a blog about information
When I was a mere stripling I used to enjoy playing text-based adventure games; as I grew older, I watched them morph into graphic representations, as games like Larry The Lounge Lizard came out. But I never really made the cut into the later rounds of MMOG and virtual worlds. I did venture into Second … Continue reading “They don’t all use the same physics”
First catch your hare. So wrote Hannah Glasse, in the recipe for Jugged Hare, to be found in her 1747 book The Art of Cookery. [When I first heard the quotation, I was given the impression, mistakenly, that it was a quotation from Mrs Beeton]. In today’s globalised knowledge-worker-dominated world, most enterprises have figured out … Continue reading “Facebook and the Enterprise: Part 8: Musing about signals”
Sometime in the early 1980s I heard this (probably apocryphal) story about Pablo Picasso: The legendary artist was sitting quietly at a boulevard cafe in Paris, when his reverie was rudely disturbed by a passing tourist. Said tourist gushingly asked Pablo if he would run off a quick sketch for him, promising to pay for … Continue reading “Musing about work patterns and wasting time”
The Wall Street Journal, in today’s print edition page C8, has an article headlined Facebook’s software boon. [The link should lead to a summarised version of the article that has not yet been paywalled.] The article discusses the purchase of Where I’ve Been (a Facebook application) by Expedia (or, more accurately, Expedia’s TripAdvisor unit) for … Continue reading “More musing about open multisided platforms”
When I started writing Confused of Calcutta, I included the following text in About This Blog: I believe that it is only a matter of time before enterprise software consists of only four types of application: publishing, search, fulfilment and conversation. I believe that weaknesses and corruptions in our own thinking about digital rights and … Continue reading “Facebook and the Enterprise: Part 4: Four Pillars”