Hotel Capitalizes on Bay Bridge Closure – on Twitter, Where Else?
The above tweet is from a San Francisco hotel, capitalizing on the “opportunity” created by the Bay Bridge closure.Whoever said Twitter was not for business? Related (and happier) post: Another Enterprise Web 2.0 “WOW” Experience
Industry Expert Panel Discussion on Data Privacy
We all have a vested interest in how data and data privacy is enacted by companies, regardless of the environment, cloud, mobile (laptop, cell phones), private Data Center, or anything else that is a combination of the above. Companies have a vested interest in keeping their customers data private and clear of distortion or error. [...]
Note to Conference Organizers: Keep in Touch With People
Image via Wikipedia Over a number of conferences I have been at lately, one of the hallmarks of all of them was what could I do for them rather than what I would learn from the conference. Once the marketing folks realized that I would not provide them with anything, it is like we no [...]
Unignited Startups get advice from Andy Sack
Andy Sack is one of the cooler VC’s in the Seattle area, mostly because he blogs, and blogs frequently enough that you do not forget about him and what he is doing and who he is working with. He has posted on his blog an interesting set of ideas for startups that have not ignited [...]
Another New Startup for Seattle Starts Today
What is interesting about problems is that if you are lucky enough to have a good idea that will help solve the problem you can pretty much do a great startup. Over the last week my startup has been in trouble yet again, and in thinking through some of the problems with third party selling [...]
What did You Learn From Your Failures
Image via Wikipedia I have been reading what Fred wrote over at AVC on failure, and how failure tends to redefine the things we do as long as we learn from those failures. Some people do learn from failure and successfully work out ways to mitigate or minimize similar failures. Others unfortunately do not learn [...]
Obstacles To Enterprise Cloud Adoption: Who Is The Culprit?
Slowly, but steadily, enterprises are warming up to Cloud technologies. No, they are not queuing outside the Amazon headquarters waiting to order public cloud infrastructure, like the Amazon’s EC2 offerings, yet. But, the idea of private clouds and the advantages of tapping the public clouds for non mission critical operations like testing are slowly making [...]
Sustainable Business: a Viewpoint From a Skeptic
I am not sure we are ready for a sustainable business process, but Kevin Wilhelm, the CEO of Sustainable Business Consulting Group a consulting company here in Seattle will be speaking on this subject and plugging his new book on the Return on Sustainability. The question I have, and one that will hopefully be answered [...]
Handful Of Monopoly Infrastructure Players – A Shortsighted Idea
Some commentators in the field of Cloud Computing like to promote the idea that there will be a single (or a handful) monopoly player(s) in the Cloud infrastructure market. The biggest reason quoted to justify this claim is the high cost of building and maintaining the datacenters. The supporters of this school of thought argue that not many companies can [...]
Gist: Connection Dashboard for Your Life
This is something I have been looking forward to, and I’ll be down at the Gist offices on Friday the 17th taking a look around and doing a general interview with them. In preparation for the interview, I got a beta account with Gist and have tied it into almost a life stream dashboard of [...]
SaaS Vendors Need A Mental Shift
Rant Alert: The post might be bordering on rant but it is very important for the success of SaaS In April, I wrote a post about how SaaS users need a mental shift to do computing differently in this Cloud era. I have argued that they have to adjust themselves psychologically to play the Cloud [...]
Plug and Play Open Source Business Applications In the Cloud
As a developer I love open source. There are heaps of great applications such as web-servers, frameworks, databases that developers can use and contribute to. But when it comes to most open source software for end-users there are multiple reasons not to love it: No innovation. Most open source software for end-users are created from [...]
How Safe is Your Social Media Investment?
Image by via CrunchBase Recently, our guest author, Devan Sabaratnam, wrote about the shutting down of a service called I Want Sandy. Today, Pownce announced that they are shutting down the doors in two weeks time. This calls into question how reliable it is for users to move their data online and whether it is [...]
