January 10, 2008 – 11:29 pm
The Value Of Things You Don’t Own
great stuff. open sauce thinking.
(tags: opensource)
Radiohead Finds Sales, Even After Downloads - New York Times
business model experimentation. still best not left to the music corporates. hats off to radiohead
(tags: music musicindustry radiohead)
Dan Heller’s Photography Business Blog
self-appointed industry analyst. cool.
(tags: photo analystbiz)
Gaming the Creative Commons for Profit
interesting argument. however just […]
January 9, 2008 – 11:25 pm
Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back to the White House? - New York Times
“In a weirdly narcissistic way, she was crying for us” - Maureen nails it.
(tags: politics Clinton)
AFP: Dog shoots, kills Texas hunter
I have heard of Dog bites man, and man bites dog.. but dog *shoots* man…. that is news
(tags: comedy)
edwards.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Stalking 2.0: […]
January 8, 2008 – 11:24 pm
Techworld.com - OpenVZ joins forces with Ubuntu
virtualised Ubuntu out of the box
(tags: virtualisation ubuntu)
Mixed reaction at plan to allow legalisation of CD copying
Fair use finally to be enshrined in UK consumer protection law.
(tags: DRM)
Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM
Wow. even Sony gets it now.
(tags: Sony DRM)
Good news in bad times | The Guardian | Guardian […]
January 8, 2008 – 6:55 pm
So its the New Year and time to look both forward and back. For an understanding of the RedMonk psyche you need look no further than Stephen’s roundup of 2007.
Professionally, I’m content with the year. We didn’t blow up, and neither I nor RedMonk was perfect, but we continue to have happy customers, a brilliant […]
January 7, 2008 – 11:25 pm
TriGeo SIM - Log Management, Real-Time Analysis, Proactive Network Defense
log management and analysis vendor
(tags: logmanagement monitoring)
Put Buyers First? What a Concept - New York Times
great article on building a great company. Amazon, as i have said before, is a customer service company- a really good one. it has amazing trust relationships with customers because of […]
January 4, 2008 – 11:21 pm
BI Predictions for 2008 « Manage By Walking Around
an argument in favor of doing things better, rather than just differently, from one of guys leading SAP’s charge into business user apps
(tags: BI CPM SAP)
Nokia cosies up to customers with Apertio buy - Mobile & Wireless - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
interesting given Nokia […]
January 3, 2008 – 11:23 pm
Tech Startup Bridges Mideast Divide
v interesting
(tags: politics software economics palestine israel)
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January 2, 2008 – 11:27 pm
The war between Nokia and Apple
great in-depth analysis
(tags: Nokia Apple)
Port 25 : If you’re surprised, you’re not paying attention
Microsoft and Samba, working together directly: this is quite something. should have happened a long time ago but of course, it couldn’t.
(tags: Samba Microsoft)
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December 21, 2007 – 11:24 pm
twitter, news wires, david cohn and craig newmark » knackeredhack
great essay on the new real time journalism
(tags: journalism blogs twitter)
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December 21, 2007 – 4:06 pm
I just reported the fact over at Greenmonk. Its great to see that Redmond has created a senior position to drive Green initiatives at the firm. And Scott Charney, his boss, is definitely a getting things done across organisational boundaries kind of guy. Its goodness.
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December 20, 2007 – 11:24 pm
Ajaxian » Remember, the Milk has spilled on your Gmail
task management integrated with gmail. potentially useful
(tags: gmail googledocs)
Simon Wistow - Young, dumb, don’t see a problem
ah yes the good old Flume API. “Cardinality of Effluent interface”
(tags: flume)
How to Negotiate like an Indian — 7 Rules | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
some interesting ideas on […]
December 20, 2007 – 5:37 pm
Yesterday I opined that after its acquisition by Red Hat JBoss was less a cult of personality, but that personalities still mattered a great deal in the commercial open source space. I mentioned that some project leads had recently left Red Hat - one of whom is Roy “Portal” Russo (sic.)
