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Archive for April, 2012
GSA’s Social Media Registry up and running
GSA has completed the initial release of their new Social Media Registry. The idea is to provide a place where citizens can verify that a twitter, facebook or other account that appears to be from a government user really is from a government user. And is not some random person just pretending to be the [...]
Old systems don’t fade away. They become a legacy.
Got into a discussion recently about legacy IT systems and somebody said “all legacy systems are badly architected”. Having worked in on quite a few older systems, I can say with some authority that ALL of them were badly architected. I can’t believe though that all the architects, designers and developers that worked on these [...]
Instagram purchase is a sign of weakness not strength
Facebook purchase of Instagram for a ridiculous amount of money is something that we should take note of not because of the price but because of what it reveals about how Facebook views itself. Not that the price is not pretty amazing anyway. A billion dollars for a company with no revenue and only thirteen [...]
Our Philosophy. Affected by Technology?
When you enter the SiloSmashers’ offices we have a couple of blue walls where we have laid out our company philosophy in a series of statements. These have been around for quite a few years now but they are not as old as our company, which was founded in 1992. When they were written I [...]
Five Features of All Business Systems
Computing systems are a lot like people – there are some superficial differences but underneath we are basically all the same. Just to reassure you though, this post is not about what makes people the same and different but what makes computing systems the same and different. I’m thinking in particular about business systems here, [...]