http://www.looselycoupled.com/ Links relating to Loosely Coupled topics of interest, such as on-demand, Web 2.0, SOA and stories about better ways of achieving productive business automation Loosely Coupled editors Copyright 2006 Procullux Media Limited webmaster@pcxvs.com Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:50:06 -0500 http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html As we saw in the copyright wars, all attempts at controlling PCs will converge on rootkits, and all attempts at controlling the Internet will converge on surveillance and censorship. copyright drm freedom Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/05/andreessen-horowitz-salesforce-put-1-4m-in-real-time-messaging-infrastructure-startup-flotype/ the infrastructure behind real-time communications platforms like Facebook and Twitter needed to be democratized on-demand Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/service-oriented/2012-the-year-back-end-enterprise-systems-open-up-to-the-world/8292 We're seeing more non-IT companies becoming cloud providers. The lines continue to blur between service/application providers and consumers to the point where everyone is both. mashup Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/30/open_apis/ the world's economies are increasingly founded upon software services, services that are developed and consumed by developers. These developers are, then, "the new kingmakers" mashup Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.economist.com/node/21541719 Luther, like the Arab revolutionaries, grasped the dynamics of this new [social] media environment very quickly, and saw how it could spread his message. collaboration Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.pretzellogic.org/blog/2011/12/16/rypple-on-salesforce-com-its-about-identity/ This purchase [of Rypple], along with Chatter and Chatterlytics strengthens [Salesforce.com's] control over exactly who is good at what inside the organization and allows them to federate this information into SF apps today and into AppExchange apps in the near future. salesforce.com Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2011/12/moores-law-cloud For many (most?) customers, cloud is mainly about gaining new capabilities, and the CSC survey actually shows that enterprise IT customers view it in exactly that light. Enterprise customers cited agility and the ability to deal with mobile devices as major drivers of cloud adoption, much more so than cost savings. adoption Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16060870 Unmasking the vote-rigging would have been impossible without smartphones, Facebook and Twitter. Online activism made offline self-organisation not only possible, but effective. internet Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://blog.getsatisfaction.com/2011/12/05/forrester-enterprise-social-software-market-sizing/ enterprise collaboration systems can be updated and instrumented with customer facing technologies to deliver far more ROI than is possibly if the focus is centered exclusively on an employee enterprise Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.usv.com/2011/11/what-comes-next.php new web services will allow individuals to engage with customers without needing to work for a firm ... The Mechanical Turkification of work has begun. aggregation Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_futureofmoney/all/1 Ivey is just one of hundreds of engineers and entrepreneurs who are attacking the payment ecosystem, seeking out ways small and large to tear down the stronghold the banks and credit card companies have built. banking Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/11/the-newsonomics-of-amazons-prime-moves/ If the world's premier online seller becomes a media hub, the question of who owns the customer gets even bigger. It's a growing Goliath vs. a shrinking David here; Amazon just will continue to add more and more media (and other goods and services) to its Prime membership base. [and] ... If you are in the media business and behind on the analytics curve, Prime is a new caution in how your franchise could crumble in the age of Big, Actionable Data. media Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://allthingsd.com/20111109/yammer-now-works-with-box-net-and-five-other-cloud-services/ it all comes down to working with the open APIs of pretty much any service social Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://gigaom.com/cleantech/introducing-a-thermostat-steve-jobs-would-love-nest/ Nest is the first company that has created an end-to-end smart thermostat service, which offers the software, a gadget and a data-filled website. innovation Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/technology/amazon-rewrites-the-rules-of-book-publishing.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all "The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader. Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity." transformation Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500