Has HP bottled it?
After a terrible quarter, someone in HP has made the decision to run and hide – to cancel their September analyst event – an unprecedented action for a leading tech services provider to take
Enterprise Social Road to Nowhere. #socbiz
When asked to review tent.io, a new protocol for, in their words, open, decentralized, social networking, Dave Winer writes: I don’t understand what I’m supposed to weigh in on. Anyone can write a spec. What matters is what software is supporting the protocol, what content is available through it and how compelling is the content. [...]
Its The Data, Stupid. New Relic Goes After Insight-based Business Advantage
Tweet We like New Relic for a number of reasons at RedMonk. Firstly, developers tell us it just works, providing application performance monitoring across cloud apps. Just tick a box from your PaaS provider, and consider your app instrumented. Secondly, New Relic is a data partner for our analytics business; if you haven’t seen the [...]
Larry Buys the (Pineapple) Farm
Larry Ellison recently bought 98% of Lanai, a small Hawaiian island off Maui. No, I am not making this up. If I could write fiction like that I wouldn’t be in this business. Or maybe I would but I’d be better paid. At any rate, the article in the New York Times says Lanai has [...]
Twitter, Facebook, Customer Service and Surgery
Yeah, yeah, yeah — been long, I know. Busy, you know? Plenty going on, plenty behind us and even more ahead of us — going to be a banner year this 2011 (what? it is? August of 2012? really?) — I meant, this 2012… So, I had a great chat yesterday with a friend and [...]
