Conspiracy Theory: the Vista-ization of Windows 7 has Started…
Three years ago I wrote: Windows Seven in 2010. Does Anyone Still Care? I simply don’t get it: Vista is barely out, nobody seems to like it, CIO’s refuse to upgrade, analyst firms tell them to wait, individual users who tried it switch back to XP, others time their new PC purchase so they can [...]
KaaS: Kiss as a Service. Really. Really?
If you think the guy above is slurping down a milk-shake, you’re wrong. Very, very wrong. He is French kissing teaching his computer and a remote device to French kiss. Here’s the formula of kissing digitized: I can see unlimited prospects for a new Cloud-based Kiss as a Service, where you select your [...]
Tungle: an Acquisition Tweet by Tweet.
Tungle CEO, 6 days ago: Hm… looks like a broken iPhone. Get a new one… but is getting a new phone really a life changing moment? @mgingrasMarc Gingras Time for a new smartphone.#lifechangingmoment 2 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® Favorite Retweet Reply For Marc it is. And I doubt he’ll be using iPhone, [...]
Dilbert Shuts SETI Down
I am not kidding… just saw this cartoon a few days ago: … and today SETI Institute CEO announced they are shutting down their famed Alien Telescope Array. Wow. More CEOs should listen to Dilbert.
Cloud-in-a-Van
Yes, you can have your Private Cloud. By mail-order? @reillyusaChristian Reilly IBM Smart TV commercial "computing has left the box"…yes, it’s on a USPS truck on the way to me. Yay ! Mail order cloud ! Nah, the best solution is Cloud-in-a-Van: @DEVOPS_BORATDevOps Borat We launch new product ‘Cloud in Van’. Azamat drive van around [...]
Google Hacking Google Images for Facebook and Other social sites
Mining social networking sites for some downright interesting pictures of people doing things could not be easier. The bad part is that it is very easy to do, the good part is that adding pictures to your privacy settings is going to be something you want to do. There are basically five web sites that [...]
The First Thing Microsoft Wants You to Do After Upgrading to IE9…
… is to upgrade to IE9. No kidding: It’s not even April 1st anymore…
Variations on Hype Quadrants.. no Magic Hype… no, Hype Cycle.. or is it Magic Quadrant?
Gartner introduced their Real (Magic) Quadrant: Not bad. But let’s not forget the customers’ prospective. Welcome to the Magik Kvadrant: But perhaps most revealing is Phil Fersht’s Painsharing Paradox: Enough of this quadrants, squres, cubes… let’s hype up some cycles. Superseding the Gartner version, here’s the Wailgum Hype Cycle: Not bad. Still a bit complex. [...]
Chess Media Group Acquires Dachis Group!
Today we are very excited to and thrilled to announce the acquisition of Dachis Group, the pioneers behind the concept of “social business design.” Dachis has raised approximately $80 million dollars in venture capital funding thus far and have made several acquisitions of their own bringing their employee base to a few hundred around the [...]
Enslaving People Since 1967 … And Not Getting Any Smarter
I came across your website cloudave.com, and would like to propose a link exchange between your site and AlliedTime.com. Allied Time USA has been offering employee time clocks and time systems since 1967. Ok, so they’ve been enslaving people for over four decades. If they had the slightest clue about what we do here, they’d [...]
IBM Still Searching for the Flying Car I Grew Up With…
Oliver Marks makes fun of IBM’s rather pointless Flying Car ad: He takes this opportunity to run a quick overview of Web 2.0, Collaboration, Social Business, then finally compares the IBM dud to a SABA video “that at least demonstrates how enterprise business networking and real time collaboration could work, which is far more useful [...]
Josh Groban Sings Kanye West Tweets
Somewhat out of character for CloudAve… but hey, this is the Twitter age, so when I saw Josh Groban sing Kanye West’s deep tweets, I just could not resist. (Ars Blogetica: post first, ask questions later…)
Improving the Time Suck of Social Media
Social media, albeit being a great boon in many regards, has also become a massive time suck for almost everyone involved! Sure, news is up to date, down the minute, real-time almost with every single little bit of craziness right there to read about right now! The t0-read, to-do, to-make, to-code lists all keep getting [...]
