Wrong. The sector bounced back and its climb is continuing. It turns out the demand for IT... The paradox of IT – Innovator vs. risk manager January 14, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General One of the interesting issues in the modern Information Technology space is the conflict between those who have access to new technologies & ideas on how to use them and those who are focused on operational excellence and keeping things running to perfection. It can be easy for the corporate... Information security and Green IT conflicting over enterprise mindshare in 2008? January 13, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: Security Privacy International just released its privacy protection rankings by country. It’s interesting that almost every country with widespread Internet usage is marked as low on the list. It made me wonder if there is a similar assessment of commercial (or criminal) use of personal information – this... Shop online. From work. You've earned it January 13, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: General Most knowledge workers use laptops and carry a BlackBerry or other PDA. Companies shell out the extra dough for these portable computers because they “increase productivity,” which is a euphemism for “get people working more often and from more places.” Employees know that, and many don't much mind:... Long live the Commodore 64 January 10, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: General I would really like to say I owned a Commodore 64. Back on 1982, this 8-bit wonder was the thing to get if you were into technology and the emerging world of home computing. Millions of C64s were sold, 10,000 software titles were created and it still stands as one of the best-selling personal... Facebook as the intranet January 9, 2008 By Neil McIntyre Categories: Social Networking Web 2.0 When I first heard about the company using Facebook as their intranet, I wasn’t sure what to think. "Serena Software is really replacing its existing intranet with Facebook as a front end linked to a low-cost content management system behind the firewall. The firm is just over 800 employees but is... Fun with wireless networks January 8, 2008 By Danny Bradbury Categories: Security Wireless Most tech-heads will know what an SSID is. It’s the public identity of a wireless network that broadcasts itself to the public. You’ll see them in airports and coffee shops all the time. Spark up your laptop and you’ll find “Starbucks wireless”, or “Chicago Airport Public WiFi”, or “Boingo Hotspot”,... Facebook mourners broke the law January 7, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: Social Networking Police have just made public the name of a teen killed on New Year's Day in Toronto. The release of her name was delayed until her parents gave permission for the publication. In keeping with the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the identity of the two teens arrested in connection with... What will engineering be like in 2020???? January 4, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Every six months Purdue sends out a magazine to its engineering alumni called Engineering impact. One of the articles this month focused on Remaking Engineering Education. It echoed some of the concerns I’ve had for a while -- As head down engineering functions move to low cost locations, there are... How green is your vendor? January 2, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: Green Tech 2008 is brand new and shiny and you've probably made a few personal New Year's resolutions already. Maybe broken a few too. But January is also a good time to make a couple changes at the office, and a good one to start off the year with is to audit the environmental friendliness of your tech... 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