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khurt.myopenid.com said: You are a little late with this statement: The days of expensive year-long implementations of behind

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:46:19 -0800

khurt.myopenid.com said:

You are a little late with this statement:

The days of expensive year-long implementations of behind-the-firewall software look to be behind us.

That statement has been true for over 5 years.

on the entry IT Must Learn to Bend or Business Will Break

Vaibhav said: Yet, Google has so many other products which have been on forever. But yeah, this one, I only used o

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:54:50 -0800

Vaibhav said:

Yet, Google has so many other products which have been on forever. But yeah, this one, I only used once.

on the entry Google Lively Is Dead-ly

Scott Brinker said: Although @1 may be correct in theory, the reality is that a lot of businesses are still very much

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:34:50 -0800

Scott Brinker said:

Although @1 may be correct in theory, the reality is that *a lot* of businesses are still very much stuck in the IT paradigms of the 80's and 90's. When you get outside the circle of web 2.0 companies, the drop-off rate of adoption of these new tools and approaches seems pretty steep.

I write a blog on the adoption of technology in the marketing department, and I see this again and again in that domain. In theory, marketing is now a highly distributed and agile mission -- transformed by search marketing/SEO, social media marketing, etc. -- but many CMOs and agencies are a long way away from embracing that at a deep structural level.

The faster technology changes, the more skewed the adoption curve becomes. You'll always have some great people on the leading edge, and I'm sure a lot of them are RWW readers. But the pig in the python is still much farther behind.

This type of change is not as simple as making the case for the advantage of new technology. We can chalk that advantage up as a given. The challenges are with people's habits and ways of thinking, entrenched culture, organizational structure with deep political forces, people's skill sets, etc.

I think Jason's right, that a cataclysmic event -- such as this economic crisis -- may very well be the necessary shock to the system to overcome that inertia. Change or die is a powerful ultimatum (as Detroit may finally learn). That life-threatening pressure hasn't been there for the past 5 years.

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sandy said: i don't see my gmail themes in my setting.. why? sad.. reply me .. plz

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:29:38 -0800

sandy said:

i don't see my gmail themes in my setting.. why?
sad.. reply me .. plz

on the entry Gmail Gets Themes

motorlu panjur said: thanks

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:31:06 -0800

motorlu panjur said:

thanks

on the entry How Much Traffic Can a Link on Google.com Drive? The Case of the G1

motorlu panjur said: thnkss

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:32:18 -0800

motorlu panjur said:

thnkss

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Ammar said: Check out the terminal theme... so geeky :-)

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:36:23 -0800

Ammar said:

Check out the terminal theme... so geeky :-)

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Dan Thornton said: Funnily enough, I've just blogged about this from a different perspective, quoting RWW's coverage of

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:45:00 -0800

Dan Thornton said:

Funnily enough, I've just blogged about this from a different perspective, quoting RWW's coverage of the Accenture report on employees using technology that isn't approved by company IT.

When employees and customers are all finding their way around the restrictions, the restrictions need to be removed.

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alphaxion said: Thing is, for a medium to large corporation or one that deals with a lot of sensative data using the

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:49:36 -0800

alphaxion said:

Thing is, for a medium to large corporation or one that deals with a lot of sensative data using the cloud exclusively for your operations is commercial suicide.

Just look at the closure of a prominent professional photographers site (forget the name of which) and how it gave its users 48 hours to grab any of their data from the site - which was nonsense because the sheer amount of bandwidth needed to do so wasn't there.
Now, if you uploaded your data onto there without a copy on your side you are a fool, but this means you still have infrastructure on your side of the cloud that needs managing.

Many corporations need the in-house solution because it best fits them - I would be mortified if my doctors used google docs as their filing system.

Some require the security that self determination over their own data provides, the company I work for developes vehicle tracking systems and as a consequence deals with multi-gigabyte SQL databases (largest of which so far has been several hundred!) and mapsets. Having this in the cloud just wouldn't work, we have made use of technologies such as starteam and bugnet to control the development of our software (and our software is a webservice too).

This isn't to say that the technology being offered isn't good, but I'd like to see them license out their technology for bespoke in-house developments so they can take advantage of the functionality but also not place their critical data with a 3rd party that could shut up shop or be hacked and either out of commission for a while or incur data theft.

What would you do if your SaaS provider gets DDoS'd? You've lost not only your applications but your data for that duration.

IBM and Sun have been trying to push the idea of the network being the computer for several decades now, yet time and time again the corporate world points out that it may work for some, but not all. And refusal to place your company into the hands of someone else for your most critical of properties is not laggard/head in sand behaviour or refusal to adapt.

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ianmcn said: Password hasher is a must have for me. Never seen a better or more secure way of managing passwords.

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:51:17 -0800

ianmcn said:

Password hasher is a must have for me. Never seen a better or more secure way of managing passwords.

on the entry Mozilla: One Billion Addons Served - Here Are Some of Our Favorites

RichSpalding said: I agree with the post. Though I have to wonder how it got created in the first place. Granted Google

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:57:50 -0800

RichSpalding said:

I agree with the post. Though I have to wonder how it got created in the first place. Granted Google employees have the time to develop ideas of their own, but this was given the primetime slot. I would suggest it was created during the fad of secondlife, which has certainly died down a bit now.

on the entry Google Lively Is Dead-ly

alphaxion said: And something I forgot to mention. What if you want to move service providers? What if you get a Sa

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:18:31 -0800

alphaxion said:

And something I forgot to mention.

What if you want to move service providers? What if you get a SaaS or cloud company that suddenly doesn't want to answer your calls (I've had this with a domain hosting company and our german domain address).

How portable have they made the data from one SaaS to another?

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Matt W said: Great post. I doubt many businesses serving US customers haven't been affected in one way or another

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:25:04 -0800

Matt W said:

Great post. I doubt many businesses serving US customers haven't been affected in one way or another by this recession. As a subscription service, I'm seeing some of my less active customers (who aren't really using the service) fall off as they look to trim their credit card statements. But, as an inexpensive alternative to many more expensive options (hiring a web master, hosting your own server, etc.) I'm optimistic that it may actually help in the long run - perhaps resulting in slightly fewer, but considerably more committed, customers.

And your post makes me think again about moving to Canada. Alas, those plans were put on hold in November - at least for another four years or so. :)

on the entry Wild Apricot: "Economic Scars"

Vadi said: Coolris sounds interesting, but "This platform is not supported yet.". Firefox 3 on ubuntu, not real

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:34:03 -0800

Vadi said:

Coolris sounds interesting, but "This platform is not supported yet.". Firefox 3 on ubuntu, not really an offbeat combination.

on the entry Mozilla: One Billion Addons Served - Here Are Some of Our Favorites

JulesLt said: It's all very well talking about focusing on making money from the web-site, but the point is that y

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:03:55 -0800

JulesLt said:

It's all very well talking about focusing on making money from the web-site, but the point is that you're shifting from an advertising subsidized content model, to a wholly ad-funded one.

In print terms, this is the difference between magazines you pay for, and the free papers.

There's certainly some offset in terms of reaching a larger audience on-line, the question is whether that can make up for the lost revenue to a degree that the 'publisher' can pay journalists an equivalent rate.

Yes, I know Web 2.0 is all about user-generated content and citizen journalism, but take off the rose-tinted glasses and that model is about companies making easy money selling advertising space on top of freely produced content - is it any wonder Google puts so much money into anti-copyright lobbyists.

This is all aside of the fact that Ars Technica and AnandTech replaced PC Magazine for me years ago.

on the entry The Slow Death of Print: RIP PC Magazine