When you agree to the terms-of-service of a social network site, don't be surprised when that site seeks to apply those policies to its members and to applications that operate within that environment. While a credible case can be made that a user should be able to export their own data - relation data (the data jointly shared between members) cannot be systematica ...
Blogger: Guy Creese (cross-posted on Pattern Finder)
On Wednesday, April 9, 2008, Yahoo! announced that it was buying IndexTools, a web analytics vendor. On the following Tuesday, Dennis Mortensen, the COO of IndexTools, announced on his blog that, "Yahoo! currently intends to provide the IndexTools Web Analytics
service FREE of charge to clients and partners who accept the stand ...
I was having breakfast this morning before going to work to prepare for my telebriefing tomorrow on The Role of Enterprise Content Management in Content Globalization/Localization when I opened my Wall St. Journal (4/28/08 page A1; link) to read that nationalism may be thwarting globalization. The article by Bob Davis points out that while globalization was su ...
Blogged by: Karen Hobert Yesterday I was asked to comment on a series of blog posts my colleague Guy Creese recently made regarding Google Apps for the enterprise and how I felt about his commentary. For background here are links to the posts in Guy's blog, Pattern Finder: Google Should Announce Google Exchange (April 8, 2008) Stark Reminder: Gmail Is Still in Beta (April 17, 2008) A SaaS Les ...
Blogger: Guy Creese (cross-posted on Pattern Finder)
An excerpt from page 13 of the 2006 Burton Group Collaboration and Content Strategies report, "The Copernican Revolution in Content," bears repeating:
Content
management has moved upstream in the creation process over the years.
In the past, secretaries typed only important documents, such as major
memos and contract ...