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Amazon?s Jeff Bezos on strategy & innovation (not Kindle-related!)
2007-11-20 13:53:00 I’m writing this post for two reasons. One is that I am incredibly interested in the subject of leadership and try to learn about it in whatever way I can. A second reason is that, even though my main focus on my blog is food and retail, what Matthias calls “old economy” (thanks Matthias!), I ... More About: Internet , Books , Amazon , Organization , Strategy
Yo, ho! Lessons from Piracy for industry dynamics
2007-11-15 10:02:00 ?Yo, ho, haul together, hoist the Colors high. Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die.? Let?s be clear from the start: piracy is a plague. The world would be better off without it, and I condemn it completely. However! There are, to my mind, interesting lessons that can be learned from piracy, lessons that could change, in the ... More About: Technology , Industry , Piracy , Dynamics , Business Intelligence
The Euro vs. Dollar double gambetto for high tech corporations
2007-11-14 00:51:00 In chess, a gambetto - say it with an Italian accent, consists in sacrificing a piece at the beginning of a game to gain a competitive position on the exchequer - for example through the control of the center of the chessboard or one of the long diagonals. Getting back to business (we’ll get back to ... More About: Software , Google , Europe , Economics , India
How the world looked like before the Internet
2007-11-13 14:59:00 Thanks to Emmanuel, also a blogger on Tech IT Easy, for pointing this video to me. Have you ever tried to recall how the world went round before we had cell phones, laser printers, wireless and unlimited bandwidth at a fixed subscription price? Well if not, then this video might prove enlightening..& funny (I had AOL, ... More About: Video , Globalization , Internet , Technology , Entertainment
Week-end light reading
2007-11-10 23:21:00 Just a bit of light reading for math, physics, computer science, and, more generally, geek centered humour. More About: Reading , Week , Light
High Availability Architectures (4/4) - Technology Trends
2007-11-09 09:32:00 In the previous episodes of this serie, we’ve addressed the Availability, Scalability and Performances aspects of HA Architecture . In this one we’ll concentrate on the future of these architectures and the emerging technologies to tackle specific HA constraints. Technology Trends The future is a G word : GRID. Grid of memory, grid of CPU and Grid of ... More About: Java , Storage
High Availability Architectures (3/4) - Performances
2007-11-08 09:31:00 In the previous posts of this serie we’ve addressed the availability and scalability aspects of high availability systems. In this (rather lengthy) one we’ll focus on the performance side of things. Again, performance is something to be contextually defined quite early in the project. For instance a requirement such as ?3s response time? is not precise ... More About: Software , Architecture , Amazon , Hibernate , Performances
Some observations after a week on Mac OS X Leopard
2007-11-07 17:58:00 Time for some trivia. I installed Leopard last week on my tiny iBook G4 (1,33 Ghz, 1 gig ram, new 160 GB 5400 rpm hard-drive), which is still happily churning away after two years. Here are some observations. I first did an upgraded install, but Leopard changed something unix-based and didn’t like my separate partitions for ... More About: Security , Entertainment , Apple , Observations , Consumer Electronics
High Availability Architectures (2/4) - Scalability
2007-11-07 08:32:00 In the previous post we’ve seen how to increase the availability of your IT system . In this one we’ll focus on how to scale it. Don?t believe the RAC ! You may be tempted to think : well the bottleneck of any enterprise application being I/Os and therefore the database, I?ll start with clustering that ... More About: Architecture , Scalability , Availability , Clusters , High
High Availability Architectures (1/4) - Availability
2007-11-06 08:18:00 I?ve been lucky enough to attend this 2 days High Availability Architecture training by Médéric Morel from french IT company SQLI. Médéric also has contributed to an excellent book on the subject (sorry it’s in french). Let me put it straight : one of the best training IT session I ever had. Based on what ... More About: Clusters , Architectures
We need 3 minutes from you for a feedback on Tech IT Easy
2007-11-04 02:40:00 Guys, it’s time. We need 3 minutes from your time. Please help us improve our blog. Just drop us a brief comment that intends to provide answers on a few questions listed below, related to your overall experience with Tech IT Easy. It’s been a while since we’ve asked you dear reader for inputs on how we can (further?) improve ... More About: Internet , Friends , Organization , Consulting
The life of a software developer 4/4: developing a Facebook application
2007-10-31 22:15:00 As Erick Schonfeld mentioned it on Techcrunch a few weeks earlier, it seems that every developer in the world in currently developing a Facebook app. Having followed my girlfriend during her exchange program in the US and having no chance to find a job for 3 months without any work permit, I decided that ... More About: Software , Internet , Life , Architecture , Developer
The life of a software developer, episode 3/4: how to be flexible?
