Archive for August, 2007
… a cool term bad rather not-so-cool concept I recently became aware of. See e.g. http://www.bundestrojaner.de/
Good site describing background information by NDR. The idea is to support online (personal) search through government. Officially this is referred to as “Remote Forensic Software”.
August 31st, 2007

This year’s theme is “emergence”, I happened to participate in a workshop named “The end of IT-Innovation”, organised by Hans Müller, future networks.
During the workshop I learned that facebook.com had gone from 8 Mio. users 2006 to 35 Mio. users in Aug 2007. Amazing! Good talk by Steve Prentice of Gartner group.
Also, Tony Fricko from IBM gave same answers why IBM was participating in open source projects (open source as enable of new ideas, to share knowledge, to innovate, to foster growth and usage, etc.)
August 24th, 2007
… with Sabine Fleischmann, managing director of Sun Microsystems Austria, as keynote speaker. She mentioned Sun’s slogan of “The age of participation”, see e.g. Scott McNealy’s message or Jonathan Schwartz’s blog entry.
This is Ditact No. 5 – a success model.
August 20th, 2007

Found in the June issue of RTD Info, see ec.europa.eu/research/rtdinfo/special_fp7/, page 6, Figure 3. The PDF can be downloaded here.
August 7th, 2007

www.carsonified.com argues that with Apple’s iPhone the move from (Desktop) Web-applications to mobile devices is becoming much easier: the browser (Safari) will be the same/similar, the operating system (OS X) will be the same, etc.
Interesting point! The core argument against it will be that mobile applications are due to their nature of changing locations inherently more complex and difficult than desktop applications. Hence, it would rather be the other way round, i.e., mobile web-apps could be moved more easily to desktop web-apps …
P.S.: I read the reference to canonified in a footnote fo Web 2.0 by tom ALBY (Hanser Verlag)
August 2nd, 2007