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Silicon Valley: The "Ultimate Meritocracy"

Silicon Valley: The "Ultimate Meritocracy"

By Chris Yeh on June 18, 2013

My fellow denizens of Silicon Valley are fond of referring to our happy little ecosystem as the ultimate meritocracy.  It’s definitely true that in comparison to the rigid and/or corrupt regimes that prevail in other industries and geographies, Silicon Valley is a meritocracy, but it is far from perfect. I often joke with the female/minority/over-30 […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged gender, race, siliconvalley, stats, VC

On the insignificance of (Re)tweets to a post

On the insignificance of (Re)tweets to a post

By Martijn Linssen on December 4, 2012

In a discussion about blindly ReTweeting yesterday, I remembered that I once did a short analysis on auto-tweets. An auto-tweet is a schedule you set up against an RSS-feed or any other trigger, which tweets the URL with a title, some of the post itself, a fixed word or hashtag, etc. Some “thought-leaders” use it […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 1.0, business exceptions, business rules, Data quality, Globalisation, maturity, stats, trust, twitter

Why TwentyFeet is Total Twash

Why TwentyFeet is Total Twash

By Martijn Linssen on December 3, 2012

Yet another Twitter analytic tool has made it into the spotlights: Twentyfeet
Like most if not all other tools that try to measure Twitter stats (Klout, Tweetlevel), it horribly fails. Apparently it’s too much work or money to actually measure all…

Posted in Application Software | Tagged 1.0, Data quality, management, stats, trust, twitter

Twitter is what you make it

Twitter is what you make it

By Martijn Linssen on August 21, 2012

Following up on a challenging post by Luis Suarez, let me jot down my thoughts on what Twitter is, has become, and will be. The word “dead” is cunningly avoided after all these years that certain things have come to be claimed dead, dying, or extinguishing – and rightfully so. If anything, any new thing […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged 1.0, change, stats, twitter | 1 Response

Microsoft, the bleedin' advertisers

Microsoft, the bleedin’ advertisers

By Martijn Linssen on July 30, 2012

  This week Microsoft produced their annual report for 2012. It’s been commented on by many and the main theme seems to be that they’ve reported their first quarterly loss since ages (or ever). Well, yes. And so what? The Online Services Division, a eufemism for “we wanna go where Google went” has been a […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Marketing | Tagged bing, financials, google, microsoft, MSFT, msn, stats

Apple Q3 2012 - for better or worse?

Apple Q3 2012 – for better or worse?

By Martijn Linssen on July 26, 2012

Yesterday Apple announced its figures for Q3 2012.I decided to have a good look at them, given the news and blog posts that flew around. Here are the clean stats: 2012 Q3 Revenue of $35.0 billion Net profit of $8.8 billion Gross margin 42.8% 26.0 million iPhones – 28% growth 17.0 million iPads – 84% growth […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged financials, stats | 1 Response

2004-2011 financial analysis: Non-traditional SI (Indian players and IBM)

2004-2011 financial analysis: Non-traditional SI (Indian players and IBM)

By Martijn Linssen on April 3, 2012

Yesterday I published my financial analysis of 4 traditional system integrators: Accenture, Atos Origin, Capgemini and Logica. In a conversation I got asked why IBM wasn’t on the list, and my answer was somewhere along the line of “it’s not a pure player”. Also, I hadn’t published my Indian friends yet, so here are another […]

Posted in Business | Tagged accenture, atos, Capgemini, financials, IBM, Logica, SI, stats, wipro | 1 Response

Traditional system integrators 2004-2011 financials

Traditional system integrators 2004-2011 financials

By Martijn Linssen on April 2, 2012

Traditionally, 31st of March is the date that all my favourite system integrators (SI) have released their annual report for the previous year. Oddly, however, I’ve seen some strange changes this year – for the first time. I could -and will- even say that traditions have been broken with I had to look hard and […]

Posted in Business | Tagged accenture, Capgemini, financials, Logica, revenue, SI, stats

Apple margin per device - expressed in Chinese

Apple margin per device – expressed in Chinese

By Martijn Linssen on January 24, 2012

[Image by Sven Teschke] An article in the New York Times published 2 days ago suddenly gained a lot of traction and got discussed, reposted and reblogged today: Apple making money off of the United States, while directly employing “only” twice as many employees in the US than overseas – but indirectly more than ten […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1.0, 3.0, Apple, change, china, financials, Foxconn, Globalisation, ipad, iphone, iPod, stats, Supply Chain | 1 Response

Klout 'o Calypse: 2.5 million people can't be wrong

Klout ‘o Calypse: 2.5 million people can’t be wrong

By Martijn Linssen on December 5, 2011

I wrote an initial post on people killing their Klout on the very same day that Klout enabled them to do so. I took tweets as a basis for my testset, and it appeared that 20% of (the 300) people tweeting about being able to delete your Klout profile, also had actually done so. Two […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Klout, knowledge, social media, stats, trust, twitter | 1 Response

Consumer and enterprise IT company analysis

Consumer and enterprise IT company analysis

By Martijn Linssen on November 29, 2011

In January this year I did an analysis of “classical” US IT companies: Google, Microsoft and Apple, which are targeting consumers, and Oracle, SAP, IBM and HP, which are targeting companies. Yes that’s a fairly big generalisation but please allow me to do so… This is the update which includes the next year, I need […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged Apple, financials, google, IBM, microsoft, Oracle, sap, stats

Once bitten, twice shy? Klout scores get clouted again

Once bitten, twice shy? Klout scores get clouted again

By Martijn Linssen on November 10, 2011

Almost 1.5 years ago I showed how very, very flawed Klout’s actually is. I made some nice screenshots and illustrated how Klout’s scoring is statistically impossible, and how they magically manage to present you with two scores at the same time. Today, history repeats itself, proving that Klout is still just as immature a product […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged 1.0, Data quality, Klout, maturity, social media, stats, trust, twitter | 6 Responses

Klout's True Reach? Simply your follower count

Klout’s True Reach? Simply your follower count

By Martijn Linssen on September 2, 2011

In yesterday’s post I busied myself with new ways of looking at Twitter statistics. Today I was suggested to compare them to Klout scores. I did, and I found out that their True Reach – that vast, impressive number that you probably look up to – is nothing more than a simple mathematical equation Klout […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Marketing | Tagged 1.0, business rules, Klout, knowledge, Social influence, social media, stats, trust, twitter | 4 Responses

Twitter stats redefined - now measuring true influence?

Twitter stats redefined – now measuring true influence?

By Martijn Linssen on September 1, 2011

I had a small revelation the other day while on Twitter and chatting with Alan Berkson. As you may or may not known, I’m a self-proclaimed statishist, meaning that I really get excited by statistics, or stats for short I did a few calculations on 20 Twitter people, taking their latest 1,000 followers, and looking […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged business rules, influence, Klout, maturity, social media, statistics, stats, Tweetstats, twitter

Does Google get enterprise? No - so what?

Does Google get enterprise? No – so what?

By Martijn Linssen on August 30, 2011

After a small conversation with Frank Scavo – whom I hold highly – it struck me: we old enterprise boys that keep kicking the #socmed chins might be on our way to retirement. Not saying that Frank’s one of them, but I certainly count myself to the pack as I’ve only been around multinationals and […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged 3.0, adapt, Apple, b2b, B2C, change, financials, google, hewlett packard, IBM, sap, stats | 6 Responses

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