It seems that one personality […]
December 19, 2007 – 11:23 pm
Webwereld | Six enterprise application trends to watch in 2008
nice write up this, summarising some analyst thoughts, and adding some of their own. i like the take on ecosystems - which posits a world RedMonk understands better than most
(tags: enterprise trends)
Howard Lindzon » The Solar Trend…Get Used to Seeing More of This
|This is the beginning, […]
December 18, 2007 – 11:25 pm
100dBs - Mixes
some mixes and mashups to download
(tags: music)
JBoss Founder Joins Atlanta Software Firm’s Board :: WRAL.com
Fleury says he wants to help compete against Adobe Flex- the “big dog” in the space.
(tags: Flex RIA Adobe Fleury)
Introducing Dougal Campbell | alexking.org
Industry’s best Wordpress shop just got better. Well done Alex. Keep it up. Perhaps you can […]
December 18, 2007 – 6:05 pm
In conjunction with dopplr and yellowpark. Roo wrote the party up here, so I don’t have to. But I just wanted to say thanks everyone for coming. It went swimmingly.
photo montage courtesy of rooreynolds
tequila shot courtesy of dominiccampbell
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December 18, 2007 – 5:40 pm
Cote has been doing some really outstanding video work for us all year, but recently he has stepped it up a gear. We’re beginning to build a nice little business around what we call “moderated screen-casting”, a format where an interview with a product lead is carried out while they demo their wares. The Eclipse […]
December 18, 2007 – 4:48 pm
Via Stephen’s links this morning I noted an article by Matt Asay, Rise or fall for Red Hat?
The article is well worth a read, and provides a great peg for something I noticed earlier this week, when I got a press release from a new open source sales and marketing automation startup called LoopFuse. We’ll […]
December 17, 2007 – 11:22 pm
James Governor’s Monkchips » Open, Social, Only People: Putting the Ad-hoc into ERP. On SAP, Breakthrough Productivity and Bring Sexy Back
very nice. 10 pingbacks on one post. Golden. You gotta love the “Irregulars” cluster, and innovation discussions.
(tags: innovation monkchips enterpriseirregulars)
St. Patrick’s Day Cookie Pudding Cake recipe
I am sorry but Saint Patrick’s Day Cookie Pudding Cake […]
December 17, 2007 – 3:37 pm
There has been some to and fro this year about being bombarded by press releases. Journalists have always had to deal with a gushing torrent of trash sent to them that neither they, neither their readers, have any interest in. Today bloggers have to deal with some of the same issues.
But turning it on its […]
December 17, 2007 – 12:46 pm
Pretty striking line, that, from thecapacity.
The piece argues:
Amazon has moved from being an online presence to enabling others, which is a powerful transition because it leverages other business’s success, avoiding the burden of their failures and acts as a force multiplier for their revenue!
To be a platform, what really matters is the money you […]
December 14, 2007 – 11:23 pm
Open Source Software Selection: the cost of Free | Commercial Open Source Software
Roberto Gallopini’s speech. need to dig into this
(tags: OSS)
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: FIRESTORM!
thanks Nick. I really appreciate the time taken to read and understand the post, and for your kind words. I am really most interested in bridges between the different models, […]
December 14, 2007 – 4:56 pm
I wrote a long post about the nature of innovation and where SAP is heading in order to foster more of it, the other day. Sadly, I missed some of the TechMeme goodness on the subject because I didn’t post til Monday.
Well yesterday Nicholas Carr more than made up for it with what can best […]
December 12, 2007 – 11:25 pm
Process Perfection
well shucks mastermark. did I say I am a big fan of your work, too. “Every. Single. Enterprisey. Human. Being. On. The. Planet. Should. Read. This. Post.”
(tags: enterprisey SAP 2.0)
Complexity syndrome and Rumplestilskin 2.0 « Vendorprisey
the best writing yet from thomas. great argument too.
(tags: SAP vendorprisey)
My website psychology presentation from Barcamplondon3 on take one […]
December 11, 2007 – 11:30 pm
Windows PowerShell : RedMonk On System Center, Virtualization, IBM, and PowerShell
“PowerShell … is the most important technology Microsoft has ever introduced in system management. That is, to me, what makes it a serious player in systems management”
(tags: Powershell Microsoft systemsmanagement)
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December 11, 2007 – 6:56 pm
picture courtesy of Elunne in Perth
I spent most of last week with SAP in Boston, at the company’s 2007 Influencer Summit. As regular readers will know, SAP is a client, and in recent months I have spent a fair amount of time at events gaining a deeper understanding of the company, its communities, cultures and portfolio.
