Seth Godin has a new book out.

Book summary available here.

FastCompany article available here.

"Penguins don't evolve on purpose. They don't have meetings about evolution. They don't debate the most effective routes for their future on the island. Instead, evolution is built into their daily lives and embodied in their reproductive cycle. Because evolution is automatic, it happens whether the penguins find time for it or not.

The difference between a penguin and your company is simple: While both have evolved to a point where they can succeed, the penguin continues to evolve -- but your company tries not to. Your organization, unlike the penguin, is built on the fictional idea that someone is in charge, that the world is stable, that you get to choose what happens next."

4:11:31 PM     

A useful .Net technology map from Microsoft.

Al Zollar, CEO of IBM's Lotus, is interviewed here and here. His comments about "authentication convergence" are interesting as are his comments on peer-to-peer.

"Peer-to-peer is a bunch of baloney in terms of it being a collaboration architecture. There's this notion that [in peer-to-peer] there's no server. If you look underneath Groove's architecture, it's a server that just happens to be on Groove's premises, right? So, the connection, and real-time update of the "peer participants" is actually being coordinated by a server. It kind of proves that point that I make when I talk to customers about this stuff. That is, the model of the Internet is a server-centric model. But, it is orchestrated by individuals at the end points."

6:32:46 AM