TEC’s Blog is Born!
The TEC Blog went live today. It’s been quite a while in the works but finally TEC is publishing its own analysis and corporate blog. My TEC colleagues and I will use it to regularly discuss enterprise...
View ArticlePersonal Wikiesque Note Taking Mind Mappish Killer KDE App: BasKet
I’ve found one of my favourite applications ever. It’s called BasKet Note Pads. Here’s my problem, I’m always typing up little notes to myself and saving them as text files, all over my desktop, all...
View ArticleBullying Analysts isn’t the Best Way to Deal
I’ve enjoyed reading Robin Bloor’s series of posts on How to Deal with Analysts. The title of one called attention to analyst abuse, which set some thoughts meandering. Robin made a point under the...
View ArticleContinuing the Bullying of Analysts Issue
Today I read a SageCircle post about threatening analysts by cancelling business, which seems like a variety of bullying and certainly an abuse. I discussed analyst abuse previously, a situation that...
View ArticleSimulated TurtleSpice ERP Selection Serial
How about practicing your big enterprise software selection project before you actually do it? Here’s a chance to participate in one, through a series of blog posts. We were brainstorming article...
View ArticleDell Mini & Ubuntu Love
Near the end of December I bought a Dell Mini 9. If there is such thing as a Mini closet, I’m coming out right now and professing my love to this computer. It is my favourite among all that I’ve owned....
View ArticleAcquiring Knowledge: A Great Shallow Breadth Over Depth (1)
Has our approach to acquiring knowledge moved from the deep end of a continuum to the broad but shallow end? The Internet medium and associated technologies used to develop, contribute, and distribute...
View ArticleAcquiring Knowledge: Computer-Assisted Shallow Atom Assembly (2)
In a previous post, I said that search engines essentially accomplished their jobs but created a big problem. Search engines initially answered our question of “How or where can I find the information...
View ArticleAOL/Time Warner Missed Opportunity
I think the opportunity of the AOL/Time Warner merger that kicked off in 2000 and seems to now be undoing itself never really developed in the first place. Time Warner is doing the opposite of what I...
View ArticleThe Nervous System’s Emerging Stream
In a recent post, Nova Spivack considers “the stream” as the Internet’s next evolutionary stage. I think he makes a lot of compelling points and I’m clearly partial to stream terminology (like it says...
View ArticleCASAA Birthing – New Decision and Knowledge Engines
I’ve been talking about computer-assisted shallow atom assembly (CASAA) in my posts thinking about how we acquire knowledge in life with the pervasive Internet. Yesterday I read about Microsoft’s new...
View ArticleDone Waiting for Bing Wow
I’ve tried Bing, on-and-off since its launch. It hasn’t convinced me that it’s much of a decision or knowledge engine. Bing has some nice search features but as far as I can tell nothing particularly...
View ArticleSearch Pad is Coming
Update 9 July ’09: I tried it… nice additional feature but not a game-changer. Actually I believe I’m very underwhelmed. Actually, reader, I’m a little tired of all these search posts. But new things...
View ArticleStart the Wave: Disintermediating Social
Ad hoc social networks: right now that’s what I’m calling the disruption Google Wave will wreak. I’m looking forward to it leaving the invite-only preview. It’ll be like kudzu sprouting everywhere,...
View ArticleNew Way of News: OpenFile
OpenFile (openfile.ca) opened its public beta today. It’s attempting to develop a new means for news reporting. I discovered it from a colleague’s Twitter post and was quickly fascinated by the...
View ArticleWave’s Death Could be Preparation for a Rebirth
Google announced that it would not continue developing Google Wave. At first read I thought this was an awful decision–Google Wave is a truly incredible product, which although it takes some getting...
View ArticleGoogle Plus – A Few Early Thoughts
After using it for a few days now, there’s a lot I really like about Google Plus. But some choices, I don’t understand. I want to love Google Plus and think that I will eventually but that’s predicated...
View ArticleProfile of MODX WCM
If you’re looking into selecting a WCM system or are otherwise interested in MODX‘s open source WCM framework, I hope the link to this report is helpful. After pouring over MODX’s Web site, community...
View ArticleA Brief on EMC Documentum in 2012
I’ve published a new report on the EMC Documentum family of content management products and services. Go here to download it (free from the TEC site). EMC’s path for Documentum has taken it in some...
View ArticleLaserfiche ECM and Its Latest Release
I spoke with Laserfiche about the new version 9 of its Rio enterprise content management (ECM) system. In the latest release the company is really pushing on the business process management...
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