By the way - I promise […]
December 10, 2007 – 11:20 pm
snellspace.com » Blog Archive » Sync!
ATOM store synchronization approaches. I still think the abortive Trey Drake (recently laid off by Sun) LDAP/ATOM mashup was an interesting approach to the Synchronized Web via ATOM space.
(tags: synchronisedweb synchweb synchronizedweb ATOM LDAP)
Paul Fremantle’s Blog: A new kind of (SOA) Registry
very interesting. Paul is still in the UDDI near […]
December 7, 2007 – 11:25 pm
Poll: Vista gets vote of no confidence - Operating Systems - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
wow. 800 respondents. “Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system is failing to win over silicon.com readers, with two-thirds (65 per cent) saying their organisation will never move onto XP’s successor.”
(tags: vista microsoft)
Fedora 8 Virtual Machine Manager a ‘total failure’ […]
December 7, 2007 – 12:44 pm
OK - we have a venue. The Macbeth in Hoxton, just across the road. It should be unstructured, low-key, but alcohol-fueled. Expect the odd celebrity programmer and such. Hopefully we won’t end up in prison for perverting the course of justice Sign up below.
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December 6, 2007 – 11:26 pm
Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
umair rails against autistic accounting. good job.
(tags: economics accounting)
Why Enterprise Software Sucks - (37signals)
Sure. But some even vaguely readable management information, and integration of any kind with invoicing and purchase orders would be really nice in Highrise. Highrise makes it easy to enter data, not so easy to use it. or maybe its […]
December 5, 2007 – 11:22 pm
SAP Needs CEO| Zoli’s Blog
comedy. cheers Zoli…
(tags: comedy)
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December 5, 2007 – 7:04 pm
Over on Greenmonk yesterday I wrote a piece that I think is worth flagging here. What’s the big idea? Just as Nick Carr argues the IT function might go the way of the 1890s “chief electricity officer” and function, it turns out the Chief Electricity Officer could be making a comeback.
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December 4, 2007 – 11:27 pm
Ventureblogalist » Blog Archive » Corporate Social Responsibility 2.0
Robb Finn on CSR2.0
(tags: CSR2.0)
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November 30, 2007 – 11:26 pm
Twitter / Toya D.: so we didn’t place at AIR H…
unusual to see anyone being negative about Jquery - other than its silly name, which is limiting adoption.
(tags: jquery via:tweetscan)
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November 30, 2007 – 4:07 pm
Lets cut out the middle man. Let’s cut out RedMonk. I hereby declare myself obsolete.
For those of you that read monkchips on a regular basis I am sure you’re fed up to the back teeth of hearing about Twitter. I riff about it a lot. But its very useful. Today it just became a whole […]
November 29, 2007 – 11:28 pm
Techworld.com - UK data protection minister kept in dark
“The UK government’s data protection minister did not know about the huge data breach at HM Revenue and Customs until he heard the chancellor’s statement in the Commons on November 20, he has admitted.”
(tags: privacy dataprotection informationbulimia)
Techworld.com - Disk loss could cost UK banks £250 million
“UK banks […]
November 29, 2007 – 5:45 pm
Microsoft recently invited us to shoot some video at its main European event for IT pros - the people that manage Windows environments. We learned about Microsoft strategies for operational management, and carried out some interviews, so you could hear it from company executives. Needless to say you’ll also want to know the RedMonk […]
November 27, 2007 – 11:20 pm
An Assessment Of The 21st Century Editor · ReporTwitters Blog
points out that Jeff Jarvis called out the Guardian newspaper is looking for a “keyword editor” - that’s professional tag gardening, folks. This is an interesting read, but could be edited into three separate punchy posts
(tags: tag_gardening tags)
Specialists and generalists : Happiness and grumpiness - Web […]
November 27, 2007 – 2:55 pm
Skip MacAskill runs AR for Cisco. He has lately posted some really insightful blog entries about the (changing) nature of influence. Skip manages to be non-confrontational but ask really tough questions (would that I had this skill…). I particularly like Skip’s approach notion of what I will call conversation-based analysis. Its surely no accident […]
November 27, 2007 – 12:41 pm
I first came across Laura in the context of this wonderful talk on language choices. I said then she is now on my list to watch. Well today I came across another classic on her blog - Losing My Religion. Laura uses a story to make a case that chimes pretty well with arguments we […]
November 26, 2007 – 11:24 pm
FT.com / World - UK manufacturing productivity outstrips rivals
that’s a headline you don’t read every day. NEWS indeed.
