by Thomas Otter | August 3, 2011 | Comments Off
Those of you that read my personal blog will know that I spent the first day of my vacation at the Hockenheimring, doing an advanced driving course and track day. I got to drive a very fancy chariot, an M3 E92. It has 420 horsepower. It was an experience, but I have no plans to [...]
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Category: IT Governance Social Software Uncategorized innovation internet Tags: BMW, facebook, privacy
by Thomas Otter | September 13, 2010 | 3 Comments
Many technology writers deify or reify technology. There is often an assumption that more technology is by definition a good thing. Nicholas Carr’s recent book challenges that. This is probably why many tech types don’t seem to like it. Looking through my blog archive, I’ve often disagreed with Carr, but rather than just base my [...]
Category: books internet software industry Tags: Carr, De Botton, google, Hopkins, reading, Shallows
by Thomas Otter | January 28, 2010 | 3 Comments
My colleagues, Ray, Allen, Mike, Mark, Andrew, Mark and Van, are all over the iPad. Ray’s posts are particularly thought provoking, as he looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the device. There is also lots of commentary on the web, and the consumer electronics bloggers have discussed its every detail. I’m not going to [...]
Category: UI internet software design usability Tags: Apple, Enterprise Software., iPad, UI
by Thomas Otter | September 18, 2009 | 4 Comments
In my Twitter viewer, Tweetdeck, I have a search on Gartner. I glance at it once a day or so to see if there is stuff going on I should be aware of. I saw this earlier today. This then takes you to the LinkedIn page of a Gartner recruiter, Peter Fay. To those that [...]
Category: HR Social Software internet Tags: recruiting
by Thomas Otter | August 10, 2009 | 5 Comments
The demise of a URL shortening service, Tri.um made me think a bit about the Internet generally. There are decades of science, engineering, standards, governance and accident that have created the protocols that make the Internet work. Its openness, flexibility and to use Zittrain’s term, generative nature, are in a large part because the Internet [...]
Category: internet software industry Tags: internet, URL Shortening
