April 13th, 2008
Here’s an intriguing and provocative view of what “Web 2.0″ is all about…
March 8th, 2008
Daylight Savings Time is arriving in a couple of hours — and like millions of people throughout the U.S. (and any other part of the world affected by our bizarre behavior regarding time), that means changing dozens of different clocks all through the household. Aside from being an annoyance, this semi-annual experience has alerted me […]
March 6th, 2008
When it comes to the iPhone, I’ll admit that I’m impatient, greedy, and also somewhat naive: I was hoping, for example, that Steve Jobs would announce today that (a) he’s shipping the full Software Development Kit (SDK), but also (b) at least one commercial-grade 3rd-party product, developed with that SDK, was shipping today. Even if […]
February 4th, 2008
Once upon a time, taxi drivers had to demonstrate that they could find their way around a city before they were given a license. It may be folklore, but my understanding is that prospective London taxi-drivers had to memorize most of the arcane streets and points of interest within that ancient city. At the very […]
January 10th, 2008
I got an unexpected email message from Apple yesterday, informing me that Microsoft’s Office 2008 product was available for “pre-order”; it will be officially released at next week’s MacWorld, along with a slew of other hardware and software products.
Well, it’s been four years since we’ve seen a new version of Word, Excel, and Powerpoint for […]
January 9th, 2008
I’m reading an interesting book that’s been on my “to-read” list for quite a while: Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind: moving from the information age to the conceptual age. Because the book was published in the spring of 2005, some of its ideas seem a little dated by now — e.g., Pink’s assertion that […]
December 27th, 2007
I’ve been slowly accumulating new Web 2.0 material during the past month, and it’s time for an update. As usual, you can access the presentation in a variety of formats, although I haven’t yet had time to upload the “ugly Betty” version to Google Apps. For now, you can view it, and/or download it, from […]
December 10th, 2007
After yesterday’s discussion of whether enterprise applications are doomed to be dull and “unsexy,” I thought it would be a good opportunity to provide a review of Donald Norman’s new book, The Design of Future Things. Norman doesn’t talk about ERP or enterprise applications, nor does he focus on software “products” per se — though […]
December 8th, 2007
Here’s a cheery little video to brighten up your weekend; I learned about it from my friend Mo Bjornestad, and I suspect it’s already been viewed by every single person who lives in Silicon Valley …
December 2nd, 2007
It occurred to me this morning that I haven’t seen any recent reports about the number of blogs in the blogosphere. I posted a query on Twitter, and Luis Suarez (no, not the Luis Suarez who was voted European Footballer of the Year in 1960, but the Knowledge Management whiz at IBM) responded that he […]
