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By Zoli Erdos on March 17, 2010
This is what remote controlled toy cars looked like when I was a kid. Yes, the control box was connected to the car with a 3-4feet cable… not exactly the level of freedom you get with today’s wireless models.
But it was fun, nevertheless. I wonder if 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez had a toy car when [...]
Posted in Business, Trends & Concepts | Tagged big brother, hackers, hacking, remote, remote sensors, sensors, smart meters, spy cam, sxsw, utility
By Zoli Erdos on March 17, 2010
Need more proof that being co-CEOS is an awkward situation? Watch this SiliconAngle video between 0:20 and 0:35
Of course you can watch the whole thing… and read these reports of the press event:
Oracle Who? SAP Co-CEOs Slam Oracle – They Are The Old Way
SAP State of The Union: The CEOs Talk Oracle, SaaS [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Business ByDesign, ByD, CEO, Co-CEO, erp, Humor, oracle, SaaS, sap
By Zoli Erdos on March 16, 2010
How do I know, when I’m not even there? By reading what others say. For starters, here’s Jolie O’Dell who attends this year’s conference:
Too many people, not enough tech.
…non-technical people aren’t here to learn; they’re here for self-congratulation and mutual masturbation. People I’ve never heard of are referring to themselves as Twitter celebrities and generally [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged ccevent, cloud connect, conferences, curmudgeon, drinking, orgy, party, sxsw
By Zoli Erdos on March 10, 2010
Image by TechShowNetwork via Flickr
My new favorite old blog is former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, blog. It’s at the old URL, but has a new title:
What I Couldn’t Say… The “About” section says:
I think I’ve said pretty much everything I could say as CEO of Sun Microsystems. The more interesting stuff was what I couldn’t [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged blogging, Jonathan Schwartz, Steve Jobs, Sun, Sun Microsystems
By Zoli Erdos on March 9, 2010
I’m at the Google Campfire One event where they’ve just announced the Google Apps Marketplace. The site is live now, feel free to browse. The speculation is now over, this is Google’s answer on whether they will enter the Business Applications market – they just did, with an entire ecosystem of Partners.
The new Marketplace fills [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged AppExchange, crm, echosign, echosystem, erp, force.com, freshbooks, google, google apps, google apps marketplace, marketplace, netsuite, partners, SaaS, salesforce.com, smb, sme, zoho
By Zoli Erdos on March 9, 2010
If you think I am here to spill the beans, you’re wrong. On a purely speculative level, if there is some news to come, and if there is an embargo related to it, then I respect that. And it’s all a big IF.
So no, I am simply dusting off an old post I wrote [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged accounting, all-in-one, AppExchange, Atlassian, bbd, Business ByDesign, business software, crm, enterprise software, google, google apps, lightweight software, netsuite, On Demand, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, small business suite, smb, sme, software as a service, zoho
By Zoli Erdos on March 5, 2010
Under the Radar is Silicon Valley’s most established startup debut platform: a conference series organized by Dealmaker Media, covering business applications, social media, entertainment, mobility..etc.
This year’s conference in Mountain View, CA on April 16th will focus on Commercializing the Cloud – that’s a fairly wide definition, and one that perfectly mashes with our focus [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged Dealmaker Media, Entrepreneurship, events, marketing, Networking, Silicon Valley, startups, vc funding
By Zoli Erdos on March 3, 2010
Some of my email spam is actually quite entertaining, like this offer for a “research report”:
The Care and Feeding of Industry Analysts
The Top 10 Questions The Care and Feeding of Industry Analysts Will Answer For You Include:
1. What are the ten deadly sins NOT to commit when working with an industry analyst firm?
2. What [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged analysts, Humor, Industry analyst, industry research, Research Report, spam
By Zoli Erdos on February 25, 2010
Now we know why The Citi Never Sleeps: they are busy censoring their customers. If you are a Citibank customer and they dislike your blog, you may just get in trouble. (Disclosure: I do have a Citi account… so am taking a risk by writing this post.)
That’s just what happened to fabulis, a social network [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Banking, censorship, citi, citibank, fabulis, free speech, gay, Privacy, Social network, startup
