ACM for Home Medical Caregivers?

I attended the Future Salon meeting on Nov 1 at SAP Labs where they hosted three great short talks on the topic of the Future of Health.  After a brief overview of the three speakers, I will focus on the one talk that I did not expect to see: a way for families to handle the unpredictable hurdles of caring for loved ones with special needs. Continue reading

Cloud User’s Bill of Rights

Want users to use your cloud-based web site?  Follow these guidelines, so that users can sign up easily and use it.  Sadly, there are soooo many ways that web sites can do this wrong.  The result is a bewildering variety of inconsistent and sometimes incomprehensible mechanisms that unnecessarily annoy the very users you are trying to attract.  Continue reading

Cloud Contracts

Down-to-Earth Contracts that Keep the Cloud Aloft – A look at the basic interoperability requirements when communicating with the Cloud,  Keith Swenson & Jacques Durand, Nov 2009

Working together with Jacques Durand, a colleague and expert in the B2B exchange standards space, we put together this article exploring how many of the same standards and agreements necessary today will also be necessary for applications deployed to the cloud.  Just published!