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Ctrl – Alt – Social

Ctrl – Alt – Social

By John Taschek on February 21, 2012

In the tech world in which everything is recycled, retooled, and spit out like un-digestible gristle, one often comes across the phrases such as groupware is “dead” or “email is dead.” Oddly enough these are euphemisms or perhaps more correctly the opposite: dysphemisms – the substitution of a disagreeable word…

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged @irregulars, @jtaschek, @stevegillmor, @toppundit, activity stream, chatter, collaboration, email, enterprise irregulars, facebook, Groupware, salesforce.com, social, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Europe Sets Course for Cloud

Europe Sets Course for Cloud

By John Taschek on January 31, 2012

There’s a perception that cloud computing has become a “mature” technology, a perception shared by few but anticipated by most everyone else with the exception of those trying to preserve their self-interests. I don’t blame them – each person inherently protects self-interests. They’re wrong though. Cloud is not mature. It is evolving.  The paradox is […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CERN, cloud computing, competition, David Bradshaw, ec, efficiency, European Commission, Government, idc, industry, innovation, Neelie Kroes, public cloud, Public sector, Web/Tech

Number 9 Dreamforce

Number 9 Dreamforce

By John Taschek on August 31, 2011

For a Beatles’ fan and a fan particularly of John Lennon, the number 9 has an important meaning. It has enough meaning Lennon wrote a few songs referencing it, including Number 9 Dream. Perhaps I like Number 9 Dream because it seems to be, quite literally, calling my name on the background vocal track. But […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged @jtaschek, @zolierdos, #df11, chatter, cloud computing, cloudave, collaboration, conversations, delight, entropy, facebook, ipad, john lennon, Number 9 Dream, radian6, salesforce.com, social contacts, Taschek, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Cezanne's Apple

Cezanne’s Apple

By John Taschek on April 7, 2011

Cezanne wrote once “With an Apple, I will astonish Paris.” Cezanne at the time was a notoriously sophisticated and gifted walking set of contradictions. He loved everything he hated and hated everything he loved. He approached painting with scalpel-like precision but with a scalpel to canvas nonetheless. He wanted the world to bleed – and […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged android, Apple, cezanne, chatter, facebook, loic le meur, salesforce chatter, salesforce.com, seesmic, twitter, Web/Tech

Organized Robbery

Organized Robbery

By John Taschek on January 24, 2011

We’re at a time of rebellion against maintenance fees, which now include the elements of insurance, extortion, declining systems, and of course refactoring all of which add to the costs of any implementation. Add that into the actual implementation itself, and one is left with whopping fees and eventually ineffective…

Posted in Application Software, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged @stevegillmor, cloud, cloud computing, cloudave, Duncan Jones, forrester, maintenance, maintenance fees, Oracle, pricing, salesforce, salesforce.com, software, software maintenance, Web/Tech | 1 Response

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

A debate with the Doctor of Failure

A debate with the Doctor of Failure

By John Taschek on November 21, 2010

Failure happens. There are many issues and stakeholders in any technology implementation process and any of them adds complexity that can lead to failure. The question is how much technology, the DNA of the technology vendor, and other stakeholders contributes to the failure. Is it always a project management issue…

Posted in General | Tagged cloud, cloud computing, failure, IT Project Failures, Krigsman, salesforce.com, social, Taschek, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Why? Why? Facebook Mail

Why? Why? Facebook Mail

By John Taschek on November 17, 2010

#FacebookMail? The basic childhood question is Why? Parents patiently answer with well thought-out questions only to be met with another "why?" Finally they give up and say Why Not? This of course haunts the parents for the rest of their lives. So when Facebook launches its email and people freak…

Posted in General | Tagged cloud computing, facebook, salesforce.com, Web/Tech, Weblogs | 2 Responses

Are Analysts the New Media?

Are Analysts the New Media?

By John Taschek on November 9, 2010

Technology media was further disrupted this morning when a seemingly minor announcement rocked the media world. The minor part is this – a new analyst firm was launched today. The disruptive part is that the assemblage of key influencers into one organization that is not advertiser driven. The new firm…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloud computing, salesforce.com, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Clouds and my Coffee

Clouds and my Coffee

By John Taschek on November 8, 2010

Sydney is an amazing city, much like most Western large cities in many ways and much different too. The CloudBlog team decided to check on how Sydney perceives cloud computing – extremely well it seems. Within a half dozen meetings and one keynote from CloudBlogger Peter Coffee it…

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, data center, private cloud, salesforce.com, survey, sydney, Web/Tech, Weblogs

From Microsoft Monolith to Monopoly to Monocellular - as in Brand

From Microsoft Monolith to Monopoly to Monocellular – as in Brand

By John Taschek on October 29, 2010

Just two weeks ago when Microsoft’s brand had at least some value, the company launched its renewed efforts into mobile computing, namely Windows Mobile 7. No – wait, I think it’s just Windows Phone 7. Microsoft dropped “Mobile” in more ways than one, though I’m sure the irony is lost on them. I don’t know, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile, Strategy | Tagged Apple, cloud computing, facebook, microsoft, ray ozzie, salesforce.com, Web/Tech, Weblogs, windows mobile, windows phone 7

Augmented Reality. Will it ever become a part of the marketing technology mix?

Augmented Reality. Will it ever become a part of the marketing technology mix?

By Guest Authors on August 31, 2010

There was a lot of buzz about new visualization techniques back in 2009. About a year ago, Mashable posted on an Apple patent called Apple ID: [it] recognizes an object based on visuals (through the iPhone’s camera), a RFID reader or through GPS, and then fetches the data from related databases. I like to imagine […]

Posted in Marketing | Tagged Augmented Reality, travel, Visualization, Web/Tech

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