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  • Remembering September 11, 2001

    Remembering September 11, 2001

    It’s hard to imagine that a decade has passed, yet it seems just like yesterday. Ten years ago, on this day, I boarded an early morning flight from Pittsburgh to New York’s LaGuardia airport. I was beginning my weekly travels across the northeast a day late, delaying the routine Monday…

  • End of an era in knowledge management

    Earlier today, Oracle announced an agreement to acquire knowledge management vendor InQuira.  Given InQuira’s deep integration with legacy Oracle products, and despite partnerships with SAP and Genesys, it was just a matter of time that Oracle absorbed InQuira.  R.Ray Wang explains why Oracle finally pulled the trigger: InQuira “is one of…

  • Interesting development from Wolfram

    We all know Wolfram for their Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha products, so the arrival of Computational Document Format (CDF) shouldn’t come as much of a surprise: The idea is to provide a knowledge container that’s as easy to author as documents, but with the interactivity of apps—for CDFs to make…

  • Gamifying everything

    Interesting notes related to a book that was recently published, and is probably worth adding to my list of books to read: The only difference between the current fad for ludology — the study of games — and any other time in the history of the internet is that now…

  • Global Social CRM meet-up today

    For those of you who follow the social media landscape as it relates to businesses, please join an interesting bunch of folks at today’s Global Social CRM meet-up.  While some of us will take advantage of being at a Cisco Telepresence site, you can join via Justin.tv or via WebEx.…

  • Hello, is this thing on?

    It’s hard hard for me to imagine that, despite all the writing (and tweeting) that I’ve done over the past year, I haven’t updated this blog in nearly a year!  I guess there are many reasons, but instead of dwelling on them, I figured the time was right to get…

  • My India

    I saw this photo collage over at Om Malik’s personal blog and it stopped me in my tracks.  This is the India that I love, the India that I miss when I make the all-to-short trips that have become the norm in the last two decades.  Bhanu Sharma‘s photographic journey…

  • Rethinking target markets

    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…

  • How Microsoft extends the R&D model in India

    Image by Marc_Smith via Flickr Navi Radjou has an interesting post on how Microsoft approaches it’s global R&D over at the Harvard Business blog, excerpt: Microsoft Reinvents Its Global R&D Model – Navi Radjou – HarvardBusiness.org What impressed me most about TEM is its staff members’ multidisciplinary backgrounds. In addition…