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stoweboyd - who has written 12 posts on Welcome to GlobalLogic Blogs.
Stowe has been obsessed with social tools, and their impact on business, media, and society, for the past ten years. He is perhaps best known for his writing at /Message and his frequent public speaking at Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, SXSW, Lift, Shift, Next, and many others. Stowe is front man for the /Messengers, an agency based in San Francisco.
Peter Harrison on Outsourcing Bill Of Rights
A week ago, I came upon an article by InformationWeek’s Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, citing John Castleman, the CEO of Alliance Global Services, an IT outsourcing firm, regarding a proposal that the company has made for an Outsourcing Bill Of Rights. The motivation for the ‘bill of rights’ for outsourcing clients appears to be a counter [...]
Continue reading...The Growth Of Neutral Broadband, Nationwide And On The BART
Saturday, January 31, 2009
President Obama’s plans for dramatic growth in infrastructure is not limited to bridges and roads: we are going to see sizable investments in broadband, so that the US might not be lagging other developed nations in broadband access in a few years. And Congress seems determined that net neutrality will be a requirement of Federal [...]
Continue reading...Paul Rubens Looks At Sun And Red Hat Valuations
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Paul Rubens at ServerWatch surveys the relative valuations of Sun and Red Hat: Let’s take a look at Sun Microsystems, the once mighty Unix vendor and maker of servers that powered the Internet, circa 1982. And Red Hat, a company that’s been purveying Linux software since 1995. Sun sells more than $13 billion of goods and [...]
Continue reading...Open Enterprise 2.0
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Oliver Marks and I have launched the Open Enterprise 2009 research study (see Open Enterprise 2009: Research Study and Report, and A four minute discussion of Open Enterprise 2009). We will be working over the next six months to research the state of Web 2.0 tools, architecture and techniques in the enterprise, their adoption, application [...]
Continue reading...‘Cloudworker’ Wins Prize As Replacement For ‘Teleworker’: Change In The Air?
Friday, January 9, 2009
Plantronics sponsored a contest to find a replacement for the somewhat tired ‘Teleworker’, and a panel of judges chose ‘Cloudworker’: A cloudworker is somebody who uses on-demand technology and collaboration tools, such as unified communications, to work anywhere and anytime, and uses the resulting freedom to enable a my-size-fits-me career path and lifestyle. The metaphor of [...]
Continue reading...Werner Vogels Is Informationweek CTO Of The Year
Monday, December 22, 2008
Werner Vogels is the highly visible and peripatetic CTO of Amazon, who has become the poster child of cloud computing, and has been acknowledged by IW as the CTO of the year. Vogels writes on his blog — All Things Distributed — frequently, and recently summed up the value proposition for Amazon Web Services in our [...]
Continue reading...Are CIOs Getting Sacked In The Econolypse?
Monday, December 15, 2008
A recent post at CIO.com by Abbie Lundberg explores the persistent question of CIO turnover with the bright light of the current economic downturn. She relates a discussion she had with Bruce Rogow, a IT thinker who works with Gartner and nGenera, who regularly visits CIOs: [from Are More CIOs Getting Fired?] Bruce said that a few [...]
Continue reading...Will The Econolypse Lead To A Transition To Web Tools?
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
The economic downturn is having an immediate impact on the technology sector, with unprecedented layoffs and hemorrhaging sales. Forrester has released some figures that suggests that even in this down market, tech spending is likely to increase modestly, which suggest that industry cuts are simply a retreat from rosier optimism: [from Tech Spending to Grow [...]
Continue reading...One Aspect Of Web 2.0 Apps: Focus
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Many Web 2.0 applications are incredibly small and tightly focused. Some do one thing and one thing only, like the Notify Me When It Is Up application, which, no kidding, will notify you when someother application — like Gmail or Twitter — is up and running again. While NMWIIU is a bit of a joke, it [...]
Continue reading...Adobe Cocomo: Collaboration Framework For Flex
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Another example of Adobe’s moves to make Flex the platform of choice for people building advanced applications is the release of Cocomo, a collaboration framework for Flex: [from CoCoMo - Collaboration for Every Developer by Ryan Stewart] Along with the Flash Platform news, we’ve released CoCoMo, one of the coolest products at Adobe. CoCoMo is basically a [...]
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
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