(tags: UK productivity)
FT.com / World - CBI backs new UK green taxes
Another extraordinary story. The reactionary Confederation of British Industries I is calling for more taxes….
(tags: economy UK greening)
HMRC data loss was theft, claims ex-con Frank Abagnale - […]
November 26, 2007 – 6:27 pm
Venue TBD.
Dopplr
RedMonk
YellowPark
bpmlogic
we’ll get drunk. hopefully you will too.
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November 26, 2007 – 12:14 pm
Tim Bray has an interesting post today about modes of communication and discourse. It seems to me that we’re currently in a kind of Cambrian Explosion, where having puttered around for the longest time, life forms are suddenly exploding, filling niches, copying each other, creating new predator-prey dynamics, and exploiting new food sources.
Wikipedia says:
“The […]
November 23, 2007 – 11:24 pm
Genuitec tweaks MyEclipse for WebSphere
Techworld. November 22nd, 2007.
(tags: redmonkpress redmonkclients)
Blog on Wiki Patterns » Blog Archive » “My pocket vibrates, therefore I am.” Would DesCartes agree?
is that a blackberry in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
(tags: blackberry descartes)
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November 23, 2007 – 12:32 pm
I spent yesterday in Berlin with Transparency International (written up by Dennis here), which crystallized a lot of my recent thinking on a number of issues. The corporate point man for my new understanding is SAP’s James Farrar, who sponsored yesterday’s event.
Like many others I have tended to view corporate social responsibility (CSR) with a […]
November 22, 2007 – 11:23 pm
U.K. government reveals its ‘biggest privacy disaster’ | CNET News.com
something is all wrong here. courier companies dont deliver stuff without signatures at each end. wtf?
(tags: privacy informationbulimia)
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November 20, 2007 – 11:25 pm
FT.com / Companies / Media & internet - Anti-piracy moves ‘hurt sales’
drop DRM retailers tell music industry.
(tags: DRM)
Digital Daily | John Paczkowski | AllThingsD
Read John Paczkowski because he is funny. He also links to me from time to time, which makes him awesome. Mostly though its always good to see such well-developed skeptical eyebrow raising […]
November 19, 2007 – 11:20 pm
FT.com / Companies / Media & internet - SyncTV to offer channel service
Making TV into an a la carte experience. Interesting that its a Pioneer spin off. Download and play anywhere, only pay for what you want to.
(tags: DRM TV Internet)
Open Reasoning
new Analyst Relations blog. Great idea Dale. I will try and help all I […]
November 19, 2007 – 5:56 pm
The Open Rights Group is the UK’s equivalent of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Both organisations lobby on behalf of people that actually like and understand how digital living works. Digital Restrictions Management, e-voting… that kind of thing. ORG is maturing fast now, and Suw Charman, one of the lead protagonists, posted this today. I am […]
November 19, 2007 – 1:23 pm
I have decided to integrate my Greenmonk and RedMonk stuff. I will talk to the reasons why in a bit, but for now I just want to point to a blog I wrote last week- Where is Microsoft’s Green story?
