I have wanted my web domain since high school, but due to economic reasons back in the 90s, I wasn’t able to afford one. The closest I had for my own web page was sipping off bandwidth from my high school, but that didn’t work out well either….Besides, HTML is ugly.
Today, I have decided to [...]
A thought recently came to me: Is Web 2.0 turning into a red ocean ?
For those who are unfamiliar with the term, red ocean is a term used in W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s hit book “Blue Ocean Strategy” to depict a highly contested market space. It is published and used in Harvard Business [...]
I recently read an article in BRW interviewing a number of “technopreneurs” in the Web 2.0 scene. The interview explored a number of things that I have always thought about when tinkling around the edges of exploring the option of a young web startup. Below are some of the points I find interesting (and [...]
The word ’social graph’ is probably one of the most overrated or underrated word in the Web 2.0 world. Different people see the value of social graphs differently. Personally, I think it is a great concept in the enterprise. In fact, in a recent Resource Management project discussion, I have briefly discussed the benefits of [...]
Amidst all the recent non-technical work that I have been doing, I have managed to plug myself back to the wonderful world of Ruby on Rails. I have written a number of posts regarding my experience with Rails 1.0 before in my blogs. Having made a recent decision to focus my engineering skills in Rails 2.0, [...]
Much have been said about the scalability of Ruby on Rails, given the amount of “magic” that it is providing to lazy programmers like myself.
I have been asked numerous times about scalability when trying to preach Ruby on Rails as a technology of choice to build new web applications.For those who have been seeking the [...]
Hi, I am Michael and am also an IT Management Consultant working for a global Tier-1 management and technology consulting firm.
My interest lies in Business and IT, and how IT can be leveraged to solve business problems everyday to help the organization sustain competitive growth in the marketplace.
This blog is dedicated to topics relevant to my field of work as well as my interests in organizational issues such as Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management, Organizational Strategy and Blue Ocean Strategy.