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Is Real Time Knowledge Hurting Us In The Long-term?
[2009-06-30] Whew, OK, now that I'm off of FriendFeed and Twitter I can start talking about what I learned while I was addicted to those systems.

XiTi Analzyer Web Analytics Software Expanding To The US
[2009-06-16] Last week I had the opportunity to catch up with Dennis Varganyi, Country Manager, of AT Internet (maker of XiTi Analzyer, web analytics software). XiTi Analyzer is emmensely popular in France and is now expanding into North America. I was quite impressed with the quality of the on board reports XiTi Analyzer comes standard with. Check out my conversation with Dennis below:

Latest FICO Release Focuses On Business User Experience
[2009-06-02] Back in March FICO released 6.7 of their BRMS Blaze Advisor. I got a chance to catch up with the release just recently. The focus of this release was the business user experience - an improved out of the box experience for business users. The business user experience has become increasingly critical as business users have taken more responsibilities in many business rules projects.

Developing Predictive Analytics For Consumer Behavior
[2009-05-20] I got a chance to sit down with Rob Walker last week for an update on Chordiant Decision Manager. Rob covered some of the new features in Chordiant Decision Management 6.2 as well as some general background that has not appeared in any of my posts before (check out First Look - Chordiant Decision Management for a basic overview and First Look - Chordiant's Visual Business Director - VBD is generally available in this release).

Twitter Had Its Admin Infrastructure Cracked Causing Alarm For Social Networking
[2009-05-06] Nothing says "going to have a bad day" than to have someone crack open the admin panel to one of the hottest social networking properties out there. But Twitter has had at least one of their admin accounts cracked, with pictures both on Mashable and Korben.

Stay On Top Of The Latest Twitter Apps
[2009-04-21] For day-to-day interacting with Twitter, you can't beat a good third-party app in my experience. As to which is the best one, that's largely a matter of subjective opinion although some popularity measurement is good, too.

Thoughts To Consider When Building Your Social Media Team
[2009-04-07] Starting a social media team? Here are some high level thoughts that you should consider before you get started. This is not a comprehensive list and there are many specific details within each of these to consider.

Vquence Offers Tracking and Analytics For Video Data
[2009-03-24] Social video technology and consulting company Vquence launched a new social video metrics product called VQmetrics with an event in Sydney last week.

Keep Track Of Different Metrics With StatCounter
[2009-03-10] Last week StatCounter launched a new service called GlobalStats which allows uers to take a look at 7 different metrics at an aggregate level across all StatCounter users.

Making Web 2.0 Technologies Work For You
[2009-02-24] Here are several excerpts from an excellent article in The McKinsey Quarterly by Micheal Chui, Andy Miller and Robert P. Roberts of McKinsey & Company, Six ways to make Web 2.0 work. I highly recommend that you take a read through the complete article:

Modernizing Legacy Systems Using ILOG Rules
[2009-02-06] Frank DiGiovanni of Group RCI (a vacation exchange and vacation rental company, part of Wyndham Worldwide) presented on their journey - a legacy modernization using ILOG Rules. Frank identified SOA, legacy migration from mainframe to SOA and how business rules complements these as his key topics. Group RCI's core problem was threefold:

Driving Risk Management Into Business Decisions
[2009-01-13] The Forrester Blog For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals had a nice post on The Growing Importance Of Enterprise Risk Management. One of the key points was this one:

LCG's New Enterprise Technology Blog
[2008-12-16] Lyons Consulting Group recently started their Enterprise Technology Blog. It offers "best practices and candid insight on eCommerce and Collaboration solutions." There appears to be a nice mix of original thoughts based on their experience and commentary on research and other's blog posts.

Open Source Software Myths
[2008-12-02] It does not require immense general knowledge to know that all those things that have been successful irrespective of their fields have had lots of myths attached to them. FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) being one of them and it is the responsibility of people like you and me to make others know that these logics are just plain and jane myths and nothing more than that. I feel honored to enlist few of the top myths we have in the society regarding FOSS:

Easing Employees Into Using New Technology
[2008-11-18] Here's are several excerpts from an informative article by Darren Dahl, Trust Me: You're Going to Love This:

Obama Brings CTO To The White House
[2008-11-11] This is ridiculous. He's been president-elect for less then a week and Obama's already reworking governing through the Web.

Add some Real Structure to Your Company with NetAge OrgScope
[2008-11-04] Recently, I spoke with Jessica Lipnack and Jeff Stamps at NetAge. They have been in the collaboration business for over 25 years and through many waves of technology. I have served with Jessica on several panels and was intrigued by their new offering, OrgScope. We started with its context and origins. I cross-posted this from the App Gap as I am really interested in what they are doing.

3D Environment For Business Collaboration
[2008-10-21] A news item Shel and I discussed a report in the Wall Street Journal's Technology Blog about a partnership Linden Lab, the developer of Second Life, is announcing this week with Rivers Run Red, a developer of content, applications and tools for virtual worlds like Second Life:

What it Takes to Deliver a Service-Oriented Architecture
[2008-10-07] There is no shortage of advice on the web of the do's and don'ts for tackling SOA.

IT needs better skilled Leaders
[2008-09-23] The last few years have brought many great advancements in technology and the upcoming years promise to bring more. As companies push to drive the costs of IT down while increasing productivity and output, many large enterprise initiatives have become high priorities.

Wikis and Document Management Systems
[2008-09-09] Michael Idinopolus has a good post exploring the differences and complements of wikis and document management systems.

Do We Need a National CTO?
[2008-08-26] Last week I visited Larry Lessig. He's the founder of Creative Commons. A professor of law at Stanford University. And does many other things.

Business Intelligence Rising Among Small Businesses
[2008-08-19] More SMBs (small and medium businesses, or companies with up to 999 employees) in the United States are seriously considering using BI (business intelligence) software tools to help them better understand market drivers for sales and forecasting, and for increasing their profit margins.

Are You Responsible for Full Disclosure?
[2008-08-05] What is right or wrong with full disclosure of a particular vulnerability, and where should information security professionals draw the line?

How Technology is Changing the World
[2008-07-22] I'm at Fortune BrainstormTech, an event that relates technology to the bigger problems it can solve. Today I am moderating a lunch lab on the problem of Governance, with Daniel Kaufmann, Director, Governance and Anti-Corruption, World Bank Institute.