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Shrinking Balls

Shrinking Balls

By John Taschek on February 10, 2011

In my last post, I wrote about the sentiment analysis of the Super Bowl and how brands are impacted by the real-time stream. That stream stimulates a Mean Girls phenomenon that causes people to be more passionate and start to bully as they become more popular. I know some analysts…

Posted in Application Software, Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts, Mobile, Trends & Concepts | Tagged @jtaschek, analysts, bullying, chatter, cloud computing, cloudblog, Constellation, excel, facebook, google, iPad/Apple, mean girls, microsoft, platform, ray wang, real-time, salesforce.com, shakespeare, Taschek, twitter, Weblogs

Dreamforce: Decade of Inspiration

Dreamforce: Decade of Inspiration

By John Taschek on December 7, 2010

I was at the first Dreamforce. It was in a hotel at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco and it attracted 500 people and perhaps another 200 employees — roughly 2/3 of the entire company. The big announcements were related to sales force automation, but the company also announced custom tabs and some nifty […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged chatter, Chatter Free, cloud computing, cloudblog, conferences, DCI, dreamforce, facebook, marc benioff, Moscone, salesforce, salesforce.com, Web/Tech, Weblogs, Westin

Does Twitter (Really) Make you Smarter?

Does Twitter (Really) Make you Smarter?

By John Taschek on November 29, 2010

When 95 percent of college students use social media tools, perhaps excessively, it seems almost impossible to isolate a study that tries to answer the question “does social media make you smarter.” This is an awkward and irrelevant question to ask and anyone who has been born since the industrial revolution but before Facebook was […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged chatter, cloud, cloud computing, cloudblog, dreamforce, facebook, salesforce.com, smarter, stress, Taschek, twitter, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Software is Roadkill

Software is Roadkill

By John Taschek on November 24, 2010

The fastest way to become roadkill to venture capitalists is to become a software company. Software may not be inherently evil (it has created wealth for many people that is in proportion to the pain it has provided to many customers). Software and specifically on-premise enterprise software, however, is clearly…

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged appirio, cloud, cloud computing, cloudblog, defrag, facebook, Longworth, Oracle, saas, salesforce, salesforce.com, software, start ups, startups, VC, vc investment, venture capital, Vishy, Web/Tech, Weblogs | 1 Response

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