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links for 2008-05-11

• Delocator
  Let's de-Starbucks Australia ...
  (tags: via:sighmon coffee activism cafe small help save them)

links for 2008-05-06

• Stilgherrian · Oh you poor, dear record companies…
  "There is no digital music battle or piracy war. That is a figment of your imagination, and, every time you preach our digital crimes to us, we ‘tune out’ .... Your declining profits are the symptom of a business model that is fast becoming irrelevant
  (tags: drm riaa music disintermediation)

links for 2008-05-02

• Why social software won’t dethrone the incumbents | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com
  social software vs the enterprise ... as I said elsewhere the issue isn't with the big vendors - it's crusty command-and-control hierarchies that kill social software in the enterprise
  (tags: socialsoftware enterprise management)
• Collaboration and Content Strategies Blog: Why GMail is Disruptive
  It's the cost, stupid ... read the comment too - about Google's very efficient infrastructure
  (tags: via:hortovanyi exchange gmail disruption)
• Architecture astronauts take over - Joel on Software
  Joel Spolsky gives MS Live Mesh a huge serve ... is Ray Ozzie a one-trick (and lame one at that) pony?
  (tags: architecture google innovation microsoft joelonsoftware)

links for 2008-05-01

• EXCLUSIVE: CODA2go on force.com | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com
  There's a market happening .... software provisioning on a common platform ...
  (tags: saas paas provisioning multitenant)

links for 2008-04-30

• Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses And City Planning Today (Gotham Gazette, November 6, 2006)
  The difference Jane Jacobs has made for New York planning ...
  (tags: via:freedetailsbyalistlessfool robert_moses the_power_broker jean_jacobs gotham robertmoses jeanjacobs)

links for 2008-04-25

• Salesforce.com’s bold development platform vision [includes executive podcast] | IT Project Failures | ZDNet.com
  Mike Krigsman on Salesforce's platform play: "the new paradigm is compelling, interesting, and undeniably cool", but "will developers buy it?" ... Nick would probably like to know too
  (tags: salesforce saas paas infrastructure multi-tenant)

links for 2008-04-21

• Bike Riding April 20th 2008 - a set on Flickr
  Just a few hours later and I might have had the chance to run Nick down ...
  (tags: via:hortovanyi bike riding mt+lofty)
• Enterprise Initiatives: Why doesn't anyone understand SOA?
  Not sure I agree that BPM is the major avenue of value for SOA, but it IS certainly one of them ...
  (tags: via:hortovanyi BPM SOA lego architecture)
• Nick Hortovanyi : "Context of Value" - Aids Productivity
  Nick creating new terms ... more on the attention/intention economy
  (tags: via:hortovanyi context+of+value del.icio.us linkedin productivity social+data)
• Nick Hortovanyi : Will Microsoft be relevant in the SaaS world?
  I think Microsoft is trying to "get" the web-native thing, but is struggling. And it was me that first predicted that MicroWho could be their "IBM Moment" ... :'D
  (tags: via:hortovanyi .NET j2ee microsoft relevance saas)

links for 2008-04-18

• Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight...: Process as a substitute for competence
  "process is being used as a substitute for competence" - James has been eavesdropping on my office this week ...
  (tags: development management programming agile waterfall process)

links for 2008-04-17

• Should we continue to invest in EA?
  Linthicum's point - not unless we're prepared to be serious about it, rather than pay lip service to strategic thinking ...
  (tags: SOA architecture governance value)
• Web 2.0 Expo Meeting Scheduling: Twitpitch Me!
  Stowe on the new elevator pitch ...
  (tags: twitter schedule meeting)
• Andi on Web & IT: Java is losing the battle for the modern Web. Can the JVM save the vendors?
  The comments to this post have a lot to say either way ... but Java's place on the Web is a worthwhile discussion to have
  (tags: via:hortovanyi .NET C JVM LAMP enterprise java python ruby web platforms trends)

links for 2008-04-15

• Email Jail Bail
  (tags: email jail wiki)