Globally connected: explosive relationships. On Twitter

The inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners Lee, has joined Twitter (Tim Berners Lee on Twitter) on October 22nd 2009, 15:29 CET

His entering on Twitter will show how connected this world is: currently he has 5,000 followers, and word's spreading like a virus that he has joined. Currently Twitter Search shows a bit under a tweet per minute that tweeps are announcing his arrival

Twitter Counter tries to do a job at predicting, but its information is way too old to do good predicting

Social Business Design - the beginning or end of E2.0?

As far as I'm concerned, the Dachis Group has taken the lead in showing and talking about Social Business Design. After Dennis Howlett's post on ZDNet Andrew McAfee reacted on it. In that post, a comment is posted by Stowe Boyd that eventually leads to Stowe Boyd's own blog post on this

And I probably missed a few others that got into it as well. Anyway, I think it's settled now that -fairly quickly I must say- Dachis and Altimeter are just doing what is meant by it - connecting internally and externally, and even being (relatively wildly) transparent about that as well

Business as a Service. Business as usual?

On the theme of Integration (EDI), the past decade we've witnessed various impulses that made great waves: they were discussed, hardly criticised, embraced by most if not all, and implemented on a large scale. Tried and tested indeed

OO, XML, then ESB, then SOA are on the list. Technology-driven they all were, and even if most people agreed that SOA was business-driven, that didn't withhold "architects" from pushing SOA by waving with their WSDL's and XSD's and boasting about Web Services having the future because of their "open standards"

Without detailing why each of these lacked the necessary added value to make a true contribution to Integration, it is evident that they did. Integration solutions today are more apart and diverse than they were 10 years ago