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- Has Nick Carr flipped? Or have we?
- Has Nick Carr flipped? Or have we?Sadly, the internetis becoming little more than another method to extract dollars from its users by those with a vested intrest in doing so. As to Google, I see so many cheering for them I often wonder if they have ever stopped to...
- Tags: INTERNET, Nick Carr
- Discussion threads 2008-01-14
- Has Nick Carr flipped? Or have we?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk follows on my review of Nick Carr's new book with the saga of his own trying exegesis of the text. "You're obsessed with sex," said my ZDNet handler, looking angrier than a caucuser who had just switched his vote from Chris...
- Tags: Nick Carr, Mr., Workforce Management, Internet, Human Resources, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Nick Carr's endless battle
- Nick Carr's endless battleValue Stream MappingI work for a Money-Lending company. We use three basic softwares that work on the basics of emulation. Both of them have black screens with hight contrast green coloured font. I HATE THEM. They are not easy to use. They do not increase productivity as...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, endless battle, Nick Carr, software
- Discussion threads 2007-12-15
- Nick Carr's endless battle
- Not knowing when to give up, Nick Carr steadfastly refuses to let the whole enterprise software sexiness issue drop. A shame, since he's just lost the debate. Nonetheless, in a burst of perhaps excessive fairness, I want to acknowledge Nick's attempt (based on...
- Tags: Nick Carr, Pickup Truck, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Nick Carr's enterprise software fantasy land
- Nick Carr's enterprise software fantasy landReason #5Well...I don't know if I qualify as an "Enterprise Irregular"but I can give the opinion of one who has developed and marketedboth enterprise and consumer applications.While priorities is a necessary condition for the differencein design, the sufficient condition is the more importat: 5....
- Tags: enterprise software, Nick Carr, enterprise software fantasy
- Discussion threads 2007-12-09
- Nick Carr's enterprise software fantasy land
- In a post titled, Michael Krigsman doesn't understand enterprise software, Nick Carr brings forth a series of nonsense arguments unsupported by the reality of how enterprise software is developed, purchased, used, and maintained. To begin, Nick makes the point: ZDNet blogger Michael Krigsman lays in to...
- Tags: Nick Carr, User Interface, SAP AG, Nick, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-09
- Jason Calacanis, Nick Carr, Microsoft, Google, and the most prized currency of Web 3.0: Trust
- Jason Calacanis, Nick Carr, Microsoft, Google, and the most prized currency of Web 3.0: TrustGive me a definition for Web 2.0 firstAt the web 2.0 conference earlier this year, they had to have a whole panel debate what web 2.0 meant. Cisco calls it collaboration and video conferencing while...
- Tags: Channel management, AJAX, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Web, Nick Carr, Web 3.0, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-04
- 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
- Nick Carr's Big Switch
- Nick Carr's Big SwitchNick Carr is a fraudNick Carr has no morals. He says whatever will create some kind of controversy or buzz so that he can be relevant.Public transportation is available, however I dont see companies discarding"Companies are beginning to dismantle their private computer systems and tap into rich...
- Tags: Wiki, power grid, Software Update, Nick Carr, Wikipedia, grid, transportation, software
- Discussion threads 2007-06-23
- Nick Carr's Big Switch
- Nicholas Carr, amongst the most incisive and profound critic of information technology, will be in Silicon Valley tonight, at Campbell's Barnes and Noble bookstore in conversation with ZDNet honcho Dan Farber, Edgeio co-founder/CEO Keith Teare, and Gillmor Gang ringleader & Podtech exec Steve Gillmor, and me. While the event is...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- From cave paintings to camera phones
- In his recent Guardian column, Nick Carr opines on the newest leisure time activity--the self-recording of one's daily life. "Today, we seem to be operating under a new and very different dictum: the unrecorded life is not worth living," Nick writes.He traces the phenomenon from painting on cave walls...
- Tags: Web Technology, Personal Technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-10
- Discussion with Red Hat's Joel Berman and Nick Carr - 1st take
- Discussion with Red Hat's Joel Berman and Nick Carr - 1st takenice try , attempting punching below the belt."They learned years ago that it was wise to implement Windows-based applications as a set of functions and assign each function to a specific server with either Windows NT and with Windows...
- Tags: Operating systems, Servers, Processors, Microsoft Windows, Nick Carr, Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-09
- What's next after Web 2.0?
- Nick Carr is welcome to stake a claim for the trademarks on Web 3.0, but I can cite prior art. Judging by the reaction of the blogosphere over the past 24 hours, theres not much value in the term anyway. People are feeling deflated enough about Web 2.0 and have...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- Web 3.0? Gimme a break
- Nick Carr, the anti-Gartner, disses Web 2.0 and the recent Web 2.0 Summit, calling it underwhelming at best. "When dogcrap 2.0 sites like PayPerPost and ReviewMe start getting a lot of attention, you know youre seeing the butt end of a movement. (Theres a horrible metaphor trying to get...
- Tags: General, Web, Web 3.0
- Blog posts 2006-11-12
- The dangerous assymetry of open source
- Nick Carr puts Larry Ellison's move on Red Hat in perspective. Oracle is taking advantage of the "cheap input" produced by the open source community, Nick says: His attack on Red Hat would never be called neighborly, but it is, as Business Week's Steve Hamm puts it, "a ruthless and...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-26
- Nick Carr breaks down the evolution of Office suites
- Nick Carr breaks down the evolution of Office suitesDon't under estimate Google either. They for sure have a team working onthe offline problem as we speak. They need to build a mini web server into Firefox to cash online applications for offline use, and automatically re-sync files on re-connect.They are...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, World of Warcraft, Microsoft Office, Donnie, Google Inc., server, Office suites, Nick Carr, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-14
- Nick Carr breaks down the evolution of Office suites
- Nick Carr weighs in on the definitional debates about Office 2.0, or the post Microsoft Office era that is emerging, and offers his view of the evolution of office software:Office 1.0 (1980s): a set of discrete and often incompatible applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation creation, and simple database management....
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office
- Blog posts 2006-09-14
- Is JotSpot a Microsoft Office killer?
- Nick Carr has an interesting post in Microsoft almost certainly will enter the Web Office suite market response to the new Web Office wiki released yesterday by JotSpot, covered here on my blog and also by Dan Farber. Dan called JotSpot's new product a "nascent wiki-based office suite", which is...
- Tags: JotSpot, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-25
- Dell hits a rough patch
- Nick Carr writes that Dell's pioneering direct sales model is showing signs of fatigue due to growing support costs: So there, perhaps, is the flaw in the direct sales model, particularly when it's applied to a commodity product like the PC: You have a cost disadvantage in customer support, which...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-23
- CIOs fleeing IT?
- Nick Carr connects some dots, leading to a conclusion that CIOs want to distance themselves from IT: IT has become an albatross for CIOs. Smart ones are trying hard to distance themselves from "the technology" in order to escape the dead end of the data center. The CIO role...
- Tags: Nick Carr, information technology
- Blog posts 2006-05-18
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