What does Google know about your social circle?

Would be interesting to see how the privacy settings changes in facebook and other third party sites affect this content.

in reference to: http://www.google.com/s2/search/social#socialcircle (view on Google Sidewiki)

When will Google finally hit the sales big time?

Seems Google are still addressing some issues in their sales chain so they haven't quite cracked retail with their Nexus one phone but it does feel like they're making leaps and bounds and learning along the way.

Obviously their core market has been business customers from large corporates to small businesses selling services and hardware such as the google search appliance (that's right, despite so many reports Google have sold hardware before) but it is only in recent times that Google have started making major plays in terms of products for the mass market. The Chrome browser although free demonstrated a move towards supporting customers, providing an infrastructure for software updates and a support infrastructure aimed at the public. The Android platform went further introducing an app store and yielding income for Google (Google Checkout is used in the store). The Nexus one then builds on these two developments and is an interesting foray into consumer hardware. What will Google learn from the experience?

I think the very interesting question is will Google get it very very right with their Chrome OS Netbooks?

I think the tablet / slate PC's will be the fashionable talk of the town come mid 2010 but I really think Google will have the infrastructure and learnings to hit the cheap, low end netbook market with unprecedented force in late 2010 / early 2011.

Chrome OS getting some press

People are already taking the initial build of chrome OS (currently Chromium OS) out for a spin. I'm rather looking forward to it as a saviour for my old HP laptop and perhaps something that would sit well on my eee pc.

lifehacker article: http://lifehacker.com/5416968/the-humans-guide-to-running-google-chrome-os

Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Framework

Came across the PEAF through the Google EA discussion group. Preliminary glance suggests that it is quite an accessible framework. The model feels less complete than the TOGAF one and I'm concerned that some of the missing items are actually useful - so there's less focus on logical information as you might expect in a pragmatic view.
The method feels very light touch to me at present, but as I say this is based on a glance through the material.

Will be interesting to see if this gains any ground.

TOGAF Overview in one page

I've posted my one pager on TOGAF up on Lulu.com, let me know if it's of use or if you feel it needs some updates.

http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/togaf-overview-in-one-page/7845887

TOGAF 9 one pager...

Been talking to the open group chaps looking at TOGAF about my one pager description of TOGAF 9. They've made some useful comments, hope to get something out soon.

On thinking and change

This post on Inside Architecture really resonated with me. The topic is that getting people to think is hard, getting people to change is hard - getting folks to do both at the same time is nearly impossible.

This is very much in line with my experience. Sometimes I've produced something to provoke thought and been asked how this should be changed, i.e. the other party doesn't want to think. I've also proposed change that has provoked thinking.