Category: Social
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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.… Continued
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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.… Continued
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The Anonymous Source
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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.… Continued
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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.… Continued
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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 “the Force” of entrepreneurship is a belief system and a way of life.… Continued
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Groupthink
You need somebody to challenge Groupthink in every team, but you also need a function to challenge it at the corporate level: Group Internal Audit can play that role too.
Groupthink is a mode that a group of people gets into when they desire harmony in decision making without a realistic appraisal of alternatives and where there is a desire to minimize conflict.… Continued
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What will the Internet look like in 2020?
Not sure how I suddenly stumbled upon this one from early 2011, but it’s interesting nevertheless. A database developer’s (Couchbase co-founder J Chris Anderson) take on the future internet:
Remember “web accelerators”? They’ll be back with a vengeance.… Continued
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Rumble CEO: video games aren’t mainstream… yet
When will games be truly mainstream? I think this is still farther away than Rumble CEO Richardson would have us think, not least judging from playing the beta of their game KingsRoad. I see how they’re trying to bridge the gap between console/PC gamers and the casual Facebook gamers, but not how the new format should suddenly be appealing to billions instead of millions, as he thinks.… Continued