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A look at Obama's IT strategy: The Facebook connection and the scale challenge

Barack Obama has sealed the Democratic party nomination with the help of social networking, a Facebook staffer and an off-the-shelf IT strategy. Those are some of the takeaways from a case study by David Carr at CIOZone, a site started by a bunch of my former Baseline...

Tags: Strategy, Facebook, Phone, Information Technology, Volunteer, Barack Obama, David Carr, Hughes, Productivity, Social Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-04

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The End of the Party

The End of the Partythe naivetetruly is astounding. When Obama gets into full Chicago thug politician mode, it will be fun to see just how deep the denial runs.RE: The End of the PartyAMERICA THE NEW DICTATORSHIP!!!!! Democrats sadly now control the future $ years of this country.Liberal bastards, Universal...

Tags: Obama

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Thanks to Google, writers' lives may be even more thankless, unless....

The announcement that Google has settled its book scanning lawsuit with The Author's Guild raises all sorts of hopes for digital use of new and previously published books. But without some radical changes in the publishing industry, the results of the settlement are not going to make it easier to...

Tags: Author, Business Operations, Finance, Google Inc., Litigation, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe, Operational Accounting, Pain Point, Strategy

Blog posts 2008-10-28

News to know: LinkedIn revamp; Can enterprise software be sexy?; Apple; R.I.P. Marc Orchant

Notable headlines: Rest in Peace Marc Orchant.  Techmeme. I'd like to share with you the two life lessons Marc Orchant taught me. We will all miss Marc. LinkedIn revamps interface, opens API. On Sunday a big debate of enterprise software broke...

Tags: LinkedIn, Apple Inc., Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-10

Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global Graph

Updated: On this Thanksgiving morning in the U.S., the Facebook Beacon storm continues to rage Techmeme. It's simply growing pains for the social graph. In fact, the social graph which Mark Zuckerberg defines as the network of connections between people reached a new stage of legitimacy or recognition today with...

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Graph, Tim Berners-Lee, Site, WWW, FOAF, Semantic Web, Channel Management, RDF, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-22

News to know: Google's Facebook killer; HD DVD price war; Ellison's lockbox

Notable headlines: Dan Farber: Google's OpenSocial: What it means. Garett Rogers: Google's OpenSocial platform is great! Techmeme. Dion Hinchcliffe: Significant workplace inroads for Enterprise 2.0? CIO Sessions: BT’s JP Rangaswami. George Ou: HD DVD price war begins at...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, David Berlind, Larry Dignan, Open Source, HD-DVD, Microsoft Corp., Hd Dvd, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Marketing

Blog posts 2007-10-31

The Carr-to-Rangaswami connection: Time to bleep the CIO?

There are probably a lot of CIOs that don't pay diddly squat in the way of attention to blogs. The question is whether there's a new meme bubbling up in the blogosphere that CIOs should be paying attention to: one that basically says the CIO as we know him/her...

Tags: Expertise, CIO, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-30

News to know: Yahoo; Enterprise mashups; Ubuntu; Intel; IBM

Notable headlines: Dion Hinchcliffe: The 10 top challenges facing enterprise mashups. Dave Greenfield: Top 100 Enterprise 2.0 Links. Dan Farber: Coming up: Web 2.0 Summit Garett Rogers: Google Apps Gmail now uses the Gmail storage counter. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Looking forward to...

Tags: Ubuntu, OSI, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Symbian Inc., Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Mashup, Routers & Switches, Web 2.0, Networking, Internet

Blog posts 2007-10-17

Expanding on Carr's latest anthem: The business PC doesn't matter

Nick "IT doesn't matter" Carr's latest post on why the business PC doesn't matter (those are my words, his were "Rethinking the business PC") resonated with me on so many levels that it could easily be turned into a manager's handbook on business agility. In my RSS reader (Google...

Tags: Network, PC, Business PC, Computer, Carr, Desktops, Productivity, Hardware, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-16

Jason Calacanis, Nick Carr, Microsoft, Google, and the most prized currency of Web 3.0: Trust

Lampooning Jason Calacanis' attempt to define Web 3.0, Nicholas Carr metaphorically cites Yeat's Couplet (Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot!; A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot) before concluding: Both beggars, though, labor under romantic misconceptions. For one, the web is freeing us from the shackles of...

