Monthly Archives: March 2008

Profound Late Night Ideas

I have been using the Internet a long time now, and working on it for a living since 1995, so there are few things that I am surprised no one has done yet. I am sure this is not going … Continue reading

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Computer Security Continued

Continuing on the thread of security… One interesting story I read this week was about people that use Peer to Peer sharing software like LimeWire and Kazaa to download music from work. Or maybe from their work computer at home. … Continue reading

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Computer Security Gets Press – March 21, 2008

I am going to write a series of stories on security over the next week. This has been prompted by a number of articles I have read lately, coupled with the fact that I have had speaking clients mention the … Continue reading

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Google Announces Help for Non-Profits – March 19, 2008

Many of us do work for non-profits on the side and I heard two things lately that warrant me at least commenting on how technology can be used to help these organizations. The first it that Google announced yesterday a … Continue reading

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Your Own Personal eCommunity – March 14, 2008

The concept you are about to read may be the most important driver of future success you will find this year. The term eCommunity has been misconstrued to describe Facebook or MySpace type networks. If that is true for you, … Continue reading

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Apple in the Enterprise

Apple may not be known as an enterprise commodity, in fact, unless you are in marketing or creative you most likely don’t have a Mac on your desktop, but on one front adoption might be about to grow. A few … Continue reading

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Crowdsourcing Coming of Age – March 11, 2008

Everywhere I turn these days I am running into new ways that organizations are using the concept of crowdsourcing to get work done through the Internet. Today, it was a review of a Website that allows people to post questions … Continue reading

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A Renaissance in IT-land

Only a decade ago an IT professional likely was the master of one or two large scale systems. Perhaps they owned the Tandem, maybe they were an Informix DBA, or perhaps managed several applications running on the Big Iron; but … Continue reading

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Half of the Technology Writers in the World Suck – March 3, 2008

The other half are OK. I continue to see articles with the title “Will Web 2.0 Invade Organizations?” This is example one why half suck. This is like asking, “Will athletes use less steroids this year?” The answer has already … Continue reading

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