What makes Apple so anti-social?…
I’m not talking here about any corporate level misanthropic activities. I am focused on Apple’s seeming lack of interest in embracing social technologies and integrating them into the core foundation of their various product offerings. For a company that prides itself on thought leadership, creativity in this space seems […]
Vista was Microsoft’s opportunity to prove operating systems still matter…
Given the time it took to develop and deliver Vista - and the money spent marketing it - I am sure that Microsoft has been taken aback by the market’s tepid reaction to it (even after the first service pack prerelease everyone said they would […]
There’s been a lot of recent posting about ‘Web 2.0′, ‘Web 3.0′, and beyond…
The biggest fallacy in all of this web versioning mania is that it treats the web as if it were some vast, singular gestalt. The reality is that there are multiple threads of evolution taking place concurrently in this space. […]
It’s said the Internet can route around any network problems it encounters…
While that claim may be debated on its technical merits at a network infrastructure level, the internet has proven very adept at routing around the bottlenecks and inefficiencies we find in the networks in our society. Information of all kinds finds it way […]
Akamai powers the visual web…
They are the leading provider of edge based content caching for the efficient distribution of high bandwidth media. To make this work, Akamai have built a content distribution network with ‘edge servers’ that live at the data centers of most major ISPs.
Clients of Akamai leverage these servers to efficiently […]
Efficiency is the mantra of modern corporate culture…
Digital technologies have enabled companies to persue efficiency in increasingly aggressive ways, transforming the business landscape radically over the past decade.
The first wave of this transformation has impacted workers the most…
Many jobs today can now be outsourced to virtually anywhere in the world, with companies […]
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