• No Blueprint Yet For Private Clouds
  By Roger Smith - Aug 28, 2008 - 05:28 PM Many people dont like the concept of private clouds," including my colleague John Foley and Sam Johnston (The case against 'private clouds'), since by definition cloud computing involves letting people plug into shared IT services in data centers ... read more
• Forcing Governments to use Open Source
  Will Dick - Aug 28, 2008 - 04:20 PM Bravo to Quebec’s open source software association for suing the provincial government for not tendering software purchases. Turns out the government used a rule that allows them to avoid tenders when there is only one option (in this case, ... read more
• The netGuide to Visual Search
  Jude Fiorillo - Aug 28, 2008 - 03:28 PM Welcome back to The netGuide, where I talk briefly about some of my findings from across the web and how they help solve old problems in new and creative ways. This week… We’re going to investigate the idea of search ... read more
• Hard Times Demand Teamwork -- Not an MVP
  Across the Ages - Aug 28, 2008 - 12:25 PM Almost everyone I know who has taken on the responsibility of managing feels the weight of obligation deep in their bones -- obligations to the owners of the enterprise, of course, and to customers -- but for most, perhaps even more viscerally, ... read more
• Wiki "drafts mode" where I can see the last round of changes
  Brittain - Aug 28, 2008 - 10:33 AM I would like a button (or mode) that shifts the presentation of a wiki into a view that highlights the differences between the current copy and the last set of changes.  The definition of last changes could be either (a) ... read more
• Outstanding Customer Experience Starts Before the Customer Arrives
  KeriP - Aug 28, 2008 - 08:39 AM Ok, this may be a bit off the topic of instantly responsive organizations, but it was such an impactful experience that I want to share it here. Next week I head out to San Francisco, affectionately called “the City” ... read more
• Social Media use: the Inc. 500 vs. the Fortune 500
  Denis Hancock - Aug 28, 2008 - 08:18 AM An interesting little report came out of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research recently - a “statistically significant, longitudinal (study) on the usage of social media in corporations.” However, it wasn’t just any corporations - the study ... read more
• IAD center opening
  Espen Andersen - Aug 28, 2008 - 04:32 AM Monday was exciting - not only was it the Fall workshop for the iAD Center for Research-based Innovation, but it was also the opening of the iAD Lab [Norwegian language story here] - a physical manifestation of the ... read more
• Micosoft's SQL Strategy For Massive Data Sets
  By Roger Smith - Aug 27, 2008 - 08:10 PM Cloud computing service providers like Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo are all hard at work on a new generation of parallel data processing tools that will make it easier for each company to store and analyze enormous data sets such as ... read more
• A picture made of 1000 words
  Naumi Haque - Aug 27, 2008 - 05:54 PM We've blogged before about visualization tools like ManyEyes and Swivel (here, here, and here), but I thought I'd reiterate the point of how powerful and readily available these visualizations are. Just a quick search on read more
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