2007-10-30 16:29:00 As a software developer, one of the most difficult challenges to have a interesting career path is to be able to adapt to changing environments, even when you are an expert in a specific framework. I think there are 2 majors reasons to explain this necessity: the first one is that technology evolves very quickly, ... More About: Software , Internet , Education , Technology , Life
End Game for Microsoft?
2007-10-29 15:43:00 Microsoft?s 1st fiscal quarter earnings were blow out. Its profit soared 23 percent to $4.29 billion, or 45 cents per share, from $3.48 billion, or 35 cents per share, during the same period last year, as brisk sales of the new ‘Halo 3′ video game, Windows and Office helped it breeze past Wall Street’s expectations. ... More About: Apple , Microsoft , Microsoft Office , Game , Business strategy
Lessons from eBay?s ?The Perfect Store?
2007-10-28 12:04:00 For those that don’t know, “The Perfect Store” tells the story of eBay, how it was started, who was involved, its community, its growth, and the IPO, basically everything up to around 2001. The book was very well-written, I thought. So much so, that I felt more affinity with the company before it went public ... More About: Globalization , Internet , Books , Finance , Organization
Intelligent imaging
2007-10-27 14:59:00 What does ?photo editing? mean? Back in the old days, when coming up with a barely recognizable image was considered a feat, it probably meant nothing. Later on, for professionals and pretty skilled amateurs, it meant playing on successive stages of the chemistry process, using special gases that left particular imprints on the negatives, cutting ... More About: Intelligent , Imaging , Gent
Efficient blog-reading
2007-10-25 11:09:00 I ran into an interesting list while reading Rough Type, the 100 blogs you should read (if you had to read just 100). The list “seeks to minimize the amount of time a person has to invest in reading blogs while ensuring that the person gets the fullest possible sense of what’s going on in ... More About: Reading , Blog , Efficient
7 PR best practices for software startups, made in Ballou PR
2007-10-24 10:50:00 Last week, General Electric and Microsoft organized the Software Academy in Paris. The Software Academy, 1st edition, was a One-Day MBA aimed at ISV entrepreneurs (ISV = independent software vendor; or software publisher, be software be in the cloud, on a client, in a robot, appliance, whatever). During that day, a number of speakers came to lecture ... More About: Europe , Internet , Education , Technology
Entrepreneurial story: the creation of U.[Lik], the virtual library
2007-10-23 17:44:00 For my course of Entrepreneurship,I had to interview an entrepreneur to understand the major obstacles to overcome when creating a venture. Raphael Labbé, one of the co-founder of U.[Lik], has taken the time to share with me the story of U.[Lik] from an entrepreneurial point of view. A lot of Tech It Easy readers ... More About: Software , Europe , Internet , Technology , Entertainment
The Consumer Decision Process
2007-10-22 12:31:00 IBM’s nice white paper, which I briefly touched on before on my food and retail-blog, describes a model for mapping how customers make decisions in a given setting. It looks at three types of retail-outlets: Grocery, consumer-electronics, and apparel (clothing), and explains how each type of store has different types of customers, with different motives ... More About: Software , Organization , Consulting , Consumer , Business Intelligence
BMyKey.com: your French real estate hunter
2007-10-21 15:32:00 If you’ve ever been serious in the recent 15 months about finding your dream property in France, then you probably used BMyKey. BMyKey was launched about a year ago by Katya and Pierre, after 7 months of platform development. Katya, a graduate in communication and marketing, left her first job to start the company with Pierre, ... More About: Software , Google , Europe , Internet , Education
Meet Chris Liddell, CFO of Microsoft Corp.
