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By The Constellation Research Team Awards Showcase What Was Top Of Mind In Enterprise Technology At The End of The Decade This year the Constellation Research team attended over 270 events, engaged
Zoho: Winner of the 2019 ConstellationR Enterprise Software Award
The awards come in 9 distinct categories, that each comes with a elaborate description why the respective winner deserves the award.
BEST ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE STARTUP
BEST ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE VENDOR
BEST ENTERPRISE SERVICES VENDOR
BEST TECH ACQUISITION
BEST PARTNERSHIP
BEST CEO
BEST NEW ENTERPRISE CATEGORY
BEST NEW ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE MARKETING OF THE YEAR
Social media is a mistake: Let me start the new decade in the Photo category with a video. In the past year I challenged myself and take a picture every day. The project was inspired by an old, fellow student. It sounded easy in first place, turned into a challenge soon and I use to self-reflect upon achievements and new experiences. Taking a photo of something new every day will make you start think about what you did. Sometimes, after a long day in office, it requires plenty of discipline to pay attention to your schedule and environment.
Instagram
To measure the result, when starting, I decided to go for Instagram. Get Likes has never been the goal. The level of interaction with the platform and exposure to the crowd I got there gave plenty of insight into how the crowd works. But the service never convinced for many reasons. As stated elsewhere, the experience just re-affirmed my feeling that social media is a mistake.
The medium is driven by vein and pride, just as Scott Galloway put it, the seven deadly sins. These are not good guidance in first place. And they are by no means compatible with the goals of the project, even though it generated plenty of attention and positive feedback.
And finally, the company owning Instagram, Facebook, requires to accept a license through their Terms of Service to grant to them a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings) for purposes of making the Instagram Service available. While comprehensible the service needs authority over content to offer the service, these purposes are too broad for what I want to achieve. Instagram is driven by users registered and wouldn’t allow the audience I have in mind to consume the photos without registering. Just try scrolling through the page, it will require registration quickly.
Resolution
You can end this license anytime by deleting your content or account. Following the Terms of Service, this is the only way to not grant these. And while Instagram offers means to download all content, this still ain’t too easy: all the content over there has meta information, like comments and or locations, that are not straight forward to transfer. Which brings me to one of next years resolutions: not only continue my own project here – to take a photo every day as an act of self-reflection. But also to migrate existing content from Instagram over here.
Instagram Error
And the same is true for other social media. For example, LinkedIn does also leverage such mechanisms. While the above is only an example, I try to put more attention to these models. And this page shall serve as a basis to replace others in the .
Social media is a mistake. Take back the web and decentralise the next decade.
Memento Money: Kunst im Kloster St. Ottilien. Memento Money ist eine Anspielung auf das lateinische Memento Mori, das in christlichen Zusammenhängen verwendet wird um an unsere Sterblichkeit zu erinnern.
Florian Aigner erklärt das mal in einem kurzen Twitter-Thread:
Wenn uns Außerirdische zusehen, fragen sie sich bestimmt: Warum feiern diese seltsamen Menschen gerade jetzt Neujahr, und nicht etwa exakt am kürzesten/längsten Tag des Jahres? (Thread)
A lot happened. Many things changed. Ten years ago, I was not married, I did not have kids. I grew up to become a responsible father and husband. And I took on areas of responsibilities I never thought of, both privately and professionally.
Today, 31. December 2019, marks the end of a decade, before a new decade begins. It doesn’t feel like it, even when the past years will be remembered as the 10s. And we’re entering the twenties now.
At the beginning of the decade, I only earned my MBA. Back then, I worked for one of the most amazing companies I could imagine up till today. At that company, I was given an assignment, not only abroad but on a different continent. After having traveled Europe and the entire Middle East in the years before, I had an opportunity to visit all countries South East Asia from Singapore in this decade.
During that time, cloud computing did merely exist, it was a newly coined term. And people were excited by what Apple shaped in form of the iPhone. Social Media was still new and innocent, people were excited by the opportunity to exchange with friends, family but also to meet total strangers on the Internet.
Feuerwerk
Since then, I did not only have the opportunity to take on responsibility for one of the most popular smart lighting products, also did I have the opportunity to transition to a role I wanted to grow into.
