Saturday, January 04, 2003

Udell's Ozzfest A conversation with Ray Ozzie. In a conversation with InfoWorld Test Center Director Steve Gillmor and Lead Analyst Jon Udell, Ozzie discusses the unique nature of disruptive technologies, the role of collaboration tools in the workplace, and the emerging law of unintended consequences. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio] On distruptive technologies [see Jon's 10]: All disruption comes from a soup of elements from which unintended consequences can result. On how "attention rendezvous" can boost group productivity by an order of magnitude: Mutual selfish behavior yields a greater-good outcome. On mesh networking: The key technologies that sit on the shoulders of Wi-Fi are then synchronization -- because if you have multiple devices and you're dealing with many people with multiple devices, synchronization is key -- and Web services -- because you're going to want to have your devices requesting programmatic services of things on other devices. On decentralized synch vs. centralized storage: In the corporate world, all the regulatory compliance is increasing the focus on centralized -- I don't think I'd call it backup -- auditing. On using Groove as social software (with good examples): these parallel channels are really useful because we do have the ability, some more than others, to multitask, and sometimes that multitasking can be used to bring ... greater focus to the task at hand. 11:52:32 AM    comment []

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