The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Thursday, January 6, 2011 The Web Is a Customer Service Medium By Paul Ford I look forward to your feedback. The Fundamental Question of the Web One can spend a lot of time defining a medium in terms of how it looks, what it transmits, wavelengths used, typographic choices made, bandwidth available. I like to …
When you think about who might topple a software giant like a Microsoft or a Google, you might be inclined to think of Goliaths like, well Google and Microsoft. The same is true of any industry, you probably think of a company of similar size or larger as being the type of company that would …
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Knowledge Sharing Tools or Technologies are distinct from Knowledge Sharing METHODS, and both are further separated from Knowledge Analytics and Knowledge Management which is but Quadrant I of the Four Quadrants. The Whole Enchilada does not exist and is unlikely to exist given the present courses of IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle. Below we offer a …
A recent Microsoft video suggests the company considers OpenOffice.org a significant threat to its own Office suite. Titled “A Few Perspectives on OpenOffice.org,” the video features a series of horror stories from customers who tried the open-source productivity suite and suffered from excess costs as well as IT resources, performance and compatibility issues. A series …
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Still in very early Beta, but you can now sign up for a free account in the Peace Cloud. Private studios, publishing tools and more…. Xeden is launching this year and building out over the next year the Peace Cloud which will host to many of the NGOs, non-profits from around the world that address …
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Phi Beta Iota: Industry colleagues point out that Ballmer took over at the top while Jobs came back in at the bottom. Our own view is that a convergence is occurring that will be settled between the personal device and the cloud–who comes up with the most secure reliable personal device (e.g. an eye-screen with …
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The best open source database? Ever since Oracle got its hands on MySQL via the Sun acquisition, many in the open source community have been hoping for a new open source database champion to emerge, notes Alan Shimel. With the release of version 9.0, it looks like PostgreSQL is stepping into the void. Some say …
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