http://ctoblog.calicojack.co.uk Calico Jack CTO Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:43:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://ctoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2007/02/13/tag-diversity-is-good/ 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 ... http://ctoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2006/12/15/on-being-centric-centric/ 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 ... http://ctoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2006/11/03/mas-customisation/ Business rules are on the up and up - IBM planted a flag early on of course, and last month, Oracle made a catch-up play. An increase in tools, deployments and algorithms is providing the technological supply, and the intuitive appeal (to senior management) and increasing articulation of business logic ... http://ctoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2006/10/20/the-nature-of-conflict-part-i/ 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 ... http://ctoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2006/10/19/hello-world/