December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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Breaking a consensus?
Balancing divergent interests is one of the key things to do in a project: between business people defending the functional requirements and technologists pushing for non-functional, between the project manager guarding his time and budget constrains and the project member wanting to figure out the details of a problem, etc…
Lacking a brilliant visionary that can nail the silver bullet (the...
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Surfers and Divers, Patients and Doctors...
While I am keeping my promise of reading more on the Personal Identity Management, I gladly take any opportunity to exchange ideas with open but critical minds. This morning one of these opportunities took place… and one of the questions was:
Does a person use information available - and how? Is a better informed person a smarter person? And how will the informed person interact with an...
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Personal Identity Management
A couple of weeks ago, I ran across a blog post “Thoughts on Data Privacy and the Penny Gap” [link], which took me to the website of www.personal.com. A couple of days ago, their blog featured a Forrester report titled “Personal Identity Management” [link].
The idea behind personal identity management is that the control over data shifts from the (large) operator of a...
September 2011
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A Mental Revolution
I spent the last few days in Batumi (Georgia) for an international conference on the topic “Public Service of the Future”. And I have to say it was a great experience! The delegations represented around 20 countries, going from neighbors such as Turkey and Azerbeidjan to far away countries such as Iceland and Sweden, ex-soviet countries such as Ukrain to North African countries such as...
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Welcome to the 21st century!
Today started with a Belgian employee of the German Lufthansa refusing my trolley as hand luggage for one of the most absurd reasons I ever heard. “It is more than 8 kg”. As if a kg in the luggage compartment weighs less than in the cabin… or as if I would be refused on the plain if I weighted some kg more… But the rules remained the rules and the employee stuck to the...
June 2011
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Do we want to make (all) our data useful?
In my last post, I put computing power & data as the ingredients for new insights. Just a couple of thought on these topics…
Computing power
Fact 1: My dad’s 1st PC (he was incredibly proud of it) run on a 3.3 MHz processor. Now my phone runs 528 (and it is a sloooooow phone ;).
Fact 2: You get an hour of “Quadruple Extra Large” server power for $2,10. Quite...
Location Awareness - Love it or Hate it?
I love location aware applications… Simply because they provide more relevant information and make my life easier. Locale is one of those clever ways of using your location. Based on where your mobile phone is or in what state it is, it’s behavior will change.
I hate location aware applications… Simply because they know where you are. And could be telling somebody else.
Once...
May 2011
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April 2011
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Bike leasing in Flanders →
Interesting complement on the very popular car-leasing in Belgium. Curious to see how this will further evolve!
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The effect of (im)mobility on the way we live!
When I go on holidays, I try (and usually succeed) to get completely disconnected. No internet, no phone, no nothing… During my last trip to the Maestrazgo mountains in Spain, the effect was even stronger. There I could hardly connect to people. Not that the people there were not friendly or nice or interesting… there were just no people.
Most of the time when talking about mobility...
March 2011
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Carpoolparkings in Limburg zijn het populairst →
Interessant onderwerp voor Volle Wagens!
February 2011
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What is the annoyance nr. 1 when people are... →
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In China, Park the Car, Take the Train →
Reblog of a reblog, but still… look at the numbers (*3 by 2015). I will be happy if there is a plan by 2015 ;)
As about 13 million people flooded into cities in each of the recent years, the fast-growing commuting demand hampered any efforts to make public transport rides a friendly experience.
In the Chinese capital, for instance, subway doors can’t be closed at peak hours until...
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“You cannot hardware yourself out of a problem you softwared yourself into…”
– … via Tim Van der Wee
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“Now that’s a great means of transportation… you get where you wanna...”
– Buzz Aldrin when recalling a whale shark hitch ride
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Activate the future (BMW) →
Interesting series of video’s giving a very nice insight in how BMW sees the future of mobility!
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WatchAn interesting idea for people wanting to travel over longer distances and do not want to buy a brompton!
The site has plenty of ideas on how to make the street more ‘livable’ by mixing different transport modi.
“Simplify Essential Complexity
Diminish Accidental Complexity”
– Neal Ford
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Continuous Deployment
I came across an interesting concept: if you can integrate often, why not deploy often? Definitely something to read more about… and probably add this to my presentation on application development :)
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“If you think you can prevent failure, then you aren’t developing your ability to...”
– kitchensoap
“Focus is about saying no”
– credited to Steve Jobs
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Electrical Car sharing in Brussels →
An interesting initiative in Brussels, next to eCambio.
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The True Cost of Driving →
Interesting article identifying and outlining many of the actual costs of driving, both the direct costs a driver pays and those hidden costs carried by the public at large.
SSO on the web - facebook vs linkedin →
In one of my previous posts, I dug up the presentation about openID. The platform of openid might not be as succesfull, the idea of a shared source of identity, used by 3rd party sites & platforms definitely found its place on the web…
Over the last year, Facebook has become increasingly dominant in terms of being used as the user identity and login on third-party sites. […]
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Google Offers Tools for Bringing Websites to TV →
Looks like channel convergence is yet another step closer…
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How Facebook Ships Code →
This list of (best) practices that are followed by facebook might be a very good case to add to my presentation on application development methodologies
Introduction from the author (@yeeguy)
I’m fascinated by the way Facebook operates. It’s a very unique environment, not easily replicated (nor would their system work for all companies, even if they tried). These are notes gathered from...
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Google APIs & Developer Products - January 2011 →
A very nice entry point into google’s programmatic interfaces!
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Average urban American wastes 4 workdays annually... →
And the Belgian equivalent is 300 days for a career: http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=G7G35N6P2
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“Many backup because they have seen the dark side of failing to do so, blessed...”
– T.E. Ronneberg
I am now officially part of the 1st category [sic]… and one of my back-up strategies is putting things online when possible! More on online productivity tools in the coming days.
January 2011
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13 Reasons Not to Go to the Cloud →
I honestly think that buying your own hardware is rarely the good choice for a small to mid-size company… there is a hosted solution for almost any use case and it is impossible to get the same service for a comparable price.
Unless… you meet one of the 13 criteria (tnx @BobWarfield)
Normally I am a tremendous fan of the Cloud and advocate it for almost everyone. However, Michael...
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E-mail and cloud computing: time to get rid of the... →
Competition pays of: the new kid in town pushes the decennia-longer leader in new directions. Making the cloud yet another viable option for a key business use: e-mail.
Google Apps or Microsoft BPOS: what’s right for you? The verdict
Google Apps, for now at least, seems to have the most complete offering (email/calendering/docs) , excellent desk-less functionality (no client side applications...
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FourSquare for the Enterprise: Give it 2 Years,... →
The key take-away for me is the following statement:
Hutch Carpenter of Spigit says it is a two-year lag before the enterprise adopts a social computing trend.
The trick is to knowh which social computing trends will be adopted :)
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New Waves of Growth!? →
Accenture identified 4 area’s we should be looking at:
an aging population, growing resource scarcity, exploding technology advances and emerging markets.
An interesting read to get the helicopter view!