
Space Invasion @ Dreamforce
Last year I made a bit of fun of Oracle, picking on the symbolism in their closed, walled conference setup vs. the open festival-like environment at Salesforce.com’s competing event. Here’s a little pictorial reminder: Dreamforce did not even feel like a conference, rather a Festival – Woodstock, Mardi Gras, SXSW – your pick. Fun. Contrast that to Oracle’s […]

The Day Hp Got Killed. Publicly. By HP.
Recently I wrote up a positive example how Twitter, and generally public participation can enliven a conference. Today we’ve witnessed the opposite. Twitter KO’d HP at Oracle OpenWorld. No, let me correct that. HP KO’d HP. This keynote will be a case study for years to come. No more comments… just a few selected tweets, […]