Is innovation moving back from consumer to enterprise tech?
David Kirkpatrick, author of “The Facebook Effect” posed the question to a panel at the Tibco Tucon conference. I repeated the question one on one to Vivek Ranadive. CEO of Tibco and he said he is seeing it in three dimensions – younger recruits are showing more interest in enterprise tech than 3-5 years ago, [...]
Apple, Peak and Cockroaches
You probably think I am out of my mind – well … hm… no comment. But yes I agree it’s close to madness to discuss Apple’s decline right on the heels of a record-breaking iPhone 5 launch and a stock price that despite some correction is still a rocketship. But bear with me for a [...]
Feeds and Mullets #socbiz #ensw
Brilliant New York Times UX designer and author Alex Wright, someone I’ve had the privilege to work closely with, said to me a decade ago that “Tags are the new Mullet”. Back in the mid 2000′s, those garish word-clouds made popular by Delicious showed up everywhere and only those of us geekily-inclined really employed them in [...]
Apres Dreamforce
It’s over, Dreamforce that is, and I have gotten some needed sleep on the flight back to Boston. As I contemplate Dreamforce 2012 and its meaning I have three observations. First, it was what I expected it to be. If you refer back to my post just before the show opened my expectations were more [...]
