Archive forOctober, 2008
Oct
24
Enterprise Mashups – Let the “combinatorial innovation” begin!
October 24, 2008 | 6 Comments
Image: Rube Goldberg While IT departments struggle to reinvent themselves with the onset of cloud computing by virtualizing their IT infrastructures, according to the Economist the specter of cloud computing is predicted to have a significant impact on next generation business models. You know this may just happen… For this thought exercise put the foggy [...]
Oct
20
Looks Like we Made It – to the paperless office
October 20, 2008 | Comments Off
Wow, it was bound to happen. After all these years of me spouting off about the benefits of technology and the paperless office, the Economist now reports that paper use is falling. No longer are printers spewing endless reams of paper to provide information. Well, not really, they are just spewing a bit less… Take [...]
Oct
15
How to earn at least $10,000 per day
October 15, 2008 | Comments Off
Earlier I spoke of the benefits of plain old hard work and old fashioned subscription models as the way to make money on the web. Well forget all that because, while I was sleeping, the web moved to smart phones like the iPhone and the new gold rush are the riches to be made from [...]
Oct
9
Email Monsters…
October 9, 2008 | 52 Comments
Managing the email monster is lots of work for universities. It is seen as such a big job that some schools are getting google to handle their messaging services. Indeed, spam and viruses put a real strain on our IT infrastructure. For example, this September we handled 10,391,120 inbound messages destined to faculty and staff [...]