Archive for March 25th, 2008

25Mar

Hal Riney, 1934-2008

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

Hal Riney passed away yesterday. The well known and highly regarded ad-man may not be a household name but if you grew up with television advertising in the 1980s and 90s, Riney’s voice is familiar to you. Riney was also responsible for putting San Francisco front and center with New York as a creative advertising [...]

The coveritlive stuff was not behaving so I pulled it out of the post. Plus, turns out I didn’t liveblog much from yesterday so you aren’t missing anything.

Sometimes my best thinking takes place in my garden where in the mindless routines of yard work I am free to meander through any range of topics and ideas. Last Saturday was just such a day. I wrote recently about VC loss of attraction in Web 2.0 and the thing that was frightening about that [...]

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Read more on Web 2.0, Venture Capital (VC) at Wikinvest

This guy is amazing. Jacques Vesery is a Maine-based wood turner and carver who accomplishes detail and realism that goes beyond what conventional wisdom suggests is possible. The former Navy submariner displays a keen eye for the forms of nature while applying a deft touch with a rotary grinder and a wood burning tool to [...]

25Mar

Enterprise RSS Day of Action, April 24th

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

Obviously NewsGator is supporting this, but so are a number of our competitors. The purpose is to draw attention to RSS in the enterprise as a foundation technology, focus on customer successes, tactics and pitfalls, and lay out the broad array of products and vendors in this space. April 24th. Pass it on. The purpose [...]

Great news for Yahoo and even better news for OpenSocial, possibly even eclipsing the coup that was getting Myspace in. Given the momentum that OpenSocial has right now in terms of container support, it’s hard to imagine that much will happen to slow it down this year. Competing initiatives, like Insoshi, just don’t have the [...]

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25Mar

Woolly Mammoths

Posted by Jeff as Enterprise Software

My friend Jim Fisher pretty much sums it up insofar as traditional enterprise software sales is concerned. I have often said, and written here, that customers have gotten better at buying software than we have at selling them software, but at the same time question what it is that we replace this system with then [...]

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H&R Block Tax Software Giveaway
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