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[Some of] what you need to know about the cloud for 2013
Towards the end of last year, David Linthicum and I joined GigaOM’s Adam Lesser on a skype chat to take a look back at cloud successes and failures in 2012, and forward to cloud opportunities in 2013. GigaOM released the conversation as a podcast this morning. Amazon, Rackspace, Google, OpenStack, DropBox, and more get a […]

Emergent Collaboration Vendor Review: ThoughtFarmer
Every week I’ll be reviewing a vendor in the emergent collaboration space and will provide an overview on that vendor which includes aspects from leadership and vision to technology and market focus. If you are vendor that would like to participate, please contact me (email is in the sidebar as is the twitter link). The […]

Sell Used Music on Redigi: A Threat to Apple’s iTunes?
I remember a time when the only way to buy music was to drive down to the local music store and purchase a cassette tape. You had to buy the whole album then. Yes, I’m serious. When the tape got old or the music fell out of favor I threw it away, listed in the […]

Performance Reviews – Infographic
A simple Linkedin poll asked few questions about performance reviews and here’s the result – top management still thinks of performance reviews as “time consuming” and employees consider it to be one of the most stressful times of the year. Nobody fin…

ThinkPassenger Private Full Service Enterprise 2.0 Communities
ThinkPassenger’s red velvet rope approach is unique in the industry. It requires corporations to shed the megaphone approach to customer messaging and to connect with their customers one on one. They make it exclusive, fun and rewarding to both company and participant. It’s typically full service, private and very exclusive. Think “privileged”. It begins with […]

What’s the BrightIdea?
Around 1200 AD a Chinese-Mongol engineer came up with the idea of adding a silk shirt underneath their leather armor. The resulting insulation drastically cut the injury and death rate of Genghis Khan’s army from arrow wounds. Because the loose silk shirt would trap arrow heads and stop them from penetrating the skin. If the […]

accountsIQ – Review
Accounting 2.0 at CloudAve In an ongoing series of reviews and analysis pieces, CloudAve will be taking a deep look into accounting software for the new world. See the other posts at this tag Introduction & Background accountsIQ is a product from Irish software house Visor. It is marketed as a full featured multi-currency business […]

TeamWork Project Manager – Review
TeamWork Project Manager is a new web-application and I had to give it a try. Website The website has great small screenshots which explain bits of the core functionality in TeamWork. Personally I would probably move the twitter updates to the bottom but I guess a company has to show of that they are cool […]