Technology —
It’s time for Philly’s premier emerging tech conference, and I’m going to be speaking once again this year. The conference, Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, is taking place March 26-27, 2008 in Philadelphia.
I’ll be giving a more technical talk this year than last, combining my interests in leading-edge web applications and security. The talk […]
My friends at Invite Media are hosting Jeff Barr, Web Services Evangelist at Amazon.com, for an Amazon Web Services Evangelist Meetup on November 7th.
Its great to see Jeff coming to Philly for this; we have a small but vibrant and growing emerging tech and startup community here, and some people are already using S3, EC2 […]
A few weeks ago at the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT, Ann Winblad made the comment, “Finally, math is cool again.” The comment stayed with me, as math has been an important part of virtually everything I’ve worked on - from InfoSec Labs in the 90’s, translating mainframe-era security models into methodologies appropriate for companies […]
Fred Wilson posted yesterday about overcounting web audiences, highlighting a study on the topic put out by comScore.
The goals of comScore’s research, of course, is to make the case for panel data in accurately measuring audience. Fred’s conclusion is more general:
You cannot rely on your own analytics data. You need third party data as well. […]
There is a growing trend in consumer web applications in which one site will ask users for their usernames and passwords on other sites. Using these credentials, a site will log onto the other sites to carry out actions on behalf of, and hopefully with the informed consent of, the user.
‘On behalf of’ logins
LinkedIn and […]
Here are the slides from my talk on the impact of the current generation of emerging technologies on the startup, given at the Emerging Technologies in the Enterprise conference in Philadelphia yesterday. The event wrapped up today; by all accounts it was the best value in web technology conferences in recent memory, and I look […]
I’d like to throw out an idea for discussion, especially as it applies to startups selling into the enterprise:
Small buyers of technology, acting early in the technology adoption life-cycle, are motivated by hope (hope == ROI, opportunity, etc). Large buyers of technology, acting late in the life-cycle, are motivated by fear (fear == risk of […]
I gave a talk today at the pre-conference CxO breakfast for the Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference. The group was great; so much discussion that we didn’t make it through all of the material I had planned.
As promised, here are the slides from today’s presentation. We talked so much about each point that I’m […]
Each generational transition in IT, such as from mainframe to client server or from client server to web applications, has presented challenges to enterprise security. The pattern is clear, and will likely sound familiar to anyone working in IT through these last two major shifts:
The emerging technology is initially ignored as a lab project or […]
I’m going to be speaking at a couple of related events in March. The Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference on the 28th and 29th in Philadelphia has an interesting array of topics, centered around open source, lightweight architectures and Web 2.0, all with an enterprise twist. On the first day, I’m giving a talk […]
It has always been hard for the enterprise to address emerging information security issues proactively; usually these things end up dealt with by the majority of companies once a loss has hit close to home or regulatory attention has been brought to bear. I was lucky to be able to work with some very smart […]
When a company like Yahoo comes out with a cool new horse, it’s easy to get caught up in the technology and its potential, and forget about the product strategy differences between startups and big players.
Looking at the technically innovative startup pitches I’ve heard from this perspective, I can break them down into two […]
The Internet is central to the flattening of the world as described in Thomas Friedman’s book; I’d like to explore the idea that the Internet is itself being flattened in an entirely different way.
There is no question that the advancements in search have profoundly changed how users interact with the web. It can be argued […]