Comments on: Information Quality – Do we have an app for that?

By: Daragh

Daragh — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:04:53 +0000

@jim Your curmudgeonly ways are offensive to the Great Jobs. Begone.
@steve If an iphone app could be bolted in front of a Talend webservice that might be a nifty marketing tool for their Open Source data quality tools. Heck. I might even pay for it

By: Steve Sarsfield

Steve Sarsfield — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:28:14 +0000

I like the idea. In the end, Talend jobs result in JAVA, so one method might be to take that result and customize it for an iPhone app. The iPhone doesn’t natively support JAVA, but you can do conversion.
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-compile-run-java-on-iphone/
It’s kind of a long way to go, but it might just work.

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By: Jim Harris

Jim Harris — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:36:58 +0000

Excellent post Daragh,

I continue to resist upgrading my mobile phone. I still have a non-3G phone, which is almost like saying I carry around a rotary dial land line phone in a backpack with a really long cord connected back to a telephone jack in my garage, making my “calling circle” literally a 100 meter circle surrounding my house — wow, that was a long way to go for that joke

I definitely agree that “we need an app” for information quality. However — and with acknowledgment to the many issues of data privacy and data protection that remain a significant and unresolved issue — I believe the future is cloudy.

Instead of maintaining multiple contact lists on multiple devices, we should use a single online contact list that our “dumb devices” authenticate with and use.

The idea of a “dumb phone” and not a “smart phone” is not mine. It is another idea I read about in David Siegel’s great book “Pull” that looks at the potential future provided by the emerging semantic web.

Best Regards,

Jim