Posted in Random, SugarCRM on Apr 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
OK, this is good. I have been emailing a bit with David Sims at TMCNet who writes a lot about open source and CRM. We were talking about how the “relative open source movement” in the music business (read: piracy and digital downloads replacing CD sales) makes a lot of band’s popularity hard to […]
Posted in Mobile, Random on Apr 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Was reading the New York Times online and saw that AT&T are going to be streaming videos to certain phones.
Awesome, first they lock-in the iPhone, and now they are going to set a standard for how NOT to provide mobile content.
What I mean is that AT&T is planing to not only run advertising in the […]
Posted in Random on Mar 28th, 2008 No Comments »
It’s a very busy Friday here at SugarCRM HQ, as usual. End of quarter and things are buzzing…good to see…
But what grabbed me enough to take time out from end of quarter stuff was something I saw on my good friend Paul Greenberg’s blog about some IDC data on social networks, mainly this factoid:
IDC research […]
Posted in Random on Mar 19th, 2008 No Comments »
My co-worker and all around expert on all things new media Ben Koo turned me on to Hulu the other day. So, far, I really like what I see, from a number of angles.
First, the design and look is pretty cool, less clunky than YouTube and it just as easily embeds itself into other media. […]
Posted in Application Design, Random on Mar 17th, 2008 No Comments »
I read James Governor’s blog quite a bit…and today I saw a great little post about what “cloud computing” is NOT.
Check it out here (I’m too lazy to repost).
Ah, that dry British wit…
I do not 100% agree, but the post brings up some good points in a light manner. Just as my morning’s rant on […]
Posted in Open Source, Random on Mar 13th, 2008 No Comments »
The United States Navy is going to start acquiring only software systems based on open technologies and standards, according to FCW.com. The primary reason being to control the costs of its IT operations. Vice Adm. Mark Edwards, deputy chief of naval operations for communications, had this to say:
“The days of proprietary technology must come to […]
Posted in Application Design, Random on Mar 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I have been trying (key emphasis on trying) to figure out the value of the Flock “social” web browser over the past week or so. There are some cool features I guess, but I’m not all that sure that any of this has any real enterprise value…yet.
The people at Flock have a neat idea - […]
Posted in CRM, Random on Mar 10th, 2008 No Comments »
When the Wall Street Journal is dedicating an entire section of their paper to topics such as these, you know what we’ve been pitching for years is starting to gain relevance.
The article itself is certainly introductory…CRM or IT 101 if you will…but accurate and well versed. Despite having spent 4 years writing about these best […]
Posted in Open Source, Random on Mar 10th, 2008 No Comments »
I read a really interesting history of the “freemium” model by Chris Anderson this weekend. I think he is becoming the go to guy on this subject, and has a book coming out about the economy of free.
I won’t go into too much detail, because Chris does a great job of it. But Chris Anderson […]
Posted in Random on Mar 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Wal-Mart has had its ups and downs with blogging and marketing to the net-savvy customer in the past - well, more downs than ups. So, when I heard that Wal-Mart employees were starting a blog, I was skeptical to say the least. After all, here was a company that paid a family to live in […]
