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		<title>Why Hasn&#8217;t BPM Taken Off Like ERP or CRM?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the ebizQ site posted a forum discussion on the subject “Why Hasn&#8217;t BPM Taken Off Like ERP or CRM?”. Hre is the reply I posted in the forum. When we work we actually execute one (or more) of the &#34;business processes&#34; of our company. I think that &#34;business processes&#34; are, actually, part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2010/07/19/why-hasnt-bpm-taken-off-like-erp-or-crm/</link>
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		<title>The price of cheap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have read the article Suicide, stupidity, and the iPhone and, I must admit, it touched me. Nothing I did not know before, for sure. But something I do not like to think about. I have to think better to this article before writing a post which would not simply be a plain and ineffective [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2010/06/10/the-price-of-cheap/</link>
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		<title>Memorial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It happened 21 Years ago, but still this information cannot be delivered in the place where it happened. Nevertheless the amount and volume of economical transactions has increased, actually justifying the repression that occurred and the silence that followed.]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2010/06/03/memorial/</link>
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		<title>Exodus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I am reading that all the big thinking heads of Sun are now leaving Oracle. I have two kind of reactions facing this news: to describe my first reaction, I take a quote from the movie Ghostbusters:&#160; “They gave us money and facilities, we didn&#8217;t have to produce anything! You&#8217;ve never been out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2010/04/24/exodus/</link>
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		<title>Being an Actor or a Spectator?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that we all loved from the Web was that it allowed, over time, the empowerment of us. If you want, you can become an actor; you do not need big means, you do not need PR, you do not need to be a famous star. You just behave the way you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2010/02/09/being-an-actor-or-a-spectator/</link>
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		<title>Once upon a time&#8230;. Firefox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago, my son was struggling with the old laptop from his elder sister. Old laptop, running the same original Vista since 4 years&#8230;. you know what I am talking about, right? Bad, very bad perfomances. The kind of performances where you cannot event enjoy surfing the web&#8230;. The teen-ager was not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2010/01/19/once-upon-a-time-firefox/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft paving the road to Google towards a common target?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Couldn&#8217;t resist from posting this after having read the artcile &#8220;The 5 best, and 5 worst, features of Google Chrome OS&#8220;. At page 2 of the article, we can read the following: A surprising way to support Microsoft Office. If you ask a Google executive any question involving Microsoft, you&#8217;ll hear the cliche answer &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2010/01/13/microsoft-paving-the-road-to-google-towards-a-common-target/</link>
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		<title>On the browers again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article on ZDNet UK reports the following: &#8230;Silverlight 4 will also host HTML content using a control that supports media plug-ins — so Flash will run inside Silverlight applications. Business applications written in Silverlight will become more like ordinary applications, Guthrie said, and will now be able to print, access the Windows clipboard, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2010/01/13/on-the-browers-again/</link>
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		<title>Google may pull out of China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If what I am reading today in this article is true, it is certainly going to be something significant. I would rollback all my criticisms to the egemonic position that Google took so far and will openly, franly and wholeheartdly applaude this move. It proves to be courageous and deserves the maximum respect!]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2010/01/13/google-may-pull-out-of-china/</link>
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		<title>Chrome OS and the principles of Web2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read the Google announcement around the new Google Chrome OS.I immediately went back to my article Enter the &#8220;Reign of RIA 3rd&#8221;. In that article I expressed my enthusiasm for the new Google browser as I saw, in the way it was announced, the principle for something new, a platform where applications delivered over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2009/07/08/chrome-os-and-the-principles-of-web2-0/</link>
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		<title>Towards a new year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A colleague shared with us these drops of wisdom. I would like to take them as part of my commitments for this new year: Commitment Honesty Accountability Respect Courage We will all need to give the best of ourselves in this difficult period. Not losing sight of what is important and lasting, is something that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2009/01/22/towards-a-new-year/</link>
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		<title>SOA is Dead; Long Live Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received a couple of wake-up alerts from some friends about the noise that Anne Thomas Manes article &#8220;SOA is Dead; Long Live Services&#8221; has made. The result of this noise has been: &#8220;Since SOA is Dead, what are we going to do next?&#8220;. When better reading the article, though, what I think Anne actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2009/01/09/soa-is-dead-long-live-services/</link>
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		<title>Craftsmen Social Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This evening, on the French Radio, I heard about this site: http://www.bonartisan.com This site implements a strong reputation system which allows individuals to find craftsmen to deal with the issues that any home-owner encounters each day. Individuals &#8220;vote&#8221; for the craftsman who just did some reparation at home. And everybody else can choose craftsmen based [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2009/01/06/craftsmen-social-network/</link>
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		<title>Enter the &quot;Reign of RIA 3rd&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would like to continue to express my point of view around Google Chrome. First of all, I would like to say that it looks really nice! The performances are incredible but they are just the mean that Google used to reach their goal. I saw all around very many articles and comments where the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/12/11/enter-the-reign-of-ria-3rd/</link>
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		<title>The Struggle for the Sould of the Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very interesting article, &#8220;The Struggle for the Soul of the Web&#8221; !The author enforces the concept of the importance of Ajax standards (and, thus, the Open Ajax Alliance) as a mean to avoid that the web becomes the territory where proprietary solutions (see Flex and SilverLight) will flourish. In developping his argument, on which I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/12/10/the-struggle-for-the-sould-of-the-web/</link>
