I get that a lot when loading mails. I think google relied too much on the assumption that the US would improve its broadband infrastructure and not get mired in red tapism. But then our stupid politicians and their cattle have other plans in mind
Email someone on your team a copy of a word pad *flle* that you are working on, and it will be out of date tomorrow morning when they look at it, if you keep working on it. Send them the URL of a Google apps *web document* and they will be looking at an up-to-date copy of it. I cherry-picked a use-case, but it is a very commonplace one.In some ways, emailing a file around is just one step above the old "sneaker net" that everyone hated, and shares a lot of the same problems as using thumb drives, which spreads viruses around due to inherent features of Windows and Microsoft Office/Excel. Again, I picked a serious but commonplace problem with Windows that is a very common use case & occurrence. <a class="user" href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sophos+warns+of+RTF+files.+%28Virus+Notes%29.%28Brief+Article%29-a093533610" rel="nofollow">http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sophos+warns+of+RTF+ ...</a>There are just a lot of these enterprise "document-handling anti-patterns" from the 1980's & 1990's that we gotta ditch really quickly in modern 2010+ world. We have very fast/short-term/brittle value-chains now. We gotta adapt or our economy will be smashed to bits by external competition & attacks.If programmers are wondering what the heck a "value chain" is, it's an economics/logistics management term that defines the path resources and work products take from their start in the economy to their emergence from the economy in the form of finished goods that are consumed. <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_chain" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_chain</a>In your terms, think of a value chain as what a DAG is in computer-science. Or, if you are more IT-oriented, how MVC works in real, non-hack GUI programming. Values and submodels in the Business object model are basically these valuable resources (definitely, not a pun). Values changes are propagated upward to the overall set of "assets" (in any sense of the word) so you basically have fixed/broken/created/updated values reflecting themselves in real-time up to the submodels (or sub-asssembles) into the top-level models: finished goods, business stock/inventory, list of assets, bill of materials, chart of accounts, corporate financial, up to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).The controller in MVC is like how resource-acquisition, production, and services affect the "valueable" product or at least work product being passed through the "system".The view in MVC could be seen as the ultimate consumer of that value or at the consumer of some level(s) of the business object model that value lives within.Whether you are architecting a reliable client-server enterprise/cloud computing system, figuring out how to protect precious "assets" from damage/theft/exposure at the same time making sure they get "out" there to where they need to be for you to achieve the objectives - these are the ways you need to think of things. Both inside the computer and out.That is why I think Google Apps is evolution not overkill. Putting your doc in there rather than a file is putting out there closer to where it's recipient, your work product receiver, needs it to be. Physically, no. But workflow-wise, yes. Out-of-date workproducts are not as valuable in the value chain as up-to-date work products. Separating someone from your up-to-date work product means they need an extra arc in the chain to ask for the new one, or, may not even get a signal that it exists. Files are getting passe.
This guy is pretty much dead on. I'm a Google fan, I use a lot of their stuff and I manage Adwords campaigns. That said, it is surprising how buggy some of their stuff is, like the Adwords application itself...I suppose that initially I thought that these Google Super Brains from Stanford would write pretty flawless software...and it ain't so.
it still cant beat iTunesso of course its a fail no one wants to develop for a stillborn platformhey look now I can make iPad apps too screw you Google Store
Closed AccountJan 27, 2010
I get that a lot when loading mails. I think google relied too much on the assumption that the US would improve its broadband infrastructure and not get mired in red tapism. But then our stupid politicians and their cattle have other plans in mind
frodobagginsJan 27, 2010
I like pie.
tigerstar337Jan 27, 2010
Google Chrome rocks! I like the Gmail because the connection is secure https. Good Stuff!
johnnysoftwareJan 27, 2010
Email someone on your team a copy of a word pad *flle* that you are working on, and it will be out of date tomorrow morning when they look at it, if you keep working on it. Send them the URL of a Google apps *web document* and they will be looking at an up-to-date copy of it. I cherry-picked a use-case, but it is a very commonplace one.In some ways, emailing a file around is just one step above the old "sneaker net" that everyone hated, and shares a lot of the same problems as using thumb drives, which spreads viruses around due to inherent features of Windows and Microsoft Office/Excel. Again, I picked a serious but commonplace problem with Windows that is a very common use case & occurrence. <a class="user" href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sophos+warns+of+RTF+files.+%28Virus+Notes%29.%28Brief+Article%29-a093533610" rel="nofollow">http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sophos+warns+of+RTF+ ...</a>There are just a lot of these enterprise "document-handling anti-patterns" from the 1980's & 1990's that we gotta ditch really quickly in modern 2010+ world. We have very fast/short-term/brittle value-chains now. We gotta adapt or our economy will be smashed to bits by external competition & attacks.If programmers are wondering what the heck a "value chain" is, it's an economics/logistics management term that defines the path resources and work products take from their start in the economy to their emergence from the economy in the form of finished goods that are consumed. <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_chain" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_chain</a>In your terms, think of a value chain as what a DAG is in computer-science. Or, if you are more IT-oriented, how MVC works in real, non-hack GUI programming. Values and submodels in the Business object model are basically these valuable resources (definitely, not a pun). Values changes are propagated upward to the overall set of "assets" (in any sense of the word) so you basically have fixed/broken/created/updated values reflecting themselves in real-time up to the submodels (or sub-asssembles) into the top-level models: finished goods, business stock/inventory, list of assets, bill of materials, chart of accounts, corporate financial, up to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).The controller in MVC is like how resource-acquisition, production, and services affect the "valueable" product or at least work product being passed through the "system".The view in MVC could be seen as the ultimate consumer of that value or at the consumer of some level(s) of the business object model that value lives within.Whether you are architecting a reliable client-server enterprise/cloud computing system, figuring out how to protect precious "assets" from damage/theft/exposure at the same time making sure they get "out" there to where they need to be for you to achieve the objectives - these are the ways you need to think of things. Both inside the computer and out.That is why I think Google Apps is evolution not overkill. Putting your doc in there rather than a file is putting out there closer to where it's recipient, your work product receiver, needs it to be. Physically, no. But workflow-wise, yes. Out-of-date workproducts are not as valuable in the value chain as up-to-date work products. Separating someone from your up-to-date work product means they need an extra arc in the chain to ask for the new one, or, may not even get a signal that it exists. Files are getting passe.
Closed AccountJan 27, 2010
Technology and Forbes are just two things that don't go together unless it is something about profit. STFU Forbes you suck. LOLO!
perspicuity777Jan 27, 2010
This guy is pretty much dead on. I'm a Google fan, I use a lot of their stuff and I manage Adwords campaigns. That said, it is surprising how buggy some of their stuff is, like the Adwords application itself...I suppose that initially I thought that these Google Super Brains from Stanford would write pretty flawless software...and it ain't so.
4ndr01dJan 27, 2010
it still cant beat iTunesso of course its a fail no one wants to develop for a stillborn platformhey look now I can make iPad apps too screw you Google Store
cozysarJan 29, 2010
Forbes sucks big dick today.