notes and views on crm, social media, and the human side of information technology

links for 2008-10-01

  • Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder
    The money quote: “The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion.” I agree to some point - locking into a cloud provider is no different than locking into Oracle / SAP contract. We need a mechanism to ensure that our data stays ours no matter who the provider is at the moment.
  • Mobile Startup Case Studies at mTrends - mobile media lifestyle trends - m-trends.org
    Why is everybody still making another photo sharing app after another? Are there any other use cases for mobile? It shouldn’t take a credit crisis for us to start getting serious. Can’t wait for Web 3.0 (apps with value AND a pricelist) to come.
  • The Business of Software - Offering free editions
    Interesting discussion, esp. for anyone trying to make a dime by selling software in the economy of “free”. I am strongly convinced that we’ll be seeing less “free” in the very near future. Nothing trumps “value for money”.
  • Ditching the Semantic Web?
    Perhaps. The problem of this (and many other lofty ideas) is that they haven’t been inspired by a real, dire need of actual people. But then, ideas and ideals do sometimes generate real, actual needs. Pick your side.

October 2, 2008 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment 

Unsupported customer

So I hear Apple is now blogging to calm its customers who are none too happy about MobileMe flaws.

Apple? Blogging? Is the sun still rising from the east?

Apparently Firefox 3 isn’t a good enough browser for me to see it for myself. Clicking repeatedly on “Continue” had no effect - this is the only page I could access.

It’s been long since I’ve been discriminated against by a web site, mostly because all the major browsers now support all the features you can imagine, so discrimination makes no sense anymore. This reminded me of the days when companies assumed I’d install software just so that I could see their web site.

In 1999, I might have bothered.

July 27, 2008 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment 

Indeed

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May 28, 2008 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment