I got a chance to talk to Oracle yesterday about how they plan to integrate the BEA middleware assets they picked up in their acquisition into their own middleware portfolio. Oracle let it be known that - no surprise - Oracle strategy is constant and BEA integrates into it. Fusion Middleware is the brand and [...] ...
I’m here at our Catalyst Conference in San Diego and just saw a great presentation from Alan Gutierrez of Think New Orleans. Alan is a community organizer and, through a stunning set of photos from his city, showed the challenges that New Orleans faced after Hurricane Katrina and how social software in every possible form [...] ...
Yesterday I posted up a set of interruption models. I mentioned in that post that I’d write another entry on how they can be used to test interruption study methodologies. I know that sounds pretty arcane - mostly of interest to people doing interruption studies or interpreting their findings. That may not sound like too [...] ...
Well, we’ve gone quickly through the cycle of seasons here in Chicago, passing from winter to spring to construction. When working in my home office I’m now faced with a random barrage of interruptions from beeping trucks, pile drivers, and loud workmen that can’t afford walkie-talkies. Living in a part of Chicago that was fully [...] ...
It’s been a while since my last blog post as I’ve been kept running all over Europe lately doing speaking and visiting current and potential clients in Munich, Copenhagen, Vienna, and London. My presentation on social computing for the Domino Notes Users Group in Bremen went fine except for my PC getting possessed and flipping [...] ...