Web Socializing
December 3, 2008
World Wide Web social sites like Facebook and MySpace receive a lot of press coverage. Most often because they have been used by predators to locate and connect with victims. They have
Category: Web/Internet
In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.
Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.
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The New Silk Road
November 20, 2008
BusinessWeek magazine recently published an “Emerging Market Report” that claims “historic bonds between the Middle East and Asia are being revitalized in a torrent of trade and investment in energy, infrastructure, and
Is Google Rewiring our Brains?
November 14, 2008
The term “Google” has come to represent more than the name of the world’s most popular search engine or the company behind it. Google has become a verb as well as a
Public/Private Partnerships in Cyberspace
November 4, 2008
It’s election day in the United States. If you are an eligible voter and haven’t yet exercised your right to vote, I encourage you to do so. The politicians who are elected
An Update on Zombies
October 30, 2008
October is the month known for witches, ghouls, ghosts, and skeletons because it ends with the holiday of Halloween. It seems like a good time to do an update on Zombies and
Books Forever
October 24, 2008
Librarians, by nature (or at least by reputation), are conservative people. The stereotype is Meredith Wilson’s “Marion the librarian” in his musical The Music Man. Librarians also have a very long time horizon when
More on Oil and Development
September 15, 2008
Most everyone is aware that because of the steep rise in oil prices, the world is in the midst of the greatest transfer of wealth in history. Politicians from countries dependent on
Another Search Engine Revs Up
August 6, 2008
Every six months or so it seems that a company introduces a new search engine in hopes of competing with Google and other big search engine sites [see my posts Globalization’s Competitive
Malicious Software Continues to Grow
March 28, 2008
It has been a while since I posted a blog about malicious software. A recent Washington Post article, however, caught my eye [“Firms Struggle Against Web Viruses,” by Brian Krebs, 20 March
The End of Spam?
December 11, 2007
If you’re like most people, you have more than one email account and each account is likely to have some kind of spam filter associated with it. John Markoff, writing for the