In this role today I work for one of the largest European software vendor, proudly contributing to a product in the hottest Enterprise Software space.
A new decade
I had the opportunity to see it all grow and develop, into technology that shapes both society and business. And I had an opportunity to exchange ideas in that space with the brightest minds in the industry. And to build a network of friends and colleagues that are among the best and most motivated.
We’ll see more development in technology and society. Social media has seen it’s peak. Consumers are sceptical of being tracked. Big Data, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are exciting technologies. Society will benefit from these, but it will require policy and products that use them right. Awareness for the correct use of technology will increase and sustainability will become more important.
31. December 2019 does mark the end of a decade. It does not mark the end of anything else. It’s a random day that marks a rather arbitrary ten years timeframe. I’m thankful for the past decade and excited for the next.
12:50 dreiwert and Claus Diem share ideas about Provable Insecurity and Cryptographic hash functions and the problems modelling them for the real world. Claus is a mathematician and cryptographer, who, among others, worked on designing and analyzing a novel attack on elliptic curve cryptography.
In Saal Ada erzählen Peter Schmidt und Heurekus schon um 11:30 über dem Weg von 4G zu 5G und den notwendigen Wandel im Core Netz. Im wesentlichen erklären die beiden dabei Unterschiede der beiden Protokolle an der sogenannten Luftschnittstelle, inkl. der Vor- bzw. Nachteile.
12:50 An ultrashort history of ultrafast imaging Caroline vom DESY erklärt wie man Bilder von sehr schnellen Ereignissen aufnimmt und nicht nur das, sondern auch von sehr kleinen Strukturen.
14:10 Das nützlich-unbedenklich Spektrum Fefe teilt seine Gedanken zu Softwarequalität und Legacy Code, in dem er Software zwischen Nützlich und Unbedenklich einteilt. Auf dem Gedankengang dahin erörtert er mehrere Dimensionen, die man für eine Bewertung heranziehen kann.
16:10 The ecosystem is moving Moxie Marlinspike, Gründer von Signal, dessen Crypto-Protokoll sogar in WhatsApp Einsatz findet, über Messenger: distributed and decentralized technologies from the perspective of a product that many would like to see decentralize. In his talk, Moxie Marlinspike, makes an argument against decentralizing. He argues with four (4) individual talking points and invalidates all four of them throughout the talk:
Privacy
Censorship Resistance
Availability
Control
Unsurprisingly, the crown in the room disagreed.
Die Zukunft grenzüberschreitenden Datenzugriffs und politischer Verfolgung
17:10 Die Zukunft grenzüberschreitenden Datenzugriffs und politischer Verfolgung Elisabeth Niekrenz politische Referentin der netzpolitischen Organisation Digitale Gesellschaft e.V., über eine in Brüssel gegenwärtig verhandelte Verordnung, die Zugriffe auf Benutzerdaten Grenzüberschreitend regeln soll.
After having traveled for a few hours, we missed the opening ceremony but still had a few good first impressions. Here are a few notes from what I managed to see so far at Day 1 at the 36C3 in Leipzig:
Large Hadron Collider – Infrastructure Talk at 36C3
16:10 The Large Hadron Collider Infrastructure Talk Sev and Thasti give an insight into how the Large Hedron Collider at CERN works. LHC is a particle collider that measures about 27km in diameter and requires – if I got the two speakers right – 450kV of current off the French electricity grid. The particle beam produces enough energy to melt 1000kg of copper, when turned on.
From Managerial Feudalism to the Revolt of the Caring Classes
17:30 From Managerial Feudalism to the Revolt of the Caring Classes: David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5000 Years and Bullshit Jobs is talking about how the caring classes, e.g. health and education, are becoming increasingly less appreciated and how administration is on the rise. Link to Lecture.
21:00 What the world can learn form Hong Kong. Katharin Tai talks about backgrounds of the Hong Kong protests and explains the 5 demands of protestors. The clarity helps the movement keep their momentum and stand against government. She also gives insights into strategies to cope with police and organisation of the protests, that are ongoing for months now. So is “Be water”, a phrase apparently inspired by Bruce Lee, a tactic to organise flash mob type protests. Plenty of these ideas are reflected in Hong Kong Protest Art, that Katharin Tai also covered in her talk.
