Ordinary OLTP DBMS vs. memory-centric processing
A correspondent from China wrote in to ask about products that matched the following application scenario:… a real-time inventory control…
Selling Out: It Sells
A few days ago, Jon Pareles wrote a New York Times article entitled “Songs From the Heart of a Marketing…
The Business of Community Networking
Colleagues Jenny Ambrozek and Victoria Axelrod from the 21st Century Organization have teamed with the World Research Group to design…
Loic Le Meur Misses the Point of Twitter
Loic Le Meur wrote a post today arguing that we need search by authority for Twitter. His argument: Comments about…
Not By Links Alone
Dan Farber recently shared this observation about the future of journalism: While the Internet is growing as the place…
Five Good Things
For the next 11 days, I'll be continuing a series, "Twelve Days of Net Work," over on the AppGap. Each…
We have a winner!
The Wine Enthusiast ran an interesting multi-channel campaign - an ad in the Wall Street Journal was followed by email,…
Only Google…
No other major SaaS company in the world could get away with this approach to paying customers. Not only Google…
Putting the Social back in Social Networks
Merry Christmas / and Happy Newton Day to all! I hope all of you are spending some time offline for…
SOA unplugged: what readers had to say about SOA in 2008
Readers speak their minds on all things SOA, from event-driven architecture to reuse to making the business case