April 29th, 2007
I’ve just arrived in Boston, for the annual Cutter Summit conference. As usual, it’s still early spring here, somewhat chilly and gray; the blossoming of trees and flowers is about two weeks behind my neighborhood in New York. But the week is likely to be so busy that I may not even get outside for [...]
April 25th, 2007
I’m giving a presentation in Princeton tomorrow at a Software Best Practices conference sponsored by the IT Metrics Institute. The presentation is about the “Ten Most Important Ideas in Software Engineering,” and (as usual) it’s organized in the form of a mind-map. You can download the PDF version of the presentation, with hyperlinks embedded, by [...]
April 25th, 2007
Nearly a week ago, I noticed a couple of Internet articles about Microsoft’s decision to sell a combination of the “starter” version of its Windows XP operating system, combined with the “home” version of Microsoft Office, and Windows Live Mail, and Student 2007 (whatever that is) — all for the princely sum of $3. Here [...]
April 23rd, 2007
A few evenings ago, I had a chance to talk to about 75-100 IT professionals in the Boston community about Web 2.0. It was a miserably rainy evening, following two days of gale winds and downpours, so I was grateful that anyone showed up at all. The audience politely gawked at the 32-page mind-map that [...]
April 15th, 2007
Yesterday, I noted that Luis Suarez had recommended a wonderful video, entitled “Wear Sunscreen” on his blog; in case you missed it, here it is again: In my naivete, I thought the video was new and original, and I sent it on to various family members so they could enjoy it too. This morning, my [...]
April 14th, 2007
Luis Suarez recommended this on his blog; I have no idea how he found it. But it is indeed pretty cool…
April 14th, 2007
I’m going to be giving a presentation on Web 2.0 in a few days for the Boston SPIN chapter (click here for details), so I thought it would be a good idea to update and revise my evolving mind-map on the topic. As usual, I’ve made it available for downloading, but it now comes in [...]
April 13th, 2007
Steve Jobs didn’t ask for my advice about the merits of delaying the release of Apple’s next operating system (code-name “Leopard,” for those of you who live in the Land of Vista), in order to ensure that its much-vaunted iPhone product will ship on time in (late) June. And I have no spies, anonymous sources, [...]
April 12th, 2007
I first noticed a reference to this video clip earlier this morning, in a Seth Godin blog posting titled “One in a million,” but it’s now popped up on several other blogs that I subscribe to. Interestingly, this comes from a website called glumbert.com rather than YouTube; and it looks like a relatively simple sequence [...]
April 3rd, 2007
I’m in Rome this week to present a seminar on Web 2.0, and it has given me the opportunity to make some additions and corrections to my mind-map. A new version, v032, is available from the “downloads” section of my website; alternatively, you can download the 8.92-megabyte PDF document by clicking here. I don’t have [...]
