Startup Lifecycle a’la ABBA (Are We in a Bubble?)
Wow, who would have thought 1970′s supergroup ABBA were such good predictors of the Startup Economy:-) No kidding… it all started with a tweet by Box Lead Magician Aaaron Levie: @levie We must be in a tech bubble given how much ABBA I’m listening to. 24 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply My first though was: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
A Few WTF Moments!
Ever been working along on something, and you see an ad or get an error that just boggles the mind? You look at it and just think to yourself, “what the… why did they… I… don’t… can’t… even… imagine. Ugh idiot!” Well here’s a few that have hit me lately. This is SUPPOSED to be [...]
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 [...]
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…)
The real cause of Global Warming: the Vatican
After a short Twitter conversation with the -usually- formidable, cheeky and clever Ben Kunz, I started to read some of the links he sent me, looking for references, sources, and anything else that could tell me more about the origin of data I am not a gullible person. I have been an IT consultant since [...]
Time Magazin’s Technology and Person of the Year: the iZuck
List, list…like I’ve said, it’s THAT time of the year. So let’s consolidate, where we can. Why bother having a separate Technology and Person of the year: …when we can have it combined. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the iZuck: Slim, portable, does not talk back
SaaS Growth, Dogfood, and Images :-)
Fellow Enterprise Irregular Evangelos Simoudis is definitely worth following. As an active Venture Capitalist he often focuses on his portfolio experience – but through that micro-lense gives us an overview of the market, “The State of SaaS” per se, confirming / contradicting based on real life, real companies what many of us see as trends. [...]
