Announcing TalkingPointz
Welcome to my new site: TalkingPointz.com – the new home for PinDropSoup. It was four years ago this month that I started PinDropSoup as a telecom blog. A lot has changed. It was initially just a hobby, but the page views consistently grew. The blog created numerous opportunities for me, regular writing opportunities at major [...]
Number 9 Dreamforce
For a Beatles’ fan and a fan particularly of John Lennon, the number 9 has an important meaning. It has enough meaning Lennon wrote a few songs referencing it, including Number 9 Dream. Perhaps I like Number 9 Dream because it seems to be, quite literally, calling my name on the background vocal track. But [...]
Chrome Update With Print Preview, Better PDF
I’ve long switched to the Chrome browser and have not looked back. Our readers seem to agree (partial stats based on last 500 views). Chrome is my favorite not beacuse they say users of that other browser are dumb (ouch…), but because of the constant innovation, the added features I am getting without ever having [...]
Customer Focus: the Constellation Supernova Awards
Constellation Research, founded by fellow Enterprise Irregular and star analyst Ray Wang has just announced the ambitious Supernova Awards program, focusing on – what a twist! – customer champions of innovation, rather than vendors. Krish and I both feel honored to have been invited as Judges for the Cloud Computing category. Below is the official [...]
Organized Robbery
We’re at a time of rebellion against maintenance fees, which now include the elements of insurance, extortion, declining systems, and of course refactoring all of which add to the costs of any implementation. Add that into the actual implementation itself, and one is left with whopping fees and eventually ineffective…
CloudAve is on WordPress Now
We’ve moved. No, we’re still moving. You can see the evidence all over, we’re still in the middle of a platform move, combined with a facelift, most of which is yet to come. You may have read about our crowdsourced logo-redesign effort, which is still ongoing, but has not produced the WOW-effect I expected (feel [...]
1000
Today we hit a major milestone at CloudAve: this is our One Thousandth post. I thought the best way to celebrate is to publish our Top 10 list compiled by you, dear Readers. So here’s the Top 10 most read post @ CloudAve: Netbook or Notebook? It’s Not Only About Size Steve Jobs Panic – [...]
Six Months Reflection, and a Treatise on Transparency
If you’ve ever read our About pages, you probably know that Zoho is our exclusive sponsor. This is a rather unique arrangement, where all Zoho gets in return for its support is the ability to advance the cause of Cloud Computing while leaving all editorial decisions in our hands. When we launched half a year [...]
The Real Cloud Avenue
Forwarded to me by Mike Prosceno – not sure who to credit for the original. Update: a search on TinEye reveals 32 occurances of this image – still don’t know who the original owner is, but at least now I know the photo was shot in Dubai.
New York Times Extra: Who Cares About Clutter, It’s All Good
Isn’t it funny how a move by traditional media can divide the blogosphere? Today’s move is by none other than The New York Times: they opened up their front page to third party content. If you enable Times Extra, you get up to eight related stories beneath each NYT main story. These stories are picked [...]
Welcome to CloudAve – and Thank You, Harry
We must be a crazy bunch on a suicide mission. Why else would we launch a new blog focused on Cloud Computing and Business, when it’s just a fad that will collapse in two years? Harry Debes, CEO of Lawson Software is a respected Enterprise Software industry veteran, but I’m afraid for all his achievements he’ll [...]
Is Twitter Being Used to Attack Blogs? We Still Need Social Feeds.
By Zoli Erdos on January 14, 2009
An older post on my personal blog, If Scoble Thinks He Found Bad Startup Marketing, He Ain’t Seen Nothing received several comments this morning, all showing the same structure, pointing back to Twitter accounts – some are clearly spam accounts with only this one update, but others appear to be real users, although I am [...]
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