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At San Francisco-based Keen, knowledge from all
over the globe comes together in one marketplace.
Keen serves as the connection mechanism for the
more than 8.7 million members seeking advice and
information.
Mark Halstead, CTO, is involved with both Keen's
technical strategy planning and day-to-day
development work and also constantly evaluates
emerging technologies. VoIP (voice over IP), for
example, holds promise for Keen's business, and
Halstead is keeping an eye on peer-to-peer transfer
technology and Web services, which could open up
new avenues when the technologies mature.
"My concerns are, When are we going to do [these new features we want];
and how, with the resources we have? How are we going to migrate the
technology we have now in the right steps over the next year or two?"
Halstead says. "But that's a happy problem to have."
Halstead says it's important to approach decisions with both the long-term
and short-term effects in mind -- in his case, pushing the Keen marketplace
and platform ahead in a coordinated fashion based on available resources.
"If you've got your finger both on what people want to do a year from now
and what people want to do three weeks from now, it really does help fill in
the gaps and create a thorough timeline," Halstead says.
-- S.S.
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