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• Jive finishes up my enterprise disruption week

  This week I’ve touched base with Panorama Software, socialtext, and now with Jive Software. Jive continued the trend I discussed a couple of days ago about enterprise disruption. You are meeting quite a few of the companies that are disrupting the older players and trying to, as Jive’s CMO xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, said, open up a new social [...]

• Twitter War

  Israel and Gaza are going at it on Twitter (and in real life, as reported over on news site Memeorandum). Shel Israel reports.    Tagged: gaza, Israel, Twitter   

• Ballmer?s big moment

  Steve Jobs won’t be center stage this week. Chuq von Rospach, who used to work at Apple, wraps up what that means from an inside-the-Apple sphere. But there’s another first coming up next week: it’ll be the first CES without Bill Gates on stage. It is Steve Ballmer’s big moment. The lights will be all [...]

• JPG?s dead. Why your advertising-funded business could be next?

  JPG Magazine is dead. That’s a bummer because, as TechCrunch wrote this morning, it was a radical idea in publishing: one that used crowd-sourced data to serve the magazine’s readers. There were a few problems here: 1. They never got a large enough following to make a business viable. That’s because book stores are going away and [...]

• It?s a new year, have you backed up?

  We discuss backing up here. Have you backed up your data lately?    Tagged: backup, hard drives, services, storage   

• Twitter warning: your account data is being sold

  You iknow the spammer? Twply? Well, it’s worse than it seems. They now have your user name and password and are looking to sell your data to the highest bidder. Twitter needs a real third-party authentication system and it needs it now. Thanks to Mark Trapp and other friendfeeders for bringing this to my attention.    Tagged: data, [...]

• Got a real-time ego problem? Get a room!

  Oh, be honest. You’ve searched for yourself on Google, right? That’s an ego search. Here’s mine. But doing ego searches today is far more complex than it was back in 1998 when I did my first Google ego search. Today you have to look at what people are saying about you on Twitter, I use Twitter Search for [...]

• The ?back to reality? CES and MacWorld

  2009 is the year of reality. It’s the year when hype goes away (except for hype about Twitter). When many of us get back to the basics: health, happiness, fitness, family. We might still believe that the one who dies with the most toys wins, but only a few of us can afford that this year. [...]

• Twitter spam, effective or idiotic?

  This morning the replies kept crossing my screen. They look like this: Just started using http://twply.com/ to get my @replies via email. Neat stuff! Aaarrrrrggggghhhhh. To me this marks this company forever that it’s a spammer. I will never try this tool just because of this. It is why I am increasingly finding myself unwilling to put my [...]

• The story of 2009? Enterprise disruption?

  In addition to the interview I did yesterday with socialtext, which explores some of the disruption coming to enterprises, there’s another trend I’m tracking: the coming fight between the collaborative web and Microsoft. Now some pundits in the industry think that the fight will be head on. Not me. I think it’ll be more parasitic. Like [...]