Architecture, Data and Intelligence

Just over a year ago, Microsoft launched some software that would guess how old you were. Millions of people were persuaded to donate a self...

In my post From Convenience to Consilience - “Technology Alone Is Not Enough"   (October 2011), I praised Steve Jobs for his role in th...

@ dougnewdick points out the risk of a company becoming over-dependent on Google. His particular example is prompted by Google's announ...

# bizarch The obvious ones - Apple, Amazon , Microsoft General comments "The new market disruption is the migration of a large n...

Google has been hoist by its own petard: it seems obliged to ban its own browser from its own search engine for infringing its strict rules....

Google vs Amazon (again). @ davidsprott reckons Steve Yegge's rant is spot on. Steve Yegge is a software engineer who used to work for...

# entarch Enterprise architects need to understand values and policies. VPEC-T is an approach that is particularly useful for situations wh...

@ tetradian Tom Graves is annoyed at Enterprise 2.0 . He (rightly) complains that the term as defined by Andrew McAfee refers to software, ...

Another controversy hits Google. German car-maker BMW offends against Google's webspam policies and gets delisted. After three days of ...

cross-posted from Asymmetric Design blog   Various people talking about the dispute between Google and the US Department of Justice (DoJ), i...