The Cost of ‘Social’ to Media Companies

There have been a couple public data points (1, 2) recently highlighting the costs some media companies are incurring building their own social media / digital content platforms.  These disclosure have generated blogosphere reactions from disbelief to ridicule, but there …Read more.

Posted by Scott Brown on September 30, 2009 at 11:43AM

Architecture of a Platform

In the last post I talked about the importance of designing a platform vs. a box and the benefits associated to that choice. Now I’d like to spend some time going into more of the architectural details that make the …Read more.

Posted by Paolo Perazzo on April 03, 2009 at 01:13AM

Designing Unified Fabric Products Before Unified Fabric Existed

Designing a (successful) product is always tricky; first of all, you need to properly define and wisely select your product requirements. But whatever market segment you are in, your product requirements will change over time. No matter how good you …Read more.

Posted by Paolo Perazzo on March 16, 2009 at 01:46AM

Hello World!  Introducing the Cisco Eos™ software platform

This morning CMSG announced the availability of the Cisco Eos platform.  Cisco Eos is a platform for media & entertainment companies to create, manage and grow online communities around their content.  (For example, online communities built around your favorite sports …Read more.

Posted by Scott Brown on January 07, 2009 at 05:00AM