Wednesday, August 31, 2005

What's Your Brand Mantra?: Brand as Ecosystem

What's Your Brand Mantra?: Brand as Ecosystem: "Right now we're focusing so much on the customer that we've lost sight of the big picture. When we focus on the customer, we see a person out there separate from us that we need to identify, label and categorize. "

"We need to move beyond a focus on a specific department (silo mentality) to a focus on the interconnections between individuals (system mentality). What are the most critical connections in your company? Why not have VPs over key connections instead of components?"

Monday, August 29, 2005

Teradata Magazine | IN THE BEGINNING: An RDBMS history

Teradata Magazine | IN THE BEGINNING: An RDBMS history: "'SQL is no longer a language for real users, if it ever was,' says Date. 'It has become a developer's language.' "

Nice retrospective of the massive research effort going on decades ago to bring us SQL.

Monday, August 08, 2005

newsmap

Nice tree map view of the Google News aggregations here: newsmap .