Monthly Archives: September 2006

links for 2006-09-06

O’Reilly Radar > Open Data: Small Pieces Loosely Joined
(tags: architecture web2.0 toread Google open-source)

Office 2.0 Podcast Jam is On

In the next week or so, I’ll unveil a website that will host podcasts on the topic of Office 2.0 in association with the Office 2.0 conference to be held October 11th and 12th in San Francisco. The purpose of this experiment is to extend the reach of the conversation around Office 2.0 and to […]

links for 2006-09-05

Half Changed World: How I do it
Elizabeth writes how she manages to combine work, family, and training for a triathlon.
(tags: work-family-balance career work books quotes)

Caterina.net: BizDev 2.0
A great post I saw pass through over the summer when I was on a link-collecting hiatus.
(tags: business enterprise ideas web2.0 business-development)

Gabe Rivera : efuddle.com : Why I don’t […]

links for 2006-09-04

Don Marti misc/lightweighting.html
Lightweighting as eliminating bullshit. Examples: unconferences, agile software development.
(tags: bullshit business software agile enterprise)

SandHill.com | Engineering | Time for a New Software Model
“Rick Sherlund at Goldman Sachs estimates that in 2005 software companies will spend 82 percent of new license revenue on marketing and sales efforts.” Is the enterprise software business broken?
(tags: business […]

links for 2006-09-03

Confused Of Calcutta » Blog Archive » Social software and education
Roundup of information re: use of social software in education.
(tags: education web2.0)

IT-Director.com - Architecture Marchitecture
“A Marchitecture is an architecture produced for marketing reasons, normally by a vendor.” ha ha. via Alex Barnett.
(tags: marketing enterprise architecture)

On Learning and Creating through Small Scale Experiments

Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed Paul Graham of Y Combinator who notes a move toward smaller scale startups:
There’s definitely a trend toward smaller investments, because it costs so much less to start a startup now. And if you take less money initially, you keep more options open. Once you’ve taken a VC-scale investment of two or three […]

links for 2006-09-02

ongoing · Spolsky Starts a Language War
Joel starts a language war by arguing that language wars aren’t useful. Tim summarizes the discussion.
(tags: enterprise programming ruby java)

Mathemagenic: learning and KM insights > Collisions Between Blogging and Work
What happens when work and 2.0 technology collide?
(tags: blogging enterprise2.0)

Greg Olsen : Charter Street : Going Bedouin
Greg’s an old friend […]

Where Are The Women: A Marketing Problem with a Marketing Solution

It’s painful to read the conversation about the lack of women speakers at the Office 2.0 conference. Painful because the visibility of women doesn’t seem to be increasing. Painful because there aren’t any easy solutions. Painful because some people believe that women are just inferior. Painful because the thought of public speaking makes me want […]

links for 2006-09-01

Application Architecture for the Enterprise: On Truth and Goodness
Link to NPR show on the great information visualization guru Edward Tufte
(tags: tolisten)

Seth’s Blog: Awkward
It’s not always pleasant or comfortable to go after your goals. Do it anyway.
(tags: inspiration)

Real World SOA | InfoWorld | Will SOA Kill J2EE? | August 30, 2006 05:56 AM | By Dave […]

Email: The Good Enough Collaboration Tool

Email really sucks as a collaboration tool doesn’t it? Everyone has to manage their own archives. New team members don’t have easy access to old discussions and shared documents. People lose or delete information that turns out to be important. Stakeholders get mistakenly or purposefully left out of discussions. Email inboxes get flooded with information […]