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- Cancer 2.0: Intent on winning!
- This post is not about failed IT projects; it's an inspiring story from someone absolutely determined to win his battle against cancer. Jeffrey Walker, CEO of Atlassian Software and fellow Enterprise Irregular, has written an eloquent, powerful, and highly personal account of his fight against a rare form of this...
- Tags: Surgery, Cancer, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Failure 2.0
- Failure 2.0What is Enterprise 2.0?If one uses "Enterprise" to describe a technology, then it had better be useful for enterprises which means businesses. So I agree Michael. I blogged "What is Enterprise 2.0?" -- http://tinyurl.com/272bjt -- because I feel we get over-fixated on the social possibility when Enterprise 2.0 should...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Jeffrey Walker, business guy, E 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, software, light-weight software, solution/decision, Jeffrey
- Discussion threads 2007-08-12
- Sony's misguided e-book Reader
- Sony's misguided e-book ReaderUhm...depends on what you mean by"bestselling" and "killer titles". I hope you are being sarcastic.I didn't see a single title there that I or anyone I know would want to read, nor any real bestsellers that would appeal to a broad audience. Library is limited to a...
- Tags: E-books, e-book Reader, Sony Corp., Sony Reader, Jeffrey
- Discussion threads 2006-02-22
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- An Event Apart 2008: Day 2
- The second day of An Event Apart will feature plenty of web standards jargon. I will be posting photos and notes from today's events. Unfortunately, the slides are reserved for attendees only, but I will try to gather as much information as...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microformat, Tool, Post-it Note, Eric Meyer, CSS, Productivity, Keyboards, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- An Event Apart 2008: Day 1
- The antique Palace Hotel in San Francisco houses An Event Apart, a collaboration of interactive presentations about web standards, user experience design, and best practices. The two-day conference features well-known speakers from around the world, including AEA's hosts Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer. ...
- Tags: Web, Framework, Web Design, Interfaces, Craftsmanship, D, Channel Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn?
- Limelight Networks may have won a medal for its role behind the scenes to keep NBCOlympics.com humming, but the company is still dwarfed by its largest rival Akamai. The big question: Does Limelight have enough headroom to gain meaningful share from Akamai? Jason Perlow detailed how content...
- Tags: Patent, Akamai Technologies Inc., Limelight Networks, Jason, Company, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.
- If there was one solid message to come from the opening keynotes at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, it is this: Now is the time. Illustrated through the lenses of two large, mainstream industries – financial services and health care – the first two presenters talked about ways...
- Tags: Hospital, Health Care, Linux, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computing
- At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Jeffrey Birnbaum, managing director and chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, speaks about using cloud computing to reduce complexities and costs in financial services. He discusses the move away from dedicated machines and why ideas old like virtualization have become useful again. by...
- Tags: LinuxWorld, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Video, Computing, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Corporate Communications, Financial Planning, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Financial Services, Hardware, Marketing, Finance, Storage, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- LinuxWorld: Merrill Lynch on going stateless
- At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Jeffrey Birnbaum, managing director and chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, speaks about using cloud computing to reduce the complexities and costs of financial services. He discusses the move away from dedicated machines and why old ideas like virtualization have become useful again.
- Tags: LinuxWorld, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Virtualization, Financial Planning, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Financial Services, Hardware, Finance, Storage, Computing, stateless, cloud computing
- Videos 2008-08-05
- Vonage imports marketing mojo with new CEO
- Vonage has named Marc Lefar CEO to replace Jeffrey Citron, the company chairman and interim chairman. Lefar had been the chief marketing officer of Cingular Wireless and will be counted on to use some of that sales mojo to increase Vonage's customer base and reduce churn. ...
- Tags: Marketing, Vonage Holdings Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer
- So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...
- Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- eBay: New belle of Microsoft's merger ball?
- Microsoft has $44 billion or so burning a hole in its pocket, but there's one little hitch: There are few companies that the software giant could buy to get scale quickly. Enter eBay. Enter speculation. Enter eBay as the acquisition target. Sure, eBay has opened up its...
- Tags: Merger, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Keyboards, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Peripherals, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Yahoo: Does Jerry have to go?
- Yahoo got its wish. Microsoft is no longer a possibility as a purchaser. The company improves short-term results by partnering on search with Google. Carl Icahn may give up on his proxy war. And the company lives to fight another day--or at least until Aug. 1 when shareholders unleash their...
- Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Construction, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Why Internet companies are attractive takeover targets: They can't manage
- Are Internet companies so inefficient and clueless about management that have to be acquired? Lost in the commentary about Bernstein's "U.S. Internet -- The End of the Beginning" report, which concluded that Amazon and Google would be the dominant Internet duopoly, are the reasons why today's leading...
- Tags: Internet Company, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Cloud computing meets capitalism: We all become a business of one
- Folks spend a lot of time talking about cloud computing. It's a move back to the mainframe. Cloud computing democratizes IT infrastructure. The cloud will be the reason Amazon and Google will be the dominant players on the Internet. You have heard a lot of it before. But the real...
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Lindsay, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- The duopoly theory at work: Will Amazon and Google dominate the Internet?
- Will Amazon and Google be the two giants of the Internet? Sanford Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay seems to think so. In a research report previewed to Reuters, "U.S. Internet: The End of the Beginning," Lindsay concludes that Google and Amazon will be the top dogs on the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Theory, Amazon.com Inc., Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]
- Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]Emerging market?If we're talking about version control, bug tracking, compile farms, etc then how is this an emerging market? Companies have been doing this for years.As for leasing out computer time...this has been done for decades. It just went out...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Marketing research, Financial services, Podcasts, Development tools, Force.com, emerging market, tool, Hosted, Hosted software development, software development, podcast
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]
- Note: Click the player above to hear my podcast interview on hosted development with Jeffrey Walker and Jeff Leyser from Atlassian Software. Hosted software as a service SaaS development solutions have become an important option for mainstream programmers. These products range from straightforward offsite storage, such as...
- Tags: Software, Podcast, Environment, Emerging Market, Workflow, Tool, Development Environment, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents
- It's not often I find myself fundamentally disagreeing with Sam Lawrence. He's a smart guy with a great marketing head. But on this post he's over-reaching in my opinion. His basic argument says this: The big IT vendors aren't taking social software seriously. They can't. Not even if they...
- Tags: Software, Oracle Corp., Value Chain, Vendor, SAP AG, IBM Corp., Sam, Austin Ventures, Dan, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Ksplice automates hot patching Linux kernel with no reboot needed
- Ksplice is an interesting open source project out of MIT that automates the process of applying security patches to the Linux kernel without rebooting, and it's getting notice by the Linux Foundation. Top kernel developer and Linux Foundation fellow Ted Ts'o said the Ksplice software is...
- Tags: Linux Kernel, Ksplice, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
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