Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In my travels promoting blogging within SAP I am often asked the question “what if an employee blogger writes something bad or embarrassing about SAP?”. My response to that question is “well if what they are writing is true, don’t you think we should really be worried about fixing it?”. This stuff is really very [...]
Here’s a screenshot of Yahoo!’s mail beta, looks very much like the old Oddpost app but with much more zip. It’s really remarkable how far the browser UI has come.
As I committed last week, here’s my response to Phil Wainewright’s post on SAP’s earnings and our path “down a blind alley”. Dear Phil, Your recent post suggests that Ellison is positioning Oracle for the switch to a subscription revenue model as affirmation of your belief that the entire industry must move to a zero-cost [...]
I’ve been looking at Media Center PC’s for a couple of years, and they basically all suck. The problem isn’t the hardware or even the software, it’s the ideology behind PC companies (Apple could likely pull of a good media center Mac, even though it would only work with iTunes). When have you been forced [...]