The company’s new strategy seems to be… if it moves virtualise it, if it doesn’t move […]
November 15, 2007 – 11:26 pm
Not just the tools « Adventures of an Eternal Optimist
in a fireside chat, the words are your own. They haven’t had the sincerity sucked out of them by iterative waves of examination from handlers, marketers, or other protectors of the corporate faith, and the communication isn’t merely broadcast - it is
(tags: firesidechat microsoft AR)
TechCrunch UK […]
November 14, 2007 – 11:19 pm
Who Is Behind “Shared Source” Misinformation Campaign? | Open Source Initiative
complaining about splogs as a misinformation campaign seems a bit overwrought to me. all this language of “injecting” sounds a bit like what Microsoft used to say about the GPL. irony. can’t think of anything but an elephant
(tags: OSS OSI Microsoft)
The Cohen Blog — PushToTest […]
November 14, 2007 – 11:59 am
Microsoft analyst relations (AR) has begun to use a format it is calling the fireside chat, in which a senior executive talks without PowerPoint to a select group of analysts. Bob Muglia met us earlier this year and his frankness was utterly disarming. Executives at other firms have used the intimate discussion to great effect recently-notably Henning Kagermann, CEO of SAP with the Enterprise Irregulars. […]
November 12, 2007 – 11:24 pm
New Life Forms in the Open-Source Ecosystem: Redmonk, Mellon Foundation, And Some Newbies « The Wayward Word Press
“If you don’t know about Redmonk, then you don’t know all you should know about open-source, and you should visit their site to learn more about them.” Too kind, Dave, too kind.
(tags: redmonk OSS)
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November 8, 2007 – 11:21 pm
BBC NEWS | Business | Confusion on London stock market
one of Microsoft’s most important reference accounts. this is bad bad ju ju. noone else to blame from a PR perspective if this bites them, given the amount of attention Microsoft has given the LSE as a flagship account.Other vendors involved at the LSE include HP […]
November 7, 2007 – 11:27 pm
Farewell
Carter Lusher is done at HP. Rather sudden.
(tags: AR)
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November 7, 2007 – 7:21 pm
Saying what you don’t do is a useful mechanism to frame what a company actually does. At RedMonk we advise companies that it can pay dividends to say: “we don’t do that.” Explaining that something is outside your remit or capability allows people both inside and outside the company to better understand what you’re good at. Too many firms try to be all […]
November 5, 2007 – 11:23 pm
proud-liberal.png (image)
JFK - on being “proud to be a liberal”
(tags: JFK politics)
Melatone Music: We Design Sound - Melatone Music
where Seth Godin meets Crunk
(tags: music buzz)
The Web is Agreement on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
the web is agreement. crazy poster
(tags: via:pauldowney OSS)
DRM Voodo on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
drm is bad - illo
(tags: picture DRM)
The News Value of […]
November 5, 2007 – 5:48 pm
Today there are the established firms (e.g., AMR, Forrester, Gartner and IDC) that have been around since the 1980’s that on the surface have not changed all that much. Then there are the insurgents like Gartner alumni Vinnie Mirchandani at Deal Architect and James Governor of Redmonk with his Monkchips blog who claim that that […]
November 5, 2007 – 3:52 pm
It’s a truism in this business that volume platforms win, but if my network is anything to go by developers are more than happy to ignore volume and follow the cool. When I say developers I don’t just mean the grassroots though- ISVs are falling over themselves to establish iPhone bona fides. But stop and […]
November 2, 2007 – 11:23 pm
Bokashi kitchen composter for all food waste - Colchester Borough Council
kitchen composter
(tags: greenmonk)
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November 1, 2007 – 5:18 pm
We’re happy to announce that we recently signed up a new client in the log management and analysis space, Prism Microsystems.
As I explained a while ago: “System logs are one of the great untapped data resources of IT shops. They are analysed, usually in a silo context, often for a machine-specific task such as […]
October 30, 2007 – 11:31 pm
Well the results are in folks. During the course of last week both IBM and Sun pretty much doubled their dopplr user populations, but Sun came out just ahead by close of play on Friday.
I am sure some of you are wondering why on earth I instigated the competition. The main reasons were that that […]
October 30, 2007 – 6:38 pm
Must be something in the bloody water, mate. What is it with Australian firms treating their people like adults rather than babies?
