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- 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
- Vaudeville
- This media showdown is getting really interesting. In no particular order, some comments about some of the players:Mike Arrington -- Why on Earth is he keeping Marshall Kirkpatrick in such a visible position. Nothing against the guy, he's a good writer and a competent reviewer, but he doesn't have a...
- Tags: Nick, Marshall Kirkpatrick
- Blog posts 2006-07-14
- Back in the USSR
- Nick Carr is truly the gift that keeps on giving. His latest can-opener concerns the alleged Google strategy of converting all reading interfaces to search and keyword (i.e. tagging) interfaces. Nick's genius (I think he is the leader in the post-dvorak world of meme-baiting) is to keep the bile churning...
- Tags: Nick, Don't Forget
- Blog posts 2006-05-08
- Hey Bulldog
- Ran into Sun's most authoratative blogger at OSBC this morning: Jim Grisanzio. Although some would point at Tim Bray (too partisan around Atom to sustain deserved linkcred from pre-Sun days) or Simon Phipps fragmented his Webmink brand into multiple feeds Jim's combination of OpenSolaris mission and personal naiviete about his...
- Tags: Nick, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
- Neutral gestures
- Nick Carr's latest post is a perfect example of a neutral gesture, one that sets up a transitional premise as the root of an alleged fundamental game-changer. As a gesture, it is still useful to those who view Nick's conservative optimist-baiting as treading water. In this case, Nick moves up...
- Tags: gesture, Nick
- Blog posts 2006-01-04
- Blogging as 'intellectual hydroplaning'?
- Nick Carr responded to my post about "Why blogging matters," characterizing blogging as mostly superficial and impressionistic, and suggesting that the blogoshere is a "fantasy community crowded with isolated egos pretending to connect." Here's a piece from Nick's post:The blogosphere's a seductive place - it's easy to get caught up...
- Tags: blogging, Nick, blogosphere
- Blog posts 2005-11-22
- IP Doesn't Matter?
- Nick Carr: Amateurs should, and will, be able to disseminate their creations, whether podcasts or songs or blogs or films, over the Internet. But those who hope to make a career of writing or talking or making music or shooting video should be able to protect their...
- Tags: amateur, Nick, business model
- Blog posts 2005-11-13
Additional Resources
- Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
- Cern is planning to build a new computing hub in France, because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. The lab cracking data from the Cern Large Hadron Collider experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. ...
- Tags: CERN, Power Supply, Grid, Computer, Hadron Collider, Productivity, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-08
- Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
- The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, which can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors, was officially launched on Friday. One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of three million DVDs a year, was officially launched on Friday....
- Tags: CERN, Scientist, Grid, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-06
- Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs
- A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...
- Tags: Layoff, Gawker Media, Site, Consumerist, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- News to know: Bailout bust and tech fallout; Cloud computing; Netgear; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: AP: Stunning Defeat for Bailout Plan Torpedoes Stocks; Dow Sinks Over 750. White House, lawmakers plan new bailout deal Larry Dignan: Is Apple really recession proof? Wall...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Sprint Xohm, Apple Inc., NetGear, WiMAX, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Open Source, Wireless
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Comcast really does care (aka how Twitter helped save Nick at Nite)
- Comcast really does care aka how Twitter helped save Nick at NiteYou are not the only one...Fresh Prince is still cool and funny. I did the same as you, but once I started making use of my media center in vista I was watching recorded shows of Inuyasha and Angel...
- Tags: DVR, Fresh Prince, Comcast Corp., Nick-at-Nite, Twitter, CableCard
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Comcast really does care (aka how Twitter helped save Nick at Nite)
- It's a little embarrassing for me to admit this, but I go to sleep every night watching Nick at Nite. Loser, right? What can I say, I never tire of the antics of Will and Carlton on the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air." All was fine last...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Twitter, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- What the credit crunch means for IT
- The credit crunch has dominated the front pages in 2008, and claimed a number of high-profile scalps, such as that of the 158-year-old Lehman Brothers bank. As job losses mount, and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, here's...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Outsourcing Company, Industry, Supplier, EquaTerra, Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Nick Heath silicon.com, economy, IT management, HP, layoffs, hardware, software
- News items 2008-09-17
- Kids NetLinks Nick Jr Browser (zip)
- Kids NetLinks Nick Jr Browser provides one-click picture button access to the the best games for kids on Nick Jr.com along with quick access to Themes, like arcade, action, letters, numbers, music, counting and more! pictures gives kids of all ages ease of use all around the Nick Jr. Games...
- Tags: Kid, Kids NetLinks, Kids NetLinks Nick Jr Browser, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-09-04
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the worldFive reasons Chrome will take over the worldYou know what ZDNet needs? More articles about Chrome! 12 over the last 24 hours just isn't enough so why not add to that number.Chrome isn't taking over anything because its terribly broken. It doesn't render...
- Tags: Development tools, Web browsers, chrome, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Dell's netbook arrives this week
- Dell's netbook arrives this weekIt is time that both of them come >:)I am waiting this one and the Lenovo to see which is one is better between them and the EeePC 900 Linux.ARM Rules--$98 mininote!Check [url=http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/98-linux-laptop-the-hivision-mininote/]this out for $98![/url]ARM rules.Look Nick, its a $98 laptop !!...and negroponte rolls in...
- Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), ARM, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Find interesting Twitterers with Twintro
- A new service launches today called Twintro, a Twitter bot that retweets one interesting person's updates each day. The idea is simple: find new and interesting people and decide if you want to follow them. This is the first "Twitter discovery" app that...
- Tags: Twitter, Twintro, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Google Chrome: The enterprise playbook
- Google is launching a Web browser dubbed Chrome in a move that's garnering a lot of attention--because it conveniently fits with the Microsoft vs. Google plotline--but how much should businesses pay attention to this move? First a quick recap Techmeme, Google will launch the Chrome browser and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dennis Howlett, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Debate rages over SOA's 'cloudy' future
- Debate rages over SOA's 'cloudy' futureMaybe the best way to put it is that with WOA, we just pick the low hangingfruit first, and do not need to get into religious wars, or get company wide buy-in, you just do it. Not sure which name will win out, but getting...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, cloud computing, WOA, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
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