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- My brief encounter with Joe Kraus
- AccMan Dennis Howlett and Zoli Erdos reminded me of a brief chat I had with JotSpot founder and CEO Joe Kraus at an Enterprise Irregular dinner during the Office 2.0 Conference on October 11. I first heard the rumor of Google acquiring JotSpot that day and conveniently Joe, who I...
- Tags: TechMeme, Joe Kraus, Zoli Erdos, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-31
- JotSpot's nascent wiki-based office suite
- JotSpot CEO Joe Kraus thinks that wikis are trapped in "nerdy clothing." He's launching the latest version of JotSpot Wiki 2.0--combining the wiki collaboration foundation with pre-defined page types that provide productivity application functionality--to bring wikis into the mainstream."Traditionally you can only collaborate on one page, with text and...
- Tags: JotSpot, Wiki
- Blog posts 2006-07-24
- Google Spreadsheets enters blogospheric hybernation
- I checked in with Joe Kraus, CEO of JotSpot, about the impact of Google Spreadsheets, which after an initial, widely observed and ballyhooed launch (will it kill Microsoft Excel?), has gone into blogospheric hybernation. Not a single link in the Web 2.0 daily chronicle TechMeme today. The new hot Google...
- Tags: Joe Kraus
- Blog posts 2006-06-12
- Embracing and Extending Microsoft: JotSpot's Joe Kraus on the Web Office
- I recently spoke to JotSpot CEO Joe Kraus, who you may recall was a co-founder of 90's search engine and portal Excite. Embrace Excel, don't force people to think differently. But then extend it... After discussing JotSpot's new vertical wiki products (separate write-up here), we...
- Tags: Microsoft Excel, JotSpot
- Blog posts 2006-03-15
- Skinny applications could be a better term than roll-your-own
- Roll-your-own software, or do-it-yourself software, are some of the terms being used to describe very simple development platforms such as Jotspot and Socialtext. (The technology is powerful, it is the interface that is simple.)They enable custom applications to be built very quickly, that serve small groups of users. Typically this...
- Tags: JotSpot, Joe Kraus
- Blog posts 2006-01-11
- NYT: 'Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain'
- That's the headline in a New York Times article requires free registration by Gary Rivlin. The story talks about how the Google honeymoon is over and now, because of the way it's becoming just as corporate as any other big tech titan, it is now the first company to...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-08-24
- Are Silicon Valley's power brokers political teenagers?
- Joe Kraus has some advice for his Silicon Valley brethren on how to talks to the powers in Washington, D.C. regarding copyright and digital rights issues: “Stop talking about copyright and acting like political teenagers.” Kraus, who was a co-founder of Excite, which was sold for billions in the bubble...
- Tags: digital-rights, Joe Kraus
- Blog posts 2005-07-21
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- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy
- We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we talk about SOA. All debates about REST, SOAP, Java, .NET, JSON, ESBs, WOA won't mean a thing...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Two things money can't buy: love and SOA
- Does middleware untangle or tangle more? by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Jim, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Service Bus, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Bureaucracy and open source: Do they mix?
- Another high-profile departure from Sun, this time MySQL's David Axmark is taking wing -- citing a dislike for working in a large organization: I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organisations. I HATE all the rules that I need...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- The five products Apple must make
- What ought to be Apple's next leap of faith? Here are a few ideas for where Apple should go next. What are your ideas? Apple made its latest big move into new territories last year with the launch of the now ubiquitous iPhone, expanding beyond the desktop and...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Keyboards, Games, Monitors & Displays, Desktops, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Apple, iPhone, video games, tablet, Jo Best, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-09
- What's a Little Money Between Friends?
- Gaming Incentive Systems Joel Spolsky (www.inc.com/keyword/spolsky) wrote a nice piece in the October 2008 issue of Inc. magazine. The article, Sins of Commissions, provides a cautionary tale to executives who are contemplating the addition of or changes to sales incentives in their workforce. ...
- Tags: Incentive, Commission, Joe, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?
- Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?They'll all be bitter.Don't get me wrong. I'm what passes for a happy Microsoft user, but all the "flavors" have and shall continue to leave a bitter taste and confused consumers. Another plus for...
- Tags: Home entertainment, 64-bit, Operating systems, Games, SKU, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft NEEDS, real question, home theater
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- SOA, designed for turbulent times
- Up or down economy, time for SOA to prove its mettle by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Thomas Erl, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Forget the damn Linux netbooks. Can Windows replace Windows?
- My esteemed ZDNet colleague Ed Bott, God bless him, wrote a very insightful piece in which he discusses Taiwanese PC mainboard and component manufacturer MSI's challenges of selling Linux-based versions of their netbook, the Wind U90. Apparently, according to MSI, Linux-based versions of their netbook are...
- Tags: MSI, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Watching you watch the debate
- Tonight, as you watch the second presidential debate, Google will be watching you to see what you're searching for. It's just another peek into the minds of voters to find out which issues matter most or which are most confusing or unclear. Take, for example, the results...
- Tags: Debate, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?
- Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?Following Steve's PhilosophyAs you so accurately noted, Steve has a knack for whole numbers as we know from his Microsoft Office reign. Office 12 (2007), Office 11 (2003), Office 10 (XP or version 2002), Office 9 (2000) and these were the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Vista R2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, new name
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
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