Conference on Enterprise Portals

I recently gave a keynote presentation at a conference on Enterprise Portals, organized by IIR. My topic was Portals of the Future and I claimed, among other things, that Web 2.0 software would become an integral part of corporate information management. In this context, I also asked the participants whether they have accounts on social networking sites, e.g. Facebook of MySpace. It was a real surprise, when only 2 or 3 participants raised their hands. I had expected a considerably higher diffusion.

I also recommended to set up a governance structure for current and future portal initiatives and asked, whether this or a general governance already existed. Again, very few hands were raised. It seems that there is a lot of work to do.

Public profile on LinkedIn

I invested some time to update my LinkedIn account: .

Occasionally I wonder, where to find the time to handle all the community and networking sites, such as Facebook, Stayfriends, etc. Could the solution be a piece of software that allows me to maintain my information for all these sites on my personal computer and that provides any change per feed to the sites where I am registered?

Data retention law - Vorratsdatenspeicherung - Freedom of speech R.I.P.

Today, the German parliament passed a law on telecommunication and internet connection data retention. The law incorporates the principles of the EU Data Retention Directive, that is the mandatory retention of all telecoms traffic data for law enforcement purposes.

In brief, starting in 2008, all providers of telecommunication services and ISPs are required to store the connection data of their customers for 6 months and to make it available to law enforcement agencies upon request.

Traffic data to be stored includes a variety of information - sender and recipient of emails, phone numbers of callers and recipients for each phone call, etc. In addition, the use of anonymization services will be forbidden.

I strongly object this law, since I consider it as being an intrusion into my and other citizens privacy. I have joined a class action against the law that will be brought in front of the German constitutional court.

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Back again

After quite some time, I am now starting to post again here. Since my last post, I have been on holiday in Sweden, finished and begun some interesting consulting assignments, been on a short holiday in Vienna, participated in the Gartner Symposium in Cannes, just to name a few things.

So, from now on, I will try to find some more time for posting in some interesting topics here.