Where is the Shazam for Enterprise Mobile Apps?
Music is a big part of my life. I own too many guitars for my own good, and love discovering new music. One of my favorite apps for discovery is Shazam. With so much focus on how to build amazing mobile apps it’s really hard to go past Shazam. As we see the demand for […]
What job are people hiring your product to do?
I am a product guy, dating back to my days as a design student at Stanford. I’ve been a fan of Clay Christensen ever since “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” and even interviewed him for the student newspaper when I was a Harvard Business School student. Which is why I’m shocked that I hadn’t heard of Clay’s […]
Design thinking: A New Approach To Fight Complexity And Failure
Photo credit: String Theory by Michael KrigsmanThe endless succession of failed projects forces one to question why success is elusive, with an extraordinary number of projects tangling themselves in knots. These projects are like a child’s string ga…
Taking The Quotes Out Of "Design Thinking"
Bruce Nussbaum, a design thinking thought leader and a professor of Innovation and Design at Parsons The New School of Design, recently wrote that Design Thinking Is A Failed Experiment. He claims that: Design Thinking has given the design profession and society at large all the benefits it has to offer and is beginning to […]
Crowdsourcing Our New Logo Design. Time to Vote.
We’re putting our money where our (digital) mouth is: having talked so much about crowdsourcing, we took 99designs for a test drive, hoping to see a new CloudAve logo emerge. I was not too impressed with the initial submissions, but just as I sus…
Crowsdourcing Our New Logo Design. Will it Work?
We’ve written so much about crowdsourcing, I figured it was time to put our money where our mouth pen keyboard-tapping fingers are. CloudAve will soon get a new layout, and we thought we should refresh the logo, too. Next step: LazyTweet – and within minutes a trusted friend recommended 99designs. I read a few positive […]
Microsoft Word is Desktop Software. Supposedly. Then Why Does it Fail to Load Offline?
Dave Michels’ recent post, I thought I Was So Cloud resonated well with me, since I’m experiencing the same pain regularly, even without the dramatic experience of a cashed harddisk. I’m now using 4 computers, not counting the iPad, and like Dave, “I am so Cloud”, so moving between them should be seamless. It almost […]
IDC Says SaaS Is Making It Big In Enterprises
Today morning I wrote a post that pointed to a Gartner report that said SaaS revenues from enterprise application market has increased 14.1 percent in 2010 compared to 2009. Now the market research firm IDC has come out with a study that forecasts the market to reach $40.5 billion by 2014, representing a compound annual growth […]
Why Most Software User Assistance Help is Terrible and What to do About it
As an end user, I’ve worked with a lot of software and most of the software user assistance is far from great. Yep, I said it. And it’s true, Mostly. I realize this article isn’t going to gain me any more friends. I’m okay with it. But before you pass final judgment, please read on. […]
Cloud One
While Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is already talking up Cloud 2 , many are still stuck at Cloud One
Cloud Computing Market In India To Reach 1 Billion By 2015
According to India based research firm Zinnov, the Indian cloud computing market is going to experience a ten fold growth by 2015. According to the firm, the current cloud computing market is $110 Million today with, approximately, 66 Million in the SaaS market dominated by applications such as collaboration apps, CRM and ERP. The remaining […]
Pearl Goes Bright, and Gets Some Cash
I’ve written before about Pearl, the UK based “mini-ERP” that just seems to do everything. I’ve always thought of it as the little engine that could, with a team of only five people they have managed to build a solution that covers the majority of bases that a real world business might need – stock, […]
On Vaporware… And Google… And my Need for (Mobile) Speed
So this is a bit of a rant. I was at the Google IO keynote a month ago and sat transfixed at the Froyo demonstration. The mobile operating system that promised to provide an answer to mobile speed, cancer and early balding. I got my free HTC EVO, sold it and bought a Nexus One […]
I Hate to Say I Told You So.. But Ciao – SecondLife Work
All around nice guy, and superstar sans hair Mike Maney suggested a new title for this post – “SecondLife Heads for the Afterlife” – I kind of agree with him. Mike, this one’s for you…. I was at the Enterprise 2.0 conference last year when Linden Labs announced Second Life for Enterprise. I held no […]
