Business Technology Trends

Opinion on the technology, business, and social trends that are impacting enterprises worldwide.

22 August 2007- 02:59 PM

Hello Management? This is IT…

Cutter Fellow Steve Andriole is at it again! He’s come up with a list of the top ten things he’d say to “management” about technology. I’ll just post three of his items here for you to react to, but do read his entire list in this week’s Business Technology Trends & Impacts E-Mail Advisor.
4. Please […]

24 July 2007- 10:37 AM

What are the Rules?

Cutter Fellow Steve Andriole has stirred up a storm of controversy with his latest Business Technology Trends E-Mail Advisor! What’s your take on his 10 rules?
I’ve posted the Advisor below. Do you agree with Steve? Do you disagree? Let us know what you think and what your rules would be!

10 New Rules
Here are 10 rules […]

20 July 2007- 12:37 PM

Sock Puppeting and Anonymous Posts

The short post that I put up deals principally with making social networking websites work: Attracting traffic, converting traffic to loyal, trusting repeat users, and then monetizing this trust in various ways. Rebecca Herold raises very interesting issues. As we learned from the cartoon in the New Yorker in July of 1993, “On […]

9 July 2007- 02:48 PM

Valuing Social Networking Websites

Social networks seem cutting edge. Perhaps Second Life should be viewed a replacement for travel, bigger than gaming and movies combined, the next social force, like email. Perhaps MySpace will replace the Yellow Pages, iTunes, even America’s malls as a communications mechanism, meeting place, and sales channel for America’s teenagers. Maybe even […]

18 June 2007- 10:45 AM

RIA security concerns when using Google Web Toolkit

Last week’s webinar “Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications” discussed the characteristics of various development approaches for building new-style, “live look-and-feel” web apps using Ajax, Flex or Google Web Toolkit (GWT). In particular we discussed how GWT alone among these alternatives provides a “single system image” to the developer, allowing him or her to […]