MSM Monday Round-up
PCI compliance kicks up a notch today. Retailers apparently “panicking.” New nanotechnology could mean
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...
Microsoft Windows XP users need a shoulder to cry on
Apparently, customers are supposed to be happy that Microsoft is going to support its most successful OS for another six years. If you haven’t already, you really should take a look at Microsoft Senior Vice President Bill Veghte’s
Bill Gates’ not so big exit
Legacies are a funny thing. Take Hugh Grant. Director Richard Curtis, in the DVD commentary to his film Love Actually, claims a shot of Grant bowing on stage will be the final image in the actor’s nightly news obituary someday. Grant, also on the commentary, disagrees. He expects...
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...
Notes from CIO Decisions 2008
I know this sounds like self-promotion, seeing as I work for TechTarget and all, but CIO Decisions is pretty freaking great. For those that don’t know, the whole gist of this conference is that we get about 200...
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...
Calling FedEx out
Sometimes you hear something and think: “Hey, that can’t be true.” Take this statement from FedEx Corp. CIO Rob Carter at his Enterprise 2.0 Conference keynote this week. “There's also a cool new Facebook application. It's the No. 1 Facebook application right now, called Launch a...
Weekly Wrap-up
What we did this week: Took Google’s Rishi Chandra a little too literally and destroyed every server in the building.
More (final) thoughts from Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston
Where are the users!?!?! No, seriously. There have been a few guys on stage presenting their companies' Enterprise 2.0 strategies. Some are very interesting. Some, not so much. But I thought this was the big year. So how come I’ve got one vendor complaining to me that he got one lead yesterday....