links for 2009-09-23

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  braindump: NOSQL debrief
  NoSQL group meeting, concept is gaining ground
  (tags: Technology nosql sql databases)
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  NetFlix Everywhere: Sorry Cable, You’re History
  Reed Hastings wants to unmake the TV era: “The set-top box has proven to be a closed and well-guarded fortress against a world of clouds and openness. The cable and satellite industries, and their partners in Hollywood, work strenuously to keep it that way. It’s easy to see why: Those little boxes bankroll their business. While the cable companies offer telephone and broadband, TV subscriptions still account for about 60 percent of their revenue. About a third of those fees get funneled to cable networks like Disney and Discovery, where they account for at least half of their revenue. Another chunk of subscription revenue goes to movie studios, which make more than $1 billion a year charging premium channels like HBO for the right to air their films. Even broadcast networks like ABC and NBC, which don’t make any money from cable bills, would still prefer that the content they make available online not be viewed on a TV set, because they can’t sell as many ads for their Web versions. Fo
  (tags: netflix)
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  Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome
  A sneak attack on IE: “People hate IE6; they’ve made that abundantly clear on the web. Unfortunately, plenty of people are still stuck using it for reasons such as their work not letting them upgrade. So Google is doing something about it.

  Chrome Frame is a new browser plug-in developed by Google to give you a Chrome browsing experience inside of Internet Explorer. Let me restate that slightly to make it more clear: Chrome Frame turns IE into Chrome.”

  
  
  (tags: Technology ie chrome microsoft google)
  
  
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  The Future of Enterprise and Web 2.0 : Information Security Resources
  
  Someone must have finally gotten around to transcribing an interview with me from the Enterprise 2.0 conference.

  “If you are looking for a single quality to help clarify the impact of Web 2.0, consider resilience, since Web 2.0 seems to broaden the company’s ability to respond to challenges.”

  
  
  (tags: Business enterprise2.0 web2.0 resilience socialbusiness)
  
  
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  Social Business: The New Black - Dave Evans
  
  “The “New Black” is different. It doesn’t start in marketing, though it’s often championed there. Instead, it starts in operations.

  At a fundamental level, the social Web empowers people to discuss experiences, share thoughts, and learn from each other. Now scope this down to business, and apply it to creating long-term sustainable growth. Take a page from Fred Reichheld’s “The Ultimate Question” and ask yourself: “How do I drive consistent 9s and 10s?”

  The answer isn’t marketing in the awareness sense, although that’s an important part. The real answer is operations, the place within an organization (often along with product management) where goods and services are created and delivered.

  Marketing sets the expectation, marketing creates demand, marketing helps a consumer differentiate why one choice is better than another choice. Operations delivers. Any gap between the two drives a conversation on the social

  
  
  (tags: Business socialbusiness operations)
  
  
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  Gravity7: Social Interaction Design by Adrian Chan: Activity Streams: Realtime and Streamtime
  
  Adrian Chan has a brilliant post about streams: Realtime and Streamtime:

  “Streamtime is about proximity. And proximity combines two concepts: closeness and now. Immediacy as here, and immediately as now. And since there is no “space” on the internet, when we say proximity, we mean it in different terms: not spatial distance but presence.

  But when we say presence, we usually mean individual presence: the presence of other people sensed through realtime social tools. So the streamtime experience actually contains two separate kinds of proximity: that of the information itself (delivered in realtime) and that of its sender.

  Of course, we don’t think of the information source as a sender — we think of the person. It’s this trick of imagination that allows us to “feel” connected through the wire. (What I’ve called “approximity” in the past.)

  For example, streamtime, not realtime, is the dimension in which

  
  
  (tags: Technology realtime streamtime streams)