Weekly Wrap-Up

Weekly Wrap-up

Tossing this one up a day early. Don’t bother stopping by tomorrow. We won’t be here.

Anyway, here’s what we did this week:

Gathered up all our CIO Decisions 2008 coverage, videos, blogs and slides and wrapped it all up with a big digital bow.

Checked out Boston’s struggling, but still kicking Wi-Fi program.

Finally got some answers on those pesky SaaS compliance questions.

This weekend? We live in Boston. We started this country, remember? What do you think we’re doing? See you next week.

MSM Monday Round-up

PCI compliance kicks up a notch today. Retailers apparently “panicking.”

New nanotechnology could mean faster, greener semiconductors.

A good list of open source office software you probably already knew about. Still, worth reading. Though I was shocked to learn that Microsoft Paint “isn’t a serious graphics program.”

An IBM. employee actually explains how to make enterprise social networking work with basic programs. He even uses –gasp - the phone.

Weekly Wrap-up

What we did this week:

Decided we didn’t want to work anymore and made other departments do our job. This is what passes for leadership these days.

Tried to fit flashlights, canned food and a remote data center into the IT budget.

Watched The Real Niel gush over SOA.

And over at SearchCIO.com, they:

Listened in as IBM screamed “Green data center!” … again.

Practiced masochism by unraveling Microsoft licensing when applied to desktop virtualization.

MSM Monday Roundup

Nicholas Carr writes in The Atlantic this month that Google – the entire Internet, really – is making us “stupid.”

Carr argues the quick-skip culture of search, Web surfing and short-form writing may actually be rewiring our brains. He believes it has happened to him and now he has trouble “immersing myself in a book or lengthy article.”

Oh yeah, Nick? Then how come for the second week in a row I’m using the mainstream media roundup to link to long magazine articles?

It’s not as if I just skimmed over John Seabrook’s fascinating look at advances in voice recognition software in The New Yorker. And our readers can’t either, because the magazine hasn’t posted it on the website.

And just Saturday I plowed through all of Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam, which has nothing to do with technology and does not mention 2001: A Space Odyssey (film or book) a single time.

That said, I’ve been having major problems sitting still to watch movies and even half-hour TV programs. If that’s Google’s fault, then I owe Google a big thank you.

Monday Round-up: CIO Decisions edition

Howdy from Carlsbad, Calif. We just got in for CIO Decisions today and we’re ready for a week of good tips, discussion and leadership recognition.

For those of you who don’t know, the CIO Decisions conference is an annual summit for midmarket CIOs held annually by the CIO Decisions Media Group (that’s us!) at TechTarget.

The centerpiece of the three day event is the CIO Decisions Midmarket Leadership Awards ceremony, which will be held tomorrow night. The awards are given to CIOs to recognize innovative IT projects that have shown true leadership and helped move companies forward. Be sure to check SearchCIO-Midmarket.com on Wednesday to read interviews and listen to podcasts held with each of the ten winners.

In the meantime, we’ve noticed the big mags turning an eye to the web recently, though it is a little consumer heavy.

Vanity Fair this month dropped an oral history of the Internet, complete with Rolling Stone Editor Jann Wenner claiming he saw the first hyperlink.

Not to be outdone, Wenner’s own mag just chimed in with a story looking at that whole “Did Mark Zuckerberg steal Facebook from someone else at Harvard?” question. Haven’t read it yet, but we will.

Weekly Wrap-up

What we did this week:

Took Google’s Rishi Chandra a little too literally and destroyed every server in the building.

Gave up on that dream job that lets us play on Facebook and blog all day.

Got us one of them new Essential Business Servers. Because, really, who needs a VAR anyway?

What we’re doing this weekend:

Not that anyone cares, but Syracuse from the air is pretty nice this time of year.

Oh, and we’re packing for CIO Decisions. Because Southern California is pretty nice, too.

MSM Monday Roundup

Did tech news seem a little bit quiet last week? Is this what summer brings us, a struggle to find big stories? Still, what was going on is worth reading. Highlights from the ink-and-paper set below.

Not to be so simplistic, but could we say that Intel actually has a monopoly on computing in general?

They haven’t tried to hire me yet, so Google is probably still in OK shape.

Free broadband from the feds. Not gonna happen.

We’ve all read this one, but still, just pause and reflect on the concept of an activist investor.

Weekly Wrap-up

What we did this week:

Built a killer SaaS application. Sold it to the midmarket. Made bank. Well, that was the plan, at least.

Hopping on the T to head over to the Enterprise 2.0 conference.

Made a note to haul along our brand-new Enterprise 2.0 definition.

Took our new compliance quiz. Didn’t do so well.

What we’re doing this weekend:

Blowing town.

Eating BBQ.

Refilling our Xanax prescriptions for the Celtics-Lakers series.

MSM Monday Roundup

So let’s get this straight. Nobody has any money. Yet Dell is managing to get more?

A telecommuting how-to. All the better to keep employees from bugging you in person.

Oh look, something good about Yahoo. That’s new.

Startup looks to replace Bluetooth with Wi-Fi. Won’t stop everyone from fumbling for that earpiece.

Weekly Wrap-up

What we did this week:

Tested enough virtualization software to build a single-server data center.

Squirreled away cash in the budget for that extra Microsoft Excel license someone will undoubtedly bug us for.

Cleaned our closets. And yours.

What we’re doing this weekend:

Nothing, really. Think we’ve got a BBQ or something. Celtics? Lord, we hope so.