by George White
September 27th, 2008
Say you have a new, wildly successful platform, the new hotness. Everyone wants to buy the hardware and developers can’t wait to get on board. You’ve set up a nifty distribution channel and things are rollig along. So, how do you make it fail?
Tags: Apple, Business and Process
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by Hal Reed
August 6th, 2008
People sometimes ask me why I don’t blog.
The Short Version
I can’t produce ‘good content’.
The Long Version
Last weekend, a man named Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died. His death (by which I mean his life) has inspired me to explain, in proper context, why I don’t blog.
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by Alex Mekelburg
July 24th, 2008
In an optimal world of ubiquitous broadband, how much computing power do we really need to be carrying around with us? Which features should stay localized, and which left on the remote, centralized, powerful computing systems? This follow-up post proposes some details on what these systems may look like… or perhaps just some ideas for a toy I want.
Tags: Cloud Computing, iPhone, Portable Device, remote access, remoting, v12n, Virtual Computing, virtualization, Web Services
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by George White
July 18th, 2008
We recently completed a project for a new client. The project had a short duration, a mere four weeks. And the budget was fixed. And the client needed an entirely new site up and running, with a significant number of features. How to do it?
Tags: Agile, Development, Rails
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by Alex Mekelburg
June 11th, 2008
Portable devices are getting better and more powerful. Virtualization technologies and cloud computing are becoming better and more mainstream. Are these trends at odds, and, if so, will one win out over the other? Lets take a closer look at what these mean and how the essential bond between remote access and virtualization lay the groundwork for some interesting possibilities.
Tags: iPhone, Portable Device, remote access, remoting, v12n, virtualization
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by George White
May 28th, 2008
My wife found me a really great old birding book the other day. Perhaps the coolest thing about it was the booklet in the back features an embedded album.
There’s a lot that I love about this booklet: the old-school multimedia design, the great type design, the feeling of the paper. It’s great to see this [...]
Tags: books, Design, pre-Web
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by Steffan Berelowitz
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Steffan Berelowitz founded Bit Group, Inc. in 1995, and over its 14-year history has helped to develop a client list of Fortune 500, mid-market and emerging businesses.
In addition to his responsibilities at Bit Group, Steffan served as a trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MA Software Council) from 2001-2006. Steffan served on the board of directors of the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston as the chair of the advisory board of the Center for Information Technology of Hebrew College. Steffan is a member of the Boston College Technology Council. He is also a member of the Technology Network, a national network of senior executives from the nation's leading technology companies. Steffan served as an Internet consultant to former senator and presidential candidate Senator Bill Bradley.
A graduate of Boston College, Steffan has spent the past 15 years in online services and technology. In 1993, Steffan was one of the key founders of ArtNet.
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Steffan Berelowitz
May 27th, 2008
Firstly, a note of thanks to colleague Hal Reed for introducing me (and now you?) to the term deprovement. Hal defines deprovement as “a change that is intended to improve something, but in actual practice makes it worse, e.g., harder to adopt, harder to use, or less reliable.”
In the world of software or Web [...]
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by George White
May 20th, 2008
I’m down at the Endeca Discover 08 conference and now I’m all fired up about what’s coming in Endeca. And there are some very groovy things on the way.
Tags: .NET, Endeca, indexing, J2EE, new and cool, partners, search
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by Steffan Berelowitz
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Steffan Berelowitz founded Bit Group, Inc. in 1995, and over its 14-year history has helped to develop a client list of Fortune 500, mid-market and emerging businesses.
In addition to his responsibilities at Bit Group, Steffan served as a trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MA Software Council) from 2001-2006. Steffan served on the board of directors of the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston as the chair of the advisory board of the Center for Information Technology of Hebrew College. Steffan is a member of the Boston College Technology Council. He is also a member of the Technology Network, a national network of senior executives from the nation's leading technology companies. Steffan served as an Internet consultant to former senator and presidential candidate Senator Bill Bradley.
A graduate of Boston College, Steffan has spent the past 15 years in online services and technology. In 1993, Steffan was one of the key founders of ArtNet.
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Steffan Berelowitz
May 20th, 2008
For applications that have not been well structured for internationalization (I18N), the prospect of extracting and then replacing localized strings is a little like removing 30% of the strands of spaghetti in a bowl of pasta and then putting them back where they belong. If that’s not tough enough, each new strand may have [...]
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by George White
May 6th, 2008
PATENT DOOM IS AT HAND!!!
Ok, that may be a bit strong, but there’s some serious cause for concern, at least for patents issued in the U.S. since 2000. As pointed out in this NY Times piece, a recent paper by law professor Jim Duffy reveals some serious problems with how patent judges have been appointed for the last 8 years.
Tags: Apocalpyse, Intellectual Property, IP, Patents
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