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Donnerstag, Oktober 23rd, 2008ShareUpdate 25.10.2008: See updates in blue text in the body of the post below A research institute confused million with billion in a news release published last month. Someone called them and they fixed the one-letter error immediately. Case closed, what could be learned out of this? What is the importance of million vs. billion [...]
Posted in Issues explained | No Comments »The rise of the virtual exchange of pros and cons
Donnerstag, September 25th, 2008ShareIf someone is making a “statement” (positive or negative) about a specific thing this contextual relationship between the “thing”, the “statement” and if it is “pros” or “cons” can be captured and saved. This information can then be later easily used to combine “statements” about specific “things” and create by this dynamically a “virtual exchange [...]
Posted in Interesting Links, Issues explained | No Comments »How the Aberdeen Group has proven that the Quality of the End-User Experience needs improvement
Mittwoch, September 3rd, 2008ShareSometimes you turn your head around and ask yourself if you are on candid camera. Today this mail titled “Improve the Quality of the End-User Experience” from the Aberdeen Group created such a moment for us: User experience is one of the core interests of the Line-Of-Reasoning team so we tried to access our “COMPLIMENTARY [...]
Posted in Issues explained | No Comments »The essence of information based human creativity (and how Robert Scoble´s Techmeme game is related to John Boyd´s military strategy)
Sonntag, August 31st, 2008ShareOur understanding of the core aspect of information based human creativity that can be for example sometimes (and not often enough) found in blogging, mails, reports/presentations and innovative software products and services is expressed in this slightly modified quote of Colonel John Boyd: Live the instinctive see-saw of analysis and synthesis across a variety of [...]
Posted in Interesting Links, Issues explained | No Comments »Where to buy and how to play also on Apple OSX the fantastic shoot them up Arcade game ROM "Rayforce"
Sonntag, März 30th, 2008ShareWe 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 Issues explained, Recommended Products | 4 Comments »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, 2008ShareIn 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 Issues explained | No Comments »Examples of News that you would miss using only RSS and or Google Reader
Montag, Dezember 31st, 2007ShareGoogle 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 Issues explained, Recommended Products | 1 Comment »Data Quality issues cost you as a Consumer time and money: Shopping on Amazon as an example
Donnerstag, November 1st, 2007ShareData 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 Issues explained | 3 Comments »Be aware: You will not be able to delete from Google Docs any image embedded in your Presentations
Freitag, September 21st, 2007ShareGoogle 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 [...]
Posted in Issues explained | 1 Comment »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, 2007ShareFrom 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 [...]
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