May, 2012

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IT at the crossroads

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Larry Dignan at ZDNet summarizes a nugget from a Forrester analysis of Business/IT perspectives Sure there’s collaboration between the business and IT on back office (46 percent said there was cooperation), but sales and marketing, R&D and product engineering lagged.

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Big Data: of You, You and Me

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I read a fascinating article in New Scientist (sub required) which cites several academic projects to profile us based on social network data. These include: a) Work by Lars Backstrom, a researcher at Facebook, showed he could locate 2/3rd of.

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A tale of two events

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“Not who you are, John” Last week when George Clooney hosted President Obama at a swanky Hollywood gathering, I curiously went back to the section in Walter Isaacson’s book where Steve Jobs helped the legendary VC, John Doerr with his.

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Wasted PR bullets

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My friend and fellow EI Ross Mayfield has had a week which calls for multiple press releases. The company he co-founded, Socialtext has gained a strategic investment by Bedford Funding ($1.4B PE firm) and will integrate with Peoplefluent. The company.

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Double-Talk Accounting

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A journalist called me a few weeks ago about a vendor we all know. He was puzzled why this vendor's marketing kept talking about their cool new projects – when his research showed him it was a small part of.

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More New Florence

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on the innovation blog Nokia in the Valley The Internet Minute Foods your grandma would not recognize Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm VPNs and Repressive Regimes.

Internet 239
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Memorial Day: Metrics and Memories

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Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer in the US, and for many of us that is beer, bbq, baseball and books. The last two in particular made me think of metrics last week. Sam Fuld, an injured.

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