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I’m back from a month of meetings in Hyderabad and New York, to some interesting ideas about lowering the barrier to engagement with engineering on the web. Jon Udell describes a technique he calls “wiring the web“. Yahoo has shown us how we might attempt what might be called “plumbing the web“. One might be […]
On Being Centric-centric
We’ve been going on and on over the last few weeks about the Long Tail, and how the need for mass customisation that it demands might be met by multi-agent system thinking - or what you might call MAS customisation.
Multi-agent systems have been causing a storm in academic computer science over the past decade or […]MAS Customisation
The Long Tail is the marketing buzz of 2006. The book at the centre of that buzz has a title that says it all: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More (Anderson, Random House, 2006). Inverse power laws are hardly new - but interesting every time you find them […]
The Nature of Conflict, part I
Business rules inevitably conflict. But most BREs enforce a naive view of conflict resolution that makes for a manageability nightmare…
Y.A.B.
Just what the world needs: Yet Another Blog. And a CTO blog at that; surely there are enough CTO blogs from real CTOs in huge conglomerates like Intel, Microsoft , CapGem and Sun? (There’s even a generic CTO blog for generic CTOs). Getting a more-or-less company-sanitized view from the Big Names can be interesting in […]