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- IT "neglects" the human side of change [SOA podcast]
- Mike Kavis is chief enterprise architect at Catalina Marketing, a large data analysis company serving the retail industry. Mike is a prolific writer and speaker on topics related to implementing Service-Oriented Architecture SOA. Here's one of Mike's presentations, discussing how to sell SOA to the business side...
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Mike Kavis, Mike, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Podcasts, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- Going Microsoft free, like Mike
- The real question Linux advocates need to answer is this. Can you go Microsoft-free and still get your work done? Mike Kavis is trying to find out. Back in May he dumped his Windows desktop for Ubuntu and now he has launched a pilot program to take...
- Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Corp., Mike Kavis, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
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- Cool Tools - What is your Twitter grade?
- HubSpot has launched what it is calling the Twitter Grader, which seems to be the now-defunct Tweeterboard reincarnate -- yet with a proposed business purpose. The grader allows Twitter users to enter in their screen names and the names of others into its secret algorithmic stuff generator and find out...
- Tags: Twitter, Tool, HubSpot, Productivity, Public Relations, Marketing Research, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customersDemocracy versus politicsThank you for discussing the difference between spectator politics and participative democracy. It seems to me that technology can definitely be put to better use for enabling the latter. At the risk of rambling, perhaps that might be a role that the newspaper...
- Tags: Government, Attention Craig Newmark
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated
- News outlet Bloomberg gave Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday when it accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service. Although the service quickly retracted the release, it's an eerily-fascinating read complete with XXXX marks for the cause and...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Password, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, SOA, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Hero of the week: Mike McDerment
- It's rare for me to pick out individuals but Mike McDerment CEO of FreshBooks deserves attention by anyone in the startup game and especially those trying to develop business applications. I first came across Mike some two years ago when FreshBooks had about 70,000 registrants. That number is now over...
- Tags: Start-up, Hero, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Tapulous developer fired
- Tapulous developer firedHe belongs in the Peace Corps not a corporation.In the text of his post he says he wanted to become "a real force for world change". I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but companies exist to make a profit - not to act as...
- Tags: Tapulous, Tapulous developer
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Tapulous developer fired
- Mike Lee, founder of Tapulous and developer of Twinkle was fired recently after a disagreement with management. According to Daring Fireball he was forced out. Lee blogged his side of the story in an appropriately titled post. So it came to pass that when my Engineering...
- Tags: Developer, Team, Photograph, Team Management, Management, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- HP closes EDS purchase; Outlines services exec line-up
- HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Senior Vice President, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Text Speaker (exe)
- Text Speaker will convert any text document to MP3 audio. Create your own audio books. To hear text, just open a Microsoft Word, Rich Text RTF, HTML, or text TXT file. Click Speak to hear a clear, understandable human-sounding voice read the document, or click Convert to Audio to create...
- Tags: DeskShare, Voice, Speaker, Telecommunications
- Software downloads 2008-08-26
- Get those ToS sorted
- The spat between WidgetLaboratory and Ning highlights one of the running sores in the current rush to all things 2.0: no-one and I mean no-one has given enough thought to how Terms of Service ToS are going to operate in the real world once cloud based services start to scale...
- Tags: Terms Of Service, Ning, E-mail, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Apple puts on back-to-school full court press
- Apple has always been a big player in the education market and this year it appears to be grabbing more share by selling Macs with iPod discounts among other moves. Let's connect a few dots: AppleInsider reports that RBC analyst Mike Abramsky is projecting...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Desktops, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Building Windows, not walls
- Building Windows, not wallsBuilding Windows, not wallsHooray for ZDNet duplication! Now we only need 5 more articles about this subject which will coincide with ZDNet agenda.[i]will reinvigorate Vista’s image and make Microsoft less of an Apple chump.[/i]As of lately the chump has been Apple with their failures. This ad...
- Tags: Construction, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), zune, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, wall, Building Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Seinfeld
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- IKEA's mixed bag of IT investments
- Last evening I read an interesting Gartner case study (registration wall warning.) It tells how IKEA Components, a company that is part of the iconic retailer of flat pack furniture used Lawson Software products to make significant across the board process savings and improvements. The business intelligence/process project makes great...
- Tags: IKEA, Information Technology, IT Investment, David Meerman Scott, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- SAP All-in-One implementations in less than 3 months?
- At the risk of sounding like an infomercial for SAP or turning Irregular Enterprise into 'SAPWatch,' I recently learned about a consulting shop that guarantees implementing SAP All-in-One in three months at a fixed price. I was skeptical given that the on-demand Business ByDesign implementations I'm hearing about are taking...
- Tags: SAP AG, Training, Workforce Management, Change Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- The 2008 Google(tm) Democratic Convention
- The 2008 Googletm Democratic ConventionBloggers?More like 200 BS artists, I would surmise...RE: The 2008 Googletm Democratic ConventionToo bad McCain and a lot of his supporters don't know how to operate a computer.RE: The 2008 Googletm Democratic ConventionTHE DEMOCRATIC WOMEN WHO WILL NOW VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICANS JUST BECAUSE OF HILLARY,COULD...
- Tags: Democratic Convention, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Want to know what key political players are reading?
- This is an interesting idea -- Google's now sharing with the world what is catching attention from presidential candidates and political commentators. Political news isn't hard to find online -- it's basically everywhere. Popular news featured on Google News is often political in nature, and there is certainly...
- Tags: Google Inc., News, Blogging, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- 2009 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG
- Photo gallery:2009 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMGMercedes-Benz's smallest U.S. sedan, the C-class, continues to impress us, this time with the sport-tuned 2009 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG version. We previously reviewed the C300, and found that its updated electronics put to shame the tech in more expensive models from Mercedes-Benz. With the AMG version...
- Tags: C63 AMG, Mercedes-Benz
- Product reviews 2008-08-15
- 1.5m spam emails sent from compromised University accounts
- With the increasingly common spamming as a service underground propositions relying on botnets, and services offering thousands of pre-registered accounts at popular email providers, it would be logical to consider that old school techniques consisting of compromising accounts and abusing them to send as many spam emails as possible in...
- Tags: Account, Spammer, Spam Email, University Of Otago, Staff Member, E-mail, Phishing, Spam, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
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