Network Adoption from Oxford University
There’s news coming out of the Said Business School of Oxford University about a study of product adoption with Facebook. The research is said to document a herding instinct that can turn on and off. The research was conducted using 2007 data from Facebook users adoption of Facebook Apps for their Facebook pages. Unfortunately, the [...]
How to NOT Become an Entrepreneur
I get a lot of junk email that I normally ignore, but this one ticked me off enough to write about: Major Changes for Bay Area Entrepreneurs Workshop Changes? To what? I’ve never heard about this program before. Lowering the price of the Workshop by $500 to $1,000 Ouch! Lowering? And then it’s still $1,000? [...]
Under the Radar: Commercializing the Cloud – Apply to Present / Discount Tix Here
Under the Radar is Silicon Valley’s most established startup debut platform: a conference series organized by Dealmaker Media, covering business applications, social media, entertainment, mobility..etc. This year’s conference in Mountain View, CA on April 16th will focus on Commercializing the Cloud – that’s a fairly wide definition, and one that perfectly mashes with our focus [...]
2.0 Adoption Warfare – can military tactics help?
A few weeks ago, as part of Social Media Week, Alan Patrick and I ran the very well received Social Media in Enterprise event (which we’ll run again!). It provided 8 different perspectives on collaboration in the enterprise using the new tools. Amongst the many issues raised in a night of some great discussion and [...]
EuroCloud UK members making sense of Cloud standards and security
The newly formed EuroCloud UK group held their first member meeting a week ago at the Thistle City Barbican Hotel – a panel led group discussion on Cloud standards and security. Chaired by Phil Wainewright, the panel experts were Dr. Guy Bunker, independent consultant and blogger, formerly Symantec’s chief scientist and co-author of ENISA‘s cloud [...]
Social Media in Enterprises – the Elephant in the Ecosystem
What is it?As our contribution to London Social Media Week we are putting on Social Media in Enterprises on Tuesday Feb 2nd from 6 till 9pm at the Cass Business School in London (map is over here). Why? Well, at Tuttle last Friday Alan Patrick and I realised that there was no event for the [...]
Friday Rant: I’m Not Going to Pay for Your &*%&ing Contacts
I tend to think of myself as a rationale person, who at least usually tries to always do the right thing when it comes to serving as a bridge for others to connect. Now, the right thing might not always be on someone else’s ideal timeline, but if the…
Clash of the Networking Titans – What’s Next for $HPQ?
Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of interest and speculation in what happens next after the $HPQ acquisition of $COMS.
First of all, yes of course $HPQ is going after $CSCO (who isn’t these days?) – but as usually happens when the leader gets attacked, I expect the damage, at least in the near-term, to be minimal. [...]
Swiss Re – One of the Smart Companies
On Monday In Zurich during SOMESSO’s Web 2.0 University™ based masterclass delivered by Jim Benson, one of the attendees related her company’s adoption of Social Media. I was soaking up the material and offering Jim a little help, as we have just started to represent Hinchcliffe and Web 2.0 University™ in the UK. One of the weaknesses that we currently have in the enterprise 2.0 or “social media in business” space is not …
HP, the Disruptor?
By Vinnie Mirchandani on November 17, 2009
Why would Cisco move down into 25% mainstream server margin business when its networking business has yielded it 65%? That is the question many asked as Cisco announced its Unified Computing System in early 2009. Its marketing said it “..represents a radical simplification of traditional architectures, dramatically reducing the number of devices that must be [...]
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