Don Dodge Dumps Microsoft After it Dumps Him
It’s less than two weeks ago that Microsoft let Don Dodge go, along with 5,000 other employees. He parted gracefully, then soon posted: Getting dumped by Microsoft was a life changing event…for the better. The future is very bright. The opportunities are amazing. Don probably set a World Record in the speed of getting a [...]
Work. Online. (Zoho Employees On the Loose)
Disclaimer:Zoho is CloudAve’s Sponsor. But I can’t help having fun with this vid, originally published @ FakeOffice. Besides, it’s the weekend.
It's Gonna Take a Long, Long Time
The other day I helped run a session for a large multinational technology company looking to encourage social media within its organisation – all credit to them, they know they need to move in this direction and sought advice about how best to do it. I prepared a short presentation and, being the cloudy sort [...]
Netbook or Notebook? It’s Not Only About Size.
Hardly a day goes by without another new Netbook announcement, at lower and lower prices. The first baby eee PC by ASUS was toy-like ( I returned it after a day), but the current crop are quite usable mobile computing devices. These new Netbooks are flying off the shelf, so much so that sometimes you [...]
Ready for Vista Final? (Code-named Windows 7)
For the second day TechMeme is overflowing with Microsoft news coming out of PDC: Azure, Windows 7, Web Office (whatever the MS name will be). But on the very day that supposedly all belonged to Microsoft there was a stream of seemingly unrelated items on TechMeme all pointing in the same direction, none too good [...]
Project Management 2.0? Why, What’s Wrong with 1.0?
Image by Chance Gardener via Flickr <begin sarcasm> It’s fashionable to declare one’s fed up with the whole Everything 2.0 phenomenon It’s also fashionable to then go on and declare yet-another 2.0 term </end sarcasm> The little disclaimer out of the way, I am going to talk about Project Management 2.0 . Let me quickly [...]
Oh, That Bloated Presentation – The Web is Greener
We can argue all we want about the benefits of SaaS, discuss hypothetical use cases at length, but the best showcases are served up by real life, often unexpectedly. A startup CEO friend asked me to take a look at his Powerpoint deck before he would send it to a VC. (Incidentally, I don’t believe [...]
