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A news item caught my attention today. An airline pilot was recorded while ranting about in the most unkind and unprofessional manner about the stewardesses on the plane. He didn’t realize his microphone was on and that his words were being captured. He was just saying what was on his mind — and it was not pretty. [...]
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In part 1, I described the analyst briefing. Now I want mention a few companies that deserve some blog-love. I am pained knowing that I’m unable to mention everyone. But I do want to call out some as a thank-you gesture. Many companies continued to reach out to me even after I was no longer [...]
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This is going to be a two part post. In part 1, I’m going to talk about the notion of an analyst briefing and why they are important. In part 2, I’m going to mention some companies that briefed me, but I had neglected to write about them. With this two parter, I bring closure [...]
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Yesterday a client of mine shared with me the following link and asked for my comment. The article (from Infoworld) titled “IT snake oil: Six tech cure-alls that went bunk” describes six technologies that were oversold and under-delivered. The first was Artificial Intelligence (which struck a chord with me, as my undergraduate degree is in AI), [...]
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I recently had the opportunity to speak with Jason Lemkin, the very interesting CEO of an equally interesting company called EchoSign. At first glance EchoSign appears to be a boring service. But I quickly realized there is much more to this than first meets the eye. EchoSign allows you to process electronic signatures on electronic documents. Boring [...]
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I recently had a briefing by CCtext.net — a very new entry into the wiki marketplace from China. I was a little bit conflicted about this product at first. There are over 100 wiki servers in the marketplace, and I wondered why would the market need another option? Or more specifically, what would a new wiki [...]
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Atlassian ran a cool limited-time “stimulus program” promotion a couple of months ago where they offered a $5 license (limited to 5 users) with the proceeds going to Room to Read, a charity dedicated to providing educational opportunities to children in developing nations. The idea was to give back and do good at a time [...]
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