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Where to buy and how to play also on Apple OSX the fantastic shoot them up Arcade game ROM "Rayforce"
Sonntag, März 30th, 2008We as the team behind our “line-of-reasoning” are passionate about highlighting challenges and opportunities in everybody’s life in the information age. Currently we are researching a specific sub-niche of the software market for games. We will share with you in the following article some interesting parallels of the digital marketplaces for Arcade / Retro games [...]
Posted in Identified Issues, Recommended Products | 1 Comment »Example of how Data Quality issues can ripple through a service and reduce the quality of the user experience: the Amazon case revisited
Sonntag, Januar 20th, 2008In a previous post we discussed Data Quality issues in Amazons product catalog. We showed the details of how those Data Quality issues can make it for Consumers difficult to find the products that they are interested in. As a consequence of the low Data Quality it is “easy” to pay on Amazon for exactly [...]
Posted in Identified Issues | No Comments »Examples of News that you would miss using only RSS and or Google Reader
Montag, Dezember 31st, 2007Google Reader is a highly recommended tool to browse News feeds. But not every bit of information and also not every News on the Web is available as an RSS feed. Now you could argue that in this case you just do not care about those pieces of information because there is anyhow too much [...]
Posted in Identified Issues, Recommended Products | 1 Comment »Data Quality issues cost you as a Consumer time and money: Shopping on Amazon as an example
Donnerstag, November 1st, 2007Data quality issues? Is this not something only relevant to business analysts, data-warehouse specialists or market researchers? 10 years ago probably most of us would have thought so. And according to Gartner, Inc. ( the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company ) the cost of poor Data Quality is also going to continue [...]
Posted in Identified Issues | 3 Comments »Be aware: You will not be able to delete from Google Docs any image embedded in your Presentations
Freitag, September 21st, 2007Google launched this week the capability to store in addition to Docs and Spreadsheets also Presentations on Google Docs. This new capability is easy to use and very valuable. But a simple test has shown that there is right now (September 2007) an issue with Presentations on Google Docs that you maybe should know of:
You will [...]
Update on Zombie Google Documents: Experience still yourself why private or confidential information should not be put on hosted services on the Internet
Montag, Juli 30th, 2007From a theoretical standpoint it is clear that private or confidential information should not be put on a hosted service on the Internet (if it is not encrypted) because you can never be sure about who can access it and you can never be sure that it ever will be deleted if you would request [...]
Posted in Identified Issues | No Comments »Privacy issue: Google Docs seems to not delete but only hide documents when the trash is emptied
Sonntag, Juli 15th, 2007We are going to demonstrate in this article that documents on Google Docs (in July 2007) are not deleted, even after the user asked to empty the trash.
We are also going to show that there is an privacy issue with documents on Google Docs: parts of private documents on Google Docs can be accessed without [...]
The current context of the user: great opportunity for incremental business
Dienstag, Mai 1st, 2007In the soon to be forgotten “Pre-Internet Phase” of desktop computing developers leveraged the context of the user inside their applications:
right click menus offer functionality depending on the context of the application,
context sensitive help is trying to provide background information to what the application sees as the current context of the [...]
Management of Data about Data is an issue for all of us
Donnerstag, April 19th, 2007Data about Data sounds like a topic that is interesting only for experts. Most of us probably assume that only those experts can understand what it is all about. And indeed the management of Data about Data is for example in the specialized world of Business Data warehouses (referred to there as Meta-Data Management - [...]
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