Thomas Otter

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Twitter, LinkedIn and working at Gartner.

September 18th, 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 say this [...]

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Tags: HR · Social Software · internet

Short thought on URL shortening

August 10th, 2009 · 6 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 isn’t [...]

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Tags: internet · software industry