Tags: Innovation

Tags: Innovation

Tags: CREATE-IoT, ETSI, European Commission, Innovation

On June 20th, Google has announced Google Keep. This is part of the Google Drive offering and it can be seen at least like a show case of the possibilities of Cloud in the Google domain. Taken seriously, this looks like a potential competitor to applications like Evernote (though that one has a much broader feature coverage) or Microsoft OneNote (though that one is rather seamlessly integrated in Microsoft Office and has a non-cloud version). 

But, do we have to take it seriously ? The most obvious answer is no. 

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After several years of App Store, it is still possible to be thrilled and stimulated by new applications that appear suddently and let you wonder why such a simple and brilliant idea has not been implemented earlier. Actually, we are precisely talking about innovation, the ability to create the perfect blend of ease of use, functional richness, flexibility that makes you life a bit different afterwards.

Status Board from Panic Software is precisely in this category. All in all, excellent value for money.

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But there is a downside to this that is not so much expressed, and not just by Adobe. (A bit of) time will tell.

Tags: Virtualisation, Innovation

My centers of technical interest are largely revolving around the Apple ecosystem. Considering where Apple is today, this is not a small territory anyway. What I expect to bring here is a few of the snippets of knowledge that I gain through a lot of developments involving Apple gear and software and also through the tons of reading it requires. My general approach will try not to be geeky. After many years in the field, I think that there is a large demand regarding the ease of use of Apple stuff, also when it is about slightly more complicated issues than the basic usage of one's Mac or iThings.

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At some point in my professional life, I was in charge of a strategy regarding Unified Communications in the Enterprise (from XS to XXL). The most obvious aspect to this was the communication angle: obvious to identify, not at all obvious to implement, in particular in view of the various - and pretty heterogeneous - communication channels that were to be integrated (voice, email, contact centers, etc.).

In the meantime, I have discovered another angle that was less obvious to me at the beginning of this work. The real powerful innovation behind Unified Communications was not regarding Communications only but, as importantly, the deeper integration of the various communication channels with their underlying information content, that I termed then Knowledge, though Knowledge can be understood in a larger sense.

By all accounts, there was a need for Architecture to put all the pieces together. To materialize this, I even had produced a Fully Unified Communication and Knowledge architecture which, for some reason, was not retained. To achieve any kind of integration of Communication and Knowledge, an architecture is required and the Web 2.0 should be seen as a first attempt in this direction (departing from the very pragmatic - best interoperability effort - approach of IETF & W3C that produced the Web 1.0).

Considering that Unified Communications is still partly a promise to be fulfiled, I have more than ever the firm belief that the question is still there and that, whatever Web 3.0 will be, it will have to deal with the Communication + Knowledge + Architecture approach. The difficulty is that in the mean time, ICT (the Information and Communication Technologies) has become extremely pervasive and infiltrated a large number of other industries (other than those involved in the "Convergence": IT, Telecommunications, Multimedia). The task is more complex, the promise even larger. This is the space in which CommLedge will operate, as a TPAD company.

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We are very proud to start the operations of CommLedge today.

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