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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Talk to most CIOs and vendors and a conversation on consumerization quickly turns into a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) discussion – the risks, the range of devices to be allowed etc. In many ways, that is so yesterday. On.

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Conversion 252

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Last week at Dreamforce I had a deja vu moment. It felt like SAP’s Sapphire in 1999 with Deloitte and Accenture and Wipro logos on big booths, on conference bags, on party invitations. In the Marketing Cloud session, I wondered.

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Cloud Marketing 249

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

When he still in the Presidential race, Governor Rick Perry frequently talked about creating more jobs in his state than his competition. I heard a Texan wisecrack “Yeah, I have 3 of those jobs and still struggle to make ends.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

David Kirkpatrick, author of “The Facebook Effect” posed the question to a panel at the Tibco Tucon conference. I repeated the question one on one to Vivek Ranadive. CEO of Tibco and he said he is seeing it in three.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

My last two books, The New Polymath and The New Technology Elite have come from developing patterns I saw across 50 innovation categories in the 1,500 posts I had on New Florence through 2010. At Tibco’s TUCON event this week.

Technology 239

Technology Developer 239

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

on the innovation blog Seven Minutes of Terror Edible Packaging The Battle for CMO Mindshare Rio Tonto’s “Mine of the Future” Cheese Technology The “Chemical Internet” The TechnoSensual Exhibit Track your life from food to mood.

Internet 239

Internet Technology 239

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

on the innovation blog Rapid Genome Sequencing TechShop for tinkerers Protecting New York City MapMyRide The Digital Swiss Army Knife The CERN Asset Management challenge Technology and Summer Camps Activist Capitalism.

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New York City New York Technology Management 239

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

on the innovation blog The Big Data of Union Pacific’s rolling assets The rise of “super-commuters” The future of farming Time’s wireless issue Not your grandma’s television Distracted dining Facedeals Technology for jetlag.

Technology 236

Technology 236

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Rick Smolan, former National Geographic and Time photographer, has used a crowdsourced model (of fellow media professionals) to create a series of “A Day in the Life of” books. He is now tackling the impact of Big Data/analytics on many.

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Analytics Media Software 231

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

on the innovation blog Happy Valley Cities of the future Airport Avatars SlamTracker at the US Open “Dual Citizens” The Economist’s Technology Quarterly Audi’s Digital showroom Air Hillary.

Technology 230

Technology 230

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

on the New Florence blog The death of cash – and credit cards A journey to the center of the Internet For the love of a bike Dallas Love Field renovation Beloit College’s “New Normal” The Planet of the Apps.

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Dallas Internet Technology 230

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

I first heard the term “Business-IT Alignment” 15 years ago from a Gartner colleague. These days when I hear the term, I suspect some consultant has dusted off deliverables from previous projects. Alignment? How about Alternating as in the scenarios.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

On the New Florence blog One SQM House ChargeCard Sally Ride, a great role model The Desk Treadmill Social Media Command Centers The non-stick ketchup bottle Innovative Fruit “You talk. We draw”.

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Social Media Media Technology 230

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

On the New Florence blog Ford Raptor v Mars Rover The Complexity of Online Sentiment Analysis Busted! Medical Body Area Networks “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi” Super-Cloud Computing The consumerization of industrial technology The Ikea Catalog: A marvel of miniaturization.

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Cloud Networking Technology 223

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

KR Sridhar, co-founder and CEO of Bloom Energy, used that phrase during a panel at Tibco’s TUCON conference to suggest technology companies are increasingly focused on societal significance, not just commercial success. With his NASA background and company mission statement.

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Cofounder Technology Founder 220

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

on the innovation blog Not your Dad’s VAR The voice of Google Now All work and all play makes Jack… The next-gen Concorde? Libraries as idea incubators Do you talk hippie? “Ninja Polymers” Maersk’s massive EEE Class container ships.

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Incubator Technology 220

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Tech startups go through waves of branding waves and fads – in a recent one startups started adding r like FlickR to perfectly good English words. When I co-founded a start up a decade ago, our heads spun with the.

Startup 220

Startup 220

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

When I present on the 12 attributes of the “Technology Elite” from my recent book, I seem to rush through the one on being Paranoid. It goes into scary hacking scenarios, IP protection challenges, teardowns and jailbreaks companies need to.

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IP Technology 220

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Happy Labor Day. Matt Ridley has a column in the latest Wired titled Apocalypse Not. Thank you, Mr. Rational Optimist for calming us about December 22 and other nightmares. Now, I can enjoy a few treats as we enter Fall.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Ray Wang tweeted this morning at the incredible brainpower at an SAP blogger session in conjunction with Salesforce’s Dreamforce event this week. I did not feel much envy for not being part of the group. SAP is one of the.

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Open Source Software 218

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I wrote recently IT is becoming fun and profitable again as it focuses on embedding technology in product and in top line marketing and other customer focused activities. More proof of that comes from the InformationWeek 500 issue: “In our.

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Technology Customer Product Marketing 210

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

on the innovation blog The Best Pilot ever If you love NFL football and you love technology Cadilac’s safety seat alerts Fighting fire with – sound Getty Images: The Google of the Visual Web The robotic Hurricane Hunters Smart Textbook.

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Web Technology 207

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

I had a stunning couple of days at the Dreamforce event. Gorgeous weather, amazing San Francisco sights, lovely company as I wrote here.

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San Francisco America Cloud 220

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The Democratic National Convention is going to be a sharp contrast to last week’s GOP one. Not just in messaging, but in audience diversity. As I posted here it will allow for multiple caucus tracks based on ethnic and other.

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Technology Marketing Audience 239