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Image via CrunchBase Mike Speiser, Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures, has an interesting post on GigaOm today. An excerpt: Self-Service Nation: Why Targeting Small Business Is Good Business While the 80-20 rule can be very powerful, the reality is that many of the costs associated with building, supporting, distributing and selling technology products have…
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife A few months back I wrote about the need for Amazon to begin ‘socializing’ the Kindle. Another item of frustration that I forgot to mention in that post was the inability to pull my notes and highlights from the kindle via the web. I As of this morning, however,…
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If you’re a Gmail user like me, 2008 seemed like a lost year. Google did give us the Google Labs features, many of which were nice tweaks, but there wasn’t a significant improvement to the core application. 2009, as you know has been quite different. We’ve seen the addition of many significant features, with offline…
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Image by MARQUINAM via Flickr Over the last few months, I’ve been doing a lot of reading, mostly on my Amazon Kindle. I think it’s a great device in its current form, an will no doubt get better with the refresh that’s due out next week. As an electronic book reader, the Kindle is definitely…
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Image via Wikipedia I’m a big fan of mind mapping. For years I used MindJet’s MindManager application, but I’ve since migrated to the cloud based MindMeister. MindMeister is not as robust as MindManager, but it allows for collaborative brainstorming without client-side software. Over the last year or so, MindMeister has grown in capabilities, including offline…
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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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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 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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