Today Silicon.com reports that GE Commercial is happy to encourage employees to use Facebook, as long as they understand the risks:
The Australian division of GE Commercial Finance is encouraging more than 1,000 staff in […]
October 30, 2007 – 10:49 am
I am in Lisbon at IBM Analyst Insights 07 (Global Services European industry analyst event). I am often bored by “main tent” sessions but I have to say Dominique Cerutti just caught my interest.
IBM’s motherhood and apple pie globalisation pitch now has a new spin-most notably with respect to global greening.
Cerutti said that globalisation is accelerating, and […]
October 26, 2007 – 11:21 pm
HiveTalk
this is what i use…
(tags: declarativeliving)
Open Parenthesis » Tripit vs. Dopplr - Travel 2.0
write up on tripit and dopplr
(tags: trip-it dopplr)
Twitter nanoformats » home
what it says. interesting.
(tags: twitter)
Sarkozy lays out eco-vision for France - Yahoo! News
I am not French but I could warm to Sarkozy. Love the warmth of his hug here.
(tags: Sarkozy Green)
Neil Young […]
October 26, 2007 – 11:37 am
“We’re all baby boomers and we are making the rules, but it’s important to understand that all our recruits and all our people are coming from a different mindset and a different space. A lot of our new employees are all generation X, generation Y, et cetera. If you don’t create the environment that keeps […]
October 25, 2007 – 11:25 pm
FT.com / Companies / Media & internet - BBC reveals deep cuts to Natural History Unit
I really despair. I regularly defend the BBC - one of my key arguments - truly world class nature programs which educate, entertain and inform. So what do the frigging no marks running the corporation do? Slash the budget there. […]
October 25, 2007 – 12:09 pm
I am not sure how I ended up seeing the post on Facebook, rather than her blog, but Susan Skrupski gave me a great ‘aha’ moment yesterday, helping me to understand some of the awesome simplicity, and community power of Facebook as a primary interface for blogs and other content. Why would I ever want […]
October 24, 2007 – 11:28 pm
Elias Torres » Blog Archive » IBM doesn’t need Dopplr
heh
(tags: dopplr IBM)
Competitors (President at Atlassian, founder of SocialText) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
great picture.
(tags: atlassian socialtext)
computers should be less friendly » Blog Archive » Synthesizers
Great post. I don’t know what to call these people frankly- evangelist builders, or what? Dan suggest Synthesizers which seems to […]
October 24, 2007 – 11:13 am
Mike Butcher from TechCrunch UK yesterday reported that Imagepick launches royalty-free image bank. ImagePick. So what? Well check it out:
Founded and funded by ex-Getty Images CFO Lawrence Gould and former Getty Images director of e-commerce, Tom Donnelly, ImagePick is a new startup which allows you to buy and own the rights to royalty free images […]
October 24, 2007 – 10:18 am
I contributed to a new O’Reilly publication looking at Design Patterns for Web2.0. The lead author is Adobe’s Duane Nickull. Here I chat to him about the book, the essential tensions of Enterprise vs. Web, Big SOA vs. little SOA, and how we hope the work might become a community document.
Your browser does not support […]
October 23, 2007 – 11:25 pm
Announcing SugarStats and Twitter.com Integration. Track your Diabetes via Twitter! | SugarStats.com - Simple, Online Blood Sugar Tracking for Diabetes Management
twitter integrated with sugarstats. diabetics can use twitter to declare and track their blood sugar status
(tags: twitter diabetes sugarstats)
YUI Theater — Bill Scott: “Designing the Rich Web Experience: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction Design […]
October 23, 2007 – 4:26 pm
Since we began the competition, Sun’s Dopplr user base has nearly doubled, and it has pulled ahead of IBM as more engaged Dopplr100 company.
Matt Biddulph, Dopplr CTO, is now nearly ready to put his part of the puzzle into production. That is - people that originally joined the service with accounts other than their corporate […]
October 23, 2007 – 11:19 am
When he wrote the Tipping Point Malcom Gladwell introduced a new lexicon - ideas spread, he said, through Mavens (those in the know that like to share the fruit), Salespeople (those with the mutant sales gene) and Connectors (those that only need to meet someone once to make them a friend for life). It struck […]
October 22, 2007 – 11:23 pm
CNN.com - TechWeb: Embrace open source, retiring Microsoft exec urges - Feb. 20, 2003
kind of weird this dropped in the same week Microsoft got two licenses approved by the OSI.
