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November 2010

Yes !!! RT @lesoir: Lukaku fait 2-0 pour la Belgique bit.ly #football #russie
RT @jerryscanyours: Building a business is simply doing all of the little things correctly that add up to big results ~Pat Gunning~
RT @googledocs: On your Android, iPad or iPhone? Today you can start editing your Google Docs on the go. goo.gl
@luus "Romain Guy == Hottie" Maybe for you, but for most of us Android is why we are here ;-))) #devoxx
Project Voldemort. Scary name, isn't it ? #devoxx
RT @ActuaLitte: Accord historique entre Hachette Livre et Google Books bit.ly
High Scalability - How Ravelry Scales to 10 Million Requests Using Rails bit.ly
Sun's take over by Oracle : the sun set... Mark Reinhold.
Focus for Java 7, 8, 9 :
  • Productivity,
  • Performance,
  • Universality,
  • Modularity (the classpath problem),
  • Integration
  • Serviceability
The State of the Web
  • Microsoft Statements about HTML5
  • Microsoft's Monopoly = a dynamic ecosystem that they have
  • A move from Silverlight to HTML 5 ?
  • Back in time 95, Google looked the same as today... while others...
  • Windows Presentation Foundation Vs OSX Cocoa Vs Adobe FX Vs Ruby Vs Java Vs Ajax
  • A new ecosystem : Apps
  • Kindle Singles (note for me: Edit Business eBooks as a Kindle Single)
  • $3.000.000.000 Mobile Apps economy
  • Getting rich with apps ?? Do the maths :-)))
  • Apps are content, it is a "hits" business
  • Flury Blog, measured 20% of the Apple Apps are equal or higher than TV audiences
  • Developers are connecting with mainstream
  • Pricing -- omnifocus for iPad $39 Vs ToDO Lists for iPad $0,99 optional donation
  • Apple Care DVD with one readme file to make the service tangible
  • Impact of the App ecosystem on the web. Web companies are delivering apps... providing something better than what they have on the web
  • Developper Mindshare (ex: Mozilla dev. who moved to iPhone)
  • Delta Airlines - Native App Vs WebApp. Native Apps receive the higher investments.
  • Twitter on iPad, as great app. (I Agree). Influence of the ipad design on the web design. HTML5 technology in there.
  • FlipBoard - Only on mobile devices. Don't bother going mobile.
  • Microsoft now embraces HTML5 because if Apps run on the Desktop, Microsoft is out of the game...
  • Conflict in the next years between Apps and HTML5 ecosystems

  • App Ecosystem success rely on Platform Distribution, Merchandising Experience, Platform Capabilities

  • J2ME : missed Disribution

  • Web : Distribution : a lot of Internet Browsers (IE6=90%), HTML5 browsers (10%), solution : Google Chrome Frame plug-in ? (can be run as a User and not as an Admin)
  • HTML 5 still fragmented : ex : HTML5 Video and Codex compatibility
  • What is HTML5 ? HTML5 an Friends...

  • Web: Merchandising ? Put ads, which pollute the UI, Subscriptions, Freemium models (parley)
  • With Apps, Merchandising is trivial. The web needs marketspaces - Mozilla Open Web App Store, Google "WebStore"

  • Web : Platform Capabilities, Luckilly, today 3 of the world's fastest browsers released get out at the same time :)
  • FireFox Tab Candy (todo:Check it)
  • WebGL 3D
  • --> The web needs deeper APIs and richer app frameworks
  • Javascript ? 
  • The web also missed a Permission model

  • Mainly missing for the web : Mechandising

  • The Web and mobile can work with each other and complement each other's gaps
  • Transforming apps to HTML5 --> CSS can say that the HTML would like to be "Native", CSS Transforms, Turning on CSS classes for animations, setting background as gradients, lovely rounded corners stuffs...
  • AppCelerator Titanium, architect an app with MVC


The State of the Web makes my day #devoxx http://bit.ly/cfVHuY
RT @BeNews: #BlogAutomobile Porsche Cayman R : Encore plus de mordant: On l’attendait CS pour ClubSport, ce sera R comme Ra... http://b ...
The State of the Web makes my day #devoxx bit.ly
The Scala Programming Language | The Scala Programming Language: "For example, at Twitter, the social networking service, Robey Pointer moved their core message queue from Ruby to Scala. This change was driven by the company's need to reliably scale their operation to meet fast growing Tweet rates, already reaching 5000 per minute during the Obama Inauguration. Robeys thinking behind the Twitter Kestrel project is explained in the developers live journal. His concise 1500 lines of Scala code can be seen as he has generously made them available as an open source project."
Yesterday I was at the Vlerick Alumni Event: "Keynote speech: Strategic Agility and Innovation by Mikko Kosonen"

"Mikko Kosonen is a rare combination of a line executive and management academic.
He will talk - based on his practical Nokia experience and research - about those management & leadership principles that allow companies (and any organization) to be creative and innovative.Former advisor to the management of Nokia for many years, he is now President of Sitra, an independent public foundation with a mission to build a successful Finland for tomorrow.
Mikko Kosonen completed a Doctor's thesis in Economic Sciences (International Business) and has published several books and articles on strategic management."

