Josh Holmes has a great post about going the the mattresses to prove ROI for your application.  His post, “Moving From Cost center to Strategic Partnerâ€�, is well-written and is dead on the money. During my interview process at Microsoft, my interviews focused predominantly on two themes: ho...

Early this morning Ma.gnolia, a social bookmarking service in the ranks of Delicious and Diigo, was down for maintenance due to a catastrophic failure in their systems. If any users were to head to the website, they would’ve received the following message:        ...

I was there:  PDC 2008, when Windows Azure was announced.  Reactions in the crowd, admittedly, ranged from "great, not even the keynote presenter can pronounce it consistently" to "I expected more pizzazz from the Don and Chris keynote." It's hard to picture, at first, ...

I was surfing around awhile today, and came across David Chou's blog.  He has some widgets on his blog that I thought were interesting, including a Live Messenger window that lets you ping him if he's online.  That caught my attention, but what I thought was even cooler was a drop-down lis...

When I think of the impact of Enterprise 2.0 in the next 5 years, I can't help but imagine there's a war brewing.  Web 2.0 was the big love fest, can't we all just share data and get along with standards?  Enterprise 2.0, by contrast, doesn't share that same vision.  Today's view is, ...

NEW YORK - AT&T Inc. said on Thursday it would launch mobile television services in May from MediaFlo USA, a unit of Qualcomm Inc., in an effort to bolster revenue from services other than phone calls. AT&T, the biggest U.S. mobile service, said it would offer MediaFlo to users of the Vu pho...

I love this post by Martin Creaner, "The 'Static Value Chain' is dead......long live the 'Dynamic Value Network'", in which he writes: As ever, I never leave Team Action Week without an epiphany of some sort, and last week was no exception. Just when I think I understand our rapidly changing in...