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Why Twitter's failing

Right now, Twitter is a mess. Most of today, European users have experienced outages of varying length and even hard core Twitter fans are saying they've had enough. Some have talked of jumping ship to Pownce or Jaiku. Louis van Proosdij, in answer to TechCrunch France's Ouriel Ohayon offered: ...

Tags: Twitter, Marshall, Joyent, Rod Boothby, Patience, Manufacturing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-01-31

The dynamics of Enterprise 2.0--follow the ants

Rod Boothby has an interesting post on how the social dynamic of work is changing due to the influence of the Web and related technologies. There is something very interesting happening in the field of enterprise technology. I called part of it Web Office. Ismael Ghalimi called...

Tags: Enterprise, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2006-10-11

What flavor of e-mail tool do you prefer?

What flavor of e-mail tool do you prefer?yeah but this is about enterprise email clients NTNTThe Notes Ninjas apparentlyThat's why I posted this. I simply cannot believe that 72% prefer Notes. No slam on Notes, but if this was represented in reality, the world of work would look a lot...

Tags: E-mail servers, Groupware, Enterprise software, e-mail, Rod Boothby, tool, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Corp., Microsoft Outlook

Discussion threads 2006-09-08

What flavor of e-mail tool do you prefer?

Rod Boothby is conducting an unscientfiic poll about preferences in e-mail tools. The results look a bit screwy to me, leading me to believe that there is a Lotus Notes Survey Ninja group out there whose existence was formerly unknown to me. Or maybe I just missed the memo that...

Tags: IBM Lotus Notes, E-Mail Tool

Blog posts 2006-09-08

The real impact of Web Office

Steve Rubel pointed to an white paper by Rod Boothby of Innovation Creators that discusses the near-future impact web office technologies will have on the future way we work. It's a great read and one I encourage you to investigate. What I appreciate most about the perspective Boothby comes at...

Tags: tool, Rod Boothby, Web

Blog posts 2006-03-03

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Joyent takes on Google

In what many will see as a bold move, cloud computing infrastructure provider Joyent is taking on Google. Today it announced the acquisition of Reasonably Smart, a Canadian open source infrastructure provider based on JavaScript and Git. Rod Boothby, Joyent's VP of platform evangelism said this is the first...

Tags: Google Inc., Environment, Joyent, Capital Structures, Open Source, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-14

No recession in Joyent's cloud

  Rod Boothby at Joyent (disclosure: Rod is also a fellow Irregular) sent me the above graph showing how Joyent is profiting from the downturn in the economy. The reasons are not hard to fathom. Despite the economic downturn, organizations still need to get...

Tags: Financial, Recession, Data Centers, Financial Accounting, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-31

Ruby on Rails: scaling to 1 billion page views per month

While a lot of attention has been focused on Twitter with questions about whether Ruby on Rails scales, LinkedIn has been quietly running a RoR application on Facebook that is beating down around 1 billion page view per month. Bumpersticker, a relatively trivial Facebook application that allows you to create...

Tags: LinkedIn, Ruby, Joyent, Ruby On Rails, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-23

"Reliability is a management issue" [podcast]

The Enterprise 2.0 conference currently being held in Boston reminds us that mission-critical web-based applications require high availability. Unfortunately, some enterprise 2.0 application vendors take development shortcuts resulting in poor reliability, which angers users and damages the developer's credibility. In  this podcast, I speak with Rod Boothby,...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Podcasts, Cloud Computing, Internet, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents

Why social software won't dethrone the incumbentsThose are all smart arguementsApple, Salesforce.com, Google, VMWare, Amazon:They're companies who were supposed to die and/or who grew from nothing. If it's a forgone conclusion that the big IT guy landscape is cemented, then we should all just give up and go home. The...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Groupware, social Software, incumbent, software, Sig Rinde, Social Software

Discussion threads 2008-04-30

Is Facebook a PaaS contender?

Nate Westheimer's observation about Google's App Engine: Aiming At Facebook, Not Amazon set me thinking. Should Facebook's F8 platform be considered a contender in the platform-as-a-service wars? Since my perspective is firmly on PaaS in the business world rather than as a consumer play, Facebook isn't really...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, PaaS, App Engine, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-11

Ever been Oprah'd?

One of the measures of success for a tech website or blog is getting TechCrunched, Dugg or 'slashdotted' â€" the sudden surge of visitors that comes as a result of being highlighted by one of these big-traffic sites, often crashing the target site (it happened to one of...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Oprah Winfrey, Web Site, Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-03-29

Social computing and product lifecycle management

The blogs are full of praise for soon to be minted Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang's thought piece about applying social computing to product lifecycle management. While I like the generality of Jeremiah's argument, I'm nervous about applying the ideas in a number of markets. At least...

Tags: Dennis Howlett, Information Technology, Jeremiah, Product Lifecycle, Product Lifecycle Management, SAP AG, Social Computing

Blog posts 2007-09-14

Enterprise mashups get ready for prime-time

Last year we witnessed the rise of consumer mashups on the Web, with hundreds of individual mashup-based Web applications being released in 2006 alone. I covered this phenomenon in detail in my year-end mashup wrap-up, but now this innovation in software development is gearing up to move inside the...

Tags: Web 2.0, Mashups, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, SOA, Governance, Collaboration, Convergence, Right To Remix, Network Effects, Products, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Web services, Ajax, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, mashup

Blog posts 2007-01-19

SaaS in 2007: Composition instead of integration

While the Web 2.0 crowd get excited about the superficial appeal of simple mashups, SaaS vendors have been quietly equipping users with do-it-yourself composite application tools that help them get their jobs done faster and better. My prediction is that 2007 is going to see an explosion of these DIY...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), composition, DIY enterprise mashup, tool, integration, software-as-a-service

Blog posts 2006-12-22

Integration, light and simple, over the 'global SOA'

The other day, I gave you Nick Carrs take on the recent Web 2.0 Summit. Needless to say, he is not a fan of the concept. ZDNet blogging colleague Dion Hinchcliffe, however, has this uncanny ability to see constructive innovation through the hype and clutter, and sees Web 2.0 in...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, Web 2.0, Web, mashup

Blog posts 2006-11-14

Web Office will be much different than Microsoft Office

There's been a lot of talk about the pros and cons of a web-based office lately, prompted by Nick Carr's excellent post entitled Office generations. In it he suggested the following timeline for office software: Office 1.0 (1980s): a set of discrete and often incompatible ...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Office

Blog posts 2006-09-17

The Enterprise 2.0 industry discussion continues and evolves

A pair of new articles over on the Sandhill site explores the increasingly discussed topic of Enterprise 2.0, an important Web 2.0 offshoot that I've covered over the last few months. While a lot of folks are taking a wait and see attitude to the application of low-barrier,...

Tags: Dion Hinchcliffe, Enterprise, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2006-09-07

Blogging as a potential career ender

Rod Boothby posts about potential effect of blogging on career development. Rod writes:I think that any business person who has long term career objectives in mind should be concerned about what they write in blogs. The stakes get higher when people connect you with your employer.When you apply for a...

Tags: Social Security, career, blog, blogging

Blog posts 2006-08-22

The quest for enterprise mashup tools

The recent round of discussion of enterprise mashups has been a good one, led primarily by a stellar write-up recently by Galen Gruman, and highlights a phenomenon that is nigh upon us. As part of tracking this, I've been spending the better part of the last couple of...

Tags: enterprise mashup, mashup, tool

Blog posts 2006-08-06