2007-10-18 12:50:00 About one week ago, I had the outrageous opportunity to meet Chris Liddell, Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft Corporation. Chris happened to be in Paris for a day so it was absolutely compulsory to do something about it. As a result, Julien brought a bunch of software-friendly French venture capitalists in a room alongside with ... More About: Software , Google , Europe , Economics , Internet
The state of media 2.0 - challenges and opportunities
2007-10-16 21:09:00 Well, you didn’t think I was going to leave it at my last post, did you? In my previous post, I asked whether there has been trully substainable innovation in web/software-services, if you segment it into functions like: work, media, commerce, and communication, and look at it in terms of business models. However I did ... More About: Software , Globalization , Media , Education , Technology
My agenda @ TechEd 2007 EMEA
2007-10-16 03:12:00 If you?re serious about software development &/or IT infrastructure, you can?t miss the Tech Ed developer training event between November 5th and November 9th in Barcelona. All the best developers from the very best Europe an software publishers will be there. And I’ll be there too (as the outlayer, the worst developer in the room), ... More About: Software , Security , Internet , Education
Cracking phpBB passwords for fun and, well, just for fun
2007-10-15 12:12:00 During the last weekend, about 80 000 of password hashes (with other user details) were stolen from various Finnish web forums. Or as the authors put it: We cracked 78 000 (ok, almost 79 000) accounts around the net and of course we?d like to share them with you, right. Mostly finnish accounts, so maybe it would be ... More About: Google , Europe , Internet , Cracking , Swords
Enterprise software sales materials briefing
2007-10-14 19:25:00 This morning, I had breakfast with 2 French friends entrepreneurs who are starting up an enterprise software company in Brussels after two years working, respectively, as a financial auditor and a consultant in Luxembourg and London. Both are 25. Starting an enterprise software startup when you’re so young is extremely difficult. Not that the older, ... More About: Software , Europe , Entertainment , Friends , Organization
Generating breakthrough products: the Lead User Methodology
2007-10-14 01:57:00 One of the difficulties of technological markets is that, in most cases, technologies are developed and then have to find a customer?s need that they can fulfill to be marketable. However, the reverse process, meaning identifying a need and looking for a technology to fulfill it, is often key to succeed, at least in the ... More About: Products , Project Management , Organization , User , Business strategy
Social Networking at the bottom of the Pyramid
2007-10-12 00:31:00 Bangalore based startup wants to build social networking site for the poor. babajob.com and babalife.com are both the brainchild of Sean Blagsvedt. Sean is originally from the US, worked for Microsoft in Redmond and then in Bangalore India. He got the idea for starting a social networking site for the poor when he heard from the ... More About: Social , Social Networking , Networking , Startup , Social Network
?Platform as a Service? by SalesForce
2007-10-11 01:41:00 A not-so-interesting, but worth watching once, buzz marketing video for SalesForce’s AppExchange platform & Force framework. You could basically leave content as it is and replace SalesForce - AppExchange - Force by: Microsoft + CRM 4.0 ‘Titan’ + .NET; Facebook + Facebook API; Twitter + Twitter API; Google + GWT; Adobe + Flash + Flex; etc. ... More About: Software , Security , Internet , Technology
Jaiku Is Not Twitter
More articles from this author:2007-10-10 10:42:00 As everyone probably knows, yesterday Google announced that they?ve acquired Finnish Jaiku . This took me by a surprise, but the aftershock in the blogosphere didn?t. In couple of minutes the web was full of posts wondering why Google acquired Jaiku instead of Twitter , its apparent competitor. The silly reasons included such gems like: Google bought Jaiku, ... More About: Europe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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