November 2008
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Image by scottpowerz via Flickr I recently posted an entry over at the blog for the Information Overload Research Group. Click on the link to read the entire post: IORG Forum Blog » Blog Archive » IO in a call center environment The same successful companies that spend vast sums of money to optimize their…
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Image via Wikipedia Yesterday I posted about how the current financial crisis was an opportunity to learn about how the global financial markets function. Another great resource for digging deeper is Charlie Rose‘s show on PBS. Last night he had Citibank CEO Vikram Pandit on for the hour. As one would expect from a CEO…
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Image by LunaDiRimmel via Flickr Over the last few months, we’ve seen a roller coaster ride of unequaled magnitude in the financial markets. Having been in the institutional banking world myself, I’ve had many friends and colleagues ask me if I can make sense of what is going on out there. Many are just worn…
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Now this is one of the better offbeat advertising campaigns I’ve seen for enterprise software: Tibco, a major player in the SOA space, came up with the Greg the Architect campaign. It’s a pretty funny look into the world of the IT foot soldier in a big company. I particularly liked the episode I embedded…
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[Off Topic Post] Image of the INS Tabar, which sank a Somali Pirate ship (via Wikipedia ) Back in June, I wrote a post on how the Indian Navy was finally being recognized, both inside and outside India, as a needed force for stability on the dangerous trade routes that connect Asia to the rest…
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Image via Wikipedia With the release of CloudFront, Amazon continues to build out a full selection of cloud computing offerings. With CloudFront even small developers can gain the power of a global content distribution network (much like Akamai). Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, explains the service in this post: Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront – All…
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Image via Wikipedia Jerry Yang is stepping down, as we all know, but the most important tech news has to do with pizza. Perhaps customer service does have its natural limits…and I believe this has crossed that boundary: TIVO ADDS DOMINO’S PIZZA TO ITS MENU – TiVo Karen Bressner, Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales,…
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Image via Wikipedia There’s probably been too much blame piled on Jerry Yang since he returned as CEO of Yahoo!, but I wonder who would want to take his position now? I guess the successor will have the job of chopping up the company and selling it off: Yang To Step Down As Yahoo CEO,…
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