Dim Dim: The Risk of Being a Salesforce Customer
My title is a bit of a play on ReadWriteWeb’s title about the Risk of a Free Service, but I raise the issue in all seriousness because I think we should be looking not at the seller (hey, at this price, this was not exactly a sale from strength) but at the buyer. Dennis Howlett, [...]
Of Facebook and Goldman Sachs – Both Too Big To Fail?
Size, we are told, is not a crime. But size may, at least, become noxious by reason of the means through which it was attained or the uses to which it is put. -Louis Brandeis, quoted in Tool Big Too Fail. I just got back from a long nice vacation in India and read the [...]
2010 Predictions: How’d I Do?
My partner in crime Stephen looked back at how he did with his predictions for last year, so I thought I better do the same. Ubiquitous analytics. In 2010 business intelligence will become less about the power user, and more about democratised access to the ad hoc query. In memory databases will underpin the trend. [...]
Motorola Takes Us a Step Closer to Personal Computing Nirvana–and it’s Not Even a Computer
It took five years, but the personal computing nirvana vision I first heard from Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu is becoming reality. The concept that I discussed in The Cell-Phone Aware PC May Be a PC-less PC, and other posts is simple. Instead of a plethora of situational devices with redundant computing capacity, carry around just [...]
