There’s been a slew of stories about people posting embarrassing or boneheaded things on their Twitter or Facebook profiles without realizing that their boss, friends or clients could see the posting, and that it ultimately led to disaster – stories including pictures of people spending the night partying, lying about calling in sick, or [...]

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Here’s my impression of a web 2.0 company making a pitch to a venture capital firm from between 2006-2008: I’ve got this really great idea to build this service that everyone will love, no one will be able to live without, people will tell all their friends about, and users will add their own content.  [...]

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It seems like everywhere you look in web advertisements, television, and print ads, where there should be a picture of your average run-of-the-mill PC laptop, there’s an Apple MacBook Pro instead.  Here are just a few examples.

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IBM announced a new SaaS offering for collaboration at their Lotusphere 2009 conference, dubbed LotusLive.  There appears to be three main offerings to LotusLive: Networking and Collaboration, Web Conferencing, and LotusLive Email services – which appears to be a version of Lotus Notes in a web-based format.
According to the company press release:
LotusLive is [...]

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As was reported by TechCrunch and others today, during Apple’s quarterly earnings call, Apple’s COO Tim Cook answered questions about what Apple would do in the face of rising competition from Google’s Android, RIM BlackBerry and Palm.  Cook’s answer seems to be a warning to the competition that Apple will sue competitors that blatantly [...]

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Two things about ESN (enterprise social networking) and ESC (enterprise social computing) solutions bother me.  One: often times people talk about the features using empty buzzwords that fail to succinctly describe what people really want to do.  Second: a lot of proclaimed ESN/ESC tools get lumped together, even though they really only offer a partial [...]

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I continued to ponder why IBM and Oracle both purchased BRMS (business rule management software) vendors in 2008, and whether it really has to do with the economic downturn as Oracle publicly states that it does.  One reader very accurately pointed out:
I would say it is a bit unlikely that they decided to purchase [...]

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