Category: Social
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Nexus Q: On the importance of failing fast
I’ve been thinking about failure culture and innovation quite a bit recently. Here’s another good example: Google’s cancellation of the Nexus Q launch was a surprise to me, even though I expected its introduction to be an utter disaster. The surprise […] was that even a company like Google […] would do the same with…
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Markus Perdrizat
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New Programming Jargon
TGIF: New Programming Jargon. A little time waster that’s been waiting in my “to-blog” box for a some time now…
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Markus Perdrizat
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The Search For Meaningful Work
Reminded me about my recent self: One of the key components to finding long term happiness is doing meaningful work. But in the modern world, meaningful work has become increasingly more difficult to find. A couple of hundred years ago, a person could look back on a day and see the field they planted that…
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Instagram and Twitter
A long article to say that Instagram is to news photographers what Twitter was to the news journalists: it’s faster, and reaches more places, but most of it isn’t relevant, has no interest in competing with the pros. For a simple service that lets people share their photos with others from a mobile device, Instagram…
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Markus Perdrizat
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A little chat about BYOD
The IT Skeptic: BYOD is a great thing, and we’ll get there. If only business could change as fast as the home consumer experience eh? But it doesn’t. Stop trying to equate the two. You’re at work now, not playing. Hey, but keep asking. BYOD is important, and you have a good business case: there…
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Markus Perdrizat
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Say goodbye to search and hello to BrainSpace
Good stuff – tell me what I want to do now! What PureDiscovery really wants to do — and what it’s working on for some customers — is build interest graphs for every user within the company. Aside from determining relationships between documents, that also means determining relationships between people, and between people and documents.…
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Markus Perdrizat
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The Anonymous Source
Good one! The Anonymous Source.
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Markus Perdrizat
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What the Yammer Acquisition Says About Microsoft
Microsoft posted its first ever loss just when it finally completed the Yammer acquisition. Let’s see if Yammer will have been a success or failure 4-5 years down the line… Microsoft chose […] to pay that fortune for an existing application with a relatively modest user base and revenues. This suggests three things about Microsoft:…
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Markus Perdrizat
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How to Become Creative
Scott Berkun, short and precise: Want to be more creative? Pick a problem you care about and get to work. If you don’t care about anything, your problem isn’t creativity, it’s apathy. If you start things and give up, your problem isn’t creativity, it’s dedication. via How to become creative – the short honest truth.
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Markus Perdrizat
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How Do You Identify a Jedi Knight?
About training entrepreneurs, but equally applicable to IT guys. And the example below immediately reminded me about graduate training in the enterprise. It occurred to me recently that we’ve completely lost our way with how we train entrepreneurs. We should be training them like Jedi Knights, starting them young, teaching them discipline, patience, and that…
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Markus Perdrizat
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