Just as enterprises and communications vendors enthusiastically embrace social networking into their product base comes the backlash. Starting to see articles about the 20 something generation giving up on Twitter and Facebook. Too demanding (duh!). Why would anyone want to spend their day constantly checking Facebook or Twittering their breakfast? Who would want to follow such drivel?
And some young folks are starting to figure it out... there is a life beyond communications immediacy. They are giving it up.
Wonder if it has anything to do with the revival of vinyl records... Yep, lots of releases, found even in mainstream stores such as Fred Meyer, on record... real records! CDs are dead, downloads are dying. Vinyl lives! Curious.
Personally, I have nothing against CDs. I have tons of old records and no matter how well cared for, they still provide annoying clicks, pops, and wear. Of course, CDs, perfect forever, are exploited by producers using every computer trick in the book to mangle digital data into overly compressed and squashed dynamic range music releases that tire the ears by the second cut.
No wonder the flight from digital music. Analog sources (reel to reel tape has an enthusiastic following as well) are just more comfortable to listen to, noise issues aside.
I'm waiting for my Princess phone to command a premium price on Ebay. Cell phones and VoIP with their interference and drop outs are doomed to their own backlash as analog phone lines and equipment become prized possessions.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Social Networking in the Enterprise
A recent voicecon email concerned itself with social networking as enterprise communications. How to use Twitter and Facebook to maintain (sell to) customers. I'm thinking, this is how interesting new technologies, especially communications technologies, get destroyed, by soul sucking corporations who invade personal interrelationships to cash in on those relationships. And I mean "cash in", as in "sell". Just like email.... check all the spam, not just the African scams or Viagra offers, but all the junk mail that arrives from any product source a buyer may have investigated in the last 10 years. All the crap that invades the inbox as a result of bots that follow web surfers' every click. The complete rape of privacy.
So now Facebook and Twitter are absorbed by the same forces of desparate commercial evil that have completely co-opted the web for their own economic gain.
Junk. It's all junk.
So now Facebook and Twitter are absorbed by the same forces of desparate commercial evil that have completely co-opted the web for their own economic gain.
Junk. It's all junk.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Death of SOA?
My goodness, so much technology is dying! Last month it was the death of VoIP. This month, the buzz is about the death of Service Oriented Architecture. And I guess I've driven a stake through traditional telecom in past posts.
SOA is really about focusing IT/telecom technology around the services an organization desires to provide its customers, particularly as so many services move even further to a web based presentation. Seems simple enough, but because of traditional siloing within an organization, SOA becomes quite difficult, and expensive. A major reorientation of the organization is required. This is often defeated or stalled because of corporate culture. Roles, expectations, obsolescent viewpoints, (and just plain idiocy!) prevents organizations from creating the environment necessary to employ technology in a manor that enhances the goals of the organization.
Much easier to form a new company and develop SOA from the ground up. This is why many startups are so nimble and can make significant inroads into traditional markets.
Anyway, now we are looking at organizational behavior, and have drifted from the technology. But, obviously, it's all related.
And, yes, the tanked economy is certainly a major reason for the death of SOA. Who wants to make the necessary investment (with questionable results) in SOA within such a dubious economic environment? Yet, perhaps now is the perfect time. Investments improve the economy in general (note Intel's call to infrastructure investment), as well as preparing the organization for a future improving economy.
The real problem with new technology, from VoIP to SOA to FMC (fixed mobile convergence) is the necessity to make big investments financially and organizationally. Paradigm shifts, to drag out an often overused but still relevant term. There are no quick investment returns, no short term balance sheet improvements (the ugliest phrase in business... "short term").
The consultant who created the "death of SOA" headline expressed the situation well:
"If you want spectacular gains, then you need to make a spectacular commitment to change."
SOA is really about focusing IT/telecom technology around the services an organization desires to provide its customers, particularly as so many services move even further to a web based presentation. Seems simple enough, but because of traditional siloing within an organization, SOA becomes quite difficult, and expensive. A major reorientation of the organization is required. This is often defeated or stalled because of corporate culture. Roles, expectations, obsolescent viewpoints, (and just plain idiocy!) prevents organizations from creating the environment necessary to employ technology in a manor that enhances the goals of the organization.
Much easier to form a new company and develop SOA from the ground up. This is why many startups are so nimble and can make significant inroads into traditional markets.
Anyway, now we are looking at organizational behavior, and have drifted from the technology. But, obviously, it's all related.
And, yes, the tanked economy is certainly a major reason for the death of SOA. Who wants to make the necessary investment (with questionable results) in SOA within such a dubious economic environment? Yet, perhaps now is the perfect time. Investments improve the economy in general (note Intel's call to infrastructure investment), as well as preparing the organization for a future improving economy.
The real problem with new technology, from VoIP to SOA to FMC (fixed mobile convergence) is the necessity to make big investments financially and organizationally. Paradigm shifts, to drag out an often overused but still relevant term. There are no quick investment returns, no short term balance sheet improvements (the ugliest phrase in business... "short term").
The consultant who created the "death of SOA" headline expressed the situation well:
"If you want spectacular gains, then you need to make a spectacular commitment to change."
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Even More Telecom Obsolescence
So I'm at this recording studio last weekend. There's 50-60 CDs on the wall representing projects recorded in this studio. I'm attracted to one with an old picture of a 60's secretary standing by a desk making a call. The title of the CD:
"When Phones Had Cords"
"When Phones Had Cords"
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