Social Business Facts and Fiction.
The hubris around Social Business is scaling new heights these days, and yet in many ways the concept seems to be redlining to nowhere. As an example, take a look at this thread on Google Plus by Francine Hardaway. 133 comments later, there’s little agreement on what all of this really is, who the experts are, [...]
Google’s Woes and the Right to Be Pixilated
On April 23, 1516 in the duchy of Bavaria (thank you Wikipedia), the Germans put a law on the books governing the purity of beer. The Reinheitsgebot stipulated that beer could be made of only three ingredients: water, malted barley and hops. That may have been the highpoint of European tinkering with technology through government [...]
Ladies Learning to Code is Not About Women
There is this small but fierce not-for-profit called Ladies Learning to Code. It has pretty straightforward but profound ambitions: “designed to help girls see technology in a whole new light – as a medium for self-expression, and as a means for changing the world.” (Girls Learning to Code camp). I started my first tech company [...]
Of Ecosystems and Handcars
Maybe because of my books the last few years, but I have become much more aware of a large community of developers, musicians, authors, SAP Mentors, Oracle Aces. They share a common trait – they are not entrepreneurs or employees in a traditional sense, but are the key components of ecosystems around big brands like [...]
The King is Dead, Long Live the King: The end of ERP and the birth of the Hybrid Enterprise
The future of the enterprise seems to be very much up for grabs: just as Salesforce.com proposed the end of software, and then became very much a software company, Zuora’s CEO Tien Tzuo recently authored a much referenced article on end of ERP, despite the fact that Zuora is very much a player in enabling a new [...]
Digging for gold in DataSift’s Twitter archive
DataSift is unlocking two years of Twitter archive for pay-as-you-go analysis using its big data tools, opening up a social media goldmine to enterprises and entrepreneurs
Beyond The Three V’s of Big Data – Viscosity and Virality
Revisiting the Three V’s of Big Data It’s time to revisit that original post from July 4th, 2011 post on the the Three V’s of big data. Here’s the recap: Traditionally, big data describes data that’s too large for existing systems to process. Over the past three years, experts and gurus in the space have [...]
My Quick Take on Quicktate (Convenient Transcription Has Finally Arrived)
It is rare that I get so excited about a new service I feel compelled to grab a pen mic smartphone and blog about it. But today it just happened: the service I’m going to talk about is Quicktate. For background, let me just come clear and admit that I’m a really lousy typist and [...]
Social Business by the Numbers
While the blustering goes on in the blogosphere, I thought I’d (ahem) cut to the chase and get serious about the Social Business opportunity in, well, spreadsheet terms. I popped into a little discussion between Adam Holt at Morgan Stanley and Tony Zingale and Bryan LeBlanc of Jive Software (JIVE). Although specific business gains [...]
Whoa Horsey!
Salesforce announced it was holding off on the grand corporate office park it had been envisioning at Mission Bay in San Francisco. It was a wise move by a company that should be focused on growth. In reading the Steve Jobs biography I was amused to see that he loved design so much that when [...]
