Twitter, Facebook and the tornado
Social networks are 800lb gorillas trampling all over the sensibilities of their users as they get bigger, and the crowd is letting them get away with it.
Google Instant : Awesome Engineering To Result In Enhanced Revenue
A few hours back today, Google launched an ambitious effort to make search faster for all . In the process they have laid the foundation for a new version of SEO to take roots. Lets look at the details here. To quote Google:”Google Instant is a ne…
CouchDB and CouchOne – Brief Notes
The company behind the NoSQL database CouchDB has renamed itself from CouchIO to CouchOne. Here is my summary of the last briefing I had with Damien Katz, CEO and founder of the company.
Google Instant makes SEO Irrelevant? Who cares?
Steve Rubel makes an the argument that Google Instant will kill SEO because: Here’s what this [Google Instant] means: no two people will see the same web. Once a single search would do the trick – and everyone saw the…
Liferay evolving beyond portals – the app server vacuum – Quick Analysis
A new Liferay portal releases provides a good chance to ponder the state of runtimes in the Java world.
TIBCO Now Roadshow: Toronto Edition (Part 1)
TIBCO’s doing a roadshow called TIBCO Now, and because the Toronto one is practically in my backyard – and is at the Hockey Hall of Fame, which I’ve always wanted to visit – I’m here this afternoon to hear about what’s coming up product-wise, and also hear from some of their local customers. We had [...]
Google Instant Search = Instant Echo Chamber
The Internet is a Mighty Echo Chamber, and with one fell swoop, Google Instant Search has added a big ole’ Marshall Stack to turn the Echo levels all the way up to 11. Google reports that Instant Search will save 350 million hours of user time per year. What isn’t reported is how it will cut [...]
Alibaba vs. Ariba?
I’ve always been surprised by how many advertising-driven supplier directory models continue to position themselves as sourcing tools for procurement organizations. The closest that a provider has come to pulling this off is MFG.c…
The Art of Wimp
My fellow Enterprise Irregulars were discussing the HP-Mark Hurd lawsuit yesterday and old Sun-Tzu came up ( digression – this is as close to author porn as you can get) and two of the reactions were: “Art of War tells a General what to do, not a committee (board). Oracle has a general. HP not [...]
13 warning signs to prevent ERP doom
Integrating big systems across an entire organization is challenging at best and often disastrous. Here are 13 tips to help you succeed.