You can find some of the presentatio slides here : Strategic Agility

I found his speech on Strategic Agility very interesting. He gave examples of IBM which were specially interesting : I have worked 2 years at IBM.

For the complete story I guess you should have a look at the Book : Fast Strategy.


After this speech, here are some of my learning points to achieve strategic Agility :

Strategic Sensitivity

  • Stay open and Look outside
  • Work with different people (cognitive difference)
Leadership Unity
  • As a CEO, break the silos by focusing on Integration meetings rather than (boring) business unit reporting meetings. We have all seen meetings where you politely need to wait finish to report on how great they are and the how difficult it is for them to perform.

  • Focus on dialogue rather than Debate

  • "Don't give clear objectives, rather fuzzy objectives". Well I don't agree with that statement. I would rather say : "Give other objectives". At corporate level you should switch from specific "Business" Objectives to "Agility" Objectives, each busines unit being there to find out and achieve its own objectives.
  • Sometimes it makes sense to have a manager that doesn't understand the business. Mr Kosonen encourages job rotation. Ok but than let's explain the idea and the concept to people reporting to those guys. The idea is again to create dialogue. Because in the field we are all told that we need to understand our customer's business in addition to our own business.
Resource Flexibility
  • In order to achieve Agility, resources should be pooled and not assigned to a Barony...
RT @JurgenLust: Yes! an iPad version of Parleys.com is coming! #devoxx
RT @VincentVQ: Doe mijn 1e speech op iPad bij Rijksarchief. Tip van en tx aan @kdierc. #crowdsourcingworks
@VincentVQ Heeft u gehoord over dit iPad toepassing voor politieke vergaderingen ? notubiz.appepaper.com notubiz.nl.
'Smart phones': la plate-forme qu'attendait l'e-health mobile? - Datanews.be: "Selon research2guidance, société d’études de marché allemande spécialisée en mobilité, près d’un tiers des smart phones devraient héberger une ou plusieurs applications médicales mobiles (mHealth) d’ici 2015. Les utilisateurs seront aussi bien les utilisateurs individuels que les professionnels de la santé.

See also http://www.appepaper.com/epaper-applications/healthcare
RT @bruno1970: Please RT: don't forget the #itextinaction book signing session today at 13:00 on the #devoxx exhibition floor.
Motivation/Principles/Requirements extensions to Archimate - Archi User forum:
"(ArchiMate® Extension for Modeling and Managing Motivation, Principles
and Requirements in TOGAF
A White Paper by: Dick Quartel, Wilco Engelsman, Henk Jonkers)

specifies a Motivation aspect, and adds the following objects:
Stakeholder, Concern, Assessment, Goal, Principle, Requirement, as
well as some new relations. This would make a great addon. "
Great ! If such an extension is added, that would allow me to use only one method instead of combining KAOS and Archimate in the eRRA methodology.
Official Google Blog: Introducing Boutiques: a new way to shop for fashion online: "A year and half ago, our team (which at the time was part of Like.com) started to wonder if we could create a better experience for people to shop online."

A closer look at Boutiques shows us how digital contents could be sold in the future. You just want to follow what people read and catch it from there....

A good example of "Social Grasduinen" ?
Chinese e-reader price war is heating up: "Digitimes are reporting that Hanvon, MReader, and other Chinese e-reader manufacturers have lowered their prices for the domestic Chinese market.

Hanvon Technology, currently the largest vendor of e-book readers in the China market, has lowered its retail prices by 200-300 yuan (US$30-45) on average, with the lowest price reaching 950 yuan, according to report by China-based Beijing Morning Post. The price war for e-book readers in the China market has kicked off and there are expected to be rounds of price-cut competition, the source cited China-based consulting company Analysys International as indicating.

In addition to Hanvon, fellow vendor MReader has cut the retail price for its S600 e-book reader to 999 yuan and another vendor Gorld has cut the price for its 500T to about 1,000 yuan.

If you’re thinking that $45 isn’t a big change, keep in mind that the Nook-Kindle price war only dropped the price $80, and that happened mainly becuase B&N wanted to price the Nook Wifi in relation to the Kobo e-reader.

- Sent using Google Toolbar"
RT @mulkers: First Sound of #devoxx party will take place on Thursday twitpic.com
#vlerickalumni #vlerick
Looking for a new website template over here : Free HTML5 Templates | Bringing modern web standards to everyone bit.ly
RT @wakaleo: Romain Guy demoing the Android HierarchyViewer tool - very neat for debugging Android UIs #android #devoxx
RT @esiber: "There is a reason why WSAD is not called WHAPPY" #devoxx

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