Archive for April 25th, 2006

25Apr

Commercialization of wikis

Posted by Jeff as Wikis

Check out this shopping/search site and associated buying guide wikis. Pretty cool. UPDATE: I was remiss in not pointing out that Amazon has had product wikis for some time, along with a search function. It appears that they have not had a lot of uptake with this, and the most edited wikis are attached to [...]

25Apr

Project Mendocino

Posted by Jeff as Enterprise Software

Here’s a link courtesy of SAP blogger Eran Kampf in Israel, he points to a joint site between SAP and Microsoft focused on a new product we’ve been working on called Mendocino. There will no doubt be lot’s of news and information about this at SAPPHIRE. Under the “blogs” section there are a couple of [...]

In the interests of being “fair and balanced” I wanted to give you some links to posts that comment on our Q1 earnings announcement: Vinnie writes that we are doing well against Oracle but still struggling to show traction in SME, and also comments that our maintenance business is coming under attack from third parties [...]

More on this topic (What's this?)
(IM) Ingram Micro and SAP Join Forces
(SAP) SAP to Acquire Camilion
Hana: Game Changer for SAP
Cost Cutting Is Driving Earnings Beats In Q1
Read more on SAP AG, Net Income at Wikinvest

A real test of whether or not traditional knowledge management applications can embed wikis will be when Sharepoint debuts their native wikis in their release next year. I’m pretty skeptical that they will pull this off because systems like Sharepoint are largely built around architectural principles very different from wikis, like a single author versus [...]

More on this topic (What's this?) Read more on Kola Mining Corp at Wikinvest

25Apr

Comment spam attack

Posted by Jeff as Blogs

I’m in the midst of a full fledged comment spam attack, over 500 spam comments have been caught by Akismet overnight. Almost all of them are coming from IP addresses 64.62.228.x. You would think that the spammers would not bother after it becomes apparent that none of their spam is making it through my filter [...]

25Apr

Gas Price Watch

Posted by Jeff as Social Media

I’m very fortunate that I don’t drive many miles per year, I think my truck just turned 12k miles and it’s a little over a year old, however, like anyone I’m not very pleased about paying $60 to fill it up (shit, I paid $20 to fill up my motorcycle in Death Valley on Friday, [...]


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