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Seth Godin's success factors

Guy Kawasaki conducts a brief Q&A with marketing guru Seth Godin. In the interview, Guy asks Seth to give examples of brands build by having conversations with customers, how companies deal with criticism and what enabled him to be successful, which elicted this answer: No ulterior motive. I rarely do...

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Blog posts 2006-08-10

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Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow

When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle's recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...

Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-07-21

SAP pulls the trigger on higher support costs

SAP has announced that it plans to transition all customers to its new Enterprise Support offering from January 1st, 2009. SAP is pitching this as a service that adds customer value but in reality it means a cost increase. According to the press release, SAP will incrementally ratchet support costs...

Tags: SAP AG, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Corporate Governance, Construction, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-16

"Family Guy" creator and Google team up

It's unknown what kind of money was involved in the deal, but Google has teamed up with the creator of Family Guy to create two minute episodes of a new cartoon called "Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy". MacFarlane will take a percentage of the profit made by advertising...

Tags: Google Inc., Team, Advertisement, Google AdSense, MacFarlane, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-06-29

The lighter side of Bill Gates

As you all probably know, considering the 2 year lead-up to today and the considerable press coverage, it's Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft. I'd like to take a slightly different spin on covering his career and life, by pointing out the stupid stuff, in the hope it will appeal...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 95, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Sales, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-27

EclipseCon Day 1: Tutorial: The Eclipse Debug Framework

EclipseCon Day 1: Tutorial: The Eclipse Debug FrameworkHow to add Breakpoints in editor through outline view in eclipse?Hi I am a newbie in developing eclipse plugin's..:)!Can you please tell me how can we add breakpoints through the outline view programmatically? I have an XML editor whose outline is shown on...

Tags: Java development tools, outline view, EclipseCon Day 1, Eclipse

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Saqqarah (exe)

Restore the ruined temples in an ancient tournament of divine puzzles! Take part in the Ancient Quest of Saqqarah and descend deep below the sands to the magical underground oasis filled with puzzles, treasures and mysteries! It's up to you to fulfill an ancient Egyptian prophecy and stop evil god...

Tags: Codeminion

Software downloads 2008-06-19

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

More bad news for McAfee, HackerSafe certification

Dan Godin posted a great article that was picked up by The Register a couple days ago about continued challenges for McAfee's newly purchased HackerSafe division.  I find the article interesting as HackerSafe uses a scanning tool that probes for web application security flaws... of course, tools are limited in...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Security, Certification, Vulnerability, XSS, HackerSafe, Godin, Goodin, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-01

Does any open source media player stand a chance?

Gnash certainly hopes so. Gnash is an open source Flash player, being developed under the GPL. Currently available only for Linux versions such as embedded GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, they're working on a Windows port. They recently made it to Verison 0.8.2, which...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Media Player, Sub-project, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-22

C'mon Oracle, more noise please

Last week, Justin Kestelyn Tweeted me to advise me about Oracle's moves in service oriented security. Since the document refers to strategy and what the company has in mind, I wanted to know about the timelines for product release. Justin Tweeted back: RevRec rules are really strict; timelines almost...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Dale, Transparency, Revenue Recognition, Groupware, Web Browsers, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Knocked Up Screensaver (zip)

Knocked Up is a comedy film starring Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, and Leslie Mann. It is rated R for some sexual content, drug use, and profanity. This free screensaver is the perfect compliment to any desktop, and especially for fans of the movie, Knocked Up. This version is...

Tags: Screensaver, Wallpaper Screensavers, Knocked Up

Software downloads 2008-04-10

These three Flickr images sum up some users' opinion of any Yahoo-Microsoft deal

These three Flickr images sum up some users' opinion of any Yahoo-Microsoft dealBrush UpTime to brush up on your internet memes there Russell!"Then we have this interesting mashup: a YouTube posted on Flickr, where poster jcrr appears to be cringing in pain"Uhmmm....yeah...that or it's a mash-up with last year's all-your-base-like-popular...

Tags: INTERNET, Flickr, Microsoft Deal, Yahoo! Inc., YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-01

Coverity work spun backward

Coverity is doing what we in the South call the Lord's Work, checking major open source code for common problems, helping make things more secure. I just wish headline writers would understand this is a good thing. It's a good thing for open source. ...

Tags: Difference, Coverity, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-09

How Universal Music lost touch with their customers

There's a good read in this month's issue (15.12) of Wired Magazine about chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group, Doug Morris. Universal's CEO Once Called iPod Users Thieves. Now He's Giving Songs Away pretty much paints Morris as a technology luddite who's lost grip of what...

Tags: Universal Music Group, Apple Inc., Doug Morris, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Digital Music, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Things getting hot on the Comcast front

So things are really heating up on the Comcast front. Vuze, an open platform for video distribution that uses BitTorrent, has filed a formal petition for the FCC to make some rules about what Comcast is doing. And this comes just a day after a Comcast...

Tags: FCC, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Peer To Peer (P2P), Federal Government, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Internet, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-16

meebo hooks up with Joost

meebo is building on the momentum of it platform push in a new partnership with the Joost. meebo's real-time chat solution, meebo rooms, will be integrated with Joost's IPTV distribution platform. According to meebo CEO Seth Sternberg, an internal survey showed that 25 percent of meebo users instant...

Tags: Joost, Meebo, TVs, Business Structures, Tv & Home Theater, Instant Messaging, Broadband Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance, Internet, Online Communications, Telecommunications, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Secure your wireless PDA connection with this step-by-step guide

There are times when a Pocket PC owner might need to use a public hotspot to check e-mail or surf the Internet. The problem is that most wireless hotspots are vulnerable to sniffer-based attacks. E-mail, Web pages, and chat sessions are all sent in plain text over the...

Tags: HotSpot, informIT, Problem, Wireless PDA, PDAs, Handhelds, E-mail, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Hardware, Online Communications

Download resources 2007-09-20

Steve Jobs smart credit move

Steve Jobs smart credit moveYou're the 'curmudgeonly accounting' type and Jobs is the 'a**hole'?I don't see any difference.Can you be more specific?You write: "where customers are regularly charged premium prices for commodity products".Give some examples because the only ones ZDNet bloggers care to point out are the overcharges made by...

Tags: Handhelds, Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-09-06

Loki demo (zip)

An incredible journey through four great mythologies, Loki allows the player to take-on the role of one of four heroes : a mighty Norse warrior, a fierce Greek fighter, a powerful Egyptian sorcerer or a skilled Aztec shaman. Each comes from a different mythological background and each has different strengths...

Tags: Hero, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-08-16