How an MIT Tutorial for School kids can revolutionize cloud computing?

In search of a new topic on cloud and the various perspectives of cloud, I was going through various communities, wikis and internet for sometime. Somewhere I found the history of cloud, somewhere on the implications of private clouds in defense sector. Interesting, but not enough!

I went ahead in quest. Somewhere I found the coinage ‘Cloud plus Data’. 

Then I started hunting this keyword in Google. A few results down, I saw the link: Wiki.Scratch!: 

Wiki.scratch? This title intrigued me. Out of sheer bewilderment, I went on to read the page. The wiki page speaks about a newly developed programming language for kids and a data type called cloud data there. The surprise ended there. But the idea of ‘Cloud Data type’ persisted with me. Recently I had read about the concept of temporary social media in the MIT Review Blog. It was described as one of the top ten disruptive technologies for the year 2013. MIT Technology Review.

Temporary Social Media is a concept where content self-destructs itself to enhance the privacy of online communication and make people feel freer and be instantaneous in the world of internet. It can even be a minimal control to the current data explosion. Connecting the dots, I just began to think why can’t we think of a system of programming where cloud based variables and data types be used to create a temporary social media. Thus cloud can become the birthplace for a new mode of social media. 

Read more at my developerWorks personal blog DataVerse! and please share your comments!

Transparency and Measurability :: The twin towers of Digital Economy

People and Technology: How they enrich a social network?

#Facebook, as the name goes, became this ubiquitous a social media only with a human face and a treasure chest of information. These two constitute the twin towers to build a powerful social media. These two ends should enrich each other in a social media platform. More people means more information, more information means more attractive to people. 

Without people, read & write web ( web 2.0 paradigm ) will just be a pipe dream. Social Media as a source of data opens up anew opportunities for collaboration, new insights, further more modes of communication and so on.

Yet making relevant decisions from social media remains a daunting task for many information management systems. We evolve complex algorithms and decision systems for this. We traverse the path of natural language and cognitive networks for this aim. Why?

The data formats and the metadata about people varies significantly across social media. This diversity often inspires the evolution of various ecosystems around each social networks. When #Pinterest gains momentum, the network society around it various substantially with #Twitter communes or #Google Plus hangouts.

Social Media Observatory: A step towards Digital Front Office

Beyond this multiplicity of modes of communication, a unified strategy for web intelligence from social media has a lot of challenges even today. The data exchange across social media need to be more transparent and measurable for this. Social Media Observatory concept is a landmark concept in this direction. An observatory is a platform which can access and plot the patterns and constellation of ideas and aspirations in social media.

This transformation is an imperative in making social media a viable channel for Smarter commerce, further leading to a comprehensive digital front office. This envisions the need for a front office digitization  (#FOD) strategy incorporating social media evolution as well. That will take us near the goal for a fully digitized globally integrated enterprise. A Digital enterprise cannot exist without a digitally segmented market and a digitized channel for network society. And that means the synergy of social media, big data, cloud and mobile platforms as a prelude and a stage setter. 

Social Business Diary #1

Business & IT Convergence ...

Fake Clouds: A late realization

As we know, with more and more of Business and +Information Technology  convergence, cloud computing need to meet the rationale of Software Economics. We can see that the dynamics between 'Money' and 'Data' is still a perplexing question. There are some who says 'Data' is 'Money'. But people are realizing that only with a clear cut model for software economics they can evaluate the hypes and marketing frameworks that mystify each software invention.

Deadly Sins of Business Agility

What should be understood by the term 'Business Agility' ? How +Information Technology  can transform your Business to an agile environment? It all revolves around your understanding of key drivers of growth and dampening factors that divert your focus. This link will tell us that, without a clear cut and forward looking +business architecture , Business Agility will remain a jargon for ever.

Product Development in India

As the product development spirits are gearing up in India, and as we conceive more and more innovation within the design space, it is time for us to think of a broader strategy for Product Life-cycle Management( +PLM ). And it is where +IBM can help you with a vast arrays of methods and tools ...

Social Business -3 Mistakes to avoid

Social Business is a buzz word with lot of meaning and nothingness within. It will end up as a hollow pot if we don't use our intelligence and understand our business. So this post pronounces that the basics of Business remains the same even we embrace social space!

+Gokul Alex

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