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- My friend Russell Shaw
- I need to say a few words about my late friend Russell Shaw. I knew him better than anyone at ZDNet, perhaps, because I knew him longer. Over 22 years. When I first met Russell, he was still coming down off rock and roll. Few from...
- Tags: Life, Portland, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Pics: once was a CompUSA, now a big empty box
- It's now bare-to-the-walls time for CompUSA. Gizmodo has a couple of shots of a Portland, Oregon CompUSA, stripped clean. To think I used to visit there fairly often. Here's another shot: ...
- Tags: Portland, Gizmodo, CompUSA Inc., Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- We live in the conversation age and not the thinking age
- Internet 1.0 was about the information age, now with Internet 2.0, we live in the conversation age. Conversation overload is our new malady, in the same way information overload tortured us ten years ago. Now we have both. Our communications technologies and numerous platforms...
- Tags: Conversation, Portland, Site, Serendipity, Entrepreneurship, Internet, E-mail, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- T-Mobile BlackBerry email slow, users say
- I realize that while my hometown of Portland, Oregon is not the center of the universe, we have some quite digitally aware folks. One of them, Alex Williams, has just Twittered that he's just spoken to T-Mobile, and yes, there are some BlackBerry...
- Tags: Portland, T-Mobile, E-mail, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- portland & Oregon Traffic (widget)
- View cameras from all over Portland and the state of Oregon with Portland & Oregon Traffic. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Portland, Oregon
- Software downloads 2007-06-05
- Environmental Systems Research Institute Case Study: portland, Oregon
- As in many cities, GIS use by the City of Portland developed with diverse agencies, bureaus, and departments relying on a mix of software and information systems. Each department used its individual system to increase efficiency, but sharing data and applications across the enterprise was a near impossibility. The resultant...
- Tags: Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., Portland, GIS, Software
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- Frequent open source miles
- Matt Asay's piece on "open source free- riders" got my goat this morning because we're on opposite sides of the market. Matt's a vendor, a high-ranking executive with Alfresco who by his own testimony spends a heavy chunk of his life in hotels and airports. ...
- Tags: Matt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Everyone loves the Eee
- I spent the day at a conference sponsored by our SIS developer. The food was excellent, which is always a solid barometer for conference success and I learned that I've forgotten too much java (X2's Aspen SIS largely uses java to interact with the relational database that sits on...
- Tags: Conference, SiS, Keyboards, Linux, E-mail, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- (Photos: Giving old PCs new life)
- (Photos: Giving old PCs new life)Giving old PCs New LifeThis is a Great program and I would like to know how I can donate my old computers to them.RE: (Photos: Giving old PCs new life)I got the page translated hereIt struck me that the page is more concerned with tax...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Professional development, PC, PCs New Life, Columbia, old PC, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Local market prepared for digital TV transition
- New York is the local television market most ready for digital TV transition, with just 3.5% unready television sets. Portland, OR is the least prepared local market, with 22.4% of all households using only analog sets and over-the-air television Market % of Over the Air Only...
- Tags: Network Computer, Digital Television, Computer Associates International Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Thin Clients, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, NB
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates
- Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...
- Tags: Social Networking, Consultant, Network, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., E-mail, Knowledge Management, Groupware, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Rest in peace Russell Shaw; We'll miss you
- Rest in peace Russell Shaw; We'll miss youThis is truly very sadThis is truly very sad. It is a great loss to his family and to our family here at ZDNet blogs. My heart goes out to Russell Shaw’s family. We will all miss you Russell.Sincerely,George OuRE:...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Blogging, VOIP, Russell, Shaw
- Discussion threads 2008-03-16
- Thanks for all the good times Russell, we'll miss you
- I was shocked and saddened when I read on Dan Farber's blog that Russell Shaw passed away on Friday, 14 March. I met Russell at Gnomedex last year after communicating with him virtually over the year previous to that. He was a fellow ZDNet blogger and wrote the IP Telephony...
- Tags: Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-15
- Microsoft Dynamics Webcast: Professional Basketball Team Expands Customer Base With Microsoft Dynamics CRM
- The attendee of this webcast will learn how to create customer relations by using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. The presenters speak about the trends, best practices, and competitive advantages of the customer-centric enterprise. The webcast shows how the Portland Trailblazers have taken advantage of Microsoft Dynamics CRM to improve sales...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Webcast, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-03-10
- Tech Sector Takes a Kicking in Ethics Ranking
- Quite honestly it is hard to take too, too seriously sustainability ratings such as the CRO 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2008 but they are kind of fun to pull apart none the less. Predictably these rankings generate a fair degree of false humility from the ascendant and gnashing and...
- Tags: Sustainability, Ethics, Emotion, Intel Corp., Tech Sector, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Lunarr and its mystery uses...
- My favorite Portland based startup company is Lunarr, which has created a unique collaboration service that combines a wiki-like front with email. This allows messaging between one or more collaborators on a document or what Lunarr likes to call a "flip" side. Hideshi Hamaguchi, one of the co-founders of...
- Tags: Facebook, User Interface, Lunarr, E-mail, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- QuickBase, your enterprise database in the cloud
- QuickBase, your enterprise database in the cloudPlatform as a Service on the riseHi Phil,Thanks for the early mention of Rollbase, I hope to see you at the SaaS Summit conference in SF this month where we'll be launching our public beta. Meanwhile it’s good to see more light being shed...
- Tags: Groupware, Intuit QuickBase, enterprise database
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Microhoo: what would the voice services components be?
- As you likely know by now, Microsoft made an offer to buy Yahoo! today. Given the machinations of such deals, as well as the regulatory hoops that must be jumped through, the completion of the deal could be a year or two away. Granted...
- Tags: Voice Service, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, VOIP, Telecommunications, Office Suites, Software, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- OpenOffice still two trains running on one line.
- Since its introduction Microsoft Office has grown well beyond its initial bundle. (Picture from This Space for Rent, the blog of a railroad fan in Portland, Oregon.) There are now 15 products listed with Office, including such offerings as Visio charting software and Project, its scheduling software....
- Tags: Train, IBM Corp., OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Seen today: Comcast truck repainted with Digital Voice pitch
- I was sitting outside a chic French bakery this morning, munching on a croissant. I then look across the street, see that Comcast truck, whip out my BlackBerry Curve and take that pix. So why have I done this? ...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Voice, Cable, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
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