Everyone’s a Publisher with DIY Image and Video Studio Blue Sky
In the coming months I am going to highlight a handful of small businesses that I think are special. They are exciting, and I always have my ears open for hot new little mom and pop shops. I am fascinated by Trader Joe’s. Not just because I love to cook–but because they have that special [...]
Who Says Enterprise Software Isn’t Sexy? Ok, Just Cool…
Or at least customers using SAP are making cool things…
Cisco UMI: A Non Starter?
After a long wait, Cisco unveiled their personal telepresence offering, Cisco UMI, targeting consumers and small businesses. For the past few years, Cisco has been pitching their video vision to anyone who is willing to listen. In fact, they are right about the importance of video in the future and a perfect strategy for them. [...]
BBC Thinks HTML5 Is Not Yet Ready For Primetime
There is some hope among the people who want open standards on the web that HTML5 is going to be their savior. In fact, web is built entirely on top of open protocols and technology and HTML 5 is the natural next step to keep web open to all. Particularly, people saw the use of [...]
Cloud Computing: Arguing With The Laggards
This hilarious video is created on the same platform as the iPhone 4 vs HTC EVO and the HTC EVO vs iPhone 4 . It’s fun and hits many important points, but I do think over-use of the F* word is detrimental here… sporadically dropping it is OK, but does it have to be in [...]
Video – Live Editing In Google Wave
From time to time, we share videos related to the topics we cover here at Cloud Ave. The idea behind these posts is to share the videos we liked or found important with the readers of Cloud Ave. Regular readers of my post know how much I loved Google Wave. Google Wave is on death [...]
Video: Simon Wardley On Innovation, Change And Commoditization
Simon Wardley, a researcher at the Leading Edge Forum at CSC, gave a phenomenal talk at OSCON 10 this week. Irrespective of whether you are associated with Open Source or Cloud Computing, you may find this talk extremely useful. Anyone interested in understanding the lifecycle of an organization and how they can surf the winds [...]
SAP Business ByDesign Video – Plain and Simple, Making Fun of …Wow, ERP!
We’re just having an intense internal debate in the Enterprise Irregulars group whether SAP’s Business ByDesign (ByD) is late to the market and what it all means, when hot off the press here’s a promotional video, that’s not so much ByD advertising but a SMB / SME SaaS 101, and a very good one at [...]
Web 3.0 – A Documentary On Semantic Web
Since we saw Google acquire a Semantic Web company on friday, I thought I will share a neat documentary made by Kate Ray, a recently graduated NYU Journalism/Psychology student. It has interviews with some of the thought leaders in the field. The original video can be found here.
Cisco Just Kicked iPad Out of Enterprise Market With Cisco Cius
Cisco Live is going on at Las vegas and I just watched the keynote by John Chambers, their CEO. The turn around by Cisco is impressive and they are really onto something with their video strategy. Today Cisco announced their new tablet strategy bringing telepresence to the reach of Joes and Janes like myself and [...]
Video: Can Cloud And On Premise Storage Co-Exist
From time to time, we showcase videos showing different vendor’s perspectives on cloud computing. As a part of this tradition, today we offer the perspective of i365 , a Seagate Company. If the embedded video is not available for you, use this link.
Video: Does Open Source Mean Open Cloud – Panel Discussion
There was a panel discussion held sometime back during the collaboration summit 2010 and the topic was “Does Open Source Means Open Cloud”. Since this topic is closer to my heart and of interest to many of Cloud Ave readers, I am embedding the video here. You could also view the video directly on this [...]
Edgy Marketing: Great Plains and SAP Guy vs. NetSuite Guy (Mac vs PC)
You’ve seen Great Plains and SAP, now in the Grand Finale they come together to match up against Mac .. I mean the NetSuite Guy: (Disclosure – Ben and I are attending NetSuite’s SuiteCloud conference and the company covers our expenses.)
Edgy Marketing: SAP Guy vs. NetSuite Guy (Mac vs. PC parody)
You’ve seen the Great Plains version, and I’ve told you to wait for the SAP version…. here we go: Fun aside, SAP’s Business ByDesign is coming… (most likely) … in the second half of the year. I can’t wait to see a SAP video. (Disclosure – Ben and I are attending NetSuite’s SuiteCloud conference and [...]
Edgy Marketing: Great Plains Guy vs NetSuite Guy (Mac vs PC)
Since I’ve shared with you a video making fun of the Suites it’s only fair to show how a “suite”, NetSuite makes fun of competitors. Oh, I love edgy marketing:-) But this is nothing.. wait till they publish the SAP vs NetSuite video we’ve just seen at the SuiteCloud conference (And I can’t wait for [...]
