Michael Porter

So Ray Kurzweil finished off the Wednesday Keynote.  He has been monitoring and making predictions on a variety of things. He’s got some good views into what’s happening. First and foremost, almost all the growth curves are not linear. Our growth curve follows a doubling. MIT’s first computer was the size of a building and […]

So I’ve heard reference to the private cloud but hadn’t thought too much about it until recently.  Of course, you only get jogged when you see an example of you are a true visionary.  I’m more along the lines of the former.  So I saw a case study of First Citizens Banks using IBM’s WebSphere […]

So I’m listening to Vishveshwara Vasa talk about SOA and Portal.  (He used to work for my company Perficient btw).  He hit upon the WSRP topic and I thought it worthy of a very short discussion.   WSRP stands for Web Services Remote Portlet. The idea is that you call the portlet by passing on some […]

I’m at IBM’s Impact conference and will be able to hit a few sessions.  One session I’m in is by Akamai about caching of content.  They use routing, transport, and application optimization to make their network optimized around the world.   What’s interesting is that they also are joining the cloud computing model and their existing […]

I just got a white paper on  cloud computing payback o by Richard Mayo and Charles Peng of IBM.  They put some thought into it so it’s worth reading.

I think that it’s a great question from a portal standpoint.  The value of portal lies in it’s functionality and ability to aggregate content, processes and transactions.   Once you have a portal foundation in place, then you really begin to realize some great savings on your projects.   Let me give you an example.  We are […]

I tend to agree with Omar Koudsi’s thoughts on whether we will have a taxonomy or not.  I think that content systems will begin to rely on folksonomy and search engines to self-organize.  I see this on the wiki I use every day.  I rely on type ahead search and on tags to get to […]

I track a variety of blogs and news sources.  One is my colleague at Perficient Eric Roch who just blogged on Cloud Computing Security.   Worth a look.  Here’s an excerpt: Security vulnerabilities are nothing new, but are a greater risk for cloud computing and will be a deterrent for many to make an early move […]

So my topics sometimes don’t dive deeply enough into the technical. My coding days are far behind but I can still point to articles and presentations.  Here’s a presentation on Spring Portlet MVC from John Lewis’ blog.

Yesterday I gave a presentation on social software implications in Enterprise Portals. In it, I discussed some of the trends we see, evolution of portals, and the various options you have in integrating social networking functionality to your portal.   Here it is:

By way of Frances Past’s blog, we see a Nielsen study that shows that not only are more of us hitting the social network sites but we spend more time on it.  Here are a couple excerpts: Overall, the active unique audience to social networks grew nearly 30%, from 244.2M to 314.5M in the last […]

So Matt Castle sent a link to me on how to monetize social media.  With all the hype out there about cool Web 2.0, it’s good to take a step back and figure out how an investment will give you pay back.  I should note that this is very focused on consumer type communities or […]