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		<title>Google Lays off one third of workforce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, here is another bad news : Google Layoffs &#8211; 10,000 Workers Affected.There is no doubt that the financial crisis is touching everybody. But once again, what surprises is, according to this article, the way in which Google manages this and the way in which they managed one third of the people working there.]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/11/27/google-lays-off-one-third-of-workforce/</link>
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		<title>Who is David and who is Goliath ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am reading this article, Ballmer still searching for an answer to Google. The article explains that Microsoft &#8220;may be the only company in a position to provide &#8216;any real competition&#8217; for Google in the online search business.&#8220;, that it may invest some significant amount of money in a &#8220;five-year task&#8221; : We need to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/09/27/who-is-david-and-who-is-goliath/</link>
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		<title>Google strikes back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, here it is, the long awaited &#8220;Google Browser&#8221; (called Google Chrome, but the site should go online only tomorrow) has been unveiled in an unconventional announcement in the guise of a comic book. For the moment, I hold any new comment. I read my old post (from last August). Let&#8217;s see if this move [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/09/02/google-strikes-back/</link>
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		<title>User as center of the Universe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am slowly catching up with some articles I read and over which I wanted to comment. I am dealing with this one SOA needs RIA – Burton Group, because there are few sentences I liked and because it lacks, in my opinion, a proper &#8220;end&#8221;. So, here are the quotes I liked most: &#8220;We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/08/12/user-as-center-of-the-universe/</link>
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		<title>What a surprise: Oracle says WebLogic is its future strategic server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I received on of the newsletter to which I subscribe. I read it because of an article which seemed to be very interesting &#8220;Oracle says Weblogic is its future strategic server&#8221;. In the beginning, I liked this assertion &#8220;To many, the Oracle products seemed a mere adjunct to its data base&#8221;. Great! I like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/08/12/what-a-surprise-oracle-says-weblogic-is-its-future-strategic-server/</link>
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		<title>How to be an instant Web me-2.0 developer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article [1] [1] from Verity Stob [2] [2] at The Register [3] [3] made me laughing!  How true it is in many aspects. I really liked it all, but I think I will use these two pictures in my next Web2.0 presentation to present the difference between Web1.0 and Web2.0: Of course, I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/08/08/how-to-be-an-instant-web-me-20-developer/</link>
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		<title>BPM&#8217;s place in the upcoming decade of corporate change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read this quote from Lombardi&#8216;s president Phil Gilbert. I think it deserves a post: “BPM is the scalable program by which a company develops and maintains a capability for change. By &#8220;capability for change&#8221; I mean: having a corporate culture that will actively embrace change, without fear, and work to make that change good. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/08/08/bpms-place-in-the-upcoming-decade-of-corporate-change/</link>
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		<title>From Internet to Oligarchy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent announcement of Microsoft&#8217;s intention to buy Yahoo! is, in my opinion, marking the end of the short, initial period during which the Internet was populated by different subjects. During these initial 15 years, the proliferation of different subjects, all fighting against everybody else to gain market share, was allowing independent producers to break [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/02/03/from-internet-to-oligarchy/</link>
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		<title>Dreaming of Hiding the Complexity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whilst the software products are geared towards making people executing things in a more effective way and allowing people to execute things that were not possible before (I agree, this is not always something good&#8230; we would live better without some of the software creatures&#8230;), I have always thought that the goal of the technology [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/01/09/dreaming-of-hiding-the-complexity/</link>
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		<title>From &quot;You&quot; to &quot;Them&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course, this is NOT the official cover for the POY of Times. But it is a very interesting story (thanks Dvir for having sent the pointer). Quoting the article from Times: &#34;Don&#8217;t get me wrong: all the things that made You You in 2006 are still there. All year long, You were YouTubing, Facebooking, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/01/02/from-you-to-them/</link>
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		<title>How to get Immunity against e-mail?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I would share another couple of sentences I read in a book have very much liked. The book is another masterpiece, The Tipping Point. In the afterword there is a little chapter, titled &#34;Beware the Rise of Immunity&#34;. The following are excerpts from there: The fact that anyone can e-mail us for free, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2008/01/02/how-to-get-immunity-against-e-mail/</link>
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		<title>Googlenomiks (or Googlesaurus)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I had been late on commenting on other attempts of the big octopus, but I cannot refrain from commenting on this. Google officially announced a Wikipedia killer: it is called KNOL. Under the seducing title of Encouraging people to contribute knowledge, Google is, actually, directly attacking Wikipedia. I have never been a big fans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/12/15/googlenomiks-or-googlesaurus/</link>
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		<title>The Power User wears Prada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I saw the movie &#8220;The Devil wears Prada&#8220;. You remember when Miranda asks for the yet-to-be-published copy of Harry Potter? The way in which Andy manages the situation, by delivering two copies of the book to the twins before they take the train and giving an additional copy to Miranda, anticipating her objection and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/11/21/the-power-user-wears-prada/</link>
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		<title>Papybook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, on my way back from Paris where I got a wonderful long week end with my wife, I was reading these sentences from the book &#8220;The Tipping Point&#8220;: In general, people chose friends of similar age and race. But if the friend lived down the hall, then age and race became a lot less [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/11/05/papybook/</link>
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		<title>Java on the desktop is already here!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been surprised when I read this article: James Gosling (Sun) : « Java sur le poste client n&#8217;est pas à la hauteur aujourd&#8217;hui ». It is in French, so I translate the title here: James Gosling (Sun) : « Java is not ready today for the desktop » Strange, isn&#8217;t it ? The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tech.poglianis.net/2007/10/26/java-on-the-desktop-is-already-here/</link>
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