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Category: Social

  • Groupthink

    You need somebody to challenge Groupthink in every team, but you also need a function to challenge it at the corporate level: Group Internal Audit can play that role too. Groupthink is a mode that a group of people gets into when they desire harmony in decision making without a realistic appraisal of alternatives and…

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  • What will the Internet look like in 2020?

    Not sure how I suddenly stumbled upon this one from early 2011, but it’s interesting nevertheless. A database developer’s (Couchbase co-founder J Chris Anderson) take on the future internet: Remember “web accelerators”? They’ll be back with a vengeance. So when you pull out your screen thingy, it’ll already have a copy of Hacker News and…

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  • Rumble CEO: video games aren’t mainstream… yet

    When will games be truly mainstream? I think this is still farther away than Rumble CEO Richardson would have us think, not least judging from playing the beta of their game KingsRoad. I see how they’re trying to bridge the gap between console/PC gamers and the casual Facebook gamers, but not how the new format…

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  • Thunderbird No More

    Mozilla announced that Thunderbird will no longer be actively developed by the Mozilla folks. Because they don’t see innovation in the email fat client space. Coincidentally I stopped using Thunderbird a couple months ago in favor of a Roundcube based webmail solution for my private email needs (corporate is still Outlook), so I would tend…

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  • How big data might mean better business for big banks

    How big data might mean better business for big banks: interesting vision how banks and credit card companies can use publicly available data and big analytics to separate bad from good risks for the retail lending business. There are some more links in that article that are worth following. I think some might already be…

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  • How to Know if Your Application is Strategic

    How to know if your application is “strategic”, an excellent title to start a conversation, down to the quotation marks! Nick Malik explains what to do to move your application into the strategic quadrant, but it equally applies to projects etc. No quick way to summarize, so go read the entire article, it’s worth it…

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  • Three Laws of Cloud

    Do we need Three Laws of Cloud? Not yet. Neither should we be overly concerned regarding reports of cloud leading to the elimination of IT. This, at least, is Lori MacVittie’s finding in her very good piece I, Cloud on the impact of the cloud shift on machines replacing humans. It goes into philosophical questions…

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  • Timesink

    OMG, I just wasted about 2h updating my Twitter Ruby script because I didn’t carefully read this error message: /home/maol/bin/politr_oauth.rb:39:in `authorize_from_request’: wrong number of arguments (3 for 2) (ArgumentError) from /home/maol/bin/politr_oauth.rb:39 Turns out my gem update run failed to update the twitter gem because of a missing ruby1.8-dev package on Debian, and I didn’t notice…

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  • Thnks Fr Th Mmrs

    Paul Carr, who luckily is a much better writer than I’ll ever be, has quit all the social and web 2.0 stuff to focus on his blog (and book, but that doesn’t count for me) again. Read about some first experiences in Thnks Fr Th Mmrs: The Rise Of Microblogging, The Death Of Posterity, and…

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  • Tech that is not tech

    Great post by Couchio guy Mikeal Rogers about tech that is not tech. I can relate so much to that – I guess it’s an age or maturity thing. I don’t know if it’s just because I got a little older, or because I started working so much with JavaScript and writing web stuff, but…

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