(tags: Microsoft OSS)
Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web - New York Times
Could libraries go online without Google’s cash? It seems the answer may be […]
October 19, 2007 – 11:21 pm
Recording Artist: Don’t be a ZFS Hater
nice write up on Sun’s ZFS file system, its whys and wherefores.
(tags: Sun ZFS)
Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context, a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends at FISTFULAYEN
great article about DRM suckage. A beautiful iTunes smackdown too- “a spreadsheet that plays music”. but i wouldnt even consider […]
October 19, 2007 – 3:19 pm
Just a great piece. Lots of actionable advice to make your briefings with analysts better.
“Know your analyst well. If you have time to tailor the diction and even arrangement, use it. Different analysts want different things. Giving the same presentation to every analyst firm results in stupid, distracting discussions.”
“The customer’s voice is the most powerful […]
October 19, 2007 – 2:25 pm
After throwing down the dopplr challenge to IBM and Sun yesterday, I ended up checking out both their homepages this morning. I think the difference is instructive.
Sun.com seems a little buttoned up: crisp, but corporate.
IBM’s homepage on the hand just utterly nails it. Where. The. Action. Is. Breakthroughs come from the edges, from mashup […]
October 19, 2007 – 1:54 pm
A developer blog at the NY Times. Its not just the WSJ that’s getting savvier. Media and software development are joined at the hip. You can’t really understand one without the other.
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October 19, 2007 – 11:32 am
Microsoft has historically done well when its products spread like invasive species. Today: SharePoint is growing like Kudzu in the US South-East so it makes perfect sense that Microsoft would partner with wiki companies, whose technologies have followed similar adoption vectors.
I agree with Andy Lark: “Sharepoint is going to be a major force in Corporate […]
October 18, 2007 – 11:21 pm
SAP - Wal-Mart Selects SAP
If you’re going to announce a customer it might as well be the biggest retailer in the world
(tags: Wal-Mart SAP)
Nuclear-Armed Iran Risks World War, Bush Says - The New York Times
said the main force for peace and stability in the world
(tags: irony)
President Accuses Democrats of Achieving Little at Capitol - The […]
October 18, 2007 – 5:27 pm
I got dinged in the back channel for calling out IBM on my dopplr post earlier today. The reason I named IBM rather than anyone else on the dopplr100 was that IBM has by far the biggest user population, and I hoped I could tap that.
But lets do this.
It is now a competition to […]
October 18, 2007 – 3:03 pm
Dopplr is a really cool application that makes it easier for distributed teams to get together. Its essentially a trip planning application but with a strong social element. Do you ever go to a city and then a week later find out that someone on your team was there too and you didn’t know it? […]
October 18, 2007 – 11:16 am
With a headline like Why collaborative research analysis rocks out it was no surprise I found Lisa Reichelt’s recent blog made very interesting reading. Leisa, originator of the wonderfully evocative phrase Ambient Intimacy, and all round sticky note queen (3M should sponsor her) argues thusly:
These days when I’m doing any kind of user research, rather than […]
October 17, 2007 – 11:23 pm
IT - Intel reports 43% rise in profit
Whatever way you look at it, these numbers are really impressive. is the Vista economic wave kicking in - you certainly need hot chips to run the thing
(tags: Vista intel)
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October 16, 2007 – 11:25 pm
Oracle AppsLab » A Can of Worms
Its good to see Oracle inviting bloggers to Open World. Not sure how they managed to spin no T&E into a criticism of SAP and various bloggers-but i guess that’s just a lens for seeing the world.
(tags: Oracle SAP blogging)
» Oracle’s double standards | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com
Dennis goes […]
October 16, 2007 – 11:11 am
Thanks Hugh.
in case you’re wondering what the Wii Hands are-check this out (its a video of Wii remotes turned into a minority report style user interface:
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October 16, 2007 – 9:42 am
We’re on TV. This message will be out date in 30 minutes or so, but we ‘re streaming from SAP TechEd all day
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