Bad UI – Shoppybag
I finally got tagged in enough photos on Shoppybag to give it a try… here’s the problem, their user experience leaves so many unanswered questions that I simply gave up. The signup process is pretty straightforward until the 2nd step and it is an entirely self inflicted wound. I fought back my initial hesitance about [...]
Gartner: The Cloud is Not a Contract
There is a bit of a joust on between Gartner, GigaOm, and likely others over the recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure. The Internet loves a good fight! Gartner launched their magic quadrant with some fanfare on December 22. Immediately after the holidays, on January 4, GigaOm’s Derrick Harris threw down the gauntlet by [...]
Video and A Love Story
e have been doing a lot of work with videos for marketing purposes, which is a new area for me. Couple of things I have learned: 1) Short is better. 2) Video engagement metrics are evolving but in general web site visitors really like video content. 3) Generalize as much as possible because changing existing [...]
Lockheed Martin Going Green!
When you hear the name Lockheed Martin – you don’t immediately think “Ah, now there’s a Green company” – they are after all, among the very largest defence contractors in the world. In 2008 70% of Lockheed Martin’s revenues came from military sales. However, after a recent discussion with Dr David Constable, Lockheed Martin’s VP [...]
Manufacturers: Protect Yourself as China IP Theft Takes Flight — The J-20 Stealth Fighter
Note: This article was reposted due to a formatting error.
For all Spend Matters readers, this YouTube video (click “more” below to see it), showing a Chinese J-20 maiden test flight from earlier today, should be a wake-up call…
The CRM Watchlist Part V: Different Strokes
The Recap Again: Why would you speak to me that way Especially when I always said that I Haven’t got the words for you All your diction dripping with disdain Through the pain I always tell the truth Oh, damn. You’re here. I was listening to Vampire Weekend. Let me get the headphones off…just a [...]
New approaches for front office
We’re coming back. We aren’t out of the proverbial woods but we should be on the upswing from the long downturn. According the Labor Department the U.S. economy added 103,000 jobs in December bringing the unemployment rate down to 9.4 percent. Jobs are traditionally a lagging indicator so even better. Most importantly this was not [...]
Top Ten Predictions for 2011
This post is built from our annual IDC group effort to lay out ten predictions. The actual document should be up on IDC.com in a couple of weeks, for those of you who have a subscription anyway, so if you want to learn more about any of the predictions I’d point you there, it has [...]
