So a funny thing happened on my way to the West Coast this week, I was invited to a product launch at Box.net. I’ve always been a fan of the concept of Content Management in the Cloud and the direction Box has taken in the Content Management space.
The established vendors are having to determine how to change both their business models and architecture before they more to the the cloud. Box is already there, they just need more features.
There has been a lot of talk of late regarding the demise of the Java Content Repository (JCR) specification and what to do when a standard does die off. Much of this is blamed on the emergence of CMIS as a standard, but that is just a contributory factor. Many Content Management specifications and standards have withered over the last decade without a standard positioned to replace them.
As promised, here is my follow-on post to yesterday’s thoughts on eBooks. In fact, this post covers the issue that vexes me the most. This is something that I feel needs to be resolved. If it was resolved today, there would be a large number of happy users. If it was resolved today, I’d go out and buy eReaders for my family tonight.
I find that there are two different types of book readers out there. There are the average/casual reader that will read a book once and rarely pick it up again. They may read a lot or a little, but they rarely revisit a book. There are always books that are the exception, but as a rule, this reading group follows this trend. My wife, an regular reader, falls into this group.
I expect a fair amount of resistance to my next two posts, but I feel this needs to be written. I’ve been tracking this space for a while due to personal interest and I keep seeing things that remind me that this is not a mature market. There is some further maturation needed in the space and I am hoping that we’ll see some of that this year.
One thing to remember is that this post is not about the readers. That is an entirely different topic. This is about eBooks which can be read on readers, tablets, and computers. The method for reading eBooks will evolve and improve but I’m not talking about that here. This is focused on what we are reading.
Well, I’m doing it again, making predictions for the next year. The sad thing is that I am even more cynical about making predictions this year than last. That is why I wrote an article for CMS Wire on Trends for 2011. I’m confident on trends but it is hard to determine if a trend will result in anything measureable.
Well, here we go. A list of predictions, and things to watch, in 2011.
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