A Completely Connected World Depends on Loosely Coupled Architectures

This article from CNNMoney describes a completely connected world where not just every device, but literally every thing you own “will want to be your friend on the Facebook of things.”

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, companies like IBM…

“Data Incoming!” Event-Based Systems and Self-Determination

A while ago, Steve was helpfully giving me information related to my driving from the passenger seat. I jokingly told him it would be helpful to me if he’d tag his utterances so I’d know what they were. So he started prepending “data incoming!” to the…

Beyond caveat emptor

First, three posts by JP Rangaswami:

Does the Web make experts dumb?
Does the Web make esperts dumb, Part 2: who is the teacher?
Does the Web make experts dumb, Part 3: the issues

His bottom line in the last of those: “… people are saying the web…