August 23rd, 2006
Summary: (1) GoogleMaps API illustrates a business strategy accepted by Web 2.0 companies; fumbled by Web 1.0 companies; and rejected by old-world companies. (2) Google Maps succeeds because its complex, polished UI brings a smile and a muttered “how do they do that?” reaction from even jaded Internet users. (3) we’re shifting many of our […]
August 22nd, 2006
I’m probably dating myself with the reference to Oldsmobile’s disastrous marketing campaign (click here if you have no idea what I’m talking about), but it’s deliberate: one of the things that’s becoming more and more clear to me as I investigate Web 2.0 vendors, products, and services is that there are some very important social/cultural […]
August 21st, 2006
Having just arrived here in San Francisco this afternoon to spend a week looking at Web 2.0 products and technologies, I had an interesting conversation with Chris Boni about Zimbra’s open-source, Web-based collaborative email product. Unlike many of today’s Web 2.0 products and services aimed at the consumer market — of which the MySpace social-networking […]
August 20th, 2006
I ordered a Sanyo Xacti HD1 hi-def video camcorder a few days ago, and after telling myself that I couldn’t afford the distraction of playing with a new toy during the work-week, I finally opened the box yesterday and put all the pieces together. It’s an amazing piece of technology, small enough to fit in […]
August 19th, 2006
A few months ago, Jaron Lanier published a provocative essay entitled “Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism.” It created a storm of controversy, debate, and discussion — but it faded away before I could digest it all and attempt to contribute something to the discussion that had not already been said […]
August 18th, 2006
Information Week journalist Charlie Babcock has written a fascinating article with his “top 10″ list (which actually contains twelve items) of what he considers the greatest software products/systems/programs ever written. He takes responsibility for the list — and presumably its rightness or wrongness — but acknowledges insights and assistance from a number of people, including […]
August 17th, 2006
I’ve updated my blogroll, which you can see near the bottom right corner of the “home page” of this blog. Some blogs have been removed, primarily because their author/owners have been conspicuously silent for long periods of time. And some new ones have been added, including the following:
TwoPointTouch, written by London journalist Ian Delaney, who […]
August 16th, 2006
Last month, I gave a keynote presentation for Software Design’s “Architecture & Design World” in Chicago; the title of the talk was, “Beyond UML, Erds and DFDs: The Evolution of Modeling in the Next Decade.”
If you’d like to see a mind-map of the talk, complete with about 50 embedded hyperlinks, you can download the PDF […]
August 16th, 2006
I’ve created yet another new version of my Web 2.0 mind-map; you can download the PDF file (6.96 megabytes this time) by surfing over to the www.yourdon.com/downloads area of my website, or by clicking here.
I’ve added several new items to the previous version of the mind-map:
I created a new sub-branch of “Examples” on the “Long-Tail” […]
August 15th, 2006
A year or two ago, a combination of curiosity and vanity prompted me to set up a Google Alert search that pings me every time the name “Yourdon” pops up on the Internet. I’ve been intrigued to see how many distant Yourdon relatives are getting written up in local newspapers in Kansas, North Carolina, upstate […]
