a blog about information
Do you remember enterprise application integration? Those were the days. First you paid to bury your information in someone’s proprietary silo, then you paid to excavate it from there, then you paid again to bury it again in someone else’s silo. Everybody was happy. Except for the guys paying the bills. I went to see … Continue reading “Freewheeling about excavating information and stuff like that”
There’s a not-so-quiet battle going on during the US election, one that is going to get harder and grittier as the days go by. On the face of it, it’s a battle between “Mainstream Media” (or “MSM”, as it gets called) and “New Media” (principally the blogosphere, flickrworld and twitterverse). I think that the battle … Continue reading “Enterprise 2.0: The real revolution in the making”
I’ve been learning a lot from the whole Twitter phenomenon. How, despite its frailties and weaknesses, it continues to attract followers. How, despite it being “down so ***damn long, that it looks like up to me” people continue to build Twitter ecosystem tools. And how it spawns an entire industry around the Fail Whale: the … Continue reading “Musing about Information and Long Tail and Publish-Subscribe”
Recently I spent some time considering the differences between traditional office e-mail and facebook e-mail: the lack of bc, cc and forward buttons, the way links and videos and sound files are attached, the absence of spreadsheet and document and presentation attachments, and so on. All that got me thinking. For a while now I’ve … Continue reading “Musing about Flickr and YouTube and mobile phone cameras in the enterprise”
Whenever I get the chance, I talk to people about just how they use Facebook as part of their day-to-day business. Today it was my sister Jayapriya’s turn. She runs a literary agency out of India and China and Singapore and a few other places, and was in town for the book far. She described … Continue reading “Thinking more about Facebook and social networks and e-mail”