Facebook needs a better way to unfriend people
Over the last couple of weeks, I have been trying to gain some kind of control over my Facebook account, meaning I have two distinct pages, one for family only, and one that is more public that I don’t...
View ArticleMicro-chunking Software: Tibco and Zoho CEOs Sing the Same Song (Just from...
This should probably be a Tweet, but I am not smart enough to squeeze it into 140 characters – perhaps Tumblr or Posterous notes? Anyway, I am in a rambling mood – but I’ll keep it short, just...
View ArticleFat and Bloated is no way to go through life
Google officially announces Chrome OS’s arrival date as this fall, HP purchases Palm and promptly kills off an Ipad like device with Windows as an operating system, and Apple announces that 2 million...
View ArticleEngineYard Goes Upmarket with its Ruby PaaS
Just the other day Krish posted about the new partnership between Apigee and Heroku the Ruby PaaS player. Hot on the heels of that announcement comes news that EngineYard are partnering with TerreMark...
View Article10 Questions to Ask Technical Communicators Delusional Enough to Believe They...
According to a recent Edison Research study 51% of active Twitter users follow companies, brands or products on social networks. That means they are most likely following your brand and your product....
View ArticleI Hate to Say I Told You So.. But Ciao – SecondLife Work
All around nice guy, and superstar sans hair Mike Maney suggested a new title for this post – “SecondLife Heads for the Afterlife” – I kind of agree with him. Mike, this one’s for you…. I was at the...
View ArticleOn Vaporware… And Google… And my Need for (Mobile) Speed
So this is a bit of a rant. I was at the Google IO keynote a month ago and sat transfixed at the Froyo demonstration. The mobile operating system that promised to provide an answer to mobile speed,...
View ArticlePearl Goes Bright, and Gets Some Cash
I’ve written before about Pearl, the UK based “mini-ERP” that just seems to do everything. I’ve always thought of it as the little engine that could, with a team of only five people they have managed...
View ArticleCloud Computing Market In India To Reach 1 Billion By 2015
According to India based research firm Zinnov, the Indian cloud computing market is going to experience a ten fold growth by 2015. According to the firm, the current cloud computing market is $110...
View ArticleCloud One
While Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is already talking up Cloud 2 , many are still stuck at Cloud One CloudAve is sponsored by Salesforce.com, Workday and Zoho.
View ArticleWhy Most Software User Assistance Help is Terrible and What to do About it
As an end user, I’ve worked with a lot of software and most of the software user assistance is far from great. Yep, I said it. And it’s true, Mostly. I realize this article isn’t going to gain me...
View ArticleIDC Says SaaS Is Making It Big In Enterprises
Today morning I wrote a post that pointed to a Gartner report that said SaaS revenues from enterprise application market has increased 14.1 percent in 2010 compared to 2009. Now the market research...
View ArticleMicrosoft Word is Desktop Software. Supposedly. Then Why Does it Fail to Load...
Dave Michels’ recent post, I thought I Was So Cloud resonated well with me, since I’m experiencing the same pain regularly, even without the dramatic experience of a cashed harddisk. I’m now using 4...
View ArticleCrowsdourcing Our New Logo Design. Will it Work?
We’ve written so much about crowdsourcing, I figured it was time to put our money where our mouth pen keyboard-tapping fingers are. CloudAve will soon get a new layout, and we thought we should refresh...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing Our New Logo Design. Time to Vote.
We’re putting our money where our (digital) mouth is: having talked so much about crowdsourcing, we took 99designs for a test drive, hoping to see a new CloudAve logo emerge. I was not too impressed...
View ArticleDesign thinking: A New Approach To Fight Complexity And Failure
The endless succession of failed projects forces one to question why success is elusive, with an extraordinary number of projects tangling themselves in knots. These projects are like a child’s string...
View ArticleWhat job are people hiring your product to do?
I am a product guy, dating back to my days as a design student at Stanford. I’ve been a fan of Clay Christensen ever since “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” and even interviewed him for the student newspaper...
View ArticleWhere is the Shazam for Enterprise Mobile Apps?
Music is a big part of my life. I own too many guitars for my own good, and love discovering new music. One of my favorite apps for discovery is Shazam. With so much focus on how to build amazing...
View ArticleTaking The Quotes Out Of "Design Thinking"
Image courtesy of SAP Bruce Nussbaum, a design thinking thought leader and a professor of Innovation and Design at Parsons The New School of Design, recently wrote that Design Thinking Is A Failed...
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