Cloud Complexity ? It’s A Wrench.
A new year, a old topic. Complexity. “CLOUD IS COMPLEX” screamed the headline of two recent blog posts from my Clouderati alumni, James Urquhart and Sam Johnston. Really ? Who would have thought ? There really is nothing that gets past these two guys, is there ? Joking aside, their respective copy brings a sharp [...]
Nurturing the market for Data Markets
From Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace to the eponymous DataMarket, or InfoChimps, Factual, and Kasabi, there’s resurgent interest in the venerable business of collecting, curating, and commercialising data created by others. But despite investment and innovation, there isn’t yet the matching evidence for much use or — even — interest amongst prospective customers. In principle, at least, these data markets [...]
The Google Apps Marketplace–Chances of Survival
Over on his blog, VC Brad Feld posted about the experience of three of his portfolio companies being part of the Google Apps Marketplace – Spanning, Yesware and Attachments are all built on top of Google Apps and Feld is particularly positive about their experience; While Google has been building
How Yammer Should Have Responded to the TechCrunch Ad Hominem
I can’t help but laugh at the TechCrunch gang’s corporate ad hominem last week. It seemed more of a personal attack than any real attempt to provide a product review. TechCrunch didn’t merely reproach their building mate, they reprimanded them. Stranger, most of the article really didn’t say anything at all, because they were not [...]
My Interview for Salesforce on Collaboration
Salesforce has been doing some interesting work around collaboration in the enterprise and towards the end of 2011 I was asked to participate in their expert series. I was asked all sorts of questions around collaboration some of which can be seen below, for the full interview which also includes visuals, visit Salesforce. How would you [...]