Tags: Google Inc., Nick Carr, Web, Media, Web 3.0, Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-04

Mass hysteria? It's not like Skype's died. It's just a really bad hangover

Of the million or so I told you so's that have already been written regarding eBay's confession that it might not get the return on its investment in Skype that it originally thought it would, I like Nicholas Carr's the best. Carr reflected on the words of eBay Meg...

Tags: Meg Whitman, Acquisition, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Nicholas Carr, Hindsight, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Networking, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-02

Can Yahoo use open source to close Google gap?

Open source is always friend to the No. 2 player in a market and always the enemy of the top dog. That appears to be the big lesson after connecting a few dots on various items popping up around the Web. First David Carr at Baseline notes that Yahoo is...

Tags: Google Inc., Open Source, Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-21

ZDNet Blogs enterprise news and views roundup

While we are in the slow week of summer, the tech industry does not take much of a vacation. This week VMware went public, Citrix acquired XenSource and virtualization and hypervisors are in vogue. Several ZDNet bloggers--Dana Gardner, Mary Jo Foley, Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Ed Burnette and Dan Kusnetzky--...

Tags: Social Networking, Facebook, Firewall, Network, Blog, ERP, SOA, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-16

News to know: Microsoft vs. DOJ, Google; Ubuntu media support; Zoho; Motorola CTO

Notable headlines:Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to address Google search complaint in Vista SP1. Microsoft agrees to change Vista desktop search.Microsoft bails on Vista virtualization licensing changes. The virtualization flip flop.Gallery right: Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The key to getting more Windows users to switch to Linux....

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-06-20

Five reasons why there's so much CIO angst

Nicholas Carr asks if CIOs are dead weight. David Berlind notes that CIOs may be dead weight unless they are the only thing in the IT department. Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson says CIOs merely keep the lights on these days. CIO executive editor...

Tags: ROI/TCO, information technology, angst, marketing

Blog posts 2007-03-23

Has SAP converted to SaaS?

The consensus appears to be that Nick Carr was premature in outing SAP CEO Henning Kagermann as a true SaaS believer. As Dan Farber reported on Monday, our colleagues in the Enterprise Irregulars group picked over the evidence and found it far from convincing. Not least the fact that Kagermann...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), SAP AG, software-as-a-service, A1S, Henning Kagermann

Blog posts 2007-03-21

Parsing SAP's quest to add 60,000 customers by 2010

Nick Carr stirred up the Enterprise Irregulars with his post on SAP and SaaS over the weekend. It spurred a lot of discussion about just how serious SAP is about the on demand, software-as-a-service model and how the new SAP A1S solution, which is due around year end, fits into...

Tags: SMB/SME, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), SAP AG, All-in-One

Blog posts 2007-03-19

MySpace: IT on a wing and a Microsoft prayer

Baselines David Carr has an interesting tale of MySpaces IT operations. In a nutshell, the company is winging it with a Microsoft-based platform amid massive growth. Here are a few takeaways from the article, which is linked here to the printer version (the story is broken up...

Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Microsoft, MySpace

Blog posts 2007-01-17

SaaS doesn't matter

Thomas Otter, an Enterprise Irregulars blogger who works for SAP, complains that SaaS has been arbitrarily defined by a purist cult who refuse to admit that, as he puts it, "SaaS is simply the latest evolution of the bureau." Nick Carr, author of the contention that IT doesnt matter,...

Tags: Saas, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Web 2.0, Architecture, Business applications, software

Blog posts 2006-11-30

The great SaaS debate

The blogosphere isnt exactly aflame conversing about a canonical definition for software-as-a-service, but some good debate has been sparked. David Terrar wraps up the discussion with contributions from Thomas Otter, Nick Carr, Dennis Howlett and Vinnie Mirchandani, and then presents five questions as an SaaS litmus test:1. Is the software...

Tags: software, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Saas, General, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Web Technology

Blog